Aaron2222

Apple ID shouldn't be required for that (unless you're downloading it from the Apple Developer site instead of installing through macOS directly?).

Your CPU should have a TPM built-in. It's most likely just disabled in the BIOS (it was often disabled by default on motherboard BIOSes in the pre-Windows 11 days). Have a look in the BIOS for something labeled fTPM or Firmware TPM.

Also, Apple doesn't tend to write SEO clickbait: https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/blog/

Or more realistically, a leap second every ~49 years.

Apple should really provide free codesigning for free/open source software.

Yes, it definitely adds quite a bit of friction. Though my other points about not needing to pay for the Apple Developer Program unless you want to codesign (at a much lower price than what you pay for a codesigning certificate suitable for signing Windows programs) and not having to pay Apple 30% (or 15%, or anything) on macOS still stand.

I don't use it myself (I don't mind the notch personally), though it would give more space for menu bar items.

BetterDisplay[0] can even change the display mode to just use the display area below the notch (which is the same 16:10 that older MacBooks had). Probably noticeable on a MacBook Air, but on a MacBook Pro, the local dimming makes the unused area look exactly like the bezel.

[0]: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

> I have to buy developer accounts

The Apple Developer Program is only needed for macOS if you want to do sign your binaries or distribute through the Mac App Store. And you only have to pay Microsoft if you want to publish to the Microsoft Store (or use Visual Studio if you're a company that has more than 5 Visual Studio users, more than 250 computers, or more than $1 Million USD in annual revenue).

> buy certificates for signing binaries

Fair (though both Windows and macOS will run apps that haven't been signed, with more warnings of course).

> share 30% of my revenue with them for barely any reason

Only if you use their stores (Mac App Store or Microsoft Store), and it looks like the Microsoft Store won't take any cut if you do your own payments and it's not a game.

That's the response they got when asking the https://www.meta.ai/ web console what version of LLaMA it is.

Video of the warehouse for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

It's not that Mac hardware is only available with limited memory and storage (you can get a MacBook Pro with 128 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage, or you can get a Mac Pro and throw in a bunch of M.2 drives on PCIe cards), it's just that the pricing on them is ridiculous.

Maybe they originally intended for them to be internet connected? That would also explain the MQTT.

WSL1 implemented Linux syscalls inside the NT kernel (not in userspace).

I think it's quite reasonable to want to offer upgrade pricing, especially to customers who recently purchased the old version. It's just good business to ensure your recent customers don't feel screwed over having to pay full price for the new version when they just paid full price for the previous version.

The issue here is the inflexibility of the App Store, coupled with the inability to handle payments and licensing separate from the App Store. While this tends not to be much of an issue on macOS (due to macOS allowing installing applications from sources other than the Mac App Store), it very much is on iOS as well as in cases like this (as Apple has restrictions on certain kinds of Safari Extensions being distributed outside of the Mac App Store).

As a customer who purchased the StopTheMadness Link Unshortener Bundle about one and a half years ago (and therefore missed out on the upgrade pricing, while other customers who purchased StopTheMadness years earlier received upgrade pricing), I do feel screwed over. Not by the app developer of course, but by Apple.

Reminds me of a similar story from my childhood. I was also quite young at the time, accessing the public library OPAC from my home computer, and noticed the URL for the page ended in (I think) `.exe`. I know now that the OPAC was likely using CGI[0], but at the time I was curious, and somehow was able to download this `.exe`, Given it was a`.exe` and that it actually ran, I can't have just saved the webpage. I have a vague feeling I might have stripped the query parameters off the end of the URL, and that caused the web server to serve up the underlying `.exe` file. But whatever happened, when I ran the file, all it did was cause my printer (a parallel port one, not USB) to start printing blank pages.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

OpenVMS[0] is very much primarily a commercial product that people use in production. The hobbyist program is secondary to that.

[0]: https://vmssoftware.com

CrossOver 23.5 has the option of using D3DMetal (the DirectX 12 to Metal translation layer from Game Porting Toolkit)[0].

[0]: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/9/27/crossove...

Windows 10 IOT Core isn't. Windows 10 IOT Enterprise is though[0]. Good luck getting a legit license for it however.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT#Enterprise

I've gotten the exact same output every time I've asked: https://chat.openai.com/share/852bda77-826c-46d2-ba30-bfa6b2...

> and the rest will have to be consumed by the rest of the system somehow

The wattage figures on a charger are the maximum it can provide. The connected device only draws what it needs.

Yeah. I don't know why they didn't just move it to an extended attribute as part of the APFS transition.

SSO. When your service has accounts where authentication goes through SSO, showing a password field too those users doesn't make any sense. So they just ask for a username/email address, then either redirect through SSO (if applicable) or ask for a password if it's not an SSO account.

There's always SponsorBlock: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

They should just tie it to Activation Lock. Make AST 2 (or whatever it is now) available to the public, and allow pairing any component (new or pulled from an old device) as long as it's not already paired to an Activation Locked device.

There's both Apple's Hypervisor framework (a lower-level framework for hypervisors to use to avoid needing a kernel extension), and Apple's Virtualization framework (which is a higher-level framework that lets you run Linux and macOS VMs). QEMU supports virtualization on macOS with the HVF accelerator, which uses the Hypervisor framework. UTM uses QEMU, supporting virtualisation through QEMU with HVF (as well as emulation of other architectures with QEMU). UTM also has support for using the Virtualization framework. But either way, with an ARM64 image, you'll be getting virtualization (unless you disable HVF when using QEMU).

It's not really the kind of audio that you'd be able to notice looping. The white/pink/brown noise files are each a minute long, and the stream/ocean/rain sounds are comprised of 17-20 sound files between 1-3 minutes long (and I'm guessing it randomizes the playback order).

There's the Hypervisor framework, which is the low-level framework that replaces the need for a kernel extension for type 2 hypervisors, and then there's the more recent Virtualisation framework which is a more high-level framework for running VMs. QEMU's HVF uses the Hypervisor framework, and UTM also supports running VMs with the Virtualization framework (which is what Vimy and Viable also use). Note that the Virtualization framework also has support on Apple Silicon for running macOS guests as well as Linux guests.

macOS as well. Though it's not exactly a 'generator'. Even for white/pink noise it's just playing an audio file.

If you're referring to Visual Studio, then Visual Studio Community[0] is free (for individuals and "non-enterprise organizations") and is equivalent to Visual Studio Professional.

[0]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/