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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by fragmede »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #66
II2II wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Frankly, I don't think it's practical to expect operating systems to continue to run binaries perfectly in perpetuity. A lot of that is going to depend upon perspective. Take something that is coming up: Apple has mentioned that Intel application support is going to end in the next release, or about 8 years after the introduction of the M1. Eight years may sound like a good run, but there are all sorts of edge case…

x86 translation will be slimmed down but remain for compatibility with the Game Porting Toolkit[0]. Their reasoning is likely that they want to limit the set of libraries that they ship x86 slices for as much as reasonably possible because each supported architecture multiplies surface area across the entire system. It’s also notable that virtualizing macOS on macOS has now been officially supported and easy for seve…

> It’s also notable that virtualizing macOS on macOS has now been officially supported

FWIW, limited to two macOS VMs per host unless you hack it.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by swozey »

Been raving about my $3500 2021 (maybe 2020) m1 max 64gb outlasting the Windows x86 laptops I'd probably have replaced 2 maybe 3 times by now, but it absolutely feels slower this year to the point I reinstalled macos for the first time.

I don't know what they're doing but if they think I'm going to drop $6k for the similar m6 max now doing some planned obsolescence stuff I'll never be able to prove they're out of their minds.

I've heard golden gate is much faster than Tahoe but we'll see.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by akerl_ »

oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

"can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could.

But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosing which to actually do.

AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by uinibubhb »

compiler-devel wrote: post #63
oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by a012 »

oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

Not working in a $4.5T company but often I found that people rather don’t _want_ to maintain the code than can’t

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by fps-hero »

swozey wrote: post #72

Been raving about my $3500 2021 (maybe 2020) m1 max 64gb outlasting the Windows x86 laptops I'd probably have replaced 2 maybe 3 times by now, but it absolutely feels slower this year to the point I reinstalled macos for the first time. I don't know what they're doing but if they think I'm going to drop $6k for the similar m6 max now doing some planned obsolescence stuff I'll never be able to prove they're out of the…

Tahoe has destroyed macOS performance. I’m running a maxed out last gen intel and was getting stuttering and slide showing straight out of the update. It was completely unusable until I turned on reduced transparency.

Colleagues on much better spec’d M1/2/3 all noted similar, but not quite so drastic, slow downs.

The hugest issue is search appears to be universal broken. Spotlight doesn’t work, finder doesn’t work, email doesn’t work. The other day I had to login to Gmail through the web app for the first time in about 5 years to find an email I knew existed that mail decided didn’t exist.

Insult to injury is the search indexing service appears to be somewhat responsible for slowdowns. It’s right up there with the famous “windows updating in the background” slowdowns.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by cindyllm »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #69
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.

Your comment is irrelevant because your MBA left support eras ago and is riddled with bugs and security vulnerabilities at this point. Apple also does a poor job at long term software support or granting users the ability to run Linux, especially the newer the systems get.

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by anonymousiam »

binaryturtle wrote: post #34

So I guess ram disks are deprecated too? (AFAIR hdiutil was the only way to create them)

RAM itself is deprecated. All the new systems have about one fourth of the RAM they had two years ago.

Something about some insider B2B deals for data centers, blah blah blah.

I expect a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs, and GPUs to hit the scene within about two years, after the AI boom goes bust.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by deathanatos »

select1 wrote: post #16
bigyabai wrote: post #14

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> It’s not super current and not all apps work That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.

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I play a number of commercial games on Linux. The best behaved ones are the native ones (Factorio, Stardew, Celeste), though the Proton/Wine-based ones (Noita, Enter the Gungeon) usually do alright as well.

Netflix's problem is Netflix's problem. There is no technical reason why 1080p (and probably 4k) can't work on Linux, today. That's just plain ole head-up-DRM-ass, and Linux can't fix stupid.

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