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For those interested in the Vision Pro, let me know what questions you have about the device. I’ll be getting mine this afternoon and will be trying out all the features.

Here are some helpful links: Apple User Guide

A big thank you to Antsomnia for their banner submission.

Since we only had one submission, obviously voting on the best one won’t be needed. The new banner will be uploaded later on today, along with giving credit to Antsomina in the sidebar for the design.😊

——————— REMINDER - tomorrow, August 8th, is the deadline to submit your banner designs. 👩‍💻🎨 ———————

Original Post Attention all Apple enthusiasts! Get ready for an exciting community banner contest. That's right, folks. We know you're a creative bunch, so why not flaunt your talents?

Here's the deal: From now until August 8th, you can submit your incredible banner design by commenting and adding the image to this post. Once submissions close, the community will vote on the top three designs.

Remember, banners should be 1280 x 400 in size. Let's see what you've got!

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 coming in hot!

On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they've also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!

This release brings:

• OpenGL 4.6
• High quality audio out of the box
• Plasma, Gnome, Server, and Minimal variants available
• The latest that comes with Fedora Linux 40!

>Barra notes that poor retention for Oculus Go had to do with a few common factors, including user comfort, friction in starting a session when not already wearing the headset, and the social isolation of watching content alone—all of which is true for Vision Pro as well. > >Barra concludes that, at least as far as Oculus Go went, traditional media consumption was “not a core ‘daily driver’ pillar but more an ancillary use case that adds some value to other core pillars (such as productivity or gaming).” > >Granted Barra says Vision Pro brings more to the table […] but those same challenges that Oculus Go contended with basically remain.

Unlike many other games, the biggest draw to the Trails franchise is its world. The entire franchise is divided several story arcs. One arc can come to a close, but then it becomes a part of the story for every game that follows. New protagonists may find themselves interacting with older protagonists, antagonists that had a minor role in one arc will have a major role in another... The story can keep going as long as you're willing to start the next arc in the series.

If anyone is interested in getting into a JRPG series that isn't Final Fantasy, this is a superb candidate. Trails in the Sky is where it all kicks off.

So let's get down to it.

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Tutorial: Trails in the Sky (FC) on M-series Macs

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• Download & Install Whisky (A wine wrapper thing that works with apple's translation stuff.)
• Download Steam (Grab the windows ver)

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Mac Settings > Privacy & Security > App Management

• Add Whiskey (Doing this helps prevent game installations in Steam from freezing later on.)

--- Whiskey

1. Add new bottle (I named it “Steam”)
2. When finished: Bottle Configuration > Enhanced Sync = Off (Having this disabled also helps prevent game installations in Steam from freezing later on.)
3. Select Winetricks > DLLs, find and run amstream, quartz, and Lavfilters. (This will provide codecs to allow videos to play.)
4. Click the “Run” button, select SteamSetup.exe, give it a moment to launch.
5. Go through the install process, login, sign in, the whole shebang. --- Steam
6. Purchase/Install The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky.
7. Launch the game by selecting “Play”, then select “Launch Configuration Tool”. Give it a moment.
8. Display > Resolution = set whatever you prefer (M1 MBP = 3024 x 1964)
9. Display > Windowed Mode = Off (In Windowed Mode at native resolution, mouse & keyboard tracking doesn’t work right for some reason. It might not be an issue if you use a gamepad. With Windowed Mode disabled, cmd+tab can minimize the game.)
10. Input > Field Turbo Rate = 6x, Battle Turbo Rate = 6x; Default = "Run"
11. Select “OK” to close the configuration tool.
12. Select “Play”, “Play Legend of Heroes Trail in the Sky”

Enjoy the game.

Hope this works for you. Good luck.

I’m looking for a recommendation for making gifs on iOS. Preferably one that lets you add text and with the option to remove the watermark with a one time purchase instead of a subscription.

Does this community have any advice? I tried a bunch on the App Store but there’s literally dozens and most of them either don’t let you add text or have like a $20 a minute subscription or obnoxious ads with no option to remove

Im not usually someone who posts negative stuff, but my god has the Appstore gone down the shitter.

For context, for the last ~3,5 years I wasn't really actively using any iOS devices. I had an iPad but used it rarely and only really as a Video machine. But now I’m setting up a XS I got for a killer price used (<60€) and of course I looked into the Appstore what the hot new Apps are. And my god nearly everything either constantly asks you for a subscription to use basic shit, is slow af or full of ads.

For example the „Favorite of the week“ an App called iScanner in my case took 4 seconds (!) to show me anything, which an is abysmal launch time, then shows me the Google ad tracking dialog followed by a clicking the „next“ button 5 times to show me nonsense company propaganda, followed by dialog to subscribe for 4,99€ a month. For a fucking document scanning app. And Apple has the gull to put this garbage in their weekly curated recommendations! And this isn’t the only example. 80% of Apps I downloaded today were removed within 5 minutes.

I’m honestley smitten by how bad things seem to have gotten. Really the only saving grace is that Apples own built-in Apps have gotten really good, in most cases to the point where downloading something else seems unnecessary. But still things seem to have taken a nose dive over the last 3 years.

Also to more active Apple users whats your way to find high quality Apps?

I've noticed that most commercially available glass screen protectors are too reflective, or too noticeable. It really takes away from the gorgeous Apple display.

Has anyone used a brand that mirrors the quality of finish that comes on the iPhone displays?

Provenance emulator coming soon to the App Store, to bring PlayStation games to iOS

https://www.neowin.net/news/provenance-emulator-coming-soon-to-the-app-store-to-bring-playstation-games-to-ios/

@apple\_enthusiast

I got a notification on my iPhone. I haven’t watched it yet because I’m charging my Vision Pro after not using it for a few weeks. The content is part of the Prehistoric Planet series. It’s noteworthy because Apple-related tech podcasts have been talking about the lack of additional content for the platform for a while.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14420149

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