Unfortunately CrossOver Preview seems to have gotten rid of the "Display Settings" sidebar on the right which let you simulate different display geometries than what wine auto-detected, which was very helpful for on-the-go #Steam gaming on #macOS on my MBP since rarely does it detect proper 16:10 or 16:9.

I used this, for example, with #BluePrince to ensure the left and right sides of the display were not cropped.

As an odd, but very workable, alternative solution - if you get the free edition of BetterDisplay and have it create a Virtual Display of the aspect ratio you want and then enable it, you can go into Settings -> Displays and configure your built-in display as a mirror for the virtual display.

The net result will be that it forces your only real display to conform to match the mirrored alternative geometry. Doesn't seem to be too much of a performance impact so far, but I haven't tried it with any super intense games either yet.

It used to be so easy to report a bug on OS X. The issue tracker was not a terrible design and I filed a bunch of bugs. Developers usually followed up and most ended up being fixed. Quite a few, annoyingly, were closed as duplicates of other bugs I didn’t have access to, but at least that gave them a signal that multiple people saw the same bug.

The last time I tried to file a macOS bug was painful. It required uploading a load of irrelevant things (you don’t need dumps of my system state for a bug that can be reproduced on a clean install). It also now comes with a privacy policy that I am totally unwilling to agree to.

The rate at which I’ve found bugs in Apple products has increased in recent years (and a lot that I found years ago remain unfixed) but the number I have reported recently is zero.

I don’t expect Apple to change, but hopefully other people can learn this lesson. If you break the feedback channel from your users, your product quality will deteriorate.

#Apple #macOS

@hoco

I appreciated that, even if others did not. (-:

#MacOS

@nixCraft #macOs : Nope

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Terminal window macOs: Last login: Wed Aug 13 18:27:25 on ttys000 ericdere@Mac ~ % cat /etc/os-release cat: /etc/os-release: No such file or directory ericdere@Mac ~ %

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What if you could run the full macOS on your iPhone or iPad? Quite a few people have made the case to run macOS especially on the latter, and it seems this isn't as much of an unobtainable pipe dream as you might think. Duy Tran has been working on getting macOS to run on jailbroken iPhones and iPads, and

https://www.osnews.com/story/143088/macos-made-to-run-on-iphone/

#macOS

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com#programming #courses #appdevelopment #macOS

@siracusa @atpfm

Have you folks heard of Parachute Backup https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parachute-backup/id6748614170?mt=12

for backing up your iCloud to local storage? I'm wondering how good it is and if anyone's used it successfully.
#iCloud #iCloudBackup #macos

Am giving FUSE-t a spin on my #pkgsrc #macOS build host, allegedly it's a significant improvement over macFUSE (no kext sounds good!).

Unfortunately it clearly isn't.

"FUSE-T offers much better performance and this is due to excellent macOS client side NFSv4 implementation"

I've had many issues with macOS NFS over the years, and it's really no surprise to me that this is just blatantly false.

When you can tell just from watching the speed of ./configure output scrolling you know it's bad.

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Oh, I know of this chap:

This man page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@NetBSD.org>

At the tail end of stat(1) on #FreeBSD, #macOS :-)

What's so pathetic about this redesign of the #macOS drive icons from #Apple isn't that it ditches #Skeuomorphism, it's that it hangs on to skeuomorphism by trying to show a non-euclidian geometry vision of the face of a desktop drive.

Apple lacks the #Courage to go full geometric primitive and make icons that are pure metaphor. Given they're cargo-culting their own graphical history in so many decorative ways, they could have made uncompomised high-fidelity takes on the pre-Aqua icons.

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A comparison between old, and new Mac OS icons for hard drives, and network shares.

I have a couple months of availability for freelance iOS/macOS work in my schedule starting immediately. Can do code or design reviews as well. 17 years experience, former Apple engineer, etc.

Great time to bring someone like me on if you’re trying to get your iOS 26 update over the line.

Get in touch here or through my website at https://collin.blog. #iOSDev #iOS #macOS

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

#opensource #macos #windows #linux

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

The pace of software is accelerating, and it's no longer possible to produce binary package repositories that are as backwards compatible as they used to be.

I'm shortly going to have to bump my macOS package sets up to a baseline of 14.5, as the current target of 12.3 is no longer sufficient for certain C++20 features like std::ranges::sort which is now required by print/poppler.

First bulk build is in:

https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/14.5/arm64/20250724.1420/meta/report.html

I was kinda hoping it'd fix more tbh e.g. numpy.

#pkgsrc #macos

all operating systems suck uniquely. find the one that sucks the least for you and use it. also, shut up about it.

EDIT: "shut up about it", is about OS proselytizing. share all you like, just don't pressure me to use what you use. it'd be hypocritical to say this as I certainly don't shut up about my love for OpenBSD.

#Linux #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Windows #Illumos #plan9 #9front #MacOS #DOS

Nice optimisation now available for anyone using my macOS binary packages from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org

Packages that require fortran support now only depend on the smaller gcc-libs package (7MB) rather than the full gcc package (300MB).

Once you've "pkgin upgrade"ed, remember to "pkgin autoremove" to clean up the now-unused gcc package.

This brings it in line with the SmartOS package sets.

Continuing to push back against bloat one step at a time. Next up, ghc.

#pkgsrc #macos #illumos

goodbye forever The Unarchiver

did you really think you were going to get away with that in 2025? 🙄

#macos

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an updated version of the Unarchiver archiving utility has tried to sneak adware into the application after unzipping a file.

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #programming #macOS

taproom is a cozy terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew that is popular on macOS. It provides a fast and fluid way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal. https://github.com/hzqtc/taproom?tab=readme-ov-file

#macos #unix #opensource

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taproom TUI app screenshot from macOS.

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗢𝗦 [UPDATE 1 - Network Information on macOS] to 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 [Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/crucial-freebsd-toolkit/

#verblog #freebsd #linux #mac #macos #macosx @apple

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #macOS #programming #career

#macOS #programming people, I need some help.

I have #Java code that parses a CSV file that was written by Microsoft Excel. It therefore needs to know which character encoding was used.

On Windows, the Java system property “native.encoding” is set to Cp1252, which matches what Excel writes. On my Mac, however, native.encoding=UTF-8, but Excel writes in MacRoman!

TextEdit also assumes CSV files are MacRoman when reading them.

Anybody know how Excel and TextEdit choose their default encoding?

I really wish Apple would stop breaking things.

Latest Command Line Tools breaks yacc, m4, etc.

When you accept the installer it prints a completely bogus estimation time.

Then when it finishes, yacc, m4, etc, are still missing and you go around the cycle again.

This really isn't difficult Apple. With a market cap of over 2.5 trillion dollars, I'm pretty sure you can afford to employ a single #pkgsrc developer. They would find these bugs within minutes before release.

#Apple #macOS

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Screenshot of Command Line Tools installer displaying "Downloading software. About 40 hours, 21 minutes remaining."

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It is actually so much worse than that.

The weird optical effects seem to induce migraines for people who are susceptible to them.

I am very much not amused by this, as I cannot seem to be able to work longer than 30 minutes with that stuff.

I hope that Apple will place a disclaimer in its installer, pointing out the actual physical harm this can do, and allowing people to turn this off at install time already. #macOS "Smear"

Latest #mame 0.278 release finally came out after 2 months of work redoing the sound system. As usual, the #macOS Apple Silicon package is ready, but we’re still waiting on the Intel build. https://sdlmame.lngn.net

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #macOS #programming

I’ve been making macOS and iOS apps since 2008. I’m the person who coined the term “Mac-assed Mac app.” Someone should definitely hire me to work on their app. I’m a real catch. #getfedihired #macos #swift #iosdev

I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

#gcc #compiler #compilers #c #unix #linux #macos #macosx #osx #apple #powerpc #retro #retrocomputing #bsd #mac #macintosh

MacOS 26 is the final Intel version, sucks to be a 2023 Intel Mac Pro owner

macOS Tahoe is the final software update that Intel-based Macs will get, as Apple works to phase them out following its transition to Apple silicon.

During its Platforms State of the Union event, Apple said that Intel Macs won't get macOS 27, coming next year, though there could still b

https://www.osnews.com/story/142538/macos-26-is-the-final-intel-version-sucks-to-be-a-2023-intel-mac-pro-owner/

#macOS

i saw #firezone scroll by in #macOS homebrew, it sounds like an alternative to tailscale? it uses wireguard for tunnels, had similar features?
https://www.firezone.dev/kb/use-cases