#macOS could easily gain market share by releasing a #Mac/#MacBook with (off the shelves) replaceable RAM and Storage... but #Apple ain't about making easy money like that lol. They'd rather bait you with veeery fair pricing base models... and then upcharge you 10x the market price (not a joke) for memory/storage upgrades.

Fortunately these base models have 16GB of RAM now (for the same price as before)... but still. In any computer, these two parts are likely the first to die, esp storage, and having them soldered or packaged together with the SOC is... mind-boggling, for something you'd want to put to use for as long as possible.

#macOS could easily gain market share by releasing a #Mac/#MacBook with (off the shelves) replaceable RAM and Storage... but #Apple ain't about making easy money like that lol. They'd rather bait you with veeery fair pricing base models... and then upcharge you 10x the market price (not a joke) for memory/storage upgrades.

Fortunately these base models have 16GB of RAM now (for the same price as before)... but still. In any computer, these two parts are likely the first to die, esp storage, and having them soldered or packaged together with the SOC is... mind-boggling, for something you'd want to put to use for as long as possible.

The irony where you make fun of #FOSS advocates who use #Mac but you buy a #Pixel phone so you can use custom #roms and #grapeheneos but you are forced to stick to your stock ROM due to #Android enterprise and you now have more #Google than before. #facepalm

The irony where you make fun of #FOSS advocates who use #Mac but you buy a #Pixel phone so you can use custom #roms and #grapeheneos but you are forced to stick to your stock ROM due to #Android enterprise and you now have more #Google than before. #facepalm

Apple discontinued its iWeb website creator over a decade ago, and I thought it was time for a revisit! I made a website with iWeb and checked how it stacked up against modern websites. #apple #mac #retrocomputing #webdev

https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/

Apple discontinued its iWeb website creator over a decade ago, and I thought it was time for a revisit! I made a website with iWeb and checked how it stacked up against modern websites. #apple #mac #retrocomputing #webdev

https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/

Apple discontinued its iWeb website creator over a decade ago, and I thought it was time for a revisit! I made a website with iWeb and checked how it stacked up against modern websites. #apple #mac #retrocomputing #webdev

https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/

#Oliphaunt will support quoting toots!

#Cocoa #AppKit #Swift #SwiftUI #Mac #macOS #MacDev #macOSDev

#Oliphaunt will support quoting toots!

#Cocoa #AppKit #Swift #SwiftUI #Mac #macOS #MacDev #macOSDev

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
>
> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

Well, by accident I spotted a 1998 file named Greg Bear's Pep Talk.doc in Time Machine on my Mac and decided to use #Finder to find it.

Nope.

After plenty research on how-to, some Apple, some Stack Exchange etc., I've come to the conclusion that Finder #Search is broken. It won't find the file even if it is the default directory for the search, and certainly not when searching This Mac.

I found a tip to use Spotlight (I have Tahoe installed). #Spotlight actually works like a charm, finding by the time I typed the b in Greg Bear. What gives, #Apple? Are you abandoning Finder Search?

#mac #macintosh #writer #author #writersOfMastodon #writingcommunity

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
>
> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

I turned a tiny #Mac mini into my own #Mastodon server—secure, low‑maintenance, and running like a dream. Here’s the full build, from #Docker to #Cloudflare Tunnel, and why #SelfHosting doesn’t have to be a headache.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #HomeLab #DevOps #SysAdmin

https://phoenixtrap.com/2025/09/21/my-mini-mastodon-server/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The peanut gallery takes potshots at Tim Cook for betraying Steve Jobs with middling incrementalism, and maybe there's some truth to that, but Apple's processor execution is remarkable (and powerfully enabling to everything else at Apple).

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/apple-now-controls-all-core-iphone-chips-prioritizing-ai-workloads.html #Apple #Processors #iPhone #Mac

I turned a tiny #Mac mini into my own #Mastodon server—secure, low‑maintenance, and running like a dream. Here’s the full build, from #Docker to #Cloudflare Tunnel, and why #SelfHosting doesn’t have to be a headache.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #HomeLab #DevOps #SysAdmin

https://phoenixtrap.com/2025/09/21/my-mini-mastodon-server/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I've decided to take the old #Macintosh HIGs & merge them into one large collection of topics while modernizing them in the process.

The original #HIG would give actual examples w/ usable metrics & mention possible exceptions to the rule. The incredible level of detail gave developers the guidance to create delightful UI users have come to expect from their #Mac.

Here is my first topic: Layout Guidelines

#macOS #design #AppKit #SwiftUI

https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/layoutguidelines/

Amazing Portraits of '80s Geeks

https://www.vintag.es/2019/03/80s-geeks.html

#nostalgia #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #setups #polaroid #vintagephotos #photos #eighties #nostalgic #computing #computers #Atari #AppleII #Mac #DOS #PC #Tandy #Commodore #gallery

I want to try out a new #Mastodon client but it requires that I update my Mac to Tahoe 26. I've been told to wait for the .1 release as things are.... not great.

Curious if I'm being over cautious here. Has anyone installed #Tahoe on their #Mac and it's been "basically reasonable"?

EDIT: Thank you everyone! Seems like I can upgrade "sorta" safely. This was very helpful. Always so thankful for the helpful vibes of the fediverse.