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malloc-0x90today at 5:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

Never built on Apple, last time I tried:

it asked me to update Xcode;

Xcode asked me to update the OS first;

and the OS asked me to buy a new 1300$€ MacBook hardware (with similar specs, the one I was using wasn't even that old/slow).

So to quote Rick and Morty i though: "That's just subscription with extra steps!" - and made a windows program and an Android app.


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zombottoday at 5:34 AM

Exactly. Apparently Apple still finds enough idiots who perform that dance, but they've lost me. I can only hope others will follow and xtool looks like it can help.

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sunshineragtoday at 8:23 AM

Yes, I gave up on Apple too after my Intel Celeron box could not be used

realusernametoday at 6:08 AM

I hope you also have a good internet connection because even in 2025, MacOS is incapable of resuming downloads.

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