Hackintosh

With some of the programmes I was writing (the world clocks one being the one I remember best), a friend wanted to be able to use it, but he daily drives Mac OS, so there wasn't an easy way to allow him to use it without compiling the programme. And because i3rd was superceded by Pod, I decided to put i3rd to use by making a hackintosh. I used the 120GB 2.5 inch SSD from the double drive pi (I think that was the Raspberry Pi 3?) as the boot drive since I wasn't going to need a huge amount of space and I didn't want to buy anything if I didn't have to.

I found some reddit where someone did a hackintosh with the same DeskMini that I have but with a generation older CPU and went the same route as them since there was the links to the instructions and stuff. It wasn't too bad from what I remember, but I think there were times that I wasn't sure if the installation was being slow or if it froze.

The one thing I couldn't figure out how to fix was getting more VRAM than 5MB, I tried a lot of things and eventually decided to just live with it. I did get whichever stuff tested/compiled and such, though with one of them, the GUI glitches out when running, which is likely due to the lack of VRAM (this was during testing and it didn't get compiled or shared).

I have plans to try a Mac OS VM with VirtualBox (since it might allow me to have 128MB of VRAM), but I keep forgetting about it. It's uncertain when my friend will shift to Apple Silicon, but it'll be when I'll grab a Mac Mini with the same SoC to not have to worry about using a VM or having VRAM issues.