You’re still okay with wasting 6% CPU and 1% gpu time on a simple note taking app?

In my wimpy work Virtual Desktop, this page eats 25-40% of my CPU just by scrolling up or down after fully loading. It's a severely limited VDI, I agree, but this performance is crazy for what is functionally a static page.

It certainly doesn't give me confidence in using their app, given this landing page can become as heavy as GMail while doing nothing. How optimized is their electron app? Is the iOS version as heavy? Are they OK with wasting all this energy for nothing?

Is this from the Secret Tape crew (NoClip)? The 25th Half-life 1 documentary was done by them.

There is another submission here[0] with a lot more traction and discussion that provides better context. There was a content update, complete with a promotional webpage and such .. which also answers that, yes, Secret Tape did this documentary as well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151865

The iOS 17 swipe keyboard is the worst it’s ever been. I have to constantly go back and edit my discord messages.

COBOL on Dreamcast when?

I knew someone would catch that. I caught that after looking back at the tweet.

It’s definitely been a hot minute since working without ARC.

I have so many CP/M programs my grandfather wrote in my garage. Never got to see them run but it’s cool to see people are still messing around with the OS in some capacity.

I worked on the shop app too (backend and iOS app). Small world.

I’ve moved on from shopify but still use the app.

Mac stadium is a large Ci/CD provider for macOS. They rack mount iMac Pro’s and Mac minis.

I have a Monterey VM running on my home server inside Unraid with virtualization. I can login to Apple developer accounts. I use this as a macOS gitlab runner VM.

Or is my setup not what you’re describing?

Yeah, I’m talking about capital V Virtualization, the framework that Apple provides for making macOS virtual machines (and is used by this sample code). Signing in with your Apple ID is explicitly not supported in those.

Is there an official location where Apple states this? I'd be curious to see where it's said.

Not that I know of, the sign-in will just fail because Apple refuses connections from these.

To my knowledge, macOS running in an x86 VM works with all iCloud services _except_ iMessage and FaceTime. To get iMessage and FaceTime working, you need to generate a serial number that is in Apple's databases and spoof the virtual machine's serial number.

If the macOS you run in an M1 virtual machine is the same macOS, then why is the same not true? And I suppose I wonder whether the officially-supported ESXi-virtualizing-macOS has iCloud support, and how that works.

Thanks for the clarification.

Your setup sounds better. Have you noticed any problems?

I haven’t noticed any problems for the use case I’m using it for.

I’m giving it 8GB of ram and 6 cores/12 threads. VM is running on pcie ssd. Speed is good.

No gpu is in my server so it’s using a basic VNC connection. If you add a gpu and pass it through the desktop experience would be much better. However I only needed to do this to do initial setup.

The cool thing about my setup is that it uses a docker container called macinabox which handles the initial Vm configuration and macOS installation, estuary automating the “hackintosh” process.

I was at shopify for 5+ years and recently left.

AMA