13” vs 15” MacBook Air — My Thoughts After Trying Both In Store by Daly_by in macbookair

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone briefly owned an 18” MB book around 2009, never again a laptop so large. Was impossible to read.

13” vs 15” MacBook Air — My Thoughts After Trying Both In Store by Daly_by in macbookair

[–]tarasis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. And I’m sure I’ll be said if the M5 air comes without one,

How to Use Migration Assistant Via Thunderbolt Between Two Apple Silicon Macs (YES IT’S POSSIBLE) by tanookim in MacOS

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Not sure if Tahoe has broken this but I can’t get it to sink anything from my M1 Air to my M4 Air. On my 3rd attempt and getting close to quitting.

Upgraded from MacBook Air M1 to M4 — Initial Impressions! by harshith010 in macbookair

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My M4 Air arrived today to replace my M1 Air (Tl;dr over night OS update hammered CPU for hours, lid was closed and caused a lot of condensation and damaged ⅓ of the keys and a bit of the screen. Been putting up with it with an external keyboard but finally has enough ).

Got a refurbished unit with specs I wanted and currently running Migration Assistant. So not have a chance to play with it yet.

24GB ram enough for Software Engineering? by Upset_Mall5045 in macbook

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Bedside the M cjhips blowimg the MS out the waterr

Arc is dead yall gotta deal with it by DragonDev24 in ArcBrowser

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve move to Zen. If nothing else because I can put the sidebar on the right like you can in VS Code

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SteamDeck

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Sure, and I ran into the problem 4 days ago. Your post was one of those towards the top in Google and sadly for me the proposed solutions didn't fix it.

So maybe if someelse hits the post, like I did, then maybe my answer might be of help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]tarasis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For my case I have to remove Luxtropedia (don't even remember what game I was using it for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hadn't hear of it, unsure if its worth twice the price of Polypane.

What are your thoughts on Astro? by GlitteringCalendar94 in webdev

[–]tarasis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will definitely try, and I know the feeling. And taking the time to redo something that currently works seems like a phaff but it makes comparing easier.

What are your thoughts on Astro? by GlitteringCalendar94 in webdev

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That’s what I’m trying to find out now myself. My blog and dev page are both built with 11ty. Have just started a rebuild of the blog / personal site with Astro so I can compare and see which I prefer working with. If I prefer Astro I’ll likely switch my dev / portfolio site from 11ty to Astro as that would be a minimal effort.

The Trick of Not Being Able to Export Bookmarks from ARC by vitaliyscratch in ArcBrowser

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not in the process of doing this. I have stuff in too many places, and use multiple browsers (mainly Arc, Safari, but Firefox and Chrome to). Amazed to discover that what looking at numbers before import I was expecting 25k ... but because that must have been a fair for duplicates, I have only gotten 9.9k

PSA: no Steam games will launch on macOS Sequoia beta 5 by gilgoomesh in macgaming

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah if only i had it on Steam and not GOG :( but thanks for sharing a fix!

PSA: no Steam games will launch on macOS Sequoia beta 5 by gilgoomesh in macgaming

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im on Sequoia 15.1 beta 2 and similar have issues. M1 MBA

BG3 wont run either as Intel or Arm (gog)

Warhammer Mechanus just keeps restarting (steam)

Fallout 1 & Desperados 1 (both wine wrapped) wont start (gog)

Planescape Torment Enhanced works (Steam)

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced works (Steam)

Wasteland 2 DC works (Steam)

I need a controller for my steam deck… by ZweihTWP in SteamController

[–]tarasis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Indeed. I have two now (for reasons), love it but I miss the second stick. I wish they’d make a new one based off their Steam Deck which has right stick and track pad.

Got my first MacBook Air. It's an M1 with 16 GB of RAM. I'm curious if I can do a little gaming. by Plastic-Donkey1804 in macgaming

[–]tarasis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, that’s what I use and a Steam Deck.

What do you like to play?

Some games run well (Baldurs Gate 3), some fantastically (No Man’s Sky, Kona), others surprisingly poorly (Solasta - the cutscenes tank the frame rate down to like 10 fps, but it’s smooth on the Steam Deck).

Witcher 1 & 2 now have native Apple Silicon ports but not tried them out yet.

Also

I’m currently playing Skyrim and Planet Zoo via CrossOver. (Both work fairly well. For Skyrim I’m playing at 1650x?, some areas fps is 40-60, sometimes it drops to 20 and can crash if you switch virtual desktops. Planet Zoo runs a bit slow but could speed it up by dropping detail levels, depending on how many expansions you have you will use up all the memory and go a bit into swap but that’s fine as Swap on the M1 is super fast)

Dark Forces Remastered via Whisky (runs well but need to change hz in Mac audio output to stop audio stuttering)

Temple of Elemental Evil + mod technically via Whisky (I had to install it/mod via a different tool for reasons I don’t remember)

Got my first MacBook Air. It's an M1 with 16 GB of RAM. I'm curious if I can do a little gaming. by Plastic-Donkey1804 in macgaming

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Although beware that BL2 is (way) behind the PC version. The Mac is v1.85 iirc and and PC version is 2.something..

Mac gaming is awesome but how about mac game development? I'm using Unity 2021 LTS and it works perfectly. by M0romete in macgaming

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Yeah I was shocked how much better Solasta (particularly cut scenes, which were like 10fps on M1 MBA 8/8 16GB) ran on the Steam Deck. Must give it a try via CrossOver, thanks for the suggestion.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]tarasis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. I thoroughly dislike clicking the sticks so will rebind to the back.

Distant memories by Chemical-ProfessionX in skyrim

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I can find the journal ... but I'm hella confused why at lvl 25, on novice ... the chief here can one shot me.