Published in Nerd For Tech·Sep 30, 2022Member-onlyThere’s drama in the Hackintosh scene, but it’s no longer relevant.A strange incident made me realize how much the Hackintosh world is in the twilight and toxic. In the end it’s okay if your next mac will be… a real Mac! — The incident Recently I was looking to try to restore a motherboard with CPU that was laying there for several months, in particular I wanted to try to get a Monterey installation via Open Core (and not a Catalina installation made with Unibeast, because the support stopped with Catalina, ed).Hackintosh6 min readHackintosh6 min read
Published in theOSalternative·Aug 26, 2022Member-onlyCopperhead OS, a secured AOSP for Pixel phones.The alternative mobile OS scene is crowded. Most have an eye on privacy, or are community projects. But if you’re looking for an OS really focused on Security, only a handful remain, and Copperhead is still one of them. — One more Android ROM? Copperhead OS is a hardened version of AOSP, modified to not contain Google Play Services and other software with anti-features, with the aim of increasing the baseline privacy. …Copperheados3 min readCopperheados3 min read
Published in Predict·May 9, 2022Member-onlyThe war in Ukraine: effects on the food supply chain around the world.The Ukrainian country is a major exporter of food resources. In this article, we find out which countries of the world could be affected by the consequences of war, and when. — There is a saying of Confucius which says: “The flapping of a butterfly’s wings can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world”. This concept perfectly represents what could happen due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let’s find out why.Ukrain6 min readUkrain6 min read
Published in Predict·Apr 15, 2022Member-onlyWhy China is not stopping Putin in his war on Ukraine?The fact that the Chinese Communist Party — with its economic pragmatism — is not pushing Putin to mild advice is a bad news. — At the time of writing, Russia’s war against Ukraine has reached its fifty-first day. To date, the possibilities for negotiations are in sharp decline, in light of the events in Bucha and the findings in the villages and small towns conquered by the Russian army, especially in northern Ukraine. …Geopolitics4 min readGeopolitics4 min read
Published in theOSalternative·Mar 23, 2022Member-onlyIs a new generation of Volla Phone coming?Some rumours indicate that the arrival of a new generation of Volla Phone is very likely and close.Volla Phone1 min readVolla Phone1 min readIs a new generation of Volla Phone coming?----
Published in theOSalternative·Mar 6, 2022Member-onlyHere’s why the war in Ukraine is a major threat for Sailfish OS.The sanctions after the war in Ukraine have suddenly raised all the criticality of the choice to have the Russian ‘government’ as partner. A summary of what happened and the new directions. — The events: Putin invades Ukraine Let’s start with the breaking news: the Russian army started an offensive in Ukrainian territory, therefore not only in the disputed territories of Donbass and Crimea. Within days the offensive from Belarus reached Kiev, putting the Ukrainian capital under siege.Ukraine5 min readUkraine5 min read
Published in Predict·Jan 18, 2022Member-onlyHow to switch to zero-emission mobility immediately and on a budget: buying an electric motorcycle.This story is the beginning of a short series on the buying process and the personal experience of the owner of a Lithium electric moped. Waiting for budget and valid electric cars to come out on the market, the motorcycle is a brilliant solution to reduce part of the emissions. — At the end of 2020, after all the limelight of the reborn environmental movement — the last time was 2007 and it was more a technochic environmentalist than a neohippie environmentalism — in a Greta Thunberg and centennial generation key, my environmental conscience woke up after years of numbness.Electric Vehicles4 min readElectric Vehicles4 min read
Published in Mac O’Clock·Nov 2, 2021Member-onlyUpdating the Mac Pro 5.1 in 2021. Episode 3: Big Sur.In this third round we will update the Mac Pro to Big Sur in order to use the brand new Final Cut 10.6, while retaining the hardware acceleration. Let’s do this! — Premise We are in November 2021 and Apple has just released macOS Monterey for supported macs. As you know the Mac Pro 5.1 was already “dropped” since Catalina, so the fact that’s not supported is not surprising. The Monterey installation is still too unreliable — adding the problems of a release…Apple7 min readApple7 min read
Published in Mac O’Clock·Oct 26, 2021Member-onlyUpdating the Mac Pro 5.1 in 2021. Episode 2: getting an “accelerated” Catalina.In the first round we got a hardware accelerated Mojave installation, via Open Core. Now it’s time to move on Catalina and use FCP 10.5. — We’re in 2021, at the beginning of the new shiny Apple-ARM era, but many people still own a “classic” Mac Pro and still want to upgrade to unsupported versions of macOS. Why upgrade to Catalina? In the first Episode, we installed Mojave and obtained the H264/H265 hardware acceleration inside the overpriced RX GPU you…Apple6 min readApple6 min read
Published in Mac O’Clock·Oct 25, 2021Member-onlyUpdating the Mac Pro 5.1 in 2021. Episode 1: getting the hardware acceleration.The first step in the upgrade is to get a Mojave installation with support for GPU H264/H265 acceleration. — I bought a cheap Mac Pro 4.1 flashed to 5.1 in order to get a solid desktop mac that can host some of the SSD I have around, and finally doing heavy Final Cut transcoding/exporting without burning like an Intel Macbook. This choice may sound strange in 2021, in the…Mac Pro8 min readMac Pro8 min read
