octalfudge

joined 1 year ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
37
What does Game Mode do? (eclecticlight.co)
 

Summary

Game Mode is turned on automatically by putting a recognised game into Full Screen mode; there’s no alternative method. A game is taken out of Game Mode automatically by returning it from Full Screen mode, or (possibly) manually in its menu in the menu bar. Game Mode is controlled by gamepolicyd. Game Mode results in RunningBoard making some services, including gameconsole, critical, and suppressing other background servics. These could improve the game’s access to CPU cores, but this seems unlikely to have much effect on performance. Game Mode appears to increase GPU load by the game, although it’s not clear whether this is significantly greater than would be achieved by Full Screen mode alone. Game Mode puts Bluetooth into Low Latency mode, reducing input latency from game controllers, and audio latency to output devices.

28
M2 MacBook Air has audio bug, Apple notified. WARNING loud audio at end (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by octalfudge@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink
 

Watch video linked from Mastodon to hear the difference due to the bug.

Bug still exists in Sonoma

Full thread: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111160426488046610

141
We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (youtu.be)
 

TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)

42
Apple uses hidden watermarks on iPhone 15 boxes to verify authenticity (appleinsider.com)
56
Apple makes three arguments for lack of 10x optical zoom on iPhone 15 Pro Max (9to5mac.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by octalfudge@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
16 comments fedilink
 
  1. People hardly ever use 10x zoom
  2. 10x optical zoom is hard to stabilize
  3. Aperture trumps zoom
47
Halide creators can turn iPad into an HDMI monitor for cameras and consoles with Orion (9to5mac.com)
35
Online Safety Bill passes in the UK w/o iMessage impact, but government not giving up (9to5mac.com)
50
iPhone 15 Models Finally Show Battery's Cycle Count (www.macrumors.com)
148
iFixit Lowers iPhone 14's Repairability Score Due to Apple's Parts Pairing Requirement (www.macrumors.com)
 

Repair website iFixit today announced that it has retroactively lowered its iPhone 14 repairability score from 7/10 to 4/10 due to Apple's post-repair parts pairing requirement, just over a year after the device launched.

"Although we enthusiastically awarded it a solid score at launch last year, thanks to its innovative repair-friendly architecture—of which we remain big fans—the reality for folks trying to fix these things has been very different," said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, in a blog post. "Most major repairs on modern iPhones require Apple approval. You have to buy parts through their system, then have the repair validated via a chat system. Otherwise, you'll run into limited or missing functionality, with a side of annoying warnings."

Apple Answers of All Our iPhone 15 Pro Questions: 'It's Going to be the Best Game Console' in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you think I’m a bot? And is this a repost? I didn’t notice an earlier post

22
Apple Answers of All Our iPhone 15 Pro Questions: 'It's Going to be the Best Game Console' (sea.ign.com)
36
Apple Explains What the iPhone 15 Camera Can and Can’t Do – and Why (petapixel.com)
59
Replacing broken back glass on iPhone 15 Pro is easier and less expensive (9to5mac.com)
 

iPhone 14 back glass: $169 iPhone 14 Plus back glass: $199 iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499 iPhone 14 Pro Max back glass: $549 iPhone 15 back glass: $169 iPhone 15 Plus back glass: $199 iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169 iPhone 15 Pro Max back glass: $199

'Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-' New PV in c/anime@lemmy.ml
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Winter typically means Jan-Mar for anime, this could suggest it comes early next year, but who knows.

Is there any way to copy the file path of a selected item in Finder without the use of the mouse? in c/apple@lemmy.ml
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just tried on my Mac, and Option-Command-C worked. Unsure whether this is a reliable solution

Bug: GIFs stop music in c/avelon@lemm.ee
[DISC] The Tsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsuntsundere Girl Getting Less and Less Tsun Day by Day - Ch. 106 [END] in c/manga@lemmy.ml
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Wow. It really ended. Was entertaining watching this update regularly.

Linus Torvalds schools Lennart Poettering on the importance of users in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I found this very insightful, thank you for sharing!

This week I'm having [@christianselig](https://mastodon.social/@christianselig) back on the show to give [@apolloapp](https://reddthat.com/c/apolloapp) a Post-Mortem, rehash Third Party APIs, and talk in c/apolloapp@reddthat.com
*Permanently Deleted* in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

On iOS, Avelon is the best Lemmy client I have ever used (in my opinion even better than Apollo was), though some features are still missing. Smooth, fluid, beautiful, functional!

Welcome to c/Python! in c/python@programming.dev
If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share? in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Join Lemmy!

“Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs” in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just tried it, works really well! Added most of its recommendations to my library

Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

More info:

https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110825522690584932

Some key points:

  • We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023.
  • Very soon after Asahi Linux started (well before our Arch ARM-based release), Neal Gompa joined our IRC channels and we started talking about working towards integrating our work into Fedora... The Fedora Asahi project started in late 2021, and work began in 2022 alongside the Arch ARM release.
  • Working directly with upstream means not only can we integrate more closely with the core distribution, but we can also get issues in other packages fixed quickly and smoothly. This is particularly important for platforms like desktop ARM64, where we still run into random app and package bugs quite often.
view more: next ›