On this #AppleEvent day, I want to say that I'm still very impressed with #Apple's technical achievements. Like mini-LED displays on the #iPadPro before, the "tandem OLED" is a smart solution. With their fancy event presentations, Apple makes everything seem obvious, but it's clear that — while many have been loudly proclaiming dissatisfaction that Apple hadn't switched to OLED already — they've been focusing on creating the best in looking/performing/efficient display they can manufacture.
@nicky Yup, still using #MLVWM on #OpenBSD. My current workstation -- aside from my iPad -- is a 2015 13in MacBook Air (dual-core i7) and it also is good at not gulping electricity (though not quite the dainty sips of the iPad.)
I take it the “run macOS on an iPad” situation is still “should technically be possible, some people managed it, but a truckload of work to make work in practice”? Or is there something like the jailbreak installers of old that make it risky but straightforward?
@oktawian@uliwitness I have spent the last year using a 2.2GHz dual-core i7 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM (soldered) as my primary workstation and it's not as bad as one might think. I do run a pretty light-weight OS (#OpenBSD) and X11 WM (#MLVWM), but the former isn't the most I/O optimized OS and even it's barely noticeable when it starts swapping. I always oversize SSD storage though, to delay failure through wear-leveling.
I generally run #OpenBSD -stable on my workstation to try to dogfood what non-developers are likely running when developing/testing #MLVWM (#X11 Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager) and my other utilities like #swupdate (https://github.com/morgant/swupdate-openbsd). One of this month's tasks is to dust off my WIP fixes to the #Keyspan#TrippLite#USA19HS USB serial driver, plus the 7.5 release is right around the corner, so I have updated my 2015 MacBook Air workstation to -current.
@seninha Today's musings on #MLVWM reminds me, I really like your X11 applications and definitely need to start using XFiles. IIRC, there's no #OpenBSD port in 7.3-stable yet, correct?
While I want the classic System 6/MacOS 7/8/9 simplicity for my desktop environment (currently MLVWM w/iDesk, stalonetray, and some misc utilities), I prefer lightweight software following the UNIX philosophy to allow users to add or replace components as they see fit. Yours do that so well!