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Michael Labowicz<p>Recently discovered homebrew for Mac, which adds package management capabilities for open source apps. Yesterday, converted all of my open source apps to use this method of updating, including <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@joplinapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>joplinapp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@GIMP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GIMP</span></a></span> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gnucash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnucash</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://brew.sh/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">brew.sh/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
obrhoff<p>Some more Drag &amp; Drop work on the Playlists. Works good so far.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/swiftui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swiftui</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a></p>
Ade Thompson<p>Love the power of Proxmox. I now have a permanent System 7.6.1 instance running on my network... as well as macOS Catalina. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proxmox</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>One thing I miss about the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> 1 / <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> 1 / <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> 9/X days is that there were a zillion different <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> themes, each with cool and unique looks for widgets. Gradients, drop shadows, brushed metal textures, buttons that look like glass vials full of blue liquid, you name it. GUIs actually looked cool.</p><p>Now custom themes, where they exist at all, are nothing but flat, solid, desaturated colors and rounded rectangles. It's dreadfully boring.</p>
A Team Fossils Sergal 🎨🦴<p>If Apple chose to go back to the classic UI from releases like MacOS 8 instead of that visual crime they call "Liquid Glass" that they feel like geniuses for creating, I would go back, too.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>Gotta love good ol' 1-bit pixel dithering (ordered, Floyd-Steinberg, etc.) 💚</p><p>𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙-80𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮</p><p><a href="https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.decryption.net.au/posts/m</span><span class="invisible">acpaint.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BlackAndWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAndWhite</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/old" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>old</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/CharacterDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacterDesign</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artwork</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/arte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arte</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arts</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/GraphicDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraphicDesign</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/CreativeToots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeToots</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ArtistsOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistsOnMastodon</span></a></p>
James Gilbert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@dnanian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dnanian</span></a></span> If don't understand why <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Tahoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tahoe</span></a> doesn't get this too, if it's so good. Cowards!</p>
David Leszcynski (he/him)<p>Just casually <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laptop</span></a> shopping and considering leaving the <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> ecosystem and going full <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>. </p><p>After working for Apple for so long, I’m nervous about fully taking the plunge since I know <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> so well, but I’m not a total stranger to Linux. I just don’t know PCs well at all. Just don’t want to buy a new <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> with all the <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/AppleIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleIntelligence</span></a> bullshit.</p>
Jon S. von Tetzchner<p>Now something very different. :vivaldi_red: </p><p>We at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Vivaldi</span></a></span> like to entertain you, so here you have OnlyFjords! </p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macos</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computer</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a></p><p><a href="https://onlyfjords.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">onlyfjords.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
obrhoff<p>What kind of devils trick is that. My iPod (with Rockbox) is controlling the volume of my Mac 🤯<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ipod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ipod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rockbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rockbox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a></p>
David Bisset<p>Interesting: Petrichor is an offline music player for <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/kushalpandya/Petric</span><span class="invisible">hor</span></a></p><p>Native macOS integration, AirPlay 2, Smart playlists with user-configurable conditional filters, and more. <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a></p>
Denis 🌏<p>macOS Sequoia 15.5... is there any way to change/turn off what app tries to autoplay an audio CD? Apple Music insists on launching and trying to import it. Maybe I just need to delete Apple Music?</p><p>There seems to no longer be a system preference for this...</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a></p>
★Pope Miller the Defondor<p>Ich wollte heute eine alte 500GB Festplatte als Musikspeicher für möglichst alle <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Betriebssysteme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Betriebssysteme</span></a> formatieren. Stellt sich mal wieder raus: <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/FAT32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAT32</span></a> und <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/NTFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NTFS</span></a> sind immer noch ungeeignet.<br>Jede Menge "Sonderzeichen", wie z.B. "?" im Dateinamen werfen Fehler und die Dateien werden nicht gespeichert.<br>Tjo nun, dann nehm ich eben wieder <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Ext4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ext4</span></a>. <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> kommt damit klar, <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> glaube ich auch. Wenn ich die Platte mal an einem <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> anschließe und sie nicht gelesen werden kann - Pech gehabt.</p>
Megan Lynch (she/her)<p>Has anyone used the Doughnut podcast app for MacOS? I haven't been able to find many reviews for it.</p><p><a href="https://medevel.com/doughnut/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">medevel.com/doughnut/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a></p>
Oskar<p>🚀 Backdrop 1.4 is out! This update features a brand new Editor, where you can edit, preview, and create, and publish your own custom animated Mac wallpapers. Also featuring a new glassy UI for macOS Tahoe. Perfect for personalizing your Mac desktop experience. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macapps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macapps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us - From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/the-end-of-the-hackintosh-is-upon-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/07/08/the-en</span><span class="invisible">d-of-the-hackintosh-is-upon-us/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/originalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>originalart</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackintosh</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/interest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interest</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/macosx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macosx</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/osx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osx</span></a></p>
Grumpy Website<p>Leave it to Apple to design popup in a popup in a popup</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tahoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tahoe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Popup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popup</span></a></p>
mirrorless gamera<p>A lot of updates just landed for Map 4.0.0, my wardley mapping tool for macOS.</p><p>- Preferences window to change fonts in the editor and map<br>- Mouse editing<br>- Custom evolution stages<br>- Templates<br>- More export formats</p><p>There's also some behind the scenes updates to make parsing a bit faster.</p><p><a href="https://map.tranquil.systems/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">map.tranquil.systems/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/macapps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macapps</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/wardleymaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wardleymaps</span></a> <a href="https://friendship.quest/tags/wardleymapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wardleymapping</span></a></p>
Adam Wysokiński<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@mr_zvbr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mr_zvbr</span></a></span> MZ dla przeciętnego komputerowego laika (który potrzebuje głównie przeglądarki, edytora tekstu i programu do obejrzenia zdjęć) takie dystrybucje jak <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Zorin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zorin</span></a> lub <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Mint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mint</span></a> będą tak samo (nie)kłopotliwe jak <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> lub <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>As far as I can tell, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> contains the only codecs for some of the '80s/'90s <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> character encodings like Mac OS Inuit. None of the usual character encoding conversion libraries like libiconv seem to support these, nor can I find docs on them.</p><p>With the only codec being closed source and part of a larger product, I wonder if the means to decode them will one day be lost to history.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/charset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>charset</span></a></p>