this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
45 points (89.5% liked)

Apple

17549 readers
219 users here now

Welcome

to the largest Apple community on Lemmy. This is the place where we talk about everything Apple, from iOS to the exciting upcoming Apple Vision Pro. Feel free to join the discussion!

Rules:
  1. No NSFW Content
  2. No Hate Speech or Personal Attacks
  3. No Ads / Spamming
    Self promotion is only allowed in the pinned monthly thread

Lemmy Code of Conduct

Communities of Interest:

Apple Hardware
Apple TV
Apple Watch
iPad
iPhone
Mac
Vintage Apple

Apple Software
iOS
iPadOS
macOS
tvOS
watchOS
Shortcuts
Xcode

Community banner courtesy of u/Antsomnia.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
MichelleG
RoyalEngineering
thisisdee
45
I run a homelab and have no trouble finding enthusiasts who go super in-depth about how to use the hardware and software. Where are the good Apple ecosystem enthusiasts? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

So as the title says, I run a homelab with various technologies — Proxmox, Home Assistant, a reverse proxy, lots of Ubiquiti equipment, and so on. Over the years I’ve consumed countless hours of articles, stack overflow posts, youtube channels, and knowledge bases to keep myself up to speed on how to use this equipment and what new outcomes I should aim for.

I’m also deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem, with Apple TVs, iPads, Phones, Macbook Pros, and even a homepod. I’ve noticed that the Apple equipment has far less documentation on the whole. I watch Apple events to learn what new features a device will have, but I don’t really see a lot of tutorials or even instruction on how to use it.

Where do you go to get the kind of in-depth learning for your Apple devices that is needed to make expert use of them? Do you have favorite youtube channels that I haven’t discovered yet? Please post below and let me know!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Problem with Apple is that they're trying very hard to control use of their stuff - so working with their stuff is very annoying. I only recently looked into it again as it was required for work projects where acquiring relevant hardware wasn't a problem - and even then it still is very annoying to manage, compared to Linux and even Windows.

I used to run cross compile setups for a bunch of open source projects 10-15 years ago, including MacOS. Back then they were using a gcc based toolchain, and thanks to GPL had to publish the base toolchain - yet they still tried very hard to break things between releases, which eventually got so bad that we decided to first drop MacOS builds, and later just completely drop MacOS support as you can't really do that without proper hardware access.

The situation has gotten a lot worse since LLVM - which Apple was pushing in big part as it allowed them to publish their SDKs under their licenses only. So nowadays you still can download their SDK - but using it on non-Apple-silicon is against their TOS.