Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

get a Qi charger than does 7.5W (not 10W, Apple products don't support that yet) and make sure it comes with a wall charger better than 5A so it can handle that mode, otherwise it'll be stuck at 5W.
usually the decent chargers will include a USB-C port, even if your Qi pad doesn't use USB-C.

altogether you don't need to spend more than like $30-40 on it

mh you haven't been abusing anything, this is the world we deserve, the world THEY said we couldn't have

do any of you know how to use an iOS device as a webcam for a mac laptop in clamshell mode using an external monitor?

There's an app I tried a while back – iView or similar (sorry, I've totally forgotten but will look it up). It was though, a bit crap - the image is good but there's an unavoidable lag

hmm, yeah I need this to be crisp and fast. I can just use the laptop camera but I'd rather be able to look forward than down.

I have bought a dodgy HDMI capture stick off ebay to see i can usably hook up my DSLR for the same reason, yeah

i'm getting a new Mini and it's occurred to me i could use the old one as a.... NAS? has anyone here ever done this?

stick something under your laptop

well I'd also like to be able to use the external screen because it is so much bigger. I've been just using my iPad for videoconferences where I don't need to be looking forward all the time, and just putting it to the side: good for faculty meetings and the like. but I have a couple things coming up where that won't be as good (I have teleprompter like needs for those). the laptop screen is big enough for that, I'll just put the video window to the side, it's not crucial that I see them particularly well, it is crucial that they see me and that I can see the text I need to read.

not exactly stoked for the madness today tbh. Maybe they'll make macos worse idk

seem like they're getting back on track little by little - hopefully they can continue down a positive path. don't have my hopes up too much tho

have been waiting for the ARMBook for like 5 years at this point, hopefully they make it smol

Maybe they'll bring back Rosetta.

hah, it's already possible to build ARM binaries on x86, see: iOS apps. There's no need for emulation in common cases. Another LLVM payoff I think.

I agree from a developer standpoint and as someone who generally uses new apps, but the #1 complaint for most people is “my program that I bought no longer works and I don’t know why”

kind of a hard balance between “things should just keep working” and “apps need to be updated to be modern in regards to platform/security/etc”

I’m generally on board with the second because oh boy remember what a mess Windows became when everyone wanted to run their apps from eons ago on every new Windows version

it's cool that we can so easily run dos programs on mac os though.

there's some real good Raymond Chen posts about that sort of thing xp

i feel like i only just got used to intel, my last computer still had unrunnable powerpc binaries on it somewhere

this has definitely become less of an issue over time now that virtualization and emulation have gotten better!

and, iirc, now macs have been on intel longer than they were on powerpc

yeah but powerpc didn't feel like going over to the ENEMY it felt like a cool new superboost

ah yes, the weird apple cult thing where processors from motorola/ibm (!) were magic

there were some genuine perks of powerpc at the time but the idea that any component that deviated from standard Windows boxes was part of the “apple magic” was always a weird take imo

A Mac Pro on a many-core POWER9 sure would be something tho huh?

all these hoonja-doonjas, like tears in the rain

xp yeah, that would be kind of neat!

when it was clear Motorola was stagnating, the theories about Apple jumping to all kinds of different platforms was interesting. I think there was a contingent that thought they should buy the DEC Alpha assets, even

lol Zing is already < 10mb

(re AppClips)

This episode of Black Mirror sucks

https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2020-06-22/f1592847115.jpg

Apple Watch detecting when you don't wash your hands enough. wonder if it narcs

they're trailing this new design in a big way

truly dismal stuff this

widgets foad challenge

creg just do a good keyboard challenge

macs will now properly run iOS apps. woah

Oh, they're calling it MacOS 11 so bye bye X

custom wallpaper on carplay, safari, all the things get custom wallpaper

There are a bunch of music apps on iOS that sell for 1/10th of a MacOS instrument or effect. That’s going to be interesting.

macs will now properly run iOS apps. woah

hmmm. depends on how the app is designed, right? even something as basic as a swipe gesture is going to be annoying if you use a mouse.

(I know you meant something different by "properly" I'm just leery of running handheld apps on a desktop)

they did completely breeze past the swipeyness, but modern iPad OS lets you use an external pointing device with a cursor to swipe, so I'm assuming anything that supports that is good

...I proclaim as I type on an iPad with a touchpad

and of course laptops are very swipey now

touchpads on apple laptops remain excellent imo

xps it's been called macOS since Catalina, no X

that's what they say but that's not what i say when i google broken os x shit that they HAVEN'T changed

been called macOS since Catalina, no X

Ah yes - shedding the Jobs era I guess, no skeuomorphism remains

Lots of shadows and gradients in those new icons, I think the tide is turning. Next stop leather