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macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

For some reason, it is surprisingly hard to create a bootable Windows USB using macOS. These are my steps for doing so, which have worked for me in macOS Monterey (12.6.1) for Windows 10 and 11. After following these steps, you should have a bootable Windows USB drive.

1. Download a Windows disc image (i.e. ISO file)

You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 directly from Microsoft.

2. Identify your USB drive

After plugging the drive to your machine, identify the name of the USB device using diskutil list, which should return an output like the one below. In my case, the correct disk name is disk2.

Running games through Steam's Proton is great. But what if there is a secondary exe or configuration application bundled with the game? How can you launch it if Steam itself only launches the game?

Simply run this command in a terminal:

cd /path/to/steam/steamapps/compatdata/20920/pfx

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/path/to/steam/steamapps/compatdata/20920" WINEPREFIX=$PWD \
    "$HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Proton 5.0/proton" run ./drive_c/path/to/custom_application.exe

Launching jupyter from tensorman (Pop!_OS 20.04)

Source: pop-os/tensorman#10 (comment)

When launching a container, be sure to supply the port mappings argument to map the port from the container to the host.

tensorman run -p 8888:8888 --gpu --python3 --jupyter  bash

Within the container, you may start the Jupyter notebook with

Update!

This gist is out of date and I can no longer help much, as I got rid of my Mac.

Please visit T2 Linux website for more and better information:

https://t2linux.org/

Acknowledgements

This gist is just a compilation of the hard work that others have put in. I'm not a software developer, so if there are any mistakes or better ways of doing things, I'd appreciate any suggestions. Here's a list of the real heroes who made this possible:

	# --------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Recursively find pdfs from the directory given as the first argument,
	# otherwise search the current directory.
	# Use exiftool and qpdf (both must be installed and locatable on $PATH)
	# to strip all top-level metadata from PDFs.
	#
	# Note - This only removes file-level metadata, not any metadata
	# in embedded images, etc.
	#
	# Code is provided as-is, I take no responsibility for its use,

	using namespace System.Management.Automation
	using namespace System.Management.Automation.Language

	if ($host.Name -eq 'ConsoleHost')
	{
	Import-Module PSReadLine
	}
	#Import-Module PSColors
	#Import-Module posh-git
	Import-Module -Name Terminal-Icons

	# IDA (disassembler) and Hex-Rays (decompiler) plugin for Apple AMX
	#
	# WIP research. (This was edited to add more info after someone posted it to
	# Hacker News. Click "Revisions" to see full changes.)
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2020 dougallj


	# Based on Python port of VMX intrinsics plugin:
	# Copyright (c) 2019 w4kfu - Synacktiv

	// dm Klopapier Widget
	//
	// Copyright (C) 2020 by marco79 <[email protected]>
	//
	// Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.
	//
	// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL
	// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
	// INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER
	// IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE

	// Run any SwiftUI view as a Mac app.

	import Cocoa
	import SwiftUI

	NSApplication.shared.run {
	VStack {
	Text("Hello, World")
	.padding()
	.background(Capsule().fill(Color.blue))