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Re: How long until we have next get hackintoshes? - 6 months ago

Awesome! It’s fun to try out the Windows themes as well.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: How long until we have next get hackintoshes? - 6 months ago

So in addition to the skins, they include retropie and dosbox to emulate old x86 games. For Netflix they also bundle in some media codec which allows protected media playback. All these aren’t in the default OS.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: How long until we have next get hackintoshes? - 6 months ago

Quotesekker I read about this - looks cool. Thanks for posting, does it run well? Yes, it runs fine. It is actually just RaspberryPi OS with a bundle of added skins & packages. I've been running it since June or so, though my use is mostly headless (PiVPN & Homebridge). They added an easier update mechanism for their added packages in versions subsequent to my install, though the bas

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: How long until we have next get hackintoshes? - 6 months ago

I've booted my RPi4 on this Cute skin but not quite the real deal. This team has put together a pretty sweet distro with some included emulators and skins. However I was able to run Sheepshaver / MacOS9 on the RPi4, again for fun only.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: M1 mini must be selling like hotcakes - 6 months ago

My son picked up a 16/ 1 TB MBA last week at the Palo Alto Apple store. Locally, the Apple Store app shows no M1 models as available, but they said when they have low inventory, they won't show it in the app. We happened to go to the store for another reason (with appointment) and asked and got lucky. They also had base MBAs and MBPs in.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Explainer on why the M1 is so fast - 6 months ago

Thanks! Buddy & I were just wondering why Intel & AMD are so far behind. The CPU game has been disrupted.

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Re: M1 data point - huge photos library - 6 months ago

Quotesekker This is a related product from the same vendor worth considering and sorts out USB speeds. I'm *really* tempted to get this dock @ $109 to test it out with the two 4k displays already in the house. (I'd borrow my son's display as he's at his own apt for the next 3 weeks). The one aspect giving me pause is that both HDMI ports from the dock appear to be DisplayLink ports. It w

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: M1 data point - huge photos library - 6 months ago

Quotesekker If you go dual displays, you will need a DualLink adapter/hub. Ah right.. IIRC, you have a hub with Displaylink? Any issues or working well?

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

M1 data point - huge photos library - 6 months ago

My 2017 i7 iMac with a fusion drive has been fairly poky with a large 90k photos, 800 GB photo library. It lags when deleting photos, moving them into albums, and editing as well. The fans regularly spin up and get loud. I thought the bottle neck might be the fusion drive, so I got a Samsung X5 Thunderbolt SSD and decided to start fresh with a clean install of Big Sur on the SSD. After moving

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Super cool - running windows programs on M1 Macs! - 6 months ago

QuoteRolando Does it do PPC emulation as well for Mac OS X.1-X.6? Yep. Haven’t tried it myself on M1, but plenty of older links etc showing it done on Intel.Here’s a YouTube search on it:

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Super cool - running windows programs on M1 Macs! - 6 months ago

Just some fun!

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Re: MacBook Pro M1 with 2 monitors - 6 months ago

Awesome. Looks like even 6 displays works: You need a hub that supports Displaylink. Some good links in the following reddit link:

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Super cool - running windows programs on M1 Macs! - 6 months ago

QEMU.. from my very little time with it, it is more stable and easier to setup than Sheepshaver. Setup steps:

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Super cool - running windows programs on M1 Macs! - 6 months ago

I see your Windows on M1 and I raise you MacOS 9.2 on M1!

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Re: like totally, to the max?!....it's official 'Wonder Woman: 1984' will be released in theaters and online simultaneously...... - 6 months ago

Soooo... how much is HBO Max for 1 month?

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Have you had any productive projects during the quarantine? - 7 months ago

Also digitized all our VHS, Hi8, miniDv tapes into 320 mp4 clips all imported into iTunes. Used the el gato video digitizer with did all the compression from VHS & Hi8 analog sources. Thankfully I still had an old White MacBook with a firewire port to import in directly from the miniDV camcorder. Last week we showed the in-laws a video from 1989 in their older house. Was such a treasur

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Alternative to HEIC? Work around for eBay? - 7 months ago

Quotephuture Quotebhaveshp I'll second the iMazing HEIC to JPEG converter. Works great for my eBay workflow. Is there a reason to stick with HEIC and not make the charge in the settings as per the 1st reply here? Yes, HEIC saves around 30% storage space per photo, so you can save more pics on your phone.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Alternative to HEIC? Work around for eBay? - 7 months ago

I'll second the iMazing HEIC to JPEG converter. Works great for my eBay workflow.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Anybody here using Eero? Is the security subscription worth it? - 7 months ago

I've skipped the Eero Secure subscription as it is mainly DNS filtering. I had set up Pi-hole which is somewhat similar, but discontinued it when the family complained too many sites were misbehaving.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Ideas on how to repurpose a G4 iMac (lampshade)? - 9 months ago

The last gen 15” with a 1 GHz CPU had USB2. I think using such a machine with an SSD would be an example of diminishing returns, though cool for sure.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Ideas on how to repurpose a G4 iMac (lampshade)? - 9 months ago

I ran one as a photo slideshow for a few years. Worked great and looked great. Eventually replaced it with a raspberry pi and a bigger display for the slideshow.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Does anyone have a HomeKit Garage Door opener that they LOVE (like) ? - 1 year ago

Quotejdcyeah... but, but, but I can already control it with my phone...? ...but but you don't want to launch a separate app for each brand.... HomeKit!

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Does anyone have a HomeKit Garage Door opener that they LOVE (like) ? - 1 year ago

If you have the Chamberlain MyQ, I would suggest setting up HomeBridge on a $27 Raspberry Pi Zero kit so you can control it with your iPhone, Siri on the Watch etc. It works great. They've released a pre-built homebridge image on top of Raspberry OS, so you can set it up completely headless in about 20 minutes with no Linux experience necessary. Links: reddit post describing the Homebridg

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: New ISP in the House: iPhone SE Much Slower than Desktop - 1 year ago

Your iPhone & iPad wifi should easily give you comparable speeds as your desktop. How are you testing the wifi speed on the iPhone & iPad as well as the desktop? Are you certain you're connected to same WiFi SSID & using the same password? How is the speed on the mobile devices when you're sitting next to your desktop? I would suggest testing using fast.com as a 1st step base

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: What is Apple’s current/COVID prompted return policy? - 1 year ago

From "Temporary Retail Store Closures FAQ" QuoteQ: I want to return a product I recently purchased but the 14-day return period will end during the retail store closure—what should I do? A: Don’t worry. We’ll accept your return up to 14 days after we reopen.* *Exclusions: Connected iPhones (JP, AU); Trade-in devices (value of device can be given in form of gift card); Ca

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: macOS Safari 13 kills extensions - 1 year ago

I’ve found AdGuard to be a good free, open source ad blocker. Give it a shot.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: Foreign Power adapters? - 2 years ago

I have one of these: This has been great on several trips to India & Europe. Your MBP charger can plug into that and it has 4 USB ports for charging. There are variants with a USB-C port as well.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: iPhone X cracked! Repair at Apple or 3rd party shop? - 2 years ago

She's not the type that'll notice the difference with a 3rd party non-OEM screen. Her friend has recommended some sketchy repair biz in their college town so let's see ... fingers crossed.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

Re: iPhone X cracked! Repair at Apple or 3rd party shop? - 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm tempted to direct her to Apple, but will price out some 3rd party shops. The phone is 1.5 years old so the Apple warranty is done, but I probably have a credit card warranty. Though that won't cover accidental breakage this far out. I was only mentioning warranty as I'm sure a 3rd party repair would invalidate an Apple warranty which isn't a factor here.

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals

iPhone X cracked! Repair at Apple or 3rd party shop? - 2 years ago

Sigh, my daughter cracked her iPhone X after ignoring my suggestion to get a screen protector.. Suggestions on if she should get it repaired at Apple or use a 3rd party shop? The phone isn't under warranty at this point. Oh, and she will be paying for the repair. She HAS ordered screen protectors already...

by bhaveshp - Tips and Deals