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by zydeco 5mo ago
I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4 that booted into something similar to Front Row instea
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by zydeco 2y ago
As far as I recall, none of the USB drives of the iMac era could read 400/800K GCR disks, they were PC drives that could only use 720/1440K disks. The Imation SuperDisk drives could also use their own 120MB “floptical” disis. Late
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by zydeco 2y ago
I wonder why the prebuilt Mac OS 9.2.1 VM has disappeared from the UTM gallery
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by zydeco 3y ago
I learned Objective-C and Cocoa in the days of manual reference counting. I use Swift for new personal projects, I don’t plan to rewrite the old ones in Swift for no reason, but I may add new features in Swift even if not strictly necessary
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by zydeco 3y ago
The Apple IIc was not a Mac
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by zydeco 4y ago
I did something similar, but targeting macOS on x86_64, so a lot of things were available through catalyst: https://github.com/zydeco/aah I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silicon were announced, only some simple ap
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by zydeco 4y ago
I made a platinum theme (and a few other mac-like ones) for xfwm some years ago: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1016308
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by zydeco 5y ago
Will it have a spatial file manager?
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by zydeco 6y ago
The EFI firmware is validated by the T2, which then passes it on to the x86 CPU. I assume this modification would not persist after the T2 reboots.
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by zydeco 6y ago
Pre-T2 macs had eficheck to verify the EFI's integrity, but with the T2 being so secure, it's not necessary anymore: https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5020911870672896
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by zydeco 6y ago
Not to be confused with Vapor ( https://vapor.codes ), the server-side Swift framework
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by zydeco 8y ago
That wasn't the QuickDraw that came to my mind
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by zydeco 8y ago
Is it just me, or do the pictures on chapter 3 and 4 look like prototypes with a 5.25” drive?
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by zydeco 8y ago
I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their core later, I wonder if ObjectBox has similar plans.
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by zydeco 8y ago
I think you still need dynamic codesign for this, if I try to do it my app gets killed with "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGKILL - CODESIGNING)", unless it's attached to the debugger. I remember having this issue since a
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by zydeco 8y ago
I don't think it's possible to do something like on iOS, because you can't write to executable pages (IIRC making a page executable requires the "dynamic_codesign" entitlement, which some Apple apps have).
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by zydeco 8y ago
I first misread that as "The Purely Fictional Linux Distribution".
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by zydeco 8y ago
"usted" in Spanish comes from a contraction of "vuestra merced" (your mercy, your grace), similar to "você" in Portuguese, "vostede" in Galician, and "vostè" in Catalan. It's still abbr
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by zydeco 8y ago
I can see why they haven't come up with a catchy name for it yet.
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by zydeco 8y ago
Actually, that's exactly what Uber did: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber%20app%20store&sort=byPopu...
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by zydeco 8y ago
I did something similar as an easter egg, but with classic black and white Mac UI, but I never thought to publish it as a library.
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by zydeco 9y ago
[2] is a thermal camera with WiFi connectivity, it's completely unrelated.
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by zydeco 9y ago
I was immediately disappointed by not being able to write my name (with ú and Á). It can work for Lithuanian, German, English, but not other languages that use different diacritics, as it doesn't have any others (accute, grave, circumf
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by zydeco 9y ago
Apparently not. You need their app to set the device up (i.e. connect the device to the WiFi, and pair the bluetooth sensor(s) to the device). The app only communicates with the Sense device via bluetooth when setting up its WiFi connection
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by zydeco 9y ago
Given that they never released the open API or data access they promised on kickstarter, I wouldn't expect anything from them.
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by zydeco 10y ago
Every app that uses Swift embeds its own copy of the Swift runtime libraries, since they are not part of the system (the ABI isn't stable yet).
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by zydeco 10y ago
This could never happen, the USA don't have an embassy there
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by zydeco 10y ago
After getting an over capacity error, you always get a captcha verification error and have to reload the page
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by zydeco 10y ago
this is nothing like Apple QuickDraw
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by zydeco 10y ago
It seems a bit counter-intuitive that Vatican is 4th roundest, and 2nd rectangularest

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