JoshuaSWarren says splitting AI models across Macs on Omarchy Linux hit a wall: Thunderbolt networking received at a third of its send speed, so JoshuaSWarren found the bug in Linux's Thunderbolt network driver and fixed it, from 6.3 to 16.6 Gb/s, with the fix going to the Omarchy M kernel first, then upstream for every Linux distro.
jgordijn says Netflix on a Mac M1 Omarchy setup kept freezing and jumping back ~1s; Claude found out dropped frames were reported and wrote a chrome plugin to hide that, so it keeps at 1080 instead of lowering to 720, linking jgordijn/netflix-steady-quality, and adds "I guess we can fix anything".
mewset says a sore neck led to sitting at a table instead of on the couch and plugging in a mouse, which showed up in omajuice, the battery plugin mewset built for Omarchy; starting Spotifast to adjust the volume made mewset notice the volume buttons on the side of the laptop had never worked, because the driver just doesn't enable them for that model, so one line fixed it locally, seven lines fixed it for everyone else with the laptop, and the patch is sent: "Now we wait."
martiano says a new Try Omarchy version is released and calls it a huge update: much more stable and reliable, better performance with reduced memory and CPU usage, Browser and Alacritty GPU acceleration, Ghostty + 1Password installation, configurable max disk size, automatic macOS timezone mirroring, a battery widget, support for more languages and keyboards (中文, 日本語, 한국어, ABNT2), auto check for updates, and Omarchy 4.0.4, with the goal of making Try Omarchy a perfect daily driver for Macs and the Apple Ecosystem, linking the omacom/try-omarchy v0.5.0 release and adding "We're close to achieving GPU acceleration for video playback"; the still shows the Try Omarchy "Omarchy, on macOS" window with PERMISSIONS for Accessibility, Microphone access, and Camera access, INTEGRATIONS including Shared folder, VM Location, Resources (8 processor cores · 8 GiB memory · 64 GiB disk), Networking, and Port forwarding, and an "UPDATE AND LAUNCH" button over a green snake wallpaper beside a webcam inset of the speaker.
