macshome

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by macshome 1mo ago
100% I spent endless hours playing this on my Mac back in the 90s.
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by macshome 5mo ago
Agreed. He presents the math in a way that illustrates his point without being difficult for non-mathematicians to grasp. A lot of blogs get hung up in the math, even when it is just supporting evidence for a broader point.
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by macshome 6mo ago
The "apps" that appear in the menu bar are called Menu Bar Extras. They are supposed to be an optional UI to provide quick access to functions of regular applications that are not running in the foreground. They aren't suppos
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by macshome 7mo ago
The old Unsuck-it page comes pretty close. I’m not a huge fan of the newer page though. https://www.unsuck-it.com/classics
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by macshome 7mo ago
I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and reliable.
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by macshome 7mo ago
Check out the scheduler documentation that Apple has in the xnu repo. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc...
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by macshome 8mo ago
The product I make deals with passwords. We’ve had several bugs over the years that came down to Unicode usernames and passwords containing unexpected characters. Solving them was simple, we just had to be sure to get the encoding and chara
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by macshome 8mo ago
This also reminds me of the situation with my TV antenna. I made an antenna years ago and put it in my attic. Using the old antennaweb service I aligned it with the stations we cared about and then never touched it again. I installed the an
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by macshome 8mo ago
Back when I had cable internet we had a bizarre problem where the service would often stop working if it was very cold and raining. It had to be that specific combo as well. - Just rain == good internet - Just cold == good internet - Cold +
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by macshome 8mo ago
I’m a big fan of their Raw Power app as well that predated Nitro.
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by macshome 9mo ago
Indeed. The home page of the wiki says as much. “Cadova builds on the ideas of OpenSCAD, but replaces its limited language with the power and elegance of Swift. It’s inspired by SwiftUI and designed for developers who want a better way to b
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by macshome 9mo ago
Is this using the new RDMA over Thunderbolt support form macOS 26.2?
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by macshome 11mo ago
I just tried to check the Xbox services status page and it never even loaded.
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by macshome 1y ago
The more that we find out about Bell Labs the more we all realize how much of our world they built. We really could use a place like that today.
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by macshome 1y ago
I was surprised at the Photo Booth usage as well. I would have just recorded it with the QuickTime Player as if it were an iOS device.
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by macshome 2y ago
Why not? Shared USB and a paravirtualized GPU have been on macOS VMs for years now.
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by macshome 2y ago
The most common ones are for QA testing and CI pipelines.
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by macshome 2y ago
For a lot of people the benefits show up because they have more devices sharing that connection. Before our kids moved to school we had 5 people on our home connection. Each with multiple devices, all trying to work or play games or stream
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by macshome 2y ago
Are most of the images on that page missing or is it just me?
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by macshome 2y ago
Is something supposed to happen when I call a number on the phone? If the number picks up I just have silence until I hang up. Also I made the mistake of resetting the phone in an attempt to get into the admin account!
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by macshome 2y ago
While that was a problem, the larger one was that the cars were too fast for the tires and safety equipment of the time. In a 13 month period there were three fatal accidents that were down to drivers losing control and crashing on their ow
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by macshome 2y ago
I miss all the cool animations and loving touches like this in Apple’s iBooks.
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by macshome 2y ago
I found out about smishing and vishing from some mandatory security training at work. It’s all just phishing to me, I don’t get the need for all the other terms.
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by macshome 3y ago
Apple has several levels of audio to chose from: Lossy AAC at 256Kbit Lossless ALAC up to 24-bit/48 kHz Hi-Res Lossless ALAC up to a maximum resolution of 24-bit/192 kHz. They also have the spatial track options on a lot of music
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by macshome 3y ago
It just came back for me as well in Winston-Salem, NC
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by macshome 3y ago
Anyone can use FaceTime now. Non Apple devices will just join via a browser.
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by macshome 3y ago
Until recently, Formula One teams used Helium in their wheel guns as it spins them faster. In their push to be more environmentally friendly the sanctioning bodies realized that banning the use of pneumatic helium was an easy win.
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by macshome 3y ago
Party balloons are normally filled with what’s known as “balloon gas”. It’s a mix of air and helium that’s not suitable for use in medical equipment.
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by macshome 3y ago
As an American, the part of the story that is very interesting to me is that Canadian coins have enough ferrous content to be picked up by a magnet. Wouldn’t the ability for coins to become magnetized cause all sorts of issues for the inter
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by macshome 3y ago
Apple started replacing their own file system (and networking) kexts with user-mode file systems in macOS 13. Right now its locked up behind some private entitlements though. Hopefully they open it up more in the future. For a quick overvie

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