• paraphrand
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    392 months ago

    I’m a Mac fan. But this has even me going “but y tho?”

    Of course it’s “because I could” and “it’s a fun challenge.”

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get Windows-only games running through Whisky on my M2 Air. My wife doesn’t understand why when her old gaming PC is sitting there for me to use. But for me it’s less about actually playing the games and more about the fun of getting them to work.

  • Gregor
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    222 months ago

    Why would you put yourself through this suffering

      • @saltesc
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        02 months ago

        Yeah, but like, pick up a guitar or something, anything.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Bet the person who did it has ADHD and got into hyperfocus mode on a silly “what if” idea and worked on this nonstop without taking a break to go pee, much less eat or hydrate

    • jaxxed
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      22 months ago

      Ouch, this one brings back bad memories. How about just signing mac binaries/packages.

  • @ashitaka
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    12 months ago

    I’d certainly try loading it up while docked. Useful if you’re dipping your toes into the MacOS experience or just need it running on some hardware for a project/testing an app.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Seems insanely impractical to do this for those purposes. It is possible to run macOS in a VM, which is going to be way better for testing things if you don’t have access to anything better.

      • @ashitaka
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        12 months ago

        If you need to test something physical without a virtualization layer getting in the way, it would be great.

        End of the day, there’s better ways to achieve MacOS access for sure. But it’s always great when something that starts out “meh” morphs into something unexpected. Who knows what cool things could come from this, especially since most of the Steam Decks would be mostly standardized on their hardware, allowing for dedicated tweaks specific to the platform instead of keeping it more generic when virtualized.

    • @accideath
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      22 months ago

      Would GPU acceleration even work though? Haven’t been hackintoshing in a while, but I remember AMD APUs not working. And without acceleration it’s not exactly a great experience…

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Sadly, the article doesn’t go as deep as I wanted, but there is written, that the HW of the deck is perfect fit for macOS exactly because of the GPU used