The Apple thread

[Deckard]

Unsulphured Apricots - nice munchie when I get the nibbles !

Fucking iCloud - cant d/l anything for more than a minute before it stops and unlike Dropbox doesnt resume properly and I can d/l any file off iCloud no issue with my iPhone in the same room - speed to mini is 167 meg too so no idea - had to resort to d/l to iPhone 14 and then airdrop to mini which literally took like 5 seconds for a 1 gig file !

Painful but at least it works... I will go and post on the MacRumours forum as no idea why iCloud is so bad - it was fine on High Sierra and my MacPro.

[Deckard]

Yeah just briefly hit 22mb d/l on my Mini on my wifi from my BT router which is the best i have ever seen !

[Deckard]

Um Ryujinx on my M2 min Pro is a thing of wonder....although I note the other switch emulator got taken down last week.

Seems to play everything bar a few biggies at full speed and you can even use a switch controller if you wish....

Lots of scope for upping the rez too but I will still carry on buying switch games - its just nice to be able to grab a few oldies to play on my mac

And today I hit 31mb d/l on this too !

plus that sidebar option for the iPad is rather nice too and the auto unlock off my apple watch for everything on the mac is cool too.

[Deckard]

Finally got there - my old mac pro was 9p an hour and the mini is less than 1p so should've upgraded years ago - would have saved me a fortune !

[Deckard]

So weirdly moving my mini to that position from the corner of the desk has dropped my wifi speed considerably from my BT router like 9 feet away and one internal wall - like halved it so not getting more than 55mb now (although the upload hasn't changed at 70) - my iPhone 14 gets 190mb in the same room (on 5ghz) so something aint right - annoyingly the smart hub (really) from BT doesnt let me assign different names to the 2.4 and 5ghz bands so I cant run them both and connect the phones to the 5ghz and the mini to the 2.4 for a consistent speed either so at the moment I am paying for 1/2 gig speeds but only able to use 2.4ghz and getting 60mb in the house - Funny enough I can use my iPhone as a wifi hotspot and get 70 ! (On 5ghz I wont be doing that)

I will have a bit more of a play with the location of the mini and tbh 55 is fine ish as I dont really want to get a home plug or wifi extender if I can help it but come on BT where is the new Wifi 6 router you were talking about 2 years ago ?

Any way if you lot have any ideas ?

[Misfit]

We need to dump wifi and get 5G sorted.

Sitting on a beach in Portugal last week I was getting around 500Mbps on my iPhone!

Used a VPN to connect to the US to watch a UK football match perfectly (as UK services cant show 3pm Saturday games) tethering my phone to my iPad.

[Deckard]

yeah i see the Bt new router (well EE) is a hybrid which uses the 4g network if anything goes bad with the wifi...

https://www.bt.com/exp/halo

[VNVObit]

@Decard worth considering mesh WiFi. Had poor coverage and bought BT Whole Home. Only WiFi 5 but there is a WiFi 6 version available. Have a 1Gbps FTTP via Virginmedia (BT won’t go FTTP round here) it works well and speeds are fine (certainly more than sufficient for streaming)

[Deckard]

Well I moved it on top and now getting 90mb !



Plus I got an extra bt mesh dish on way so hoping to be around 150 by next sunday...

[Deckard]

So this is good news - iPad robotron again soon…

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04 ... medium=rss

[Misfit]

So this is good news - iPad robotron again soon…

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04 ... medium=rss

Excellent.

Obviously this isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts, and I assume something to try and head off having to allow other app stores everywhere.

[Deckard]

Yep - Be nice to be able to use my Switch Pro Controller to play portable Robotron / Smash TV again and obv this opens up switch games too as the latest iPads should play them fine using RjuJinx

[WiteWulf]

I'd be very surprised to see Apple allow Ryujinx on the App Store. Emulating a current generation console can pretty much only be for piracy. There's a stronger argument for preservation/dumping of owned ROMs, etc., for older gear. But I think Apple's lawyers would steer well clear of this.

[Deckard]

So it starts -

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/igba-gba- ... 6482993626

[Deckard]

Yeah the GBA one runs all GBA games in full screen with BT controller support and sound on my iPad Air 4