The OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a separate tool that enables devices long since discontinued by Apple to be operated with newer versions of macOS.

It's a self-experiment paired with a hefty dose of nostalgia. My first Mac was the iMac G3 in Bondi Blue, I always wanted the iMac G4 (the “lamp”) and found the silver PowerMac G4 instead, with which the Mac journey then continued.

Switching from one service to another is often less of an ideological issue than a technical one: when you switch from one music provider to another, for example, your playlists can fall by the wayside.

There is software that does not come from the respective manufacturer of the operating system and can definitely be described as “essential”. On the Mac, for me this is Pixelmator (Pro) and Photomator, which have now found a new home at Apple.

There's news from Bluesky. After I shed some light on the service last year, the new financing round and the term “crypto” don't bode well.

In Sachen Twitter-Ablöse ist das Fediverse mit Produkten wie Mastodon oder Misskey/Firefish definitiv eine Option, während Jack Dorsey, ehemaliger Twitter-CEO und Mitgründer, mit seinem neuesten Projekt Bluesky versucht, die fliehenden Benutzermassen ebenfalls entsprechend „aufzusammeln“.