Summary

Game Mode is turned on automatically by putting a recognised game into Full Screen mode; there’s no alternative method. A game is taken out of Game Mode automatically by returning it from Full Screen mode, or (possibly) manually in its menu in the menu bar. Game Mode is controlled by gamepolicyd. Game Mode results in RunningBoard making some services, including gameconsole, critical, and suppressing other background servics. These could improve the game’s access to CPU cores, but this seems unlikely to have much effect on performance. Game Mode appears to increase GPU load by the game, although it’s not clear whether this is significantly greater than would be achieved by Full Screen mode alone. Game Mode puts Bluetooth into Low Latency mode, reducing input latency from game controllers, and audio latency to output devices.

Watch video linked from Mastodon to hear the difference due to the bug.

Bug still exists in Sonoma

Full thread: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111160426488046610

TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)

1. People hardly ever use 10x zoom
2. 10x optical zoom is hard to stabilize
3. Aperture trumps zoom

Repair website iFixit today announced that it has retroactively lowered its iPhone 14 repairability score from 7/10 to 4/10 due to Apple's post-repair parts pairing requirement, just over a year after the device launched.

"Although we enthusiastically awarded it a solid score at launch last year, thanks to its innovative repair-friendly architecture—of which we remain big fans—the reality for folks trying to fix these things has been very different," said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, in a blog post. "Most major repairs on modern iPhones require Apple approval. You have to buy parts through their system, then have the repair validated via a chat system. Otherwise, you'll run into limited or missing functionality, with a side of annoying warnings."

iPhone 14 back glass: $169 iPhone 14 Plus back glass: $199 iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499 iPhone 14 Pro Max back glass: $549 iPhone 15 back glass: $169 iPhone 15 Plus back glass: $199 iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169 iPhone 15 Pro Max back glass: $199