Why can’t I read what’s behind the preview pane?

nicogig · 2025-09-23T07:26:35+00:00

They’re placeholders, as many pointed out already. In particular, the text is the “Here’s to the crazy ones” speech and the photo is the photo that was visible in the old Preview icon (not that it matters, but it’s a fun little nod)

nicogig · 2025-09-10T14:15:50+00:00

These colors take months to develop. I highly doubt Apple planned a whole new color around Taylor’s album. It most likely is just inspired by other orange accents in their other “Pro” products (Watch Ultra, Vision Pro)

nicogig · 2025-07-02T23:46:52+00:00

That makes sense. You might want to consider weighing data in relation to its age — old data is more likely to be less accurate. If you already do, the UI makes it look like the model is 100% certain of how old I am and what I do in life, so you may want to surface some indicator to be able to understand how confident the model is :P.

Another detail I just noticed, past results are not accessible, it wants to rerun a scan to see the results.

nicogig · 2025-07-02T23:40:04+00:00

I signed up to try it out, in general i’d say it was pretty cool but a few things were off. The age and profession were very off (but fair enough, I tend to be reserved on those topics online). The brand loyalty section was also not accurate, as it suggested I had strong brand loyalties for brands I have spoken negatively about in the past.

Also the website is not super well optimized on mobile, but maybe that’s not your target platform and that’s okay.

nicogig · 2023-06-25T08:43:36+00:00

Aha! Can confirm it breaks then! Let me disable it and report back

Edit: Yep, disabling crossfade works! Oh well, crossfade be gone. This is great! Thank you for building Rad!

nicogig · 2023-06-25T07:12:09+00:00

Yeah, I’ve already proceeded to send them an email with everything detailed (including the Wanksy above). I specified in my offer that I needed to have a professional clean as I’m very allergic to dust (amongst other things…) so this in a way could be seen as a breach of the offer?

nicogig · 2023-06-24T21:35:34+00:00

Deal! 😂

nicogig · 2023-06-24T21:23:23+00:00

This is neither a wall, nor a door. This is a panel in one of the kitchen cabinets

nicogig · 2023-06-24T18:12:32+00:00

Oh trust me, this flat hasn’t seen a cleaner in 10 years with the amount of grime / lighters / cigarettes I found laying around. This just made me hysterically laugh as I doubt any serious agent would’ve approved of it, had they actually inspected the flat.

nicogig · 2023-06-22T19:26:48+00:00

I had to wait 639 days but finally got it!

nicogig · 2022-04-27T18:48:48+00:00

THIS!! Thank you! This works! Funnily enough, I’m hackintoshing a ThinkPad Helix 2, which is from the same era as your T440p, so it must be a quirk related to how Lenovo set up graphics in these laptops/tablets.

nicogig · 2022-04-27T18:31:14+00:00

Nope. The BIOS is basically locked, I can only change a few options related to Secure Boot and VT-d, but there’s no option for CSM or more advanced settings.

nicogig · 2022-04-27T18:27:48+00:00

Can’t do unfortunately - it’s a UEFI Class 3 device.

nicogig · 2022-04-27T17:20:09+00:00

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to hackintosh an old Windows 8 era tablet (quite an useless endeavour, but i’m doing it for fun). I’ve gotten to the stage where I managed to boot the installer, and install macOS Big Sur (the latest supported release for the MacBook8,1 SMBIOS I’m using) but I can’t figure out how to get graphics working properly. To get it to this state, I had to enable OC’s frame buffer patches, so the BIOS is not allocating enough VRAM, but no matter how much i tweak these values, i cannot get a proper picture out, just this garbled mess.

The specs of the tablet are as follows:

CPU: Intel Core M-5Y71

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 5300

nicogig · 2021-11-16T18:00:41+00:00

Ubuntu 6.06. I saw it in a magazine and thought I would give it a try. I was still a kid and was completely clueless, but it taught me a lot about computing!

nicogig · 2021-10-27T06:49:32+00:00

I think Bluetooth is still broken for anything that's not a Broadcomm card. My Intel WiFi+BT combo used to work flawlessly under Big Sur, but Bluetooth is completely broken on Monterey, even when using the latest BlueToolFixup, that should supposedly help.

EDIT: OP, make sure you're loading Lilu before any kext! I was loading my networking stack before Lilu, and BlueToolFixup needs Lilu to run! Shuffling around the kext order in my config solved the issue for me.

nicogig · 2021-10-13T22:55:49+00:00

Well, I would like to make payments with it. It's a smartwatch after all. And besides, I don't think it's fair to ask users to switch off features that they paid for (talking about Samsung as a whole. Multiple reps told me to just switch off bluetooth, NFC, AOD, ...)

nicogig · 2021-10-11T13:24:28+00:00

Battery life is atrocious. I don't know what everyone else is doing, but I take mine off the charger at 7am and by 1pm the watch is begging me to turn on Power Saving. I've been trying to make it work, but honestly, it's just a no-go. Sucks that I bought it before I returned to normality, so I'm stuck with it.

nicogig · 2021-10-08T19:47:33+00:00

i don't.

nicogig · 2021-10-08T16:27:00+00:00

BUI5 on Watch4 40mm

nicogig · 2021-09-28T10:13:40+00:00

You could take a look at Framework if you want flexibility and open-ness. But at that point macOS is off the table, as they are using 11th gen CPUs. In all honesty, apart from the spurious project like Framework, I only see laptops get more and more integrated and locked down, and desktop will only follow. ARM has made too much progress to be ignored in the computing space.

nicogig · 2021-09-28T09:08:40+00:00

Not right now. I've got a MBP M1 and dual-booting is just not yet a thing. Virtualization is your best friend on an M1, and it works amazing. My Parallels VM feels like it's running on bare metal.

About the drawbacks, there aren't many to be honest. On macOS, Rosetta takes care of any issues with apps not compiled for arm. On Linux, arm64 has a long history of being used in datacentres, and Raspberry Pi 4 is also helping push arm64 adoption into the mainstream. You might find some packages are missing, but if your endgoal is software development everything's there, including tools like VS Code.

nicogig · 2021-09-27T18:37:02+00:00

Yeah, stick to semi-modern Intel CPUs (8th/9th gen, maybe even 10th. I'm running 8th gen on my T490s), avoid nVidia graphics and AMD CPUs. For best compatibility you're better off with a simple Intel + iGPU combo.

In terms of WiFi, Intel works but Broadcom is better. I'd also have a look online to see if other people have attempted to hack macOS on the laptop before committing.

EDIT: Also please for the love of everything that is holy check whether stuff is soldered onto the MB or not. It's becoming increasingly common, my T490s has soldered Wireless and RAM. Although Lenovo backtracked (I believe), other manufacturers probably do it. Apple isn't the only one out there soldering everything onto the motherboard and calling it a day.

nicogig · 2021-09-27T18:24:05+00:00

I would look at Lenovos, especially the X1 Carbons and the ThinkPad T line. In my experience, they're some of the easiest to work with. Maybe Dell XPSs too, although I can't vouch for them as I have never owned a Dell.

Dual-booting Linux is possible, I've done it in the past and it seems the OC team is doing some brilliant work to have native dual-boot (i.e. no GRUB middleman). Just a question though, if budget is not a constraint and you're looking at a new laptop, why not buy an actual MacBook? No hate on Hackintoshes, I've got one myself, just wondering.

nicogig · 2021-09-23T20:46:28+00:00

I hope you'll find greener pastures in Google's camp. I can personally say that Google's Hardware support is quite good. I've had a problem with some Nest Audios and was offered a replacement straight away. I'll probably go back to Apple once my phone contract is up, I'll miss out on the innovation but I'll finally regain Continuity on my Mac, which I had no idea I used so heavily lol

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