YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A REDDITOR

I’ve only been using Apple stuff since '07, but I’ve been through a similar thing lately. My iPhone contract was due, so after a ridiculous amount of consideration and research I ended up getting a Pixel 9, which I’ve put GrapheneOS on. Its a huge learning curve, but I’m glad I did it.

If I have to have a smartphone, I may as well have one that’s as much on my terms as possible.

I’d love BTT on Linux too. The hardest thing for me with a move from macOS to Linux is losing the ability to zip about the OS with a trackpad. Also, I’ve had BTT set for years so that clicking the middle button on a mouse shows Mission Control. God, I wish I could work out how to do that in Mint.

Is 256gb RAM enough for YouTube?

I find this shit hilarious.

Who the fuck is pirating a damn thing by screen shotting their phone? Can I smash the buttons 30 times a second in order to be able to reproduce the movie? No, absolutely not.

In reality, people will be taking a screen shot in order to share something, giving free publicity to Netflix. So what actually happens is that I torrent the thing I want to make a gif of, or share a frame from, thereby leaving an incentive for the people who provide the torrents to keep on keeping on.

That’s more than mildly infuriating.

Britain is where the Canuckians got that from. Our colonies ranged very far and very wide, and for that we’re very sorry.

Sorry.

Given how much they’ve shrunk the Mac mini down, the next Apple TV will either be a surprisingly powerful gaming console in its current form factor, or they’ll keep its performance roughly equivalent to how it is now but have it in a far smaller form.

My money would be on the latter. Smaller devices mean more can be shipped for the same cost in less expensive packaging, and that’s the Cook Way. They’ve no real interest in offering ‘proper’ gaming on ATV, so as long as it can work with 8K signals it’ll be powerful enough for what it needs to do.

“Oh, you want to install software from Github, do you? Well, unfortunately, fuck you”

• macOS Sequoia

Sorry, meant no criticism of you at all. I just wanted to share Hank’s video because he goes into a lot of depth and really helps in understanding.

I do periodically look up their prices on eBay, but because of that weird aberration they’ve retained their value pretty well.

The Stupid Reason That Elon Musk Is Complaining About Scientists Spraying Bobcat Urine on Alcoholic Rats

Pretty sure they cribbed most of that article from This Hank Green video from the same day. It’s a message worth spreading though, to be fair.

Weirdly. I don’t know why they went back to upgradeable RAM for one generation.

I’m no expert in business, but I guess that maintaining the Mac side of the company goes a long way towards the popularity of the iOS side. What they make from Macs might be tiny in comparison, but it all helps towards the amount they make from iPhones and iPads. It’s all symbiotic, y’know?

This does make me wonder whether the entry level mini is something of a loss-leader at this point. Literally just a way to get people into the ecosystem.

I wouldn’t have thought Apple are using flash chips that are two or three times more expensive. They’re just price gouging at a point where consumers have literally no option.

It does make me wonder what value there might be in a third party offering, tied with a local repair shop who have a Mac running Sequoia that can be used to restore it. Assuming the boards are reasonably easy to produce (easy for someone who is able to do that kind of thing), it’d be pretty straightforward to take your Mac in to a shop to have it restored.

Mint on my ancient MacBook because I didn’t really know any better and it’s working just nice for me, and Asahi/Fedora on my M1 mini, because it’s the only option.

‘twas ever thus.