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DJDarren ,

I remember buying Bioshock on my iPhone way back in the mists of time, before decent controller support existed for iOS. The on screen controls weren’t great, so I didn’t spend much time playing it, always planning to come back at some point.

Then it got removed from the App Store so completely that it disappeared from my purchased list, and that was that.

DJDarren ,

I was ok with the Angry Birds franchise right up until the shitty kart racing game they pumped out. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more wretched collection of bare-faced advertising and micro transactions as that fucking piece of shit.

The game was crammed full of new pop songs, and when one would play the game would display a link to buy it from iTunes. I couldn’t let my kid play it, it was just too egregious.

Haven’t touched any of those games since. Which is a shame, because I really enjoyed the original.

DJDarren ,

That’s one name for the middle aisles, I suppose.

DJDarren ,

Has inflation got that bad?

DJDarren ,

Half a Freddo, that.

DJDarren ,

What’s the best free alternative to VMWare Fusion?

I don’t need Windows a huge amount, but it’s useful to have it in a VM on my Macs for those odd occasions when I need the Windows version of Excel for work stuff.

DJDarren ,

I’ve given UTM a go, and it looks really promising for the kind of things I need it to do. Thanks!

DJDarren ,

Yes, true. But have you considered the shareholders?

DJDarren ,

Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

DJDarren ,

Yeah, and they’ve done a shitty job of it too. Downloaded it out of interest and ran Super Mario Land. It looks like crap and it’s full of ads that you can’t pay to remove.

Also, while it shows up when I search, it’s not in my App Library at all, which is odd.

DJDarren ,

I imagine she’ll get some stiff questioning.

DJDarren ,

“Do the right thing (for the shareholders)”

DJDarren ,

I have an M2 Air which can run the Windows version of Steam via Whisky. Its ability can be patchy, but the fact it runs any games at all is little short of a miracle. I’ve been playing The Talos Principle II that way, and while my wife thinks the glitchy graphics are hilarious, I’m not too fussed because the gameplay is still there.

Of course, it’s not perfect, and while I can get Fallout 4 to run, it looks like shit even on the lowest settings. However, in the context of the gripes in this thread, it means I can play Portal 2 and its various mod packs on my Mac. And they look great.

DJDarren ,

Yeah, that’s awesome.

Now, let’s see about Red Dead II…

DJDarren ,

I for one have no desire to see Musk spread thank you.

DJDarren ,

I’d do it for the price of a reasonable three bed family house, tbh. Save myself the cost of a mortgage every month.

DJDarren ,

True. But unlike him I’m not greedy.

DJDarren ,

Cow

DJDarren ,

Can’t be a cow, man.

DJDarren ,

ING (yeah)

DJDarren ,

I feel like Wolverine’s adamantium probably shouldn’t be ferrous, and if that’s the case he wouldn’t be magnetic, right?

Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU (with restrictions), in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (www.pcmag.com)

Developers interested in distributing iOS apps on their websites also have to cross a high bar. This includes being registered or incorporated in the EU, being a member of “good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more,” and having an app that received “more than one million first annual...

DJDarren ,

cries in British

DJDarren ,

Speaking as a macOS user, it’s a relatively straightforward process using a specific version of the Kindle app and a bit of knowledge of how to use Calibre. It can be a bit of a fiddle to set up, but once it is it’s wonderful to be able to take advantage of discounts on Kindle while reading on my Kobo.

I can’t speak for how easy it is on Windows/Linux, mind.

DJDarren ,

Being something of a Linux novice, I tried having a go with Asahi on my M2 MacBook Air a few weeks back. After a couple of days of struggling to figure out why I couldn’t install a number of different extensions, it gradually began to dawn on me that Linux on ARM is essentially non-existent right now.

So yeah, I’m all for this speeding up development of that sort of thing, because as it stands it’s so very close to being daily usable.

DJDarren ,

Out of interest, what can’t you do with macOS that you can with Windows?

I use a Mac at work - and am the only Mac user in the company. The only reason I keep a Windows VM is because there’s some annoying compatibility issues with Excel when linking to documents on our shared drive, so if I’m doing that, I’ll do it in Windows for the benefit of the others.

To be fair, we don’t use any proprietary software, or anything like that, but for general day to day office work, my Mac is 100% capable.

DJDarren ,

Ah yeah, that’s a fair point.

Like I said, I’m a Linux novice. I jumped from Windows XP to OS X 10.4 back in ‘07 and have only used Macs since. But as much as I appreciate how good Apple’s hardware is, by the time my M2 Air has lost OS support I’ll be very, very keen indeed to be using something other than macOS.

And yes, I meant no shade at all to the folks behind Asahi. What they’ve managed to do so far is nothing short of astonishing. It’s just not quite at daily driver level for people who don’t really know what they’re doing. Not that they advertise it as such, of course.

DJDarren ,

I had this little realisation the other day.

Was in the supermarket on a Friday morning, so it was mostly people in their late 60s+, all white folk, all looking bitter. Brexit as fuck Boomers, y’know? And I was going to shitpost about this on Mastodon, but it hit me that the opinion I’d formed was based on fuck all. I had no evidence that those people were what I’d ascribed to them.

Was quite a revelation.

DJDarren ,

It’s an industrial metal album, right?

DJDarren ,

For wanking; it still has Safari, and Pornhub still exists 👍🏽

DJDarren ,

temperatures of 1,400 to 1,530 °C

Well, that rules out drinking McDonald’s coffee with one then.

DJDarren ,

It’s entirely possible - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrg7nPG6_UU&t=993s&pp=ygU…

But yeah, not currently practical.

I’m hoping that by the time my M2 Air is no longer supported, OpenCore will have cracked the M-series Macs. Failing that, Asahi ought to be damn near feature complete.

DJDarren ,

As far as I can tell, no.

However, I installed it on my M2 Air last weekend to give it a spin, decided it’s not ready enough for a Linux novice such as myself, and uninstalled it all pretty easily. It doesn’t mess with your macOS install at all. The only thing you need to be careful with is deleting the correct partitions.

I installed three times. The first, I didn’t give Asahi enough drive space to be all that useful. The second time I decided that I wanted to try KDE instead of Gnome. Those two uninstalls went without a hitch.

The third uninstall, however, I must have been careless, because I had to reinstall macOS through deleting a wrong partition. It wasn’t a huge issue for me, but it’s possible to do.

Mr Macintosh’ video on uninstalling it is spot on - www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnWTq2H-N0&

DJDarren ,

I now have CUM everywhere. Now what?

DJDarren ,

That’s one way to view it.

On the other hand, it’s a first product in a new line for Apple who have an idealised notion of what they want it to achieve, but realise the technological limitations that exist before significant R&D is carried out. The first gen of any tech sucks in comparison to what comes later.

DJDarren ,

You could argue that the 5th gen iPod Classic was when it really hit its stride.

Sure, it had been wildly successful until that point, but I have a 4th gen, and as beautiful as it is, it sucks next to my 5th gen. The refresh rate on the screen is atrocious, and it refuses to charge via USB. Meanwhile my 5G has a lovely colour screen and works with USB without a trouble.

DJDarren ,

Yeah, it’s weird because I distinctly remember them touting it as a dev kit at the launch event last year, yet there’s nothing at all about that on the website now.

DJDarren ,

My number one Must Listen these days is The Blindboy Podcast.

I like the random nature of it. This week he chatted at length with a Brummie historian about the history of the British working class, last week he went on a deep dive into wanking wardrobes and an Irish spanking cult. Next week he might talk on mindfulness or meditation.

DJDarren ,

The first fifteen minutes of this one had me in tears of laughter, but I could never explain it to anyone.

DJDarren ,

Joogle Jemini

DJDarren ,

Now you’ve gone too far.

DJDarren ,

Cheers for the heads up, lewdian69.

DJDarren ,

Living in a hard water area, I’d give it a month before I may as well have just bought a regular toilet.

DJDarren ,

I’m a Mac user. I like using Macs, and I like using macOS. Apple are just as bad as MS for this shit.

I have an old MacBook Pro, as well as a pair of older minis. All three were left behind by macOS a few years ago, but if they weren’t all running Sonoma through OpenCore, they’d have an update in the App Store to upgrade to a new OS that Apple won’t let them run.

DJDarren ,

All that just to find that the page doesn’t have the info you needed anyway.

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DJDarren ,

Oh shit, yeah, that’s true. Didn’t think of that ‘cause I’m just a regular guy without a business degree.

DJDarren ,

I suppose a weapon is something that falls from the sky causing death. So yeah.

DJDarren ,

Nope. The only thing different is that I don’t pay for it in £.

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