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Greg Gant
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Greg Gant writes Inaudible Discussion, a personal blog at blog.greggant.com about hardware and systems. Since 2013, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Apple vs. Nvidia: What happened? (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Mac upgrades, retro computing, emulation, Linux projects, and web development. Hands-on guides and independent reviews by Greg Gant.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple vs. Nvidia: What happened? (2021)8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2023-03-23
- The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-01-22
- /posts/2024/06/25/half-life-for-the-mac-canceled-and-revived.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
What Hacker News says?
> macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your password? "When a user's password is set up on an Apple Silicon Mac, the password is passed through a one-way hashing algorithm that produces a key used to encrypt the Secure enclave's key."[0] [0] https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-encl.…
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on “Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure”Submitted The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide as a story · 37 points
HN discussionpeople really think bumpgate was about some issue that also affected AMD too and not closing the door on NVIDIA building a platform inside Apple's platform and shifting the balance of power? you've been reading way too much semiaccurate lol https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w... like, we have the benefit of a decade of retrospect and watched nvidia do exactly the thing that apple refuses to…
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on “Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS”Submitted Half-Life and it's failed OS 9 port as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSays who, Charlie demerjian and circa-2010 AMD fanboys echoing him? Things like Bumpgate as a major social media mindshare thing largely stem from him and his coverage. And he leaves off the part where AMD gpus were failing too (because of the same RoHS-compliant solder) and where apple kinda wanted to part ways anyway because they saw the “platform” nvidia was building and didn’t want any part of it on macOS… game…
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on “Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google”Submitted Headphone jacks are Not the new floppy drive as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> The US has Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, X, all of which innovate to offer products appealing enough that customers are willing to use or buy them in a free and consensual transaction (which does not require any impoverishment). If they fail at innovating to appeal to customers, they go bankrupt. I make iPhone apps. No Apple software update has appealed to me since back when they were still named after cats. In…
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on “Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options”Submitted Was Snow Leopard 10.6 the greatest OS X release? (2022) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSteam sales are abysmal on Mac, so it's a decentproxy I think. I couldn't find a nice cut report on gaming PC sales vs standard desktops, whichi is unfortunate as the PC market in general is on a downtrend while my hunch is gaming is probably flat or rising. On Apple and gaming...they've been on the cold with Steam, basically refusing any improvement that would help. They've Epic at their throat. They've faught Micr…
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on “US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19”Submitted Running Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.0 – 10.4 on Apple Silicon (M1) & Intel via QEMU as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Then there's Apple's drama, which involved warranty claims for laptop parts that led to them being AMD only until the Arm move ( https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w ...) It’s second-hand info so take it with a grain of salt, but I read somewhere that there was a lot of friction between Apple and Nvidia because Apple likes to tweak and tailor drivers per model of Mac and generally not be wh…
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on “Inside the Steam Deck's APU”Submitted Apple vs. Nvidia: What happened? (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere are a few examples / anectodes: The first is MS' trouble with the original Xbox ( https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ati-to-provide-chips-for-futur... - not a great example (20+ year old articles are hard to find) but mentions the issues MS had with Nvidia) Then there's Apple's drama, which involved warranty claims for laptop parts that led to them being AMD only until the Arm move ( https://blog.greggant.com/posts…
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on “Inside the Steam Deck's APU”Submitted Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCurious, was that laptop running with nvidia? Because the reason Apple really dislikes nvidia was because nvidia sort of lied about the thermal spec (much like intel does, except intel could downclock); and it caused a lot of GPUs to kill their motherboards: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...
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on “An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs”Submitted The Cost of the San Bernardino iPhone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNvidia sold defective GPU's that affected every 2007-2008 MacBook Pro. It was a manufacturing defect and every chip was guaranteed to fail. It was a bad look for Apple that cost them millions having to replace logic boards. The defect wasn't corrected for several years leading to some people having multiple logic board replacements. https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...
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on “Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage”Submitted A Better Android Simulator for Web Development: GenyMotion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.greggant.com/posts/2024/06/25/half-life-for-the...
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on “Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs”Submitted The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere you go, I imagine some of these are underhand pitches for the HN crowd, but here you go. There's a few that most users are simply unaware of, such as replacing the Airport card with one that supports ant continuity and handoff and Airdrop support. 7.5 years later, and my 2008 Mac Pro is still going strong. http://blog.greggant.com/post/58331227038/recommended-mac-pr...
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on “The problem of OS X hardware in 2016”Submitted AmorphousDiskMark Is CrystalDiskMark for macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think they were dipping a little deep in the pool for "rare" machines toward the end. I'm literally writing this comment on a trashcan Mac that I paid $400 for less than a year ago. One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. It's a solid machine (I got min…
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on “Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made”Submitted A Front-End Developer’s Guide to Reading Job Postings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you ever tried daily-driving a Hackintosh? It's nothing like using a Mac, or even a Windows/Linux machine for that matter. I dual-booted Mojave on 2 Wintel machines back during the Clover bootloader days, I could only tolerate it for ~2 weeks before giving up. Spoofing OEM Apple hardware is basically impossible, even with configuration-matched CPUs your motherboard will still mismatch the ACPI overrides that ma…
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on “I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii”Submitted Mockup Prototyping / Wireframing Utility Roundup 2013 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> knowingly shipping faulty GPUs. wow, how did i miss this... https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...
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on “Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro”Submitted I killed Zombieland... but Rhett Reese is the reason why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w... Nvidia had a knack for putting Apple into difficult situations.
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on “Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro”Submitted Logins Without Password Obscuring as a story · 2 points
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