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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 20:33:41 JST Aral Balkan

   Broadcom: Hey, guess what, we made VMware Fusion free. Enjoy, everyone!

   Also Broadcom: …

   #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 20:48:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     So you can follow these instructions to get closer to a download but if you think you’re actually goingt to be able to download it… oh, cricket, you have so much more to learn…

     What a shitshow, Broadcom.

     At this point, if your time is worth anything, I think it’s actually more economical to pay for Parallels than to try and download VMWare Fusion for “free”.

     https://www.mikeroysoft.com/post/download-fusion-ws/

     #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService #broadcom #VMWare #virtualisation #macOS

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:03:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, so if you want to download the latest VMWare Fusion Pro for macOS (v13.6.1) (free for personal use), here’s how you can do it with zero hassle from their software update site:

     https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/13.6.1/24319021/universal/core/com.vmware.fusion.zip.tar

     No need to create an account, etc.

     (Don’t you love *enterprise-level* security?)

     If you want to find some other download, just do a web search for the file name you see on the support site (see previous post).

     #enterpriseSoftware #IncompetenceAsAService #broadcom #VMWare #macOS #download

   • (dockermancer) anne.💫 (ann3nova@corteximplant.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:09:49 JST (dockermancer) anne.💫

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     @aral https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:10:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • (dockermancer) anne.💫

     @ann3nova Haha, thanks, I just found that too! ;)

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113543493895216726

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:10:49 JST Aral Balkan

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     • (dockermancer) anne.💫

     @ann3nova Ah, nice, for all platforms; thanks :)

   • phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:11:20 JST phryk 🏴

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     @aral Any reason you're not just going for qemu+libvirt?

     This kinda shit is why I'd take a proper FOSS solution over """enterprise""" software any day of the week – even if the UX is often objectively worse. :F

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:11:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • phryk 🏴

     @phryk Ease of use? (Can you taste the irony?) :)

   • Ana Tudor 🐯 (anatudor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 07:22:24 JST Ana Tudor 🐯

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     @aral Completely unrelated, but that looks like a fun distorted conic-gradient().

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 07:22:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ana Tudor 🐯

     @anatudor I wonder if the designer at Apple had a web design background (it’s just the default wallpaper from the latest OS) :)