#macos

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[kde-plasma-official]

hey, privacy concerned folks,

DON'T USE BALENA ETCHER TO USB YOUR ISOs

As @tailsos-official stated in their blog post, it displays ads which is weird for a simple disk imaging tool and more important:

It shares your IP address, the file name of the image the model of the USB stick and a bunch of other things with the Balena company and third parties.

On Windows, use Rufus instead. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, use the Raspberry Pi Imager. It does its job. Or if you don't mind the terminal, use dd. It's built-in.

On Linux you can use dd, or whatever comes with your DE. Or whatever else you prefer. We got options.

You can also use Ventoy and just chuck all your ISOs on it. No need to reformat your usb drives again just for a new boot stick. One USB to rule them all.

sources under the cut

[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/

[beekeeperspicnic]

✨Guide to Getting The Beekeeper's Picnic Running on Mac✨

So the bad news is, all of the "get your game made using the Adventure Game Studio game engine easily ported into Mac!" guides that I've found aren't resulting in something which... actually runs. I think an official Beekeeper's Picnic macOS release is going to require me to outsource to someone who has more of an idea about what they're doing, and that'll take more time :c

But the good news is...

I have found a pretty easy temporary solution in the form of ScummVM, a program designed to let you play many classic graphical point-and-click adventure games. And BKP, apparently.

So, here are some steps on how to use it:

Firstly, you'll want to get the itch.io version of The Beekeeper's Picnic. Download the Windows version, and double click on the Zip file to unzip it.

2. Download ScummVM.

3. When you open ScummVm for the first time, it'll look like this. Click Add game...

4. Select the 'Windows' folder that you unzipped. When Scumm comes back with what it's found in that folder, click 'The Beekeeper's Picnic' and then 'Choose'

5. At this point, Scumm might get very confused. It might panic. It might show you a message that looks something like this:

You must shush it like a skittish horse and click 'Add anyway'.

6. Then a screen will come up with lots of tabs and options. I just kept everything as default and clicked 'Ok'

7. You can now select The Beekeeper's Picnic and click Start! And it should run!

Some stuff to be aware of

This works on the couple of Macs I've been able to test it on. I don't know if it will work for everyone. If you buy the game and it doesn't work give me a shout and I'll be happy to refund!

I'd advise saving the game often, just in case. I haven't extensively tested it in Scumm, so better play it safe.

You won't get automatic updates, so you might watch to check back on Itch.io from time to time to make sure you have the latest version.

You can play other point and click adventures this way! Why not treat yourself to Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo while you're at it? It's my favourite!

[monody-monody]

So I've recently been finally getting around to something I've wanted to do for a few years: switching to Linux.

To safely test out this process before applying it to my main tower machine, I decided to first do the switch over on an old Mac Mini which had a lot to gain from this as it was stuck on an outdated and unsupported version of MacOS.

But of course this all involved shuffling around a lot of old data and making sure everything was backed up. And here's where the story begins.

I backed up the Mini's MacOS install to its own partition on an external backup drive shared by my Windows tower machine. Once done, I shrank it to only the used size( which was complicated in its own right for reasons I'll explain shortly,) and then wanted to move it to the end of the drive so I could expand the Windows partition back out to fill the unused space.

Problem #1: MacOS's Disk Utility is so stripped down and lacking in functionality in the name of gloss, it literally cannot work with unallocated space on a drive in any way. You cannot see unallocated space, and you cannot create it. Want to shrink or delete a partition? It automatically creates a new one to fill the space whether you wanted it or not. Want to make a new partition in unallocated space without wiping the whole drive? Gotta use a different OS to make a dummy partition first and then replace it in Disk Utility. And the real problem… Want to move a partition? Can't.

Problem #2: Windows's Disk Management doesn't know what HFS+ is and refuses to work with it. Windows can't even read the Mac backup partition, let alone move it. But wait! I can use EaseUS Partition Manager! …Aaand most of its essential functionality is locked behind one of its multiple paywall tiers, including the ability to work with non-Windows filesystems at all.

But what about that new Linux install on the Mini?

I run 'sudo apt-get install gparted', a FOSS program, and in less than a minute I've already got it moving the partition. No hassle. No BS.

And if this whole thing doesn't just sum up the operating system trio, I don't know what does.

[netscapenavigator-official]

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

[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

[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}

[doyouknowthisgame]

[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)

[connorthevgfan78]

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

Valve: "OK." Removes MacOS Support

RIP TF2 on Mac.

[hlas-lidu]

Jaký používáš operační systém?

Windows

macOS 👉👈

Linux

Chcel by som ti na chvíľu skočiť do reči. To, čo nazývaš Linux, je v skutočnosti GNU/Linux, alebo ako som to v poslednej dobe začal volať, GNU plus Linux. Linux nie je sám o sebe operačný systém, ale len ďalší slobodný komponent plne fungujúceho GNU systému použitý GNU jadrovými knižnicami, škrupinou a vitálnymi systémovými komponentmi, ktoré spolu vytvárajú kompletný operačný systém ako je definované POSIXom. Mnoho počítačových užívateľov používa upravenú verziu GNU systému každý deň, bez toho, aby si to uvedomili. Zvláštnym zvratom okolností sa verzia GNU, ktorá sa dneska široko využíva nazýva Linux, a veľa ich používateľov si neuvedomuje, že ide v podstate o GNU systém, vyvinutý GNU projektom. Existuje Linux, a títo ľudia ho naozaj používajú, ale je to len súčasť systému ktorý používajú. Linux je zrno: program v systéme, ktorý prideľuje prostriedky prístroja ostatným programom, ktoré spúšťaš. Zrno je nevyhnutná časť operačného systému, ale je sám o sebe zbytočný; môže fungovať len v súvislosti celkového operačného systému. Linux je be��ne používaný v kombinácii s GNU operačným systémom: celkový systém je v podstate GNU s pridaným Linuxom, alebo GNU/Linux. Všetky takzvané distribúcie Linuxu sú v realite distribúcie GNU/Linuxu!

Nepoužívám elektroniku / mám pleš

[kawaoneechan]

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

[adafruit]

Playing Our Childhood Mac on the Fruit Jam 🍏💾

We grew up with a Mac Plus/512K, so getting the Pico-Mac 68000 emulator

working on Fruit Jam

was a high priority for those nostalgic vibes.

We've got HSTX DVI output plus a USB keyboard and mouse

and with a little effort, we built a 2-megabyte "disk" with some of our favorite games and apps:

MacPaint!

Lode Runner!

Shufflepuck Café!

What were your favorite games from the "classic" Mac era?