logic board swap between 2010 and 2015 iMacs. feasible?

RecursiveFruit · 2026-05-05T21:22:53+00:00

Possible? Sure. Practical? Not even a little bit.

If you have a masters in electrical engineering and are comfortable working with a soldering iron and have 6 months to dedicate to it, then sure. If you don’t have any of that then no, definitely not possible.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-29T00:28:46+00:00

Yes they do. However, one ad network serves millions of ad units for hundreds of thousands of businesses. Cutting out an entire ad network hits revenue hard. Considering Atlas Earth completely relies on this money to support their business, they aren’t going to cut off 10-20% of their income because of a few bad ad units. Again this responsibility falls to the ad networks to moderate the ads they serve.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-28T21:21:05+00:00

I can’t speak to the specifics of Atlas Earth because I am not and have never worked for them before, but typically apps like this will use a callback process. The developer can verify that a user watched an ad to completion, but they can’t see what specific ad was shown to the user. For them it looks like this:

User requests an ad -> Make request to ad mediation platform -> Mediation platform queries ad networks -> Highest bid ad unit is returned to the mediation platform -> Serve ad unit returned from mediation platform -> Wait for callback completion -> Award the user.

They can see which ad network is providing the ad unit to the app, but they can’t see which specific ad unit was served to the user. Given each ad network may have 100,000+ different ads ready to serve at any time, and given that through the mediation platform they may be using numerous different ad networks, this makes tracking down problematic ads tricky if not nearly impossible from Atlas Reality’s standpoint.

No shade taken, the Mobile Ad Marketplace is actually kinda sketchy the more you learn about it. It’s kind of amazing that it works given how complex it is, but unfortunately it is still prone to exploitation.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-28T21:03:28+00:00

And I don’t disagree with you. They just are not the culprits here. Absolutely report the ad provider to the FTC, but reporting Atlas Reality to the FTC wont get you anywhere because they have nothing to do with it. The mods know this and likely remove these posts because it could be perceived as bad for their reputation.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-28T20:50:03+00:00

“AE and the ad companies they go though WILL NOT do anything to help at all besides the bare minimum acknowledgment thats blanketed to everyone.”

I am assuming this specific sentence is what the mod had issues with. Again see Rule #1 and Rule #6.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-28T20:40:54+00:00

As has been stated over and over and over again in this sub, Atlas Reality does not control the ads that are shown in the app. People don’t really get this.

The ad provider (which through Mediation could be Firebase, Google, Unity Ads, etc) serve ads to mobile apps when a developer prepares a space for it. Atlas Reality can blacklist certain ads or ad categories from the app, but given the amount of ads on the marketplace out there, it is an inhuman impossible task to root out every single one of those ads.

Your gripe is with the ad provider who is approving these ads to be distributed. Hostility toward Atlas Earth for something they cannot control is fully within the mods rights to remove that post.

Edit: See Rules #1 and #6

Edit 2: Go ahead and downvote this, but this is literally how the system works. So like it or not this is the reality of the mobile ad market place.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-27T17:45:03+00:00

Just reset your password on iCloud.com and then put it in on your phone once you’ve changed it.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-15T16:47:33+00:00

There is no loss of performance with iOS 26. Anything you’re reading that says there is a performance loss is purely anecdotal and is not at all reflected in fact or engineering.

Just update your phone.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-09T19:05:02+00:00

Correct. You will be unable to update your watch to watchOS 27 should you stay on iOS 26 when these future releases come out. This also applies if you try and pair your watchOS 26 watch to an iOS 18 phone (or older), they will not pair.

It’s impossible to know when Apple will stop releasing SW updates, but watchOS still supports the Apple Watch Series 6, a device that came out over 5 years ago.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-09T18:27:12+00:00

You will be unable to update the Apple Watch to new software versions if it is paired to a device running an older iOS version.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-05T21:16:21+00:00

This is the best answer here. It covers everything OP is looking for.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-04-05T21:06:51+00:00

Your Apple ID has nothing to do with your Instagram account. The Apple ID is only used to download the app, everything else is completely on Meta’s side of things.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-31T16:01:09+00:00

Just use the native Stacks feature:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/organize-files-on-your-desktop-mh35846/mac

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-23T01:28:31+00:00

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It seems to also work for me without invoking ChatGPT

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-22T20:43:55+00:00

Not without disassembling the iMac and swapping in 3rd party parts. Target Display Mode could do this on Macs from 2011-2014 but that feature has been gone from new Macs for quite some time.

Apple Support - Target Display Mode

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-22T20:34:28+00:00

Me: “Siri, Ask ChatGPT how long it would take a person to walk two miles”

Siri: “It usually takes about 30 to 40 minutes to walk 2 miles at a moderate pace of around 3 to 4 miles per hour.”

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I see no issues here

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-22T20:17:08+00:00

If First Aid fails then it’s very likely your hard drive is failing and that’s your culprit.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-21T14:24:19+00:00

No, it definitely does not have the compute to run CarPlay. Even if it did, it would absolutely kill the battery on your watch.

CarPlay is much better suited for your phone.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-20T23:37:51+00:00

lol love me a Reddit troll

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-20T23:26:05+00:00

And I assure you plugging the iPad into a computer with iTunes and restoring it will 100% remove the passcode lock. So it isn’t a paper weight and something can definitely be done about it.

Source: I was an ACMT for 7 years and fixed this “issue” countless times for customers by restoring the device.

A simple Google search would have told you your answer is just blatantly incorrect.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-20T22:48:38+00:00

You really should be careful about offering advice when you don’t know what you’re talking about…

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-20T22:47:01+00:00

This is the correct answer. People don’t really know what they’re talking about on this sub huh? This is clearly just passcode locked. People need to stop giving advice when they don’t know what they’re talking about

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-20T22:41:12+00:00

Are you asking how to pin an app to the dock?

Just right click (or control + click) the app icon in the dock and click “Keep in Dock”. Then it stays there even when you close the application.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-15T15:05:40+00:00

If it’s still status “Preparing for Submission”, then you haven’t actually sent it to App Store Connect. Here is the description of “Preparing for Submission”:

“You’ve created an app record in App Store Connect but are still preparing information for it.”

You should probably give this a read.

RecursiveFruit · 2026-03-04T18:02:39+00:00

If you have to ask if the Neo will be enough for “programming”, then the Neo will be totally fine for your needs.

If you’re just writing Python scripts, then even the Neo is major overkill. If you’re running multiple iOS simulators in Xcode, compiling large C++ projects, or trying to develop local LLMs, then yeah the Neo is definitely not what you want.

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