The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
Started at 5/31 11am ET. We’ll see how fast this baby moves on a 12yo #MacMini using #ProtonVPN & gigabit #fios through a #glinet#AXT1800 router, a CAT6-connected AP, a #MoCA -connected AP, & finally CAT6. It’s a circuitous route, I know, but these are the limitations of a 74yo house.
FWIW speeds right now are slower than usual: 174 Mbps down, 178 up. Usually in the 500-600 range. Maybe it’s the age of the #Mac, or I’m splitting between the #Ente & speed test?
Between the speech given where #Microsoft literally want to cloud base Windows (calling it Windows 365), the #AI "Callback" wife beater tool and #Bing AI eating the Bing API for half a day today almost the entire W11 subreddit seems up in arms. I have never seen so many "I am switching to #Linux" and "I am saving up for a #Mac" comments as today.
Watch out if you use iTerm2 on a mac. The latest version (3.5.x) integrates OpenAI/ChatGPT. It looks like you have to set keys to use it, but I don't want it even in the mix so I'm sticking with the 3.4.x release.
"Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air"
The not-yet-for-sale Windows "Copilot Plus PCs" are beating M3 MacBook Air (slightly) in Microsoft's home field testing (battery life and benchmark performance)
When will these machines be available?
How will their costs compare to the M3 MacBook Air?
Will Apple release the M4 MBA by then? If so, will the CoPilot PCs still win?
I got the huge ‘puter working (2011 17” MacBook Pro).
Really slow under Sonoma lol
I found a macOS install CD in it, so I’m using it for the size reference
This thing is so funny
For a few weeks now, I've been using VidHub as a video player on my iPad and MacBook.
I was actually looking for an alternative to Infuse; I thought its yearly subscription was unnecessarily expensive. While browsing, I came across this app:
Results on my #survey about trackpad tap to click.
114 responded.
65% enable tap to click and love it!
29% disable tap to click.
6% had tap to click enabled and hate it!
So about two thirds prefer tap to click.
Personally I would argue that it should be off by default, but I belong to the last group. I was finding that I was having a lot of issues with my trackpad and most went away when I changed the setting. I still have an issue at times that clicking sometimes leads to right clicking.
I have been using trackpoints for years, so I guess I am rather used to an experience with clear button clicks.
ChatGPT arriving on the Mac in new desktop app from OpenAI ahead of WWDC
"Ahead of that partnership, OpenAI has announced its own first-party ChatGPT app coming to the Mac. The app is designed to make ChatGPT more easily accessible and perpetually available for users."
Bean - A Free, Lightweight Word Processor https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/bean-a-free-lightweight-word-processor For years, Bean, a free word processor for macOS has been my go-to when I needed to create a document with rich text, tables and images. Weighing in at only 8MB, it starts instantly and places little demands on even my wife's 10-year-old machine. It reminds me of Microsoft's WordPad... #Mac Apps
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
FreeTube - Maybe the Most Underrated App https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/freetube-maybe-the-most-underrated-app YouTube in undeniably a force in the modern world. My 77-year-old father watches it daily as does my four-year old granddaughter. If you watch YouTube on a PC running macOS, Windows or Linux, I suggest you do it with FreeTube. FreeTube is a privacy lover's dream, using no trackers and... #Mac Apps
Linphone, sichere Kommunikation in Sprache, Video und Text
Mit Linphone eine sichere Kommunikation in Sprache, Video und Text führen. Externe VOIP-Anbieter mit einbinden und über mehrere Rufnummern erreichbar sein.
I am happy that now my 2013 Trashcan #Mac Pro sleeps correctly with Open Core Legacy Patcher on latest Sonoma (otherwise unsupported). Goes to 100w+ as soon as a wake it up but it goes back to 8w when sleeping.
That’s enough to maintain it alive. I don’t use it often but I want it to survive humidity.