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With the releases of iOS 16 and macOS Ventura in 2022, Apple debuted its Lockdown Mode for people at particular risk of being targeted by mercenary spyware.
(via What It’s Like to Use Apple’s Lockdown Mode | WIRED)
Just gotten a MacBook (2017) and now I can say...
Just simply wanted Garageband on there to expand my music but it's not compatible...BUT there was a workaround...it took a lot out of me...but I finally now have it and now I just need to learn how it all works...
15 minutes later:
(me staring at the features of Garageband like I don't WHAT the hell I'm looking at...)
wew
i dont remember what those 15.7k things were
BUT I FREED 25 GIGABYTES OF SPACE
Finder Gracefully dances
(btw this is based off of a plush i found on pinterest lol and i had to draw it)
i have a small moral conundrum and i'd like the webbed site best known for its morality (/s) to help me:
i have a mac, specifically an m2 pro. the thing is a beast, i got it as a gift because I finished my first year at uni with straight A's. i love it to bits because it can handle anything i throw at it, big or small.
apple released something in the past few months that lets you play windows games on mac, which is huge. seriously. it is monumental that they did this. unfortunately, it is not a silver bullet. there are still a handful of games that are not playable no matter what you do, and as somebody who has used linux for years, i am very comfortable and familiar with tinkering. it used to be that you could check protondb.com to see if a game ran at all, but unfortunately because this windows-games-on-mac tech is so new, the corresponding website doesn't exist yet (or if it does I haven't heard of it).
now, as somebody with a limited amount of money, whenever I see a game that i want, i can't immediately go out and get it. I get this is a very first-world problem to have, but also if I do have the money, i want to be damn sure it can run on my computer. unfortunately there is no way that I know of to do this other than..... pirating the game.
(booing ensues)
I KNOW! i know. big studios can afford to swallow the loss of lil ol me pirating a single copy, i'm just more concerned about the smaller indie studios that produce some quality content. i'm talking aggro crab (subway midnight, etc), bluetwelve (stray), and more. i've seen people play their games, that's what makes me want to buy them in the first place and support the studio, but I simply cannot do that until i know that i can enjoy it at least a little for myself.
here's the point of this post:
is it okay to pirate a game with the sole purpose of ensuring that it can run on my computer before buying it?
kind of like getting a demo, if the publisher doesn't already offer one.
i'd also like to point out that this wouldn't otherwise be an issue if i was running windows (or even linux, again with protondb.com). i'm aware of steam's two-hour refund policy. however, due to the experimental nature of running windows games on mac with this new compatibility layer, things get complicated.
that's all for now. hopefully somebody will notice this post if i throw it into the ether.
love u all <3
