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This upgrade is going to cost me a lot of money. They've dropped support for my beefy 2016 MBP. Soon enough the latest version of XCode is going to require Ventura and I won't be able to build my app.

Meanwhile, Linus is only just starting the discussion to drop the 486 from the Linux kernel.

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This has more to do with the 486 (or clones of it) having adoption in embedded platforms that run Linux than Linux being reluctant to let support for old consumer-oriented hardware die. For example, Linux doesn't even bother with attempting to mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities on Intel processors running in 32-bit mode, you are just told you are vulnerable and that's that.

What's the chicken and what's the egg? A large part of the reason that Linux is popular in embedded is because it has a long support period.

My point was that the support for 486 was being kept due to its embedded applications and not so someone with a 486-based desktop PC can expect to build a modern distribution on it and achieve full functionality equivalent to a modern machine.

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This might be useful to you: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

Try running a major, modern Linux distribution on a 486.

No one is forcing you to upgrade. I still have a 2008 Mac running El Capitan and I can do everything I need to do on it.

Literally just retired a 2018 MBP this year because the battery swelled up.

I used to think that, but at some point I noticed that homebrew was compiling dependencies instead of downloading compiled binaries, and found out it was because my OS was not in the most recent 3 versions.

Can you compile for IOS 15? I'm stuck on big sur and can't connect to my iPhone anymore

Will you need the latest version of Xcode? Could you continue to use an older version of Xcode to develop your app?

I think latest version of XCode is needed if latest iOS is being targeted.

Probably, imagine my shock when I upgraded my iPhone, enjoying ios15 only to realise that my dev machine has become useless and that I can't downgrade IOS either. Being used to Windows I was completely caught off guard by just how terrible the ecosystem is if you don't keep buying new devices.

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