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I don’t think a community for it is an unreasonable idea - at least for now, many AI images are easily identifiable by defects / lack of reasoning in the image. Though there isn’t a good computer program that can do this, I agree.
I love this song. The intro sounds so other-worldly.
The Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice is a favourite of mine.
Are upgrades to the newest and still supported macOS version free?
All of Apple’s macOS updates are free, and have been since 2013. They have exactly one major macOS update per year, with smaller bugfix releases interspersed. However, Apple drops official support for their computers after about 5 or 6 years. This is exactly the same as their update system for iOS and their other platforms. Apple is able to provide updates for free due to income from hardware sales, which Windows obviously isn’t in the same position to do.
macOS 14 Sonoma (the latest version) is officially supported for all Macs made since 2018. You can still install modern versions of macOS on unsupported devices, but you have to use third-party tools such as Open Core Legacy Patcher.
What other applications do macOS users get for free?
Apple has quite a few free apps, many of which come pre-installed with macOS. These include Safari (web browser), Messages, FaceTime (video-calling app), Maps, Pages (Apple’s version of MS Word) and more. Here’s a full list. You may recognise many of these from iOS. Controversially, most of these pre-installed apps receive updates with the OS, and can’t be updated without also updating the OS. Therefore, all of these apps receive free updates for as long as Apple updates the OS.
Apple also sells a handful of paid apps for a one-time charge, the most well-known of which is Final Cut Pro. They also have subscription services for some of their other apps, such as Apple Music.
Do macOS users get more free apps if they create an account with apple?
Some features require an “Apple ID” (Apple account). Some examples:
I’ve understood adobe and MS-Office are active at the mac app store. How does apple’s business model work?
Some apps are available on the App Store, and others are downloaded from the developer’s website. Most developers make their apps available from the web rather than the App Store, because Apple charges money to offer apps on the App Store. It costs $99 per year, plus 15-30% of the money made from people buying the app or from in-app purchases.
Microsoft Office apps are available from the App Store, but you have to download most Adobe apps from Adobe’s website. As mentioned above, this is to avoid the 15% cut that Apple would probably take from Adobe’s subscription revenue if it was available on the App Store.
Do I buy the app, pay once and get free updates and upgrades indefinitely? or do I have to pay them a monthly fee?
Apps are either free, have a one-time charge, or are subscription-based. Apps downloaded from the App Store are updated automatically, and most will give you free updates forever. The developer gets to choose which OS versions they support, and can publish updates for your device even after that device stops receiving OS updates from Apple.
Can LibreOffice be used on a macOS?
I don’t use LibreOffice personally, but their website says it’s supported. Another alternative is Apple’s equivalent of MS Office, which is free and supports MS file types.
Is there an emulator to use ubuntu or windows based apps on a mac? Are they free of charge?
There are emulators, yes. Wine is a free popular emulator for Windows apps. You may have used Wine on Linux before. Linux and macOS share some similarities on the technical side, because they are both based on UNIX (unlike Windows).
I personally use Whisky, which is Wine-based and has a nice GUI. It should be noted that not all windows apps will work through Wine, but I’ve had success with many apps and even some games (most recently Lethal Company, which I was able to run at a stable 120fps using Whisky).
Intead of emulating a single app using Wine, you can also emulate Windows entirely if you want to. I’ve used Virtual Box to do this in the past. Parallels Desktop is a sleeker alternative that many people use, but it’s subscription based. I personally haven’t tried it.
On older Macs (that have Intel chips) you can install Windows directly alongside macOS. Modern Macs (ones with Apple Silicon chips) can’t run Windows natively, but there is a version of Linux (Asahi Linux) that you can install.
I hope this answers your questions :)
Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.
Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.
Same. I’ve made six accounts since I joined during the exodus, only two of which I actively use now.
This is pretty new. They gave me a popup when they added it a couple months ago.
There’s not an in-app key for it currently, no. Here’s what each of them mean:
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- botFor anyone who doesn’t know what this is - Apollo had a feature (see image) that would show the weather at a location in the header of a location-related subreddit. For example, r/Tokyo would show the weather in Tokyo. This was only added in iOS 16 and was off by default iirc, which is why many people may not have heard about it.
I agree this is a cool feature, but it’s far from essential so it’ll probably be some time before we consider it properly. I’ll add it to our backlog 👍
Thanks for the info! We’ll look into it.
We’re sorry this happened! Users aren’t meant to be able to remove the info stack widget 🤔 Did the app let you remove the info stack widget, or did it bug out and remove all of the widgets itself?
Deleting the app and redownloading it from the App Store should fix this, but you’ll have to readjust all of your settings I’m afraid. I’ll add a ‘reset’ button for the interaction bar customiser in the next version, so that it’s easier to fix if this happens again.
This isn’t possible yet unfortunately. We plan to expand the functionality of the search tab to include post searching, but we haven’t got there quite yet.
Thanks for the help! Unfortunately those settings are unlikely to make any difference. We’d appreciate a screen recording if you’ve got the time, though
You can hide posts that you’ve read via the ellipsis menu in the top-right of the feed. Note that a post counts as read if you’ve opened it in the expanded view or interacted with it in some way, such as by upvoting the post.
Posts are not marked as read by simply seeing them in the feed. We’re aware of the ‘mark read on scroll’ feature that other social media apps have, and we’d like to implement this at some point. The issue is that we need to make an individual API call for every single post that is read, as posts can only be marked as read one-by-one using Lemmy’s API. Sending an api call every time a post appears on-screen could cause performance issues and would constitute poor API citizenship. We’re working with the Lemmy devs to hopefully get a way to mark many posts as read with a single API call, which would solve this issue.
To show only posts you haven’t read, you can click the ellipsis ‘…’ button in the top-right of the feed and select ‘hide read’. Note that this only hides posts that you’ve opened or interacted with in some way, not just seen. We’re planning on improving this at some point in future
To download an image you can tap the image to open it in full screen, then tap “quicklook” at the top.
We’ve got an issue open to add a more intuitive long-press option on the image itself.
We’re hoping that Lemmy will add a way to mark posts as read in batches - this would mean that we could locally store ~50 posts as being read at a time, then notify Lemmy of those changes with a single request. This would be the ideal solution for us, and we’re working with the Lemmy devs to make this happen.
Storing read posts entirely locally would certainly be possible, but doing it well would take up a significant amount of our development time. We are currently prioritising other highly-requested changes (supporting Lemmy v0.19.0, image uploading, and a better search tab to name a few) in the next few updates whilst we work things out with Lemmy :)
Nope, it doesn’t exist yet. I’ll add it to the list 👍
Last I heard they want to switch to another platform, and don’t consider it worth upgrading to 0.19 because they’re leaving soon so it wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
This is pure guesswork on my part, but they could be waiting for Sublinks (a Lemmy-compatible backend) to get up to speed before switching to that. They say that the new platform is “compatible with all Lemmy apps”, and Sublinks is the only project I know of that fits that criteria.