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Post by gnicholas »

chatmasta wrote: post #384
gnicholas wrote: post #368

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Oh man, it gets worse than that. After updating to iOS 17 the other day, I said to my phone "play OverCast" (my podcast app). It used to start playing from that app. This time, it started playing a band called Overcast, and told me I had just started a 7 day free trial of Apple Music. What the actual fuck.

brb, starting a band called "Spotify" and opening a 24/7 convenience store called "Google Maps"

It's not a bug, it's a feature. People have done crazier things! Didn't Steve Jobs once say that part of the reason he named the company Apple was because it would be before Atari in the phone book? [1]

1: https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-...).

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Post by lathiat »

de6u99er wrote: post #351
DiabloD3 wrote: post #132

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The hardware supports it fine, if you ran any other OS it'd work. OSX refuses to support it because it eats into their monitor sales that use an alternative TB-based multiplexing protocol (which is only available on Apple devices, which are, well, not the world's best monitors, yet somehow the most expensive per square inch in a lot of cases). All the various incarnations as far back as Ivy Bridge's TB2 should have w…

Of course the gardware supports it, otherwise I couldn't connect the second rotated screen through HDMI. But I couldn't figure out why OS-X fails to support DP-MST. If it's because they want to push their own screens then shame on Apple. It's ridiculous that they refuse to support this. Iit's actually backfiring. Peoppe at work laugh when they see me attaching two cables to my Macbook ehile everyone else with differe…

It worked on Intel macs because it worked in Windows. May be a different story on Apple Silicon though. Maybe a challenge for the Asahi Linux devs. I have no idea where in the stack MST happens and whether it requires any hardware magic.

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Post by jonhohle »

pedalpete wrote: post #249

Does anyone else have no idea what macOS version is which? Which came first? Is there some hidden naming protocol that I just don't grasp? I've only started using a mac part-time while I've been developing an iOS app over the past few weeks, and I keep seeing different names for the OS version. I have no idea what version I'm on, or if Big Sur came before Sierra, or what. I know I could look it up, but it seems that…

When there were multiple years between Mac OS releases, it was not as difficult. I also found big cat names easier to remember (perhaps because I’m more familiar with them than California landmarks). I also liked the Leopard/Snow Leopard and Lion/Mountain Lion cadence.

Perhaps I just don’t put as many cycles into following Apple anymore.

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Post by _rs »

nytesky wrote: post #313
jweir wrote: post #287

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Yes, you can create a "New Secure Note Item"

Is this in Passwords or the Notes app? I tried Notes app with the Lock but it requires another password while I want it all under the FaceID/iCloud password like the settings-passwords Is there a secure note option in passwords - mine all require username web url and password.

You might have to check your settings. Previously there was a separate password for Notes, but now there is an option to keep it tied to your account's password

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Post by 0x69420 »

mdaniel wrote: post #223
n8henrie wrote: post #197

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https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I've really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn't replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it's getting closer every day.

I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir /nix && sudo chown $USER /nix` from the Linux version And that's not even getting into the "waaa?" from `du -hs /nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface

are we reading the same instructions? i struggle to see what makes a curlbash leading into a few interactive prompts “crazypants”; it's the same story with brew and gentoo prefix

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Post by ewoodrich »

Fnoord wrote: post #283
climb_stealth wrote: post #242

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Oh oh, it's getting closer. Currently on MacOS 12 with my trusted 2015 Macbook Pro. It still goes strong, but looks like the next major release may see the end of homebrew for this one. There's really no issue with this computer other than 16gb of RAM being a bit tight when every modern app is using Electron. Oh well, see how we go.

(Message also for your parent) Last week, I saw the writing on the wall. I installed OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher on two MBPs from 2015, updating 12.7 to 13.6. It is a MBP 13" 2015 (early 2016 variant) and a MBP 15" 2015 (late 2015?). Works very well but you need to follow the guide. Both machines are still working well, 'cept for the battery (already replaced on the 13"). Esp the 15" is still in good condition, my wife h…

Can confirm Ventura runs great on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch (MacBookPro11,4). Mine has 16gb of RAM and an i7 which probably helps (also added a modern 1tb NVMe drive via an adapter). I use it for a dedicated music production setup and only ever hear fans when installing something or during updates.

My only advice for someone new to OCLP/unfamiliar with Mac boot loader in general (like me one week ago) is that the OCLP boot screen during setup looks very similar to the native MacOS boot picker and went through four different flash drives trying to follow the instructions thinking it wasn't booting properly from the drive. Look closely at the instruction screenshot to distinguish them.

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Post by josephg »

pkulak wrote: post #387
stalfosknight wrote: post #300

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This is exactly the kind of vibe they give off on their Github repo too. They're not the nicest people to interact with.

Well, they have to spend their time propping up an OS built by one of the richest companies in the world for free.

They have chosen to. It’s a big difference!

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Post by josephg »

jahewson wrote: post #307
kraig wrote: post #291

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Really the only thing keeping me from going all in on keychain is the lack of a UI for the times when it doesn’t autocomplete or I need a password in terminal or something. I’d pay for something that provided a global hotkey and an interface that isn’t nested in Settings.

The keychain app gets you out of settings, though leaves much to be desired.

Yeah - I’ve never understood why I need to type my user password twice to reveal a keychain password. It’s really annoying.
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