"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
Given the importance placed on CLI usage by many in the Linux community it's weird that a terminal isn't open by default on many Distros. Today I remembered that while on Antergos a few years ago I'd installed a terminal that you could call simply by pressing a hotkey.
Yakuake smoothly drops down from the top of your screen in response to the hotkey (the default is F12) and voila!: a ready to use terminal! Add it to Autostart and it'll run whenever you run a session of Linux, forever saving you having to load Konsole (or whatever) every time you want to use it.
And as I'm running KDE the fact it uses Konsole tech means it has that familiar look and feel, but shows Session tabbing by default foregrounding the ability to run separate terminal sessions and putting it within easy reach of GUI users and a mouse-click.
@Uraael On a #Mac OS desktop I use #iTerm2 and I really wish someone would port that to #Linux, or make a clone of it, because in my opinion it is far better than any native Linux #terminal program I have seen. The best cross-platform terminal app I have found is #Tabby, which has some of iTerm2's functionality (including tabs, if you can't tell from the name) but I still prefer iTerm2, which I have set to automatically restart after a reboot on my Mac.
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
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
@neurologo@kevan I also vouch for #Moom. Other #Mac window management add-ons try to impose too much of their developers’ preferences, such as funky keyboard-only controls, limited window placement, or obtuse configuration files.
Moom feels like what #Apple would shoot for if they went beyond simple split screens.
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.
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 have an old iMac from a friend that had a dead harddrive that I was able to replace pretty cheaply and has worked fine ever since, though it's topped out at an old OS.
I got another iMac from a neighbour suspecting it may be a harddrive issue as well, which could be an easy fix.
BUT, with both of these stopping at much older OS's that don't get updates any longer and won't run more modern programs, the question came up today...
Would there be any upside to doing so? Could a newer OS be installed and used, for instance?
The thinking was if the OS's aren't updated or security patching anyway, there's no difference if we jailbreak the computers and they then don't update or security patch as a result.
But is that even a thing? If so, any drawbacks I'm not seeing to doing this (or more to the point, having someone who knows what they're doing do it)?
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.
On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they've also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!
This release brings:
OpenGL 4.6
High quality audio out of the box
Plasma, Gnome, Server, and Minimal variants available
@itsfoss#Onionshare is GREAT! Not fast, but secure and protects privacy very good! Also supports ANY important platforms like #LINUX#ANDROID#IOS#MAC CR#APPLE :underheart:
On this holy day of The #Apple Event, I find myself writing the following comment in my code after trying to run my app on a #Mac:
/**
Metadata about the database itself.
This is inlined here instead of being kept in its own Database.js file like all the other model classes so as not to leave our friends who have Appleⓡ Macⓡ devices that cannot differentiate between database.js (this file) and Database.js (that file).
Perhaps when Apple becomes a Gazillion billion-dollar company…
*/
The new version of EasyJoin for macOS is ready to go - v4.0
The new native version based on SwiftUI is out of beta testing and ready to replace the previous version....