My wife woke up to this this morning, and has had a shitter of a time resetting everything. My account wasn’t affected, so fuck knows what that was about.
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.
I really don’t wish to come across as a dick, but why are people so up in arms about a €1.50 annual fee for the PAL store? I mean, sure, there’s a principle and the rest of the world are getting Delta for free, but it’s €1.50. A year.
And that charge is only to cover Apple’s bullshit.
Seeing this has reminded me to submit my repeat request for my ADHD meds. Now I get to enjoy spending the next week wondering if I’ll be able to get any this month.
I think this might well be the answer to my question. Shortcuts for Mac feels almost like an afterthought, as if they've just adapted the iPad version to run on macOS, but they've stripped out automations ability presumably because it wasn't compatible with the OS. As a result, we've got two apps that do more or less the same thing, but one is better suited to the complexity of macOS while the other is content carrying out basic tasks.
It's been a while since I tried, but can't you also sync your Music album locally still as well? Exactly the same as with an iPod. I know you still can with iPods, because I still use my iPod and sync it that way. But my phones have synced with Apple Music for as long as AM has existed.
Whenever my upgrade window comes around, I ponder getting a folding phone. But two things stop me.
Firstly, they all run Android, and having been on iOS since 2009 I have very little ambition to switch.
Secondly, as it stands, it's a point of failure that will massively impact its resale value when I upgrade. It's bad enough trying to sell a phone with a two or three year old battery, but batteries can (in general) be replaced. Now imagine trying to sell a phone that has three years worth of screen wear on it, knowing that it could fracture at any moment.
So in the end, cool as they are, they're also pretty handy to the manufacturers as offering a point of failure that'll make them unsellable.
Being charitable, I still consider it to be a dev kit for a device that Apple are still working out. They recognise that AR is a future, but they can only stake their claim in that future if they do the rn'd right now.
And that's what Vision Pro is.
Apple don't really know what it is in the same way that they never could have predicted the popularity of the iPhone. They've put the hardware out there in the world, and are waiting for the devs to show them what it can do, and the early adopting customers to show them what they want it to do.
One thing that does seem clear to me though is that they're banking on it being the Mac replacement that's running an OS that's as locked down as iOS. It seems that to Apple people haven't taken the iPad in the same way they have Mac because the screen is smaller, therefore, offer a functionally unlimited screen and that's a winner, right? Except the screen size is only one factor. The major factor (certainly to me) is how relatively locked down iPadOS is compared to macOS, and how you have to jump through hoops to do things on an iPad that are incredibly simple on a Mac. There's no way that VisionOS is going to be as open as macOS, so it'll only ever be a companion to a Mac.
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 @ DJDarren @thelemmy.club Posts 10Comments 872Joined 2 yr. ago
It’d be even better if they let you work from home.