First two are right on, but I haven’t been charged for an actual software update on the Mac in 30 years.

I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.

The red flag I see is the word “Caucasian” in his username.

Just one in four??

I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?

This is actually really thoughtful.

It also seems likely that the perf hit from x86_64 -> ARM64 emulation, even if the emulation is really excellent, might very well eat up any battery savings from the more efficient ARM chip.

My understanding is that ARM chips work fine for gaming when games are built for ARM, but that is far from the norm at the moment.

I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.

Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.

The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.

I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.

DO NOT fire at those vintage Macs. They are not responsible for this.

I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.

Intermediate Linux user + 6 months of Gentoo = advanced Linux user.

I’m not kidding. You can do this with other distros, but it will get you used to parts of the software engineering process you might not otherwise be exposed to. That was my experience at least.

It is expensive, but this an automatic yes for me.

I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

I’ll continue to buy AMD because of their excellent open source drivers on Linux.

But also, talking down to Windows users is not a good way to invite them to join us.

Le poisson Steve?

Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal

What went down, and when??

I’ve been all Wayland for years on Intel and AMD, never had a single problem. I’ve also been choosing those GPUs due to their high quality open source drivers, and I don’t regret it.