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@gurupanguji

Liquid Glass and future hardware

To me, it feels like Liquid Glass is really meant for touch screens and OLED displays, where colors can pop and you can interact with the floating glass with your fingers. It makes less sense on a big-screen TV or an Apple Watch with a tiny display. It also isn’t very impressive on Macs, which of course lack (for now) both touch and OLED. Once Apple makes those Mac hardware upgrades, Liquid Glass will be a lot more fitting.

WWDC 2025 Biggest Releases: iPadOS 26 Multitasking, visionOS 26 and New CarPlay – Bloomberg

I really don’t understand how touch and OLED make Liquid Glass better. If you can find a strong argument that supports this line of thinking, drop links in the comments section below. I am very interested to learn more.

#display#ios#ipad
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Nielso

So, continuing with #USBmidi on #OSX #Monterey. Now that I have found which of my #USB #MIDI devices works electrically, it turns out #Ardour can access this interface successfully.

However, I am having trouble using the MIDI interface with #DecentSampler (standalone) or #Carla (my favorite standalone plugin host on all OSses).

Both Decent Sampler and Carla don't offer a device selection for MIDI devices.

So my #MacOS problem melts down to a) an electronics problem with cheap MIDI interfaces not being opto-coupled as they should be, even endangering the USB-C ports of the MacBook Pro 2017, and b) Certain pieces of software not having a MIDI settings dialog, or there is some mechanism that I don't know yet.

@falktx – do you perhaps have a quick hint on how to get MIDI input into Carla on OSX?

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Nielso

#Fedihelp on #MIDI on #OSX #Moneterey out there?

I have this noname #USBmidi cable. It works class compliant out of the box on #Linux / #UbuntuStudio 24.04. A tiny LED on the USB plug shows incoming MIDI, which I can also see in #GMIDImonitor after routing it in #Patchance. (#Pipewire audio system.)

On #MacOS I am lost. The tiny LED does not light up on incoming MIDI. Apparently this USB device is not even activated by the OS.

It also cannot by detected in “audio midi setup”.

I mean, this is OSX, the supposedly easy OS for creative people… what's going on?

EDIT: It turns out that this might be not an OSX problem. The USB MIDI does not show up as soon as the MIDI is plugged in. I guess this is a leakage current problem which might in the end even destroy USB ports. Power supplies without ground connections are prone to this error (those by Apple, too). A MIDI interface should be opto-coupled, but many actually aren't.

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Dr. Brian Callahan

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

Modernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPC - ibara/libppc
GitHubGitHub - ibara/libppc: Modernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPCModernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPC - ibara/libppc
#gcc#compiler#compilers
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Bluszcz 🇵🇱 🌱🎥📷🚲👨‍💻➡️🦌

Did you try #DeerPortal 🦌💎and why don’t you like it?
It is a board game driven by a 🦌 Deer god and classical elements 🔥 💦 💨 🌍

#DeerPortal #GameDev #update #sfml #osx #linux #linuxgaming #freesoftware #FOSS #FreeGame #opensource

Most comments which I received and some reviews which I was reading were clear that nobody had a clue what is happening during the game in the context of the cards. I added a simple overlay text, will replace later with some proper graphic for UI, but for now it explains actions after taking the cards.
github.com/deerportal/deerport @sfml

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Nielso

People tell me I am stubborn, which is somewhat true. Because I'm not willing to give up on running #DecentSampler on #Apple gear, even though it would be so easy just to use it on #Linux.

So, #OSX failed me with no #MIDI devices working. My #Ipad with #IOS 15 is too weak. Experience with the VB3m organ tells me that the older iPad with IOS 12 will do better since it has more CPU power left because it's not doing weird graphics BS nobody needs.

I have to wait, because Apple devices cannot startup if the battery is empty, even when hooked up to the power supply.

Btw, standard iPad power supplies due to limitations of the old Lightning connector often times cannot feed enough power into the iPad to keep its battery level solid during operation… so even with power plugged in, your music show will fail eventually.

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Nielso

So, continuing with #DecentSampler on #Apple. Well, the Decent Sampler runs smoothely. But this iPad MIDI thing I don't get to run.

Another option would be to use my old #MacBookPro 2017 with #OSX. Decent Sampler works out of the box on the old OS X 12.x.

I plug in my MIDI-USB source, which is a Roland GI20 guitar-to-midi system. OS X ignores it. I plug in some USB-MIDI-5pin adapter. OS X ignores it. I plug in another of these adapters/midi interfaces. Nothing.

Turns out in the end that the Roland GI20 does not work with Apple products at all. It only works out of the box with #Linux. For all other OSses it needs special drivers.

Apple offers me an update of IOS 15.something, and with one of the USB-MIDI-interfaces plugged into the oldskool MIDI port of the GI20 I can now finally use DecentSampler on an Apple machine, funnily on IOS 15, which fails with many MIDI applications such as MixingStation + fader controllers.

However, this iPad is too weak for DecentSampler.

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Nielso

Ein Teil der Veranstaltung musste mittels #Linux gerettet werden. Alle #Playbacks wurden spontan auf Memory Sticks, per WhatsApp (!), oder direkt von Spotify… (Kann ich mein iPhone anschließen? … wie, da braucht man einen Adapter dafür? Nie gehört… )

… und so ergab es sich, dass das Playback-#MacBook mit #QLab weder den Stick lesen wollte, noch die darauf befindliche Opus-Audio-Datei.

Der Pinguin hingegen… problemlos.

#Veranstaltungstechnik: Wie lese ich nebenher während der Show Dateien von einem Memory Stick und konvertiere sie in ein Format, das #OSX abspielen kann?

Thema Einspieler: Auf Wiedervorlage. Das kann noch verbessert werden. Problem: Kein Kunde zahlt extra für etwas, von dem er glaubt, dass es doch ganz einfach sei.

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C.

This report about #Wacom graphics tablets is disturbing for a couple of reasons.

1. They are surveilling users of their #tablet - a human-interface device analogous to a mouse or trackball - recording every application you open, or when you switch between windows of different applications. They are collecting this data via a trip through Google Analytics, aka Spyware Central. There is no possible way to justify collection of this particular data; it is none of their damn business how long you have your drawing program focused before switching to your browser and back again. The author notes their privacy policy really doesn't describe this collection of data correctly, so there really can't be informed consent in the first place.

2. Why on earth is it possible in #Apple #OSX / #MacOS for a USB human interface device driver to capture this information in the first place? Apple shares a big slice of the blame here - this should just simply not be possible for the driver to collect in the first place. Having such a driver allowed to place outgoing HTTP requests is also a big "WTF are they thinking?" moment.

robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wa

Robert HeatonWacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert HeatonI have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.
#google#GoogleAnalytics#spyware
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Unixorn - 90% Snark by weight

I maintain github.com/unixorn/tumult.plug, a collection of macos-specific shell scripts.

Enable/disable screen sharing, enable/disable file sharing, display dialogs from inside your shell scripts, make disk images from directories, manipulate the clipboard, toggle scripts for a lot of gui settings, and many more.

@macos #macos #osx #macosx

GitHubGitHub - unixorn/tumult.plugin.zsh: Tumult is a collection of macOS-specific functions and scripts for your shell environment. It is packaged as a ZSH plugin, but can be used with other shells as well.Tumult is a collection of macOS-specific functions and scripts for your shell environment. It is packaged as a ZSH plugin, but can be used with other shells as well. - unixorn/tumult.plugin.zsh
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Matthias Andrasch

Monitor mit höherer Auflösung bekommen (QHD), seitdem hab ich auf Mac mit Logitech USB-Maus M500 manchmal echt Probleme. Ab und zu gehen Klicks kompett vorbei am Ziel, insbesondere Text auswählen in VSCode. Obwohl Maus dpi 1000 hat 🤔 Don't get it. (Vielleicht auch Anti-Malware-Programm oder Dell Hub schuld 🤔) #osx #mac #logitech

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