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In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.
@sjvn : In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.
YouTube Music Integration May Be Coming to HomePod
YouTube Music may soon be available directly on the HomePod and the HomePod mini through Siri integration, according to code hidden in the YouTube...
YouTube Music may soon be available directly on the HomePod and the HomePod mini through Siri integration, according to code hidden in the YouTube Music app that was discovered by software miner @aaronp613.
Hacking Apple's 1994 Set Top Box System
One of the coolest things to come along in the 68K Mac homebrew community is the ROM Boot Disk concept. Classic Macs have an unusually lar...
Apple developed the STBs in their Austin, Texas campus. It was based on stripped-down 1993 Quadra 605 hardware with extra silicon for the media features but kept serial, ADB and SCSI connections to allow it to run compatible CD-ROMs, sort of a Pippin before the Pippin, with plans to sell it for $750 [2023 dollars about $1500]…
Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
I had to remove Huffington Post on my desktop Apple News feed. Advertorials have been the bulk of their pushed content. I looked today, and the eight articles that were pinned at the top of the app we
I had to remove Huffington Post on my desktop Apple News feed. Advertorials have been the bulk of their pushed content. I looked today, and the eight articles that were pinned at the top of the app were all advertisements.
Has it always been this bad with HuffPo?
Questions been asked to death, but I'm looking into getting the base macmin with 256 gig. But, should I opt for the 16 gig ram upgrade? Current PC use has been using it for gaming, maya, blender, phot
Questions been asked to death, but I'm looking into getting the base macmin with 256 gig. But, should I opt for the 16 gig ram upgrade? Current PC use has been using it for gaming, maya, blender, photoshop, and davinci resolve. I'm coming from a PC with 32 gigs of ram, and I don't think I do anything particularly crazy intensive, and won't be using the macmini for games. I also want to run some programs an external SSD. How well does Mac mini handle that?
Time to do something I should have done a long time ago...
I added a text replacement to replace blahaj with blåhaj on my laptop. Apparently, it doesn't work in my web browser (Brave), though. !ohno
But still... !Blahaj Lemmy Logo
Gurman: Apple to add hearing tests, other health features to AirPods
"Likely several months or even years away," after the shift to USB-C:
> > > The company is working on a new hearing test feature that will play different tones and sounds to allow the AirPods to determine how well a person can hear. The idea is to help users screen for hearing issues, not unlike how the Apple Watch ECG app checks for heart problems. The hearing test could "Sherlock" -- or make irrelevant -- existing apps like Mimi. (Apple held a meeting with its developers a few years ago.) > > > > Separately, Apple is exploring how it could better position AirPods as a hearing aid, a $10 billion-a-year market that's ripe for reinvention. > > > > Apple has already added hearing-aid-like features, such as Conversation Boost and Live Listen, but they don't yet have regulatory approval. Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration eased hearing aid purchase rules, allowing for over-the-counter sales without an exam or prescription. That's created more of an opening, and Apple has hired engineers from traditional hearing aid makers as part of this effort. > > > > There's also engineering work being done on adding sensors to the AirPods so they can determine body temperature via a wearer's ear canal. That type of data is considered more accurate than wrist temperature, which is collected on the Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra models while users sleep. Apple relies on that information for fertility tracking but wants to expand its use to determine if a person has, say, a cold or other illness. > >
The Mac Mini M2 Pro is the best fucking computer I have ever owned. I wish I had forked out a bit more and got a Mac Studio. It would 100% have been worth it. I've been using this thing for a couple o
The Mac Mini M2 Pro is the best fucking computer I have ever owned. I wish I had forked out a bit more and got a Mac Studio. It would 100% have been worth it. I've been using this thing for a couple of months now and I still can't get over just how fucking good it is.
It doesn't break a sweat when I'm running a typical workload. I can have multiple documents open, multiple browsers with multiple tabs, a couple of VM's running in Parallels, Notes, Outlook, PRTG, Remote Desktop Software, Terminals, Calendar, Discord, Teams, and any other shit I might need to open all running simultaneously and this thing doesn't break a sweat with everything displaying damn-near instantly the second I click on it or need it. And VM's run like a dream on this thing.
I wouldn't even know I was running Linux or Windows 11 in a VM. It feels like it's running on native hardware. It's just such a fucking good computer I can't fucking believe it.
There are just a few downsides to it for me:
> > > Cost. It's fucking expensive. Customising you mac with additionial RAM and Storage feels like a rort. (But it would have been worth it even so) > RAM: I wish I had more RAM so I could run more VM's with more RAM simultaneously. > Cores: I wish I had more CPU cores for the same reason I wish I had more RAM. More simultaneous VM's running. > Storage: I wish Apple weren't such pricks about storage and would just give me 8TB for a reasonable price. > >
I purchased the base model Mac Mini M2 Pro because it was my first foray into Apple shit and macOS. Fuck me, I wish I had known how fucking good it was earlier and I would have forked out double for a Mac Studio with an M2 Max and 64GB RAM. Ideally, I would want around 24+ Cores and 128GB RAM and the Ultra can pull that off... But somewhere deep down I feel uncomfortable about spending that much on a computer. $4000 would really be a sweet spot for me and a dream for something the equivalent of an M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128GB RAM. I would just use a NAS for my storage needs. I'm excited to see what the future brings and if they release an M3 Max Studio that has 128GB+ of unified memory and a core count approaching 20+ I'll be buying it day one.
Using a computer that actually helps me get work done and achieve the things I want to achieve on my hardware, while being able to do it quick and responsively has been a game-changer for me. I've never had this experience before, where the computer I'm using is actually behaving in a way that makes it a tool that's not just "able to get the job done", but is able to get the job done well without wasting my time and energy while I wait for things to open, or load, or process, or parse... It's night and day.
I can never go back.
I'm new to this whole (https://kbin.social/tag/apple) development thing.
I'm new to this whole #apple development thing.
Am I right in thinking that I need to upgrade to the MacOS 14.0 beta to use the new SwiftData apis?
How bad an idea is it to use that beta on my laptop?
Is it safe to assume that 90%+ of users quickly upgrade to new MacOS versions after they're released?
I wonder how long everyone here has been using Apple equipment. I’m an old greybeard so we’re taking 68k era for me. Well, Apple II really!! Then PowerPC then Intel and some newton and og iPod and of
I wonder how long everyone here has been using Apple equipment. I’m an old greybeard so we’re taking 68k era for me. Well, Apple II really!! Then PowerPC then Intel and some newton and og iPod and of course iOS.
What’re everyone‘s Apple history? I’d be interested to hear!
Just bought my first macbook what apps should I install as a web developer?
Just bought my first macbook what apps should I install as a web developer?
During my entire life (32 years) I used windows and linux machines. Now I bought my first mac book and I would like to know what tools is nice to have to make my work easy.
I am a developer ruby on rails and use vscode, also I use the terminal a lot and the default terminal is not that great. Also I miss notepad++
Any sugestions?
Thank You
15" MacBook Air M2 Review: The Obvious Thing!
The bigger MacBook Air made too much sense.15" M2 MacBook Air: https://geni.us/yDeBrV1MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.comTech I'm using right now: https://www...
Link to: https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/110509739563895220
Found this on r/apple on Reddit. Also a nice exposition: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/apollo-reddit-demise.
Welcome to the Apple magazine!
Kbin is a new Reddit-like content aggregator for the Fediverse, and this is a "magazine" (subreddit) for Apple news and discussions on the kbin.social instance.
Kbin itself is in early beta and remains a work in progress, so there are still some rough edges, but it's already a better experience than Ventura's System Settings.
If you have questions or suggestions for this magazine, please ask away in this thread! Questions and suggestions about Kbin itself belong in kbinMeta.
This magazine's logo is Rob Janoff's original logo for Apple Computer, sourced from Wikimedia Commons and under public domain in the United States. It's pretty neat.
Some interesting stuff in here
The juiciest rumors hint to a new display technology, Capture button, and a special video capture mode. Even more astonishing could be generative AI features, which we could get a sneak preview of when iOS 18 is expected to be shown off at Apple’s WWDC 2024 developers conference in June.
CodeRunner, Whisk and Sublime are pretty good alternatives to Notepad++. I've tried each and can say that the apps are great.
Insomnia is a great thing to use, too.
And the other apps I use have already been recommended, so I hope something will work for you too.
There are a lot of different apps, and it depends on your preferences. Also, there are different articles and blogs where you can read the info, sometimes reviews, and choose something you like and find useful. Here is one article https://setapp.com/how-to/how-to-recover-excel-file-on-mac I read it recently, and it provided me with some useful info about recovering files on Mac. There, you can also see some info about the app, which can help you to do it, and I think it's also a useful one.
I introduced procreate to my wife, a graphic designer, years ago and now she uses it nearly every day. I'll be buying Dreams day 1 and adding it to the family purchases list on her behalf. I agree with prior poster @AlgonquinHawk as well; 3D animation would be amazing, particularly since she's been recently getting into 3D modeling as well using Nomad Sculpt.
I had the same experience with News.
I use RSS very selectively, though. General news sites are too much of a firehose: instead of RSS I just picked a few favorite sources and check them occasionally – usually once in the morning/evening. I also read The Economist's briefs (requires a sub) to catch up on stuff I missed.
If 9to5Mac were run by reputable journalists, this poorly-researched article with its conspiratorial conjectures would have been taken down already.
The explanation for the Apple Pay aspect is something called the Payment Account Reference (PAR). Mastercard has a brief overview. Everything is working exactly like it is designed and as advertised. Apple Pay is not (and cannot) send your full real card number, but if you give a merchant your real card number, they can look up a reference number shared by every token associated with the card.
@Ilikecheese it’s been possible since the first year of iphone, if you jailbreak. indeed, a lot of new features iphone got over the years were first found in jailbreak tweaks and apps.
first non-jailbreak one. i was jailbroken from the first iphone days, before chris even existed. but saurik definitely upped the game.
@mishimaenjoyer given what happened with my beloved and always missed microsoft phone and their pathetic appstore, this makes me laugh. and cry. a little.
@elouboub ulysses is a solid app. depending on how things go, i can see other good apps joining. it’s weird how people who stand to benefit from a new thing like to tear it down before it’s even begun.
There is hope for something like F-Droid. They probably won't be the only 3rd party store. I imagine Epic and Amazon will want in on the action. Even Microsoft is going to make an app store for iOS
Unclear why these are called "solid state". The main innovation here seems to be bonding the piezoelectric elements to a membrane to serve as the speaker.
Piezoelectric earphones have been around for a long time; they were popular back in the old days because a crystal radio could drive them at a listenable volume without any external power source, using only the power received from the radio antenna.
Overcast is a great alternative! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857
@Nicenightforawalk As someone who has cared for my bedridden mother, this tech would have made her last year's so much better.
Hey, thanks for the heads-up. Downloading the Ventura 13.5 update as we speak. 👍
[edit] It's ground to a halt. The Apple servers must be getting hammered?
Apple has had a hard time with moving keys #keyboardgate
@red__raven I haven’t used Google Maps in a long time. What really won me over several years ago was Apple Maps would say something like “Go past this light and then at the next one, turn right”. Does google do this now?
This later article makes it sound like the issue was with websites using UA sniffing:
For instance, after applying the RSR updates on an iOS device, the new user agent containing an "(a)" string is "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.2 (a) Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1," which prevents websites from detecting it as a valid version of Safari, thus displaying browser not supported error messages.
I hope Apple's use of the Rapid Security Response system here was mostly an infrastructure test. I would be miffed to learn that a patch for some zero day was fumbled because Facebook didn't get the decades-old memo not to use UA sniffing for feature detection.
And the “making of” https://youtu.be/WjeT-KVpaXE
@HappyMeatbag I think since I moved to Fediverse I've noticed ad creep so much easier than I had in the past. I don't recall how long HuffPo has been this way, but I definitely notice it now. And you're correct, HuffPo is extremely suspect in their feed. I just don't know how uniquely compiled it is for the specific user.
I'm not using AP or Reuters news feed at the moment, but I should. Just simply because they are where news originates, and they're the most neutral sources available.
Appreciate the response...thanks!