What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[srp]

That’s what I was kinda doing with Copilot and GitHub when working on some fixes: do it on a modern Mac, push from it, pull on a PowerPC, test, repeat. But if I could do it from a PowerPC directly, it would be more convenient (just for that chat is fine, I don’t let/want LLM to commit anything by itself). Copilot provides decent functionality via their educational program, so I can access good models for free.

Good news is that most of the models you can work with in Copilot you can work with through each provider's respective API as well, although it will end up costing more in the long run. Cursor and Copilot are providing really great value right now and I have a feeling that won't last forever.

When I'm ready to release this app do I need to sign it or anything? Just build as Release and put it on Macintosh Garden or something? edit: and PPCPorts

 

[zenmacx]

My PowerBook G4/500 (Titanium) sits idle, quietly being admired for how well it served me many years ago.

 

[barracuda156]

Good news is that most of the models you can work with in Copilot you can work with through each provider's respective API as well

Yeah, but Copilot Education is free, I can’t afford subscriptions (sure not multiple).

When I'm ready to release this app do I need to sign it or anything? Just build as Release and put it on Macintosh Garden or something? edit: and PPCPorts

For PPCPorts (or basically any BSD-kind package manager) ports should build from source. Our target systems neither care nor support code-sign, so that’s redundant. (I do not really know if that is needed on modern systems; if we want to support those too, perhaps check some existing examples in MacPorts in aqua directory.)

 

[milliectl]

Perhaps not with a PPC Mac but for my PowerBook G4 17" DLSD - a USB-C adapter for charging

I had a broken 65W power brick that I got with the PowerBook with a somewhat mangled tip and I couldn't get it to work so I snipped the cables, opened up the shell of the tip, soldered new cabling, added a 3D printed shell I found online and added a USB-C inducer on the other end with a simple shell for it made on my iPad.

Turns out these charge and work fine under load on 20V. No special need for 24V. Under load with Minecraft Fast SP and charging the battery I saw 48W of power at the peak, with ~30W idle at max brightness.

 

[Nightphase]

I managed to make Tiger use the OpenSSH sshd for remote login. Although i couldn't get password authentication to work. Atleast hostkey login works fine.

 

[DisraeliGears]

Finally got my iMac G4 700mhz working last night. Put in a new fan, SSD, and DVD drive. Of course the DVD drive tray is too large for the slot, so I'm going to need to go in and replace again but after a bunch of tinkering I got an install of 10.3 running on the SSD. It was quite a science experiment with an eMac G4 in target disk mode acting as the operating system and an external firewire hard drive as the imaged boot disk.

One thing I ran into though is for the life of me I can't get 10.4 Tiger installed. Both Tiger install versions I've found and tried to use result in a kernel panic before getting into the installer. Any suggestions on a Tiger image that would work for me?