On my research list: running Anrdoid apps on Apple Silicon.
I wonder if using the Anrdoid Emulator from Android Studio the only straightforward option.
Links:
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Running Android applications on Apple Silicon: is the Android Emulator from Android Studio the only option?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13
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Apple Macintosh SE/30 monitors and video cards
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/30
This post covers some topics around one of the retro machines I have. They helped me form some thoughts on additions I might want to add to mine.
HDMI out on a Mac
- [Wayback/Archive] My little guide on RGBTOHDMI installed on Classic, Plus, etc. | TinkerDifferent
- [Wayback/Archive] RGBtoHDMI for my Mac SE/30, how to wire up – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI: Bare-metal Raspberry Pi project that provides pixel-perfect sampling of Retro Computer RGB/YUV video and conversion to HDMI
The RGBtoHDMI interface converts the “digital” RGB video signal from the BBC Micro or Electron to HDMI compatible with most modern TV/Monitors. The interface comprises a Raspberry Pi Zero and a specially designed Hat containing a small CPLD. Custom firmware on the Raspberry Pi, in conjunction with the CPLD, is able to correctly sample each of the Beeb’s video modes to give a pixel-perfect rendition.
- [Wayback/Archive] RGBtoHDMI for a SE/30 (settings from Plus and Classic 1 won’t work) | 68kMLA
Needs a Raspberry Pi, but looks very interesting.
256 shades of grey
Back in 2022, someone started doing an amazing thing: reverse engineering and rebuilding a 256-grey/color video card for the Macintosh SE/30 PDS (Processor Direct Slot).
A very interesting start of a long journey with the result that a few people could actually play around with it. Hopefully by now more have been produced, but be aware: this is a hobby of the designer, so unlike some other hardware: do not expect high numbers of these boards to become available.
Long thread in – for now – 14 pages of which I think below are the most important excerpts:
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Interesting take by Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … “” covering various platforms (both server and workstation) with tools that are easy and quick to install
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26
[Wayback/Archive] Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … macOS: LittleSnitch Linux Server: Fail2ban Linux Workstation: etckeeper Windows Workstation: GlassWire Windows Server: Sysmon — What are yours?”
Full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App
Some interesting responses to the original tweet, hence me saving it.
–jeroen
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Some links on the Apple IIc Plus (Apple IIc + on the boot screen) likely the rarest from the Apple II series
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16
A while ago I bumped into this video about likely the rarest model in the Apple II series: the Apple IIc Plus:
[Wayback/Archive] Apple IIc Plus – the rarest and fastest Apple II! – YouTube
Returning to one of my favorite subjects – the Apple II – I decide to finally repair a broken Apple IIc Plus gifted to me a little more than a year ago. This machine was the final true hardware revision to the Apple II line, coming in 1988, and the last standalone machine in the line released. It was also the fastest, with a 4Mhz CPU (vs. 1Mhz in most other Apple II’s, and 2.6Mhz in the IIGS). But it was a problematic machine for Apple, with a concept that had been watered down to the point of, well, pointlessness.
The market wanted it even less than it wanted the original IIc (which was my first computer – the one in the thumbnail is my original machine). Still, it is an interesting computer for its accelerated CPU, and its somewhat anachronistic nature at the time of its launch.
It has a cool demo of Flight Simulator II demo mode (which back in those days crashing the plane – demo modes luckily improved from there :) at both 1 Mhz and 4 Mhz. It indeed is not smooth, but a lot faster.
The problem back in those days with acceleration is it would not just improve render speed, but also increase clock time speed. It made most games almost impossible to play in accelerated mode.
If I ever get one, I need to replace the 110V power supply with a 240V/110V auto-switching one as per [Wayback/Archive] IIc + 240v Power:
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Epic Games v. Apple: Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09
For my link archive: finally Apple had to broadly accept apps to allow other forms of purchases than through Apple itself.
[Wayback/Archive] Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube
focussing around this quote from the court order (full PDF below):
Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court’s Injunction. It did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers which would, by design and in effect, maintain a valued revenue stream; a revenue stream previously found to be anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the cover- up made it worse. For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple.
More details in for instance:
- Epic Games v. Apple – Wikipedia
- [Wayback/Archive] gov.uscourts.cand.364265.1508.0_2.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
--jeroen
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GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08
Having used less for 40+ years now, I wonder how moar measures up to it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
Features I at least expect are in [Wayback/Archive] less: display the contents of a file in a terminal | less Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Johan Walles recently commenting on [Wayback/Archive] linux – How can I have less automatically decompress xz files like it did with gz files on my old SUSE distro? – Super User.
--jeroen
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Exporting Chrome History (with the “new” configuration and state file structure), and Epoch dates on various systems
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/02
Quite a while ago, Chrome moved from a structure based on “Current Session“, “Current Tabs“, “Last Session” and “Last Tabs” into “Session_#################” and “Tabs_#################” stored in a “Sessions” folder (and similar migrations for other state and configuration files).
The numbers in the “Session_*” and “Tabs_*” files are time stamps of those sessions, for instance one needs to figure out what the “13310808970819630” in “Session_13310808970819630” and “Session_13310808970819630” means.
Lot’s of web-pages with tips and tricks around the old structures are still around, often surfacing high in Google Search results.
I was interested in a particular trick to export Google Chrome browsing history and had a hard time figuring out the easiest solution.
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Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25
Reasonably complete list if iPad models and their sizes: [Wayback/Archive] Apple iPad dimensions – the complete list – Ebook Friendly
It is easier to read than lists here:
The reason for searching was that I contemplated about buying a large iPad to use as combination of dual-screen and note reading during music performance/practice.
TL;DR: Large models are iPad Pro 12.9″ (2015-now; 2018-now are still supported by iPadOS) and iPad Air 13″ (2024-now) which has a M2 processor (the same as the 2022 iPad Pro 12.9″)
Query [Wayback/Archive] ipad screen sizes history – Google Search
--jeroen
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How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18
Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] Liam Beeton (@liambeeton) / X
- [Wayback/Archive] Liam Beeton (@liambeeton.com) — Bluesky
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Parallel hashing on MacOS
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14
Now that I have had an Apple silicon for a while, which has enough cores to perform parallel work, this is how I calculated a bunch of hashed from a lot of large files:
find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 md5 -rfind . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 256
I contemplated about using GNU parallel, but that is not installed by default on MacOS and I was already familiar with xargs.
Argument meanings can be found at these locations:
Related:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 