After a day with 13in MacBook Air M2, I’m really amazed just how light and silent this thing is. Last MacBook I had was 2016 MBP that feels way more heavy than it really is.
This will be really nice travel companion for next decade.
@krzyzanowskim I need it for travel, to use when away from office. Used M2 is perfect for this as you can find as-new for 2/3 or even half priče than new.
Especially 1TB models.
I sit all day at the computer doing stuff in Xcode. Thus most of my other devices are not used much. In last few days I made an effort to use iPad to read articles instead of my Mac.
It reminded me that iPad was conceived as larger iPhone when iPhone was 4in. And it largely is that, today. Apple clearly never meant for it to be anything more than an accessory and I am quite confused why they add M2/M4 to it, why market it as computer for hip kids. It was never meant to be that.
I may be getting too old but this is so unwatchable. Apart from one or two characters, everyone in the series is deplorable sick person, no one is even remotely likeable nor interesting. Everything in their lives is shit.
Amazing article on EU, Apple, defending single market, DMA etc.
"Apple instead thought that the regulatory contact from the EU during the lead time to the DMA was an opportunity for it to lecture the EU on its right to exist. Then its executives made up some fiction in their own minds as to what the regulation meant, announced their changes, only to discover later that they were full of bullshit."
A quarter of century later and this is still the most magical epic fantasy cinema experience. The level of details and love put into this project is unmatched.
Here’s that famous love scene with song lyrics translated. There’s like a handful of people in the world who could understand this is not just vocalizing but an actual song. And they still did it. 🥺
The latest AI fad are short film versions of relatively modern classics (like The Matrix) re-done in the style and technology of the 1950s / 1960s. I see new YouTube channels popup every few days with the same type of content, obviously generated from scripted prompt.
Frack that shit. I can't add them to "don't recommend channel" quick enough.
At least try to make something original, write some new story, not re-hash someone else's idea.
@aleck I block them too as soon as they appear but that’s the entire point of generative AI - rehashing someone else’s idea. Stealing from others to validate their existence is in the trash heap they call home.
"I think Apple has forgotten about their biggest fans: indie developers. This is incredibly disheartening, because Apple has one of the most vibrant and talented developer communities on the planet."
It's a relaxed Saturday morning and I am reading through @rileytestut announcement about AltStore PAL.
"Not all apps are rejected for interesting reasons; sometimes people just want to make cool things that don’t fully align with Apple’s goals. Our hope with AltStore is to give apps like these another path forward."
🥹
I was not aware how much I missed this sort of enthusiasm for making apps. How much a decade+ of dealing with app review killed it, in me.
@EU_Commission not sure can you answer a question about DSA compliance here but worth a try:
Apple is asking all app developers that sell on App Store to affirm are they Trader or not and thus publish address and phone. Shared understanding among devs is that if you sell apps for money you are a Trader.
But no developer has access to either transaction nor customer details for any purchase.
Can we be considered “Trader” if we have no idea who is the actual “Customer”?
@gedeonm agreed. But if that customer ever wants a support for the item, they need to bring a receipt I gave them, right?
How do I verify customer that potentially calls me / emails me and ask for support related to an app?
Online sales through a forced intermediary have their own set of challenges that don’t exist with physical stores.
@aleck Also true. The EU always errs on the side of the consumer which, I think is part of the problem why we keep hearing about their over-regulations so often. This and Apple never set up the App Store to facilitate the ability to flow (potentially) millions of customer records to developers.
@aleck I think something that is missing here is the problem isn’t the delegate pattern at all. The issue is it’s hard to make classes Sendable. And the reason it’s hard is because it is almost never the right solution to isolation issues.
But the alternative, find out why you want this to be Sendable in the first place and change that might require rethinking how you are using concurrency.
@mattiem@aleck Matt, the alternative is unforcable if the requirement comes from the third-party dependency (sendable protocol). So what happened is I updated dependency, now it requires Sendable in that protocol and I should to adapt. I don't even use it for concurrency myself.
I wrote a lot about Hackintoshes and OpenCore over the years: https://aplus.rs/tags/hackintosh/
Nothing got this level of attention though so it's nice surprise.
Site (hosted on a shared hosting server at Dreamhost) seem to be holding up nicely; decision to go static-site route a decade ago paid off.
The largest thread if slightly off-topic discussion about diminishing options for DIY approach to cars, computers — Linux featuring prominently, of course — etc.
When you collapse that thread, it becomes far more interesting (to me).
First next thread is from someone at Apple (working on Mac ACPI firmware) which has an unenviable job of being a recipient of many crash reports from Hackintoshes.
Sorry man 😮💨 but Crash Report dialog is the culprit — its OK button is what causes the report to be sent and it's the only button shown.
Next is very real look at where Apple is today: people are buying Apple Silicon Macs because of the hardware and not its OS.
That macOS is not worth it to many enthusiasts is quite a reversal from 8-10+ years ago. That should be the cause of concern for anyone higher-up in the macOS product owner hierarchy at Apple.