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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

#asknostr

if i were to buy a #mac for dev testing, that will build binaries that will work with most users machines, what would be the cheapest ones i could get?

i don't mind if it's maybe up to $500 or so, i really don't want to spend more than that

also, i prefer a desktop machine, a mini, i guess, but a macbook would be ok

also while i'm asking, what more do i need to be able to test builds of iOS apps? maybe another device? again - cheap but representative of current userbase - for this case, i would actually prefer the smallest, like 4-5" display, this would be good for making sure my UIs small size modes are usable

i have linux, windows and android devices to test on, so having #macOS and #iOS physical hardware would help me ensure that i have got everyone covered

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

I see you're more worried about Apple users than child murder victims, unless the children being murdered are white with Christian parents

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

https://thebojda.medium.com/running-macos-in-a-linux-virtual-machine-with-sosumi-bb3e012f5ddf

trying this out

i suppose if this lets me run xcode or whatever that shit is then it probably has an iOS emulator too

i wonder how much crapple want me to pay for the privilege of building shit for their customers

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

haha the installer interface is weird

you have to actually, you know, format the disk first, it doesn't have an option to do that as part of the installation

ah yes, so, this means i have to use an old version of xcode but whatever, it should still build stuff that can run on current gear, if my stuff is even used by mac/iphone users then probably someone can help out to update whatever gap that leaves

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772f9545... 1y ago

Two problems. First, Apple stops allowing software upgrades for older (cheaper) hardware. Second, you might need two devices, amd64 and arm64 or whatever M1/M2/M3 is. Oh yeah, and the third device as you mentioned, iOS. I wonder if an M1 could help cover iOS well enough since it's ARM.