Does anyone know why alt-2 doesn't work in #WINE on #macOS? alt-1 to alt-0 all work except alt-2. Is something else capturing it?

EDIT: Ooops, I meant control, not alt.

#apple #LiquidGlass #UI #design #AlanDye #designer #MacOS #iOS #iPadOS #fail #fun #dunny #humor #humour

Alt...

Funny X post. The text says "To commemorate Alan Dye moving from Apple to Meta, here's one of his best quotes: 'Design is not just what it looks… Design is how it…'" Parts of the text are unreadable because of Apple's Liquid Glass UI design, lead by Alan Dye.

MacOS: losing confidence

It's always a bit sad and a little awkward when reality starts hitting long-time fans and users of an operating system, isn't it? I feel like I'm at least fifteen years ahead of everyone else when it comes to macOS, at least.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been discovering problems that have been eroding confidence in macOS. From text files that simply won’t show up in Spotlight search,

https://www.osnews.com/story/143948/macos-losing-confidence/

#macOS

System 7 natively boots on the Mac Mini G4

Only a few weeks ago, the CHRP variants of Mac OS 7.6 and 8 were discovered and uploaded to the internet for posterity, but we're already seeing the positive results of this event unfold: Mac OS 7.x can now run on the Mac Mini G4 - natively.

The very short of it is as follows. First, the CHRP release of Mac OS 8 contains a ROM file that allows Mac O

https://www.osnews.com/story/143926/system-7-natively-boots-on-the-mac-mini-g4/

#macOS

TIL about using pbpaste (on MacOS for example) to directly apply a git e-mail patch that is currently saved to your clipboard:

pbpaste | git apply

(Obviously doesn't carry over the submitters email/name etc, but for tiny changes it makes things easier than exporting mbox)

https://ss64.com/mac/pbpaste.html

#macOS #git

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

#macOS developers: is there a way to get a *raw*, unprocessed video stream for just getting the pixels out of a camera? No Center Stage, no Reactions, no background replacement, and no interaction from the user to allow enabling any of that. Like if I wanted to set up a telescope for astrophotography, weather monitoring, security surveillance, or literally any use case which isn't "pointing the camera at my face for a video call". Is AVFoundation too high-level for this?

@morgant

#MacOS has now overtaken #FreeBSD

#EVIL

#Poll #LiveTooting

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

@stefano The *perception* that #Linux is anti- #Windows or #MacOS was understandable back in the day when Steve Ballmer was running the show and #Microsoft pumped out no shortage of anti-Linux FUD and propaganda.

It's also important to note at that time the OS landscape was very different.

I need some tips or advice.

I would like to reimage my (Intel) MacBook Pro.
The reason is that i suspect some low level third party drivers are messing up my power management (therefore i don't want to restore from the Time Machine backup)

In the (distant) past I dinos replaced the ssd but this isn't possible.

So my question, what is the best way to create an (ideally bootable) disk image of my #MacOS installation?

#Boost #FediPower

Been living with the #MacOS Tahoe update for a few weeks now, and it's mostly inoffensive, with one exception:

I hate, **HATE** that they made the change-of-volume alert become this tiny little update in the corner that's easily missed instead of the nice comfy screen overlay that made it quick and easy to see volume and any other special-button-related-changes.

Design has improved our lives in many ways, but this constant need for "change it just because it's been a while" is not the best look.

well, I think it’s more or less OK to release. you may have issues on your hardware, but these patched TBXIs at least try to boot whatever you throw at it, 7.5 onwards up to whatever it’s supposed to boot…

very hacky and your mileage may vary, but now you too can try to boot 7.5 or 7.6 or 8.1 on stuff that wasn’t ever meant to run it, without it instantly crashing due to its boot wanting some function or interface that got stripped out the tree…

https://github.com/Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset/releases/tag/v20251115

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS

I've also published an new 20251114 bootstrap kit. This isn't necessary if you already have an install (the steps above will get you past the problem without it), but means new users will not run into the issue.

https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

#pkgsrc #macOS

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT for anyone using my macOS package repository from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

There's a subtle upgrade scenario I didn't test correctly, and your next upgrade will fail due to PGP key bootstrap issues.

To fix:

$ pkgin -d upgrade
$ t=$(mktemp -d); cd $t
$ ar x /var/db/pkgin/cache/pkg_install-20250417.tgz
$ pkg_add -C /dev/null -U pkg_install-20250417.tmp.tgz
$ pkgin upgrade

Once you're past that everything should be fine. Really sorry for the inconvenience.

#pkgsrc #macOS

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

oksh-7.8 is out! Sorry for the delay; was away at conferences.

https://github.com/ibara/oksh/releases/tag/oksh-7.8

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #macos #macosx #osx #aix #haiku #shell #ksh #oksh #sh #freesoftware #opensource #opensourcesoftware #oss

Are you a Mac user and a grammar fan? Here's a tip for typing your favorite dashes. No mouse required!

The en dash – can be typed easily by using Option+- (That’s hold the Option key while typing the dash).

The em dash — can be typed easily by using Option+Shift+- (That’s hold the Option and Shift keys while typing the dash).

#grammar #mac #macos #tips #writing

My position was eliminated as well. If anybody needs a software engineer, I'm looking for my next role.

My last position involved C, maintaining a legacy codebase supporting cyber operations. Multi-architecture experience.

Proficient in C, Swift, Rust, Python, Java, and familiarity with many other languages.

#GetFediHired #Programming #Rust #Swift #iOS #MacOS #Java #Python

Not too long ago I finally discovered that #macOS Finder has a renaming feature. I'm pretty sure someone here on #Fedi mentioned it.

Since then, that thing has saved me from having to write SO many regexes.

Many thanks to the unknown FediPal for the tip!

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/rename-files-folders-and-disks-on-mac-mchlp1144/mac

Great.

$dayjob MacBook forced to update to Tahoe. This "liquid glass" interface is a pile of wank.

I checked settings and both Apple Intelligence (sic) and Siri are disabled and yet there's 8 "Siri" apps running in the background:

com.apple.siri.embeddedspeech
SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
SAExtensionOrchestrator
siriinferenced
SiriAUSP
sirittsd
siriactionsd
siriknowledged

And 5 "Intelligence" apps:

IntelligencePlatformComputeService
intelligenceplatformd
knowledgeconstructiond
intelligencecontextd
intelligentroutingd

Why are these still running if I've supposedly disabled them in settings?

#macos #siri #apple #AI #noAI

installed iterm2, #macos now sucks less

I've updated my binary package repository for PowerPC Mac OS X. New and updated packages for curl, git, python 3.10, apache, nginx, openssh, rsync, yt-dlp, vim, zsh, tmux, and many more.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/

#dreckly #pkgsrc #powerpc #macos #retrocomputing #hashtags

What #command do you use most often across systems?

Me:
#Linux and BSD: cd or ls
#MacOS: cd or ls... After I've found my way to the actual terminal
#Windows: probably sfc /scannow

(That's right, this was a Windows insult buried in a social question!)