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macOS 26 may not support 2018 MacBook Pros, 2019 iMacs, or the iMac Pro
AppleInsider said:[…]
However, not every Mac user will be able to enjoy the visual changes and Apple Intelligence enhancements within macOS 26, codenamed "Cheer." Individuals familiar with Apple's internal operating system variants and pre-production builds of macOS 26 suggest Apple could drop support for multiple older, Intel-based Macs.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook attending Trump inauguration after $1 million donation
manwithnoname said:NickoTT said:This is what is required when the man baby "chosen" to run the country has the mind, vocabulary and temperament of an five year old. Don't fault Tim. Fault the people that voted for Trump.
Fault the people who voted for Trump as opposed to the people who voted in Bied & Harris. Biden is a man who can hardly speak and most likely though he was president of Russia for the past 4 years! You people on this forum are so far out of touch with reality, it is quite frightening how you can function in society! I see lots of Democrats and leftists on here.
By the way: we’re not just “Democrats and leftists” here, you’re assuming we’re either American, whatever you consider “leftist”, or both. In my case, I’m neither. In my country, there’s a literal Communist Party, and the only reason I don’t support them is because, well, I don’t think their supposedly “democratic” system works and because they’re basically tankies and, even today, Putin simps because whoever is the US’s enemy, they will support regardless of what ideology they espouse. As for Anarchism – and believe me, I have plenty of anarchist friends and know what it entails –, I don’t advocate for it either, because I don’t see it working on a large scale, but I’ve seen it, with my very own eyes, working at a smaller one, so there’s that. I do support a brand of leftism that is so far left of whatever you think “the left” is that it would make your head explode if I even dared explain it to you in detail. Whatever you consider “leftist” in your country is a bunch of centrist milquetoast dilettantes (oh, believe me, there are true leftists over there, but they’re not wasting their time hanging around on a tech forum, they’re instead preparing the upcoming resistance, in the form of direct action, to the fascist bs that’s cooking), and Democrats…? They’re just Republicans painted blue, who are better with their finances and show some token respect for most women and some minorities, but that’s about it, they’re pretty right-wing by ANYONE ELSE’S standards (anyone outside of US politics, that is).
TL;DR: your country is cooked, and you will now get to see and feel, firsthand, what it’s like to have the fascists and oligarchs truly unfettered and in charge. I just hope that it doesn’t take three or four decades to reverse it – as it often does, and I live in a country that had those fully on charge, next to another country that also had did, and which maintains strong post-colonial ties to countries that also did, so… it’s a bit of a pattern, and doesn’t really discriminate on nationality, you see –, because while you and/or your Christian nationalist friends (not assuming that you necessarily are, but a lot of them are) may love the new regime at first, because its mandate aligns with your values or something, at some point it will stagnate (I mean, it will immediately make the country poorer, due to its attempt to remove women from the workforce, Taliban-style) and make crucial mistakes (see above, but it’s structurally corrupt and will do much worse than what the Dems and classic GOP did before it), and you’ll want to get rid of the whole bunch every now and then – trust me, you will, because hunger, general poverty and fear for your own life can be powerful motivators, much more so than those stupid culture wars that FOX et al. shove down everyone’s throats, and look no further than guys like Luigi uniting surprisingly diverse swaths of the population in thought – and run into a brick wall, because, surprise surprise, that’s how dictatorships work. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. -
Meta seeking unfettered access to iPhone user data via EU DMA interoperability requests
So that’s why Apple isn’t offering iPhone mirroring on the Mac here in the EU. The gloves are now off, it seems.
Meta can’t be trusted, and I hope the EU allows for OS developers to blacklist bad actors. I don’t care that Meta offers an interesting and affordable product; it is widely known to not act in an ethical and trustworthy way, as the infamous whistleblower episode proved, and I, for one, don’t mind having a private line of defense against those, even in those cases like this, when there’s an obvious conflict of interest (Vision Pro, anyone?).
Though I will say: people know Meta is a ****ty company, so… couldn’t they still have access to the screen’s contents, provided that people were warned before activating that feature, maybe in separate instead of as part of a permissions prompt package? It would be glorious to see Meta being denied that access by actual end users on a massive scale. -
How to apply Quartz filters in macOS when saving images in Preview
AppleInsider said:Quartz and Preview
macOS's Preview app is essentially a Quartz and PDF rendering app, which also knows how to display bitmapped images.
Preview uses Quartz to composite and display files and images the same way macOS does. It can perform all the drawing commands and transforms any other Quartz app can do.
It also knows how to render PDF and PostScript files directly into windows - and how to send them to laser or inkjet printers. When you open a PDF file in Preview, it uses the Quartz API to render the PDF drawing commands to be drawn onscreen in Apple's native system.This info is, I’m afraid, slightly outdated. I don’t recall if this happened with Sonoma or Ventura, but I’m pretty sure Apple has now fully deprecated support for PostScript files and fonts, if not in Quartz itself, at the very least in Preview.app and at the OS-, /Library/Fonts- and ~/Library/Fonts-level. If you want to open .ps files on a Mac, you must now resort to an Adobe app, such as Acrobat or Illustrator, and you may still be able to use old Type 2 PostScript fonts on other Adobe apps, such as InDesign, if you stick them on their own internal font folders, though I haven’t tested that yet. -
Apple's in-house chip design is the 'secret weapon' behind industry-beating performance
y2an said:Sorry but this goes back to the PA Semi acquisition in 2008. A clear move to become wholly market leading in chip design.