superdug

I ditched docker for rancher desktop and haven't needed to go back yet for any reason, plus I have k3s natively now as well.

I admit I made the transition a few years ago. I converted the remainder of my services into containers and haven't "run" linux as a workstation operating system since switching and it's been over a year since I had a linux VM running as well. I have found every tool I used in linux to be the same or better on mac products.

For personal use, my only workstation is a iPad Pro with a keyboard and mouse.

There's a few videos on this on youtube and countless blogs. Here's my general take.

I have a company assigned m1 macbook pro 13.3 inch. It's a machine to make sure that M1 mac stuff works and it was the only M1 series laptop out when I started so I've done all my testing on that machine.

Synopsis: It's great, great battery life, operating is slick, can't complain except there is only two usb-c ports and you need one for power.

Would I buy an M series mac for personal use? nope, I bought an M1 ipad, which is an amazing piece of hardware that will only get better with iPad OS 16.

Now enough about me, lets look at why your two choices are:

14" MBP M1 Max Pro OR Mac Book Air with an M2 in it.

Why are those your two choices? First the big boy in the mix ... if you want a massively capable development machine to do all of the development things and it still be a portable laptop then the 14" mbp M1 Max Pro is your choice. The 16 is too big and if you must have the beefier Ultra, you should probably just wait until the new Mac Pro comes out or look at the studio. The 16" MBP is a desktop workstation disguised as a laptop.

So if you're going to go all out with money, then stick with the M1 series, but get the 14" MBP.

If you want the best bang for your buck and don't need all that extra horsepower than the M2 Macbook Air is up for order and starts delivering in a week. It's ultra portable, functional, future-proofed, and better design than the M2 MBP which is your only other M2 option at this time.

Yes, and it's terrible.

You can't sign into icloud and you can't maximize a VM to 4k resolutions. It's usable, but for $100 they could do much much better.

Back in my day this was all called phreaking [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking ]

I had the pleasure of knowing a guy who knew a guy when I was in school. Basically there was a prefix 786 that you could (within the area code of course) dial the prefix for the callback 971 and the last 4 digits of the host (thankfully the number of the pay phone is right there on the pay phone) and then hang up twice the phone would ring until you picked the phone up.

Fast forward to another thing of the past, the mall! The mall had BANKS of pay-hones just sitting around. So a group of friends and I got to all of the banks and decided to make all the phones ring. We walked around the mall forever as people just looked at the ringing phones and carried on about their lives.

After doing it for about an hour security caught on and I got banned from the mall, I think for the fourth or fifth time.

It was a beautiful site to see. Two dozen or so payphones just ringing and people completely perplexed as to why.

Who’s historical court would you like to reference? We’ve not been a country for as long as there have been traditions and laws about finance in particular. We fought for independence from a monarchy and its kingdom, not to be free from governance.

Says right in the bottom of the article that Stalin wanted to seed the idea that the West was keeping Hitler alive for nefarious Western reasons.

I've noticed that this doesn't _always_ work. Sometimes I just mash my mouse into the side of my screen and never get on to my iPad. So I've just switched to Logitech bluetooth mouse and keyboard. It's easier than a KVM and more reliable than software.

It's a weird place to be where I can watch a war unfold on television and have live geotagged curated material laid out on a map on my computer. It's amazing and depressing at the same time.

+1 for Rancher Desktop. [ https://rancherdesktop.io/ ] you can alias the `docker` command with `nerdctl` as a one:one replacement.

It's the cheapest.

The BeOS bootloader was my favorite part of BeOS. It was more than happy to work alongside other operating systems and made sure if you had other ones installed that you could still get to them after install. Something Windows absolutely refused to do automatically and would wreck your MBR as would some "helpful" linux distributions at the time. Linux alongside Be was amazing, but BeOS didn't have a decent browser or office suite to keep them in the market after getting dumped by apple. After apple they tried to make a mobile operating system, but there wasn't any momentum for that and Symbian was pretty much accepted as the standard.

It was indeed. I forgot that 3dfx was the official owner when the card was bought, it was the geforce drivers that were made for it that I remember came after Nvidia bought 3dfx.

Wasn't there some language in the deal about Internet Explorer as well as Office?

IS it an Alpha?

At the time, it was a sport of sorts to predict when Apple would fold entirely. It was always imminent. Then came Mac OS X, iMac, iBook, and iPod ... and the rest is history

Setting NeXT cubes on fire was totally a thing I'll never forget. They were made out of Magnesium and burnt wonderfully[0].

[0] -- https://youtu.be/pkvQ-BJD2rU

I still remember this time quite vividly. Apple had fired Jobs years earlier and knew that MacOS was not a modern enough operating system to make them competitive. BeOS and NeXT were competing for Apple's partnership to make the next Mac operating system.

At the time I had an Intel pII Xeon desktop from Dell that had a nvidia monster video card and turtle beach sound card. Oddly enough, the processor, video card, and sound card were all compatible with BeOS so I had an unofficia x86 BeBox. The official BeBox was a PPC box.

BeOS was chosen to be the successor to MacOS 9 until the 11th hour, when a meeting with Jobs and the board of Apple met. BeOS was dumped almost immediately for NeXT that night.

BeOS was a completely new operating system while NeXT was based on a Mach OS BSD base (later to become Darwin BSD).

Be Inc fell apart and sold to 3Com, which sold to HP eventually and there it was neglected and mothballed. Haiku came out later to try and bring the project back, but at the time of Haiku's release Be was already over a decade old and the code had not kept up.

There was so much momentum in the BeOS world before the 3com acquisition that was stifled and killed.

Now this period of time is often referred to as "When NeXT bought Apple with Apple's money."

Not to be overly snarky, but the lesson you should have learned is to just not be an asshole in the first place.

I still use PGP to encrypt files with secrets in them that I am sending to a known source, and I know it's still the base encryption for a few well known file servers. A new player in the market is welcomed.

You'd suspect wrong. It has anti-inflammatory elements along with interacting with receptors in nearly every facet of the body. It has a psychoactive element that makes it popular for recreational use, but there truly are medicinal uses for it.

I mean, not to be a wise-ass, but have you seen who's been appointed to the FCC, EPA, HHS, and other three letter orgs? FCC is saying net neutrality is bad, EPA is saying that climate change is natural and can't be affected by humans and isn't actually happening, and HHS is basically saying that being poor is a poor persons fault for being poor in the first place.

I might actually have an idea of what the article was talking about, but after reading 5 paragraphs about the road and lawn I just kind of gave up.

probably because it's troll bait

Name the second largest attack on Pearl Harbor

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."