Oh, that’s a shame. I was on the TestFlight for Mammoth right back at the start, when everyone was looking for a decent app because Twitter had just murdered Tweetbot.

It was a fine app, but Ivory ended up being slightly more fine.

This is just gatekeeping seasoning and I won’t stand for it (while getting e-coli from my unwashed dishes).

Given how much they’ve shrunk the Mac mini down, the next Apple TV will either be a surprisingly powerful gaming console in its current form factor, or they’ll keep its performance roughly equivalent to how it is now but have it in a far smaller form.

My money would be on the latter. Smaller devices mean more can be shipped for the same cost in less expensive packaging, and that’s the Cook Way. They’ve no real interest in offering ‘proper’ gaming on ATV, so as long as it can work with 8K signals it’ll be powerful enough for what it needs to do.

Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

“All the information is on the task”

“Oh, you want to install software from Github, do you? Well, unfortunately, fuck you”

• macOS Sequoia

The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

I do periodically look up their prices on eBay, but because of that weird aberration they’ve retained their value pretty well.

Weirdly. I don’t know why they went back to upgradeable RAM for one generation.

I’ve been a heavy Mastodon user for two years, and I honestly don’t see why so many people on Lemmy give it so much shit. Certainly not in favour of the likes of Bluesky.

I get WAY more engagement with my posts on there than I ever did on Twitter. And maybe I’m just at an age where I don’t give a shit about celebrity, but I couldn’t care less that all the Big Names have gone to Bluesky and Threads. It’s great not seeing the same people being shared into my TL all the time.

I’m no expert in business, but I guess that maintaining the Mac side of the company goes a long way towards the popularity of the iOS side. What they make from Macs might be tiny in comparison, but it all helps towards the amount they make from iPhones and iPads. It’s all symbiotic, y’know?

This does make me wonder whether the entry level mini is something of a loss-leader at this point. Literally just a way to get people into the ecosystem.

I wouldn’t have thought Apple are using flash chips that are two or three times more expensive. They’re just price gouging at a point where consumers have literally no option.

It does make me wonder what value there might be in a third party offering, tied with a local repair shop who have a Mac running Sequoia that can be used to restore it. Assuming the boards are reasonably easy to produce (easy for someone who is able to do that kind of thing), it’d be pretty straightforward to take your Mac in to a shop to have it restored.

Mint on my ancient MacBook because I didn’t really know any better and it’s working just nice for me, and Asahi/Fedora on my M1 mini, because it’s the only option.

I’d be tempted to say that the 2014 Mini is a better bet for retro Mac usage.

It’ll still run Sonoma via OCLP, but has the benefit of USB 3. Bung a huge SSD in there and you can use it as a media server too. I have a 2014 that’s about to become surplus to requirements, so that’s precisely what I intend to do.

I’m trying to be a Linux nerd, but my god is there so much research to do to figure out how to get it to work the same way my Mac does.

He just blue himself.

I’m also in the UK, so yeah…

But yeah, it’s a Linux distro based on Fedora that’s been developed to run on M-series Mac hardware.

They’ve brought the hammer down on this. I was happily ‘traveling to Ukraine’ with my Apple TV to watch YouTube without ads for the equivalent of around £3 a month for over a year. Last month they canned our Premium.

I use yt-dlp to download my subs into a Plex folder now. Fuck ‘em.