Lmao, the part about the control center feeling like from a bootleg phone made my day. I felt like something was off the whole time but couldn’t tell what was bothering me

Yeah and I can’t get my head around why it won’t be available here in the EU. This is so fucking stupid! Like how is the DMA or any other legislation supposed to prevent them from implementing iPhone mirroring? They literally offer every other continuity-related feature over here. This is just Apple being upset they’re actually being regulated in the EU.

You’re right. Also the other way around the new Kotlin frameworks needed can’t easily be used in a Java codebase. I mean on bytecode level they’re compatible but it’s basically impossible in practice

That makes sense, thanks again! I think dynamic dispatch is not as much of a performance issue in my case, yet you’re totally right not to waste resources that aren’t actually needed. Keeping things on the stack if possible is also a good thing.

I’ll definitely need to read more about Rusts type system but your explanation was already very helpful! I think this might be why my initial approach felt unnatural - it works but is quite cumbersome and with generics there seems to be a more elegant approach.

Thanks for your input! I’ll have a look at both build flags and macros for sure! For my specific problem enums will do just fine I guess, but having an overview about the possibilities helps a lot!

Thanks for your reply!

Thanks for the advice! I didn’t know generic functions were preferred. But it makes perfect sense if you think about it.

Thanks for the explanation! I think just using an enum will do perfectly well in my case.

Now I get your point. Technically, I think it could be possible to only include the changes in Chrome. It would make sense for Google to push the changes all the way down to Chromium, though, as this would eliminate ad blockers on many competing browsers as well. Judging based on the past I would say this is what’s gonna happen

I guess so. I don’t get your second point however. Chromium is as independent from Google/Chrome as your banking app from your bank account.

If this happens I’ll consider switching back to a Linux machine next time a hardware upgrade is due.

Hope there are some rapid developments in non-Apple ARM Chips by then :')

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way…

Even if degoogled, Chromium still does a poor job at protecting your privacy.

Thanks for sharing, actually this very project inspired me to do it myself. It is an incredible resource when it comes to certain aspects of the database format!

Imho it has some deeper architectural issues though which I wanted to avoid in my implementation. I’m also using an entirely different tech stack I wanted to train myself in.

My implementation is not as feature complete as osxphotos but I’m sure I will be able to contribute back to the project with the occasional bug fix.

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I reverse engineered the Apple Photos library file on my Mac as a side project and can confirm that hidden assets are not actually encrypted or otherwise protected. The respective assets are just not shown in the apps and can be accessed via Finder on macOS.

I didn’t know they were visible when you connect your phone to your PC but I guess it makes sense.

Beware they started charging for the database tools even if you own an all-products license (the plugin was included in the EAP version).

IntelliJ still has it bundled iirc.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10925-database-tools-and-sql-for-webstorm--rustrover

It’s not an Apple fanboy but imo it’s a lot more transparent on their side. There’s a switch for each and every service to use iCloud or not in the settings. Services don’t just re-enable their usage of iCloud after some random update and most importantly, they don’t just re-install apps you previously deleted. Or bloatware.

Why would you want to delete all vaults anyway

If they had an office suite available there wouldn’t be a need for another OS/Linux distribution imho. Polish the existing products and any Linux distribution should do the trick for you, most of them already are very privacy and security focused.