I’ve been dabbling in C development for classic Mac OS when I’ve had some spare time over the past year. I’ve been doing it directly on my old Macs, a PowerMac G4 when I’m at my desk or a PowerBook G3 Lombard when I’m in the living room.

I’ve been using CodeWarrior as a compiler/IDE. For documentation I have a copy of Inside Macintosh in HTML format from an old Apple Developer CD, a copy of “A Hobbyist’s Guide to Programming the Mac OS in C” in PDF format, and a program called “Toolbox Assistant” for quick reference. Occasionally using MacsBug as a debugger when I’m outside of the IDE. All of this can be found on Macintosh Garden or just Google.

edit: My focus has been more on utility-type applications but if you’re more into games or something there are a bunch of books here with different focuses https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/

Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you’re fighting the good fight!

Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”

People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.

What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine

I mean I’m a big fan of VR but it’s clearly been a money pit for meta, their massive investment in it is never going to pay back, they were betting on selling “metaverse” real estate rather than making money on the hardware

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It’s mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen “start menu”, but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.

The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.

The screen died on my wife’s iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But at some point she had accepted a prompt on the iPhone to switch to eSIM so we couldn’t just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the “transfer eSIM” menus, which we couldn’t do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.

I’m never switching my main carrier to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.

(they’re great for throwaway travel SIMs though)

My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an “eSIM activated!” message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.

Yeah they’ll log out in protest, but they’ll all be back in a week or so. Happens every time.

Their FAQ actually has an audio clip, haha https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

The only way to stay sane

This is complete BS, I could find zero sources for that claim, and several debunking it.

The only tangentially related thing I could find was that in colder climates, they need heat to de-ice the wings, and at one point, the power supply to a Scottish wind farm was cut off, so they put in some temporary diesel generators on-site to power the de-icing system to get the turbines going again.

It could even be something “innocent” about how ad-blockers have started to interact with the site as YouTube ramps up their anti-adblock measures and the ad-blockers have to change how they work. Like maybe the ad-blockers have started blocking the JavaScript callback that logs the views.

Even before this drop in views, the rule was you have to watch a video for at least 30 seconds before it counts as a view, as a way to combat clickbait where people instantly bounce from a video. Maybe they have changed this further? Or they change some kind of bot detection?

On broadcast TV, a 30 minute timeslot had only 23 minutes of actual content and 7 minutes of ads.

That’s what we’re heading back to. 20% of the watch time is ads.

Everyone here is speculating about their content, but the simple answer is YouTube just changed how they count the view number. The change basically happened overnight, so it’s not some slow attrition of views. They said in the WAN Show that while the view count halved, the number of likes hasn’t changed (the view/like ratio doubled), and the revenue they earned hasn’t changed (CPM doubled). All of this points that the same number of humans are watching, but what counts as a view in the “views” number just changed.

They literally don’t know. “GPT-5” is several models, with a model gating in front to choose which model to use depending on how “hard” it thinks the question is. They’ve already been tweaking the front-end to change how it cuts over. They’ve definitely going to keep changing it.

Instagram is extremely popular, and it’s heavily promoted inside of there, with Threads content embedded to almost look like Instagram content but when you tap on it it hops you over to Threads. I’m not surprised that they’ve been able to build a user base while X declines

iOS does have an API for apps to record the screen throughout the OS these days through Broadcast Extensions, but it has to be user-initiated through the control center screen recording toggle (where they then get to pick what app to record the screen to instead of just saving as a video), it wouldn’t do that people think the T-Mobile app is doing