The whole marketplace flow is a disaster. While AltStore seems to have tons of problems itself (mostly due to a payment system that seems incredibly rushed - hey Riley, have your people call my people? 🔥), the majority of the problems are in Apple’s implementation.
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I’m in Australia 🇦🇺, but as far as my iPhone knows, I’m in Italy 🇮🇹. How?
A bunch of people asked, so here’s how I tricked iOS into giving me EU features:
In iOS 17.4, Apple introduced a new system called eligibilityd. This works with countryd (which you might have heard about
I started building a tool called Unstrike, which rescues PCs with the broken CrowdStrike update. It makes an .iso you copy to USB flash drives, to make it a 30 second task. Also supports unlocking BitLocker.
Is this still useful to anyone? Let me know if I should finish this up!
I miss when Apple were creative with even the most mundane of things. These days, this would just be a heading typeset in SF Pro bold, black text on white background.
They didn't need to care. This was just a temporary notice that was up for a few months. They did anyway.
The new Macintosh wallpapers in Sequoia are insanely beautiful. I caught myself just leaving my MacBook on the lock screen for a few minutes just to see all the animations it cycles through!
As you all know, we’re holding back checkra1n for iOS 14 purely for fun. Sorry for all those out there in the business of unlocking stolen iPhones who can’t make their millions. We’ll rush out a non-functional release just because you pinged the team and called us “stupid’s” 👍
Did Windows NT 4 procedurally draw the Start menu watermark?
Last week, Dave Plummer made a tweet and video claiming NT 4’s Start menu drew its logo procedurally, using Windows’s GDI graphics library. But I've been unable to find proof this ever happened. Investigation below ⬇️
Devs can select staged rollout, it releases over 7 days to all users rather than 100% all at once. If you manually check the App Store updates page, you bypass the staged rollout
Found out by accident that Legacy Update also fixes Windows XP activation. Looks like the activation servers never went down. They just use an SSL certificate that XP isn’t aware of by default!