> You need an Apple silicon Mac to build and run Containerization.
> To build the Containerization package, your system needs either:
> macOS 15 or newer and Xcode 26 Beta
> macOS 26 Beta 1 or newer
Those on Intel Macs, this is your last chance to switch to Apple Silicon, (Sequoia was the second last)[0] as macOS Tahoe is the last version to support Intel Macs.
I like the hardware, hate the absurd greedy storage and RAM prices.
Probably because Apple spent half a billion dollars for the patent portfolio of a company building enterprise SSD controllers a decade ago. People seem to like data storage integrity.
> Anobit appears to be applying a lot of signal processing techniques in addition to ECC to address the issue of NAND reliability and data retention. In its patents there are mentions of periodically refreshing cells whose voltages may have drifted, exploiting some of the behaviors of adjacent cells and generally trying to deal with the things that happen to NAND once it's been worn considerably.
Through all of these efforts, Anobit is promising significant improvements in NAND longevity and reliability.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/5258/apple-acquires-anobit-br...
If I had to place a bet on why the patents were purchased, it would be to protect them against someone else purchasing them and alleging that literally any SSD controller Apple put into their silicon was infringing.
Watch the talk "Zebras all the way down" by Bryan Cantril; TLDR most storage devices lie to you and are constantly corrupting your data, and you only find out if you run paranoid filesystems like ZFS + run your own burn-in and integrity tests.
Source? Is this self-imposed, or what does “allowed” mean?
Even if true, technical people can work around this by either spoofing a non-external drive or using `ln`, no?
IIRC Google Drive for Desktop won't sync the target of a symbolic link. It will sync the target of a hard link, but hard links can only target the same filesystem that the link is on, so you can't target an external drive on macOS AFAIK.
I can't speak for the other software you mentioned.
Of course, predictably, iCloud Drive gives you no configuration of where you store the local copy, so it’s stored in some weird path specifically on your boot volume.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wi...
Not sure about the newer ones.
Gathering this information and putting together a distro to rescue old Macbooks from the e-waste bin would be a worthwhile project. As far as I can tell they're great hardware.
I imagine things get harder once you get into the USB-C era.