@thurrott A masterclass review Paul! I still have a primary #windows11 PC, but I love my M1 #MacBook Pro. As you mentioned, the integration with the rest of the #Apple ecosystem is a delightful part of owning a #Mac. When Apple hits M5 I plan to replace my Windows laptop with either a Mini or Studio. There just isn't anything sticky in Windows for me anymore.
Silly question, but I'll ask anyway. 🫣 #NotATechie
Is there any danger to visiting a #website that got hacked?
Didn't click anything. Just went to the website, found some evil #hacker with nothing better to do had taken over the site, and immediately closed the browser tab. Anything for me to worry about? 😶🍪
@thurrott You do know 9 out of 9 of these issues could be solved with your 15 inch #MacBook Air or #Ubuntu#Linux. 😁But I understand for practical purposes since you write about #Windows for a living. A suggestion though for others who still need to use Windows for work or other purposes is maybe move it to a #VM. What keeps frustrating me is how much #MicrosoftEdge has its tentacles deep into the system. Every time I open it, my laptop fan starts spinning like crazy.
I've been using just #Podman on my #SteamDeck, and both #Docker and Podman together on my main PC (also #Linux) perfectly fine - on #macOS though I've always particularly despised Docker bcos of its need for a GUI and how often that thing slugs and crashes on #Apple silicon. Never tried this before, but kinda tempted to just use Podman on my #MacBook, and live without Docker just to see how that's like.
UPDATE: So far, things seems to be working well (for my dev usecase)! I installed Podman (formulae) using #Homebrew, created the default Podman-managed VM, and started it. Like Docker, Podman definitely still needs a VM to run on anything not Linux, but unlike what I'm used to with Docker, this is nicer since it doesn't require a GUI app to handle that (you still can btw using the Podman Desktop app) and managing it non-graphically is super easy.
The only caveat is that you need to start the Podman machine/VM before you're able to use it, and unlike on Linux, it's not like you could create a service that starts the VM once upon boot. This is not an issue if you use the desktop app, but if like me you wish to only use the formulae, the simple solution is to set something up in your shell profile (in my case, a #Fish config) which checks if the Podman machine is running, and if it doesn't - start it, each time I open up a new shell/terminal session - which is how I normally use Docker/Podman anyway. This way, it uses up about ~830MB of RAM for the VM but that's fine since there's no additional RAM being used for a GUI app or the like.
I wrote a short guide on how to set up Podman on both Linux and macOS for anyone interested.
To recap: using the native #Discord client on #macOS, each time my partner opens a stream, her #MacBook Air would slow to a crawl or even crash entirely, and she'd need to reboot and just no longer able to watch the stream, other than to switch to her PC.
The (shocking) solution: on her MacBook, use Discord through #Firefox instead. I doubt that it needs to be Firefox, perhaps #Safari would do too, but she used Discord on Firefox and her Mac's able to watch streams on Discord just fine now. She even said she's never experienced Discord this smoothly on her Mac before lol so if anyone has had any issues with Discord on their Mac recently, maybe try using the web client instead.
About 16 years ago, Apple sold the MacBook Air design to the world. At a time when compact and portable notebooks were hugely popular, Apple offered an ultra-thin, lightweight alternative but with fewer ports, no disc drive and no removable battery. And yet, laptops today are still influenced by this moment in time.
Setting up my old, old #MacBook Air and fuckin’ A I forgot how it had issues akin to BSOD on #Windows where shit would crash and restart out of nowhere, except here it happens insanely frequently. I suspect it has to do with it somehow not liking its perfectly healthy SSD I had used for an upgrade since Macs often thinks it’s a #Chromebook and were sold with just 128GB of storage (even today, the stock config for a MBA only comes with 256GB lol). Tmr I’ll be swapping the SSD with one that I know for sure would work, even on Macs, reinstall #macOS and see how it goes.
I fear that missing fan in MacBook Air is actually going to bite me in the ass quite soon therefore I’m unfortunately looking at new macs. First of all - are M1 Pro 14 cool or not? Also worth waiting for cheaper MacBook Pro in October/November?
I had no idea that there was a linux release built for the M-chip. It looks interesting. I couldn't run it full time because my work needs all of the Apple services, but it might be fun to play with.