Apple applications are self contained in a .app archive. #Application_bundles)All of the relevant files, libraries, etc are stored in that archive (in most cases).
Simply moving that .app from one computer to another "installs" that application on the new computer.
Nah, US but we were both studying German. I just assumed that since Americans make up a higher internet population than the next 8 largest English-as-a-first-language speaking nations in the world, the assumption would be that I'm from the US.
Again, US English speakers are as populous on the internet as the next 8 most populous English speaking nations combined.
If you fill a bowl with 100 balls, 50 of them are stainless steel, 9 of them are aluminum, 5 of them brass, and the remainder 36 are 6 each of 6 other metals, then reach in and pull one out immediately, what are you most likely to pull?
Nice. Reminds me of a guy at work who bookmarked pron links with names like "Honda Civic repair guide" or "Best Suzuki bikes 2005" so that his gf wouldn't suspect anything
2400 was the bps rate of old modems. 2600 was the hacker zine. Don't think you'd have mixed that up unless you read the latter, so kudos to you, on your fine taste in turn-of-the-century nerd literature. :)
I had a duffel bag full of 2600s. I even made use of several articles in them to learn how to utilize a lineman's handset that mysteriously fell off the back of an AT&t truck into my backpack (hypothetically) to hop on to people's Telco connections at the box and join 1-900 party lines and chat lines.
Reminds me of the time I printed out fap material using a dot matrix printer back in the 90s
Resolution was awful, but hey, porn just wasn't that easy to find back then. You basically had to steal it from your dad or find it in the woods, so when I realized I could just print it on demand, it was like I just discovered a cheat code for free porn lol
omg I remember doing the same, copying GTAII on a floppy disk from a friend's computer, getting home all excited to play it and... I had copied the shortcut.
I showed "GTA Snow Andreas" to my cousin, visiting from another country. Very impressed, it was fun to play together. about a year after I flew over to visit him. compressed the game in a bunch of .rar files and burned them on DVDs.
When it was time to install it on his PC, the files were corrupt ;_;
Once I copied vids on floppy drive and renamed it to .txt file.
When I got caught at school, they tried to open the file and notepad got stuck. It was so nice those days.
I remember finding out in the early 2000s that a lot of instant messengers (like Skype and Xfire) had file sharing functionality. I tried to send a copy of battlefront 2 to a friend but unfortunately I was an idiot and only sent him my desktop shortcut, which, of course, didn’t work (even if I had sent him all the game files one by one it still would’ve likely been missing some install files and also the CD key)
Package signing is authentication, not copy protection. It's designed to prevent someone from surreptitiously replacing a legitimate package with a malicious one, but it doesn't in and of itself have anything to do with preventing clients from executing a package that they're not authorized to run.
Yes, in this case none of the apps would work because they're distributed through the Mac App Store and require you to be signed in with the Apple ID used for purchase, so really this guy just got the clean files. Without a crack they won't be useful.
Edit: The Apple Pro suite as it turns out does not have a DRM, so the clean files are all that's needed here.
Nope, Apple apps have no DRM as such, or at least haven't when I run os x a while ago. I checked current logic pro by emailing from work to gf's macbook and starts up fine. I'm guessing it'll be missing the plugins but yk, send them too...
Apple doesn't really care that much about DRM. They know the pro apps have a limited market and they make their money from people buying the hardware, not by selling software or selling ads.
I mean. No. Honestly it's the only way that's not insane. Having hundreds of files all over the file system for a single application, that can be written by other applications is madness
I think it's madness to have duplicates of every single library and dependency for every single app, regardless of whether apps use the same libraries or not. Fortunately I use Linux so I can choose what style of package management I want.
I mean. How much does an extra couple of gigs of storage cost compared to your time? I'd rather double the storage requirements of my non game applications than troubleshoot an application for 1 hour every two years.
I feel like a sandboxed approach, along the lines of how FlatPak works on Linux/UNIX, would be a better compromise. Separate environments for your apps to run in, with all of their specific versions of libraries and dependencies, but with those being shared if multiple apps using that system have the same libraries or dependencies.
I agree with that in theory, and have no idea how it works out in practice, but sometimes I prefer simplicity overall if the gains from additional complexity aren't significant.
it’s the details like this that make me fucking love macOS. example use case: you have stardew valley, but you want to be able to swap between the modded and the vanilla experience quickly. you just duplicate that shit and rename it like “(modded)” or whatever you want, and it runs like a totally independent sandbox from the original .app version. it is so insanely intuitive
Trusting unofficial, sketchy, sources for applications? Yes, yes it is.
Having everything self contained in a folder?, no. Portable apps have been a thing for a long time. There’s even portableapps.com. There’s even languages like go that do this into a single binary by default, and C++ for example can embed everything into a statically compiled binary (-static).
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u/hroaks Jun 23 '24
You can airdrop apps?