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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!

I’ve finally picked up an iPhone about a month ago, and have been loving the experience.

However I’m now thrown into an ad-full world again (I used to have a browser blocking many if not most ads on the android), so I’m wondering, what adblockers do you use (may it be safari extension or entirely new browser for my fellow Europeans)?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-17-5-bug-may-also-resurface-deleted-photos-on-wiped-sold-devices.2426698/

Does anyone here on Lemmy log into a Remote Desktop on their iPad using VMWare Horizon? How’s the experience?

Those eligible for a payout from the settlement must own or have owned an Apple iPhone 7 or 7 Plus between September 16, 2016, and January 3, 2023.

With the VisionPro hype already dead (maybe forever?), bad or tasteless iPad ads, purposeless updates to iPad, Apple dropping their car project, and reaching out to OpenAI or Google for AI services ... it certainly feels like it to me. They've at least run into their limitations recently however much they want to find the "next iPhone".

With the VisionPro, I always thought it'd flop and so predicted that it'd be the end for Cook. I'm still holding onto that prediction.

Has anyone else noticed that alarms and timers don’t reduce in volume if you are using the device, or when you pick up the device and it recognises you with Face ID anymore?

It’s really annoying to get a full volume alarm when you’re using the device.

iPhone 13 if it matters. Toggled attention aware on and off and also restarted the phone without luck.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15358589

> Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments > > According to Apple, only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could.

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.