#macos

[netscapenavigator-official]

The piece of Malware I accidentally pirated realizing it’s being run on macOS via a proprietary WINE fork and not Windows:

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[kawaoneechan]

In Windows 1.01, no joke, you had the option to change a bunch of individual colors.

This feature was retained and even expanded on all the way through Windows 9x, until XP introduced its new theming system. The old way was still available if you wanted, as full-featured as ever, but only if you chose to disable the fancy themes.

And then they took away the ability to disable themes.

Now, in Windows 10 (11? I don't have it) you get to pick light or dark, and one accent color that you can then choose to also apply to the task bar and window borders/title bars.

In MacOS 7, you could pick an accent color (very subtly applied by replacing one shade of gray) and a highlight color (not as subtle).

What MacOS lists as the highlight color is still technically there in Windows but you don't get to change it without special tools or knowledge.

This is the latest MacOS, Sequoia:

Technically, MacOS has Windows beat.

How could this happen.

[river-taxbird]

Have you got an old Mac that is no longer supported by Apple? It's time to give it a new life.

How to install the latest MacOS on Mac hardware that is no longer officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I recently discovered this and it has been a game changer. Recently my partner needed a Mac for her music course, so we bought a 2012 Macbook Pro as it was cheap and on paper still had decent hardware for working with music. We were then disappointed to find out that it is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore can't run the latest version of Logic, which she needed to inter-op with the school comptuers. Just as we thought we had bought a less than useful computer, I found this video about OpenCore Legacy Patcher from Youtuber Action Retro.

It's a community made piece of software that allows you to install the latest version of MacOS on any Intel Mac, from the late 2000s onwards. All you need to do is download the application on a mac, it will then allow you to make a bootable USB drive for any version of MacOS you want, and you just need to choose the specific mac you are targeting from a list, and it "blesses" the bootable drive, allowing you to install it on your unsupported mac using the normal install process.

I tried it and it it worked perfectly on the 2012 Macbook Pro, and the latest version of MacOS Sonoma is running perfectly well on the 12 year old hardware. It also allowed us to install the latest version of Logic, so it's working great.

Props to the team for making this and allowing hardware that would otherwise be e-waste to continue to be usable with the modern internet and software. If you end up using it, please consider donating to the team as apparently they had to jump through some serious technical hoops to get this working. Here is the link again if you need it: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[verynerdyelaine]

Window Managers are cool

So, I've been using Unix based Operating Systems (MacOS and Linux) for a while now but when I was just starting to use Linux there was a term that a lot of people were using and that was a "Tiling Window Manager".

What is a Tiling Window Manager?

Well, A Tiling window manager is a window manager that organizes windows into grids of tiles and not promote the overlapping of windows.

Why do you need it?

Tiling Window Managers are amazing at organizing windows and keeping in track with whatever tasks that are in-front of your face. Tiling Window Managers are also keyboard centric in which you can switch between windows with just your keyboard and as I am a Neovim user i use HJKL to breeze through the windows. Tiling Window Managers also have the feature of workspaces (desktops on MacOS) in which you can designate whatever stuff you have into different workspaces.

What Tiling Window Managers do I use?

On, Linux i use dwm and on MacOS i use yabai. dwm is an amazing Window Manager due to it being highly configurable, minimal and yet simple which fits my cozy zone. yabai is what i use for MacOS due to it being 1 of 2 Tiling Window Managers on MacOS (the other being Amethyst) but yabai is much more powerful and more configurable.

Final Thoughts

Tiling Window Managers are cool and you should give them a try :3

[der3ality]

[doyouknowthisgame]

[connorthevgfan78]

TF2 Community: #SaveTF2!! #FixTF2!! We need Valve to do SOMETHING!!

Valve: "OK." Removes MacOS Support

RIP TF2 on Mac.

[queen-of-bad-opsec]

do you truly own your computer, if the only system you can ever have on it is the one the manufacturer chose?

do you truly own your computer, this wonderful, universal machine, if its ability to do whatever you desire has been hamstrung by its creator?

do you truly own your computer if anyone else can restrict your freedom of choice in any way, ever?

do you own your macbook? your windows machine? can you truly make them yours, when you cant even change what they look like?

sure, it gives you a paltry few dials and knobs, lets you change the text a lil, use some different colors.

but what if the way your system lets you use it is just fundamentally foreign and awkward to you? what then? what good is a fresh coat of paint when all the cogs are one size too small, but put in place as if they were one size too big?

and yet, so many people are just ...fine with it. they don't mind having to drag the mouse all the way across the fucking screen to switch to a different window (yes, alt-tab exists, but your mouse doesn't follow). they don't mind having to alt-tab through more than 2 windows, missing the window they meant to go to, and having to cycle all the way through again.

it makes me a bit sad.

i think the problem is that nobody ever tells them it gets better than that. they think it's fine because it's all they've ever known, and well, surely millions and billions of people can't be wrong... right??

the other problem is that the systems they know don't let them do it better. using Windows? you must use the Windows way. using Mac? it's the Mac way for you. in either case, not truly your way.

but oh, wouldn't that be wonderful, a system that defines itself by just letting you have fun and be yourself. that doen't try to prescribe a way to do things. that lets you choose your own way. where you can truly do whatever the fuck you want, however the fuck you want. that lets you just own the device in your hands.

where you aren't stuck with whatever you're given. where you don't even have to use what you're given at all. where you as the user are truly respected as the owner of your system.

[rinidisc]

Drew some anthro OS mascots! (Had to make up one for Windows.) There's Xenia the linux fox, Clarus the Macintosh Dogcow, And Luna the Windows betta fish~

[netscapenavigator-official]

The fact that the WINE project stands for “WINE Is Not (an) Emulator” is hilarious.

[nixcraft]

If you can remember ffmpeg, nmap and openssl syntax from core memory, then you've already mastered the art of the CLI! 💻

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[kawaoneechan]

I wonder how many people know that the spinning beach ball cursor in MacOS is actually a spinning magneto-optical disk...

[disease]

LIST: iOS SHORTCUTS

• Spotify to MP3 | "Download Spotify tracks to MP3." • All Media Downloader | "This shortcut helps you download content from social media apps." • Web Services | "Customise the internet for you." • Better GIF Maker | "Convert videos and live photos to GIFs at highest quality using ffmpeg" • Water Eject | "Powerful water ejection system." • Paywall and Cookie Bypass | "Bypass website paywalls and cookies." • iUtilities | "The only shortcut you’ll need" • Reverse Image Search | "Search by image instead of keywords" • Google Translate | "Quickly translate using the Google Translate API" • iTweak Final Version | "A Jailbreak Alternative With Multiple Features!"

...WHAT ARE SHORTCUTS?

for those unaware: the pre-installed Shortcuts app on iOS/macOS/iPadOS can potentially be a life-changing application in regards to digital productivity.

it's utilized as a hub for your collection of shortcuts and automations. shortcuts allow for just a single click—which many times is conveniently incorporated onto your "share" sheet option panel—to execute one or multiple actions; automations are chosen commands that run at specific/relative times of day without prompt.

people tend to overlook the Shortcuts app due to its available "gallery" of shortcuts being rather limited... with the only other option provided being to build these desired actions yourself, which requires the skill of digital coding. however! that's where RoutineHub comes in: it's a website allowing users to share their own complex shortcuts, free of charge, and has a large selection to choose from.

RoutineHub: Shortcuts {by Popularity}