your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

try UTM https://docs.getutm.app/guest-support/windows/

the two approaches are either to use Windows-arm via commercial tools where the x86 translation, if needed, is done by Windows and you need to do the account jump to get the ARM version of Windows, or run something like UTM that is virtualizing x86 via qemu and then running that version

depending on whether you care about gpu or other device support, commercial license or not, pick your poison

I’ve been trying to do half-assed support for data scientists doing computey crap and trying to hand-wave at how you want to virtualize the command line

Surely the data scientists could just requisition second computers

oh like they don’t spend enough money already?

I think the ones doing stuff on their own laptop are probably in the minority judging from the zillion jupyter notebook nodes

Virtualbox?

VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org

(trigger warning: it's free, but VB has been an Oracle product since 2010)

I never thought of myself as needing a freeform brainstorm/collab/mind-map type of app, but after the latest OS updates I tried out Freeform and kinda like it
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-freeform-a-powerful-new-app-designed-for-creative-collaboration/

this is like... the giga-doonja

https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

yup, got that in a bundle a long time ago, it's great. but funny thing is when everything's running fine you just sorta forget about it...

Ran that for years. Replaced it with swiftbar because I didn’t need most of what it offered but it is indeed great.

It turns out it's easy to get on the beta for nvUltra. Recommended for Notational Velocity junkies.

I got into XRG years back, especially on full-time server Macs. Now with an M1 Pro and a fiber connection I'm pretty confident about things.

It turns out it's easy to get on the beta for nvUltra. Recommended for Notational Velocity junkies.

my experience was not as good (bloated, buggy), but at least it doesn't crash as soon as you open it on recent macos, unlike the original and nvalt. i gave up after a couple of days. it's been in beta for like 5 years. the author seems a bit nuts tbh and i'd be surprised if it ever ships.

I've never cottoned on to any of those note-bucket/offboard-brain type apps. I'd rather forget things.

nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.

Torrent client Transmission finally hits v4.0.

Rewriting from C to C++ is a wild project to take on but I’m glad it worked out for them I guess

Is there a reliable way to update a 2013 MacBook to one of the newer OSs? Without destroying the computer?

Not sure but I have a 2015 Macbook that's running Monterey fine

i was pleasantly surprised at the (low) price of "mid-2015" macbooks like the one i use day-in and day-out at work and which copes with that fine. like £300. proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.

(^ running big sur, nagging me to install monterey)

Finally sold my 2014 mbp for $175 and bought an m1 air on sale for 800. Happy with the upgrade

proper ports too, like usb and hdmi and sd card and actual earphone plug.

they all have usb and earphone plugs? i can get behind complaining about missing sd card, but hdmi?

ports i have nothing to plug into are useless to me. all my external drives are usb2*, my tv and monitor both have hdmi.

(* when i sent this one back to get the battery fixed they sent me a newer mac to use for the two weeks it'd be away. i backed everything up before it arrived but the replacement only had usb3 inputs. it stayed in the box.)

so, truly asking for a friend here:

does anyone have any suggestions for music software (think garageband, logic, or even something like audacity) that would be compatible with a 2011 iMac running Sierra? he got a hand-me-down ancient iMac and wants to use it to do some basic demo recordings, but is finding that stuff like garageband requires newer OS that can't be installed on older macs.

can it go to High Sierra? Audacity works for that.

i will ask! according to this, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251009089, a mid-2011 iMac can install 10.13 high sierra, so that might just be a possibility. thanks!

Also check out Reaper... you might could find an older version that'd be compatible...

I have a mid 2011 Mac mini running High Sierra and Audacity fwiw

Yah, there’s a current version of Reaper that will run as far back as 10.5

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

nvUltra has been fine. I don't use any of the new features. seems just as fast as NV/nvAlt to me.

caek was right, it's bad.

caek, what did you move to?

a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommend https://github.com/wincent/corpus

i also played with obsidian. it wasn't for me, but it seems like nvultra but with a roadmap and community. that's definitely worth checking out.

https://obsidian.md/

I like the idea of Obsidian but it seems like the ultimate "fuck around with the settings rather than get things done" kind of app. Like, I would spend all my time building taxonomies as a way to procrastinate.

i get what you mean but i think its mostly fine. its adoption by the zettelkasten community is the source of that vibe. i was as happy as i was going to be with it after changing like 3 settings.

(i think it was just cosmetic stuff re: colorscheme and font, teaching it the folder structure i wanted, and a shortcut to open a dated for today)

*a dated note

I might try Obsidian again when I go back to Uni in October. I mostly use Scrivener (e.g. for keeping notes and essay writing), and even though it can be hard work, and the updates are never what I want, I just prefer Scrivener's look and feel.

a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommend

Oh perfect. AND I can pretend that I'm finally going to become really nimble with vim.

I'm keeping to-dos in Logseq (similar to Obsidian) and have been toying with moving my notes there. It's great for what I'm using it for, but I'm leery. And, dammit, the unified title display / search / create UI hasn't been bettered.

The Zettelkasten crew led me to this app The Archive which has exactly that UI and is actually pretty decent so far https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

that looks perfect, stet, thanks. have been using nvultra for a while, but it's trying to do a lot more than i want. i don't really like the *feel* of obsidian, even though really it's doing a lot of what I want. i do find logseq good for work - daily meeting journal, key areas as pages etc. but for personal stuff I just want raw note taking. my old simplenote on phone + nvalt on mac set-up was perfect tbh.

Alternate plug for iaWriter as my solution for this. I keep trying to use Obsidian and whatever new system comes along, but i dunno - I can procrastinate enough tags out before doing actual work.

my favorite technology "radar" (because it's the the only one of these kind of things that isn't completely worthless) has logseq in it's quarterly report

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/logseq-as-team-knowledge-base

I have thoughts on thoughtworks but I, too, appreciate their tech radar

Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:

Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc