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Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:47:34 +0000

But here’s my favorite piece of evidence, the tell I’d point to if I could only pick one: watch what NVIDIA sells now. The DGX Spark — Jensen’s new “personal AI supercomputer” for your desk — is a small quiet box with 128GB of unified memory shared between CPU and GPU. Sound familiar? It’s a Mac Studio. NVIDIA, the company whose entire empire is built on discrete GPUs with discrete VRAM in centralized racks, is now shipping Apple’s architecture, at Apple’s form factor, aimed at Apple’s use case — and even Jensen has started musing that “an AI supercomputer could become common in the home,” name-checking Apple’s M-series as laying the groundwork. The king of the datacenter is hedging into my thesis with his own product line. When your opponent starts copying your homework mid-argument, the argument is over.

Tags: #ai #apple #llms #localmodels #nvidia

2411887 – Slitherer segfaults on hardware with with nvidia card

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:34:33 +0000

Probably the same issue using Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso , using a nvidia card too (not sure if related). slitherer is crashing. I edited /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop: line 172: to DEFAULT_BROWSER_CMD=firefox and I was able to complete the installation. If there is interest in solving the bug, I can run the installer again to get the exact hardware info and stack/core dump for slitherer.

Tags: #apple #fedora #hacks #macbookpro #nvidia

Installer crashes in storage editor in all Live environments except Workstation - Fedora Discussion

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:33:21 +0000

Workarounds Don’t start the installer (or quit it if you started it already). Start terminal (Konsole in KDE) and edit a config file: sudo nano /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf Find this part: # The default browser for the Web UI. webui_web_engine = slitherer and change it to: # The default browser for the Web UI. webui_web_engine = firefox Close the editor (Ctrl+X → Y → Enter), and run the installer, either from a desktop launcher, or from a terminal: liveinst The installer should no longer crash when using drop-down lists.

Tags: #apple #fedora #hacks #linux #macbookpro

KDE liveinst crash - Fedora Discussion

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:32:35 +0000

I had this exact issue attempting to install Fedora 44 KDE live ISO on an older laptop with a GeForce GTX 970 GPU. I resolved it by forcing Anaconda to use Firefox instead of Slitherer. I can confirm that Firefox was the selected default browser, but for some reason the indicated variable doesn’t seem to work Instead of editing /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop I changed the following line inside /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf: webui_web_engine = slitherer to webui_web_engine = firefox this allowed me to start Anaconda GUI normally and proceed with installing Fedora 44.

Tags: #apple #fedora #hacks #linux #macbookpro

Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:09:23 +0000

Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”

Tags: #MSFT #apple #gui #history #parc #xerox

A few notes about the MacBook Neo | Riccardo Mori

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:06:14 +0000

I don’t care if the Neo lacks an ambient light sensor or if the webcam isn’t cutting-edge — It does not feature a notch on the top of the display and this is so huge for me. I thought Apple forgot that displays are supposed to be plain, uninterrupted, unblemished rectangles. Design-wise, this is currently the only Apple laptop I can look at and can think of purchasing after the 2020 M1 MacBook Air.

Tags: #apple #mac #macbookneo

Your Phone is an Entire Computer

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:08:48 +0000

Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.

Tags: #apple #macbookneo #macos

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:45:47 +0000

This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.

Tags: #apple #computers #mac #macbookneo

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:14:12 +0000

So in the end, the most reliable way to resize a window in Tahoe is to grab it outside the corner – a gesture that feels unnatural and unintuitive, and is therefore inevitably error-prone.

Tags: #apple #design #macos #tahoe #ui

Mass quitting Apple

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:46:22 +0000

The biggest win? I own my identity now. My email address is on my domain. My files are on my server. My passwords are in my vault. If any single service disappears tomorrow, I can move. That's the freedom I was looking for.

Tags: #admin #apple #selfhosting

OBS Studio Gets A New Renderer: How OBS Adopted Metal | OBS

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:25:55 +0000

Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple's Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL backend on macOS. This marks an important step in OBS Studio's development to adapt one of the modern APIs that deliberately broke with the past to unlock better performance and efficiency gains for end users, but also require fundamental changes to how an application interacts with a GPU.

Tags: #apple #metal #obs #streaming #video

And Stay Out

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:13:22 +0000

There’s no doubt Jony has good taste, by the way. He and his team designed great products during the first half of his tenure at Apple. But as he became wealthier, he started to conflate good taste with luxury. Jony often described Apple products with words about craft, material, and precision, all things that appeal to a luxury market. Apple shifted away from making products “for the rest of us” and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people

Tags: #apple #design

The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot Up

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:11:06 +0000

This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a crash and saved the day by executing an undefined instruction.

Tags: #apple #hacks #mac #retro

What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? - Fragments & Reflections

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 05:53:41 +0000

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

Tags: #apple #design #tech

How to Undo Your iPhone's New Look After iOS 26

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:27:44 +0000

Called Reduce Transparency, this control has been around for years, and was originally intended as a way to add a solid background to any pre-Liquid Glass elements that already had transparent or blurred backgrounds, like the Passcode entry screen. Now, though, it turns out it also affects Liquid Glass as a whole.

Tags: #apple #ios #iphone #ux