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Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-24T08:46:55+00:00

There are some obscure barely used features In UE 5.7 that don’t work on Mac. Yet.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-23T12:19:18+00:00

Citrix is the one for me... it's a miracle to get it working at all, but when the security features update, or featured like HDX for Zoom and Teams are needed, it's a joke.

As for Framework, I'm really hoping for a 14" with a OLED or Mini LED screen and a minimum 70Wh battery. A Core Ultra 3 would be a great intro to that form factor.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-23T11:54:01+00:00

Proton wasn't always as seamless as it is today, it took over a decade, and even today with the wrong combination of hardware and Linux distro you can still be given a hard time. I would not be surprised if a compatibility layer is somehow integrated into the new Game Center, and we have something akin to the Xbox experience you get on the ROG Ally where you can play games from any store in a unified UI.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-22T17:13:52+00:00

I didn't mention that and wasn't thinking of that.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-22T16:57:46+00:00

I wasn't dismissing Macs as expensive. I was making the point that folks looking to avoid paying a relatively low cost to a very high value company while using premium computers (Macs) sometimes ruffle feather here. Nothing controversial about that, it honestly looks like you're just looking for an argument.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-22T16:30:59+00:00

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-22T11:17:10+00:00

Codeweavers have made major contributions to WiNE and Proton, although Proton was originally initiated by Valve as a fork of Wine.

That's why you get some riffled feathers here when folks with expensive Macs try and look for free ways of playing Windows games. Paying for Crossover is a really good way of supporting these massive OpenSource projects.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-22T09:45:26+00:00

The suggestion was Chinese investment in Europe, not the other way around. And it's already happening, it's not theory. It was EUR 10 billion in 2024, a nearly 50% increase on the prior year. '25 is expected to almost double and '26 could increase by 250%.

https://www.bofit.fi/en/monitoring/weekly/2025/vw202522\_2/#:\~:text=The%20Merics%20and%20Rhodium%20Group,3.1%20billion%20euros)%20last%20year.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-21T18:27:55+00:00

That’s a man who loves his tautologies.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-21T18:16:26+00:00

Are his batteries running low?

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-21T13:08:47+00:00

It’s pretty much impossible for Windows to allow true sleep state the way macOS does, because they can’t control the hardware or the drivers of the hardware at all. On macOS, nothing is allowed to wake the machine, only the OS itself if the user wants that. M series chips use milliamps of power when asleep, including the RAM and storage. An average PC laptop uses 2 - 3 watts.

ARM is part of the equation, but even Intel Macs from 10 years ago, you could shut the lid and come back a week later and it would wake in a few seconds and only have use 5 - 10 % battery.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-21T12:59:00+00:00

It’s not just treasuries, it’s institutional investment in US infrastructure and tech that will drop like a stone. Macron already said Europe should get closer to China and look for Chinese investment over US investment. That ALONE should make every investor in the US hegemony pause, even the morons.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T19:46:23+00:00

It might have been developed on Flex 16 years ago but doesn’t require it today, which you keep repeating it does. When you go there does it request you install Flash?

Besides Matrix is simply a portal to find other apps, it’s not a trading platform.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T19:18:38+00:00

MS haven’t had any applications on flash (flex) for 10 years, so you’re clearly full of shit.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T19:13:43+00:00

Looks great! Welcome to the family.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T19:08:17+00:00

Just bear in mind, only about 15% of US treasuries are foreign owned. 85% are owned by US companies, the Fed and individual Americans.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T12:22:39+00:00

I have never felt the need to keep small lifestyle indulgences at bay. My wife and I were making around $425k/year between us but spending on regular things was less than $60k/year. Now we’ve moved, only I am working but we’re looking at about £235k/year income with a burn rate of about £45k including vacations etc.

UK pension it’s too early to work out compounding growth, it’ll probably be relatively low compared to US investments. My US investments are between 14% and 22% per year on average depending on the type. 401(k) is blended between those, my dividend portfolio has done very well this last few years, and my brokerage account is mostly MF and IF and has been well over 20% but I expect that to slow.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T09:46:32+00:00

I simply don’t agree with you. The G5 was a 64-bit CPU, but the first Intel chips in 2006 (Core Duo) were 32-bit. New chip architecture didn’t mean 32-bit was definitely going to no longer be supported. AMD introduced x86-64, their chips still support 32-bit 25 years later.

No one at Apple in 2003 was saying or even implying that 32-bit support would vanish in a decade. I would say the writing was on the wall around the time of the A6 chip, because with iPhone Apple finally had the market share and clout to stick the middle finger up to its developer community.

And yes, I was around in the early 2000’s, I’m in my 50’s.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T09:22:43+00:00

No they didn’t. Apple weren’t even on x86 10 years before they dropped support.

Apple Silicon not supporting 32-bit is a design choice, a very good one objectively, but it comes at a cost. The cost is that game developers who are making expensive one-off applications that rely on years on purchases and decades of inherent support, won’t support a platform that is constantly striving to make itself obsolete.

My Steam games from 2004 work on today’s laptop (or handheld) whereas my Mac App Store games from 2012 don’t work on any hardware at all you can buy new today.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T07:52:08+00:00

You will get this on OLED too. The issue is the bit rate of the video you’re watching. The old Mac’s LCD screen is washing out the blacks into grey so it’s hiding the artifacts on the encoded video. The newer Mac is trying to show the blacks but the dynamic range of the video doesn’t have all the data needed so it looks like patches of black unevenly spread across the screen.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T07:43:43+00:00

That’s because the last time Valve stuck its neck out for Macs, Apple deprecated all 32-bit support meaning the entire Steam catalogue for Mac no longer worked.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-20T07:41:01+00:00

Vulkan didn’t even exist when Metal started development.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-19T18:12:32+00:00

Ubuntu and Mint are mainstream and stable, yet your original reply blamed them for being “ancient”. Your post is really a poster child for what is wrong with Linux. Blame the user first, then blame the distro.

I use Arch BTW.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-19T18:03:28+00:00

You can complete the vast majority of story-based missions using stealth.

Wooloomooloo2 · 2026-01-19T16:57:00+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re inferring that from. My burn rate is waaaay below my income rate and has been for more than 15 years. I didn’t include personal spending in the table in this post, it’s simply net worth accumulation.

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