techrat

TLDR: Nope.

> However, I don’t believe anything was actually stolen from, copied from, or even directly inspired by ART+COM.

I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.

> Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices

That's a big fuckin' nope and likely illegal.

> One specific Linux issue I ran into repeatedly is that Chrome and Chromium by default refuse to trust Linux graphics drivers and instead do software rendering.

https://i.imgur.com/u1sKBiu.png

From my experience:

Linux > Steam > Proton > Windows Game

works better than

Linux > Wine > Steam > Windows Game

There's really no reason to be running Steam in Wine when Steam runs natively within Linux and Proton does the work for you for each individual game.

Consumer Reports buys the products they review. They can't be blacklisted if they're not relying on the manufacturer to send them a free demo/item.

(Youtube/Blog) Reviewers get blacklisted by companies by not providing a positive review about a product they were given. As they rely on scooping type style reviews, this means they not only don't get a free product to review, but they can't review it until after it's for sale instead of being able to 'preview' it for people and get more clicks that way.

> Just interested to see whether this approach is viable.

Spoiler alert: It's not. The better SOCs end up becoming more proprietary because it's the companies' own implementations that make them perform better. That leads to proprietary drivers/software.

> Why is there no money to be made?

Not enough people care to use cut rate hardware that actually conforms to the 'wholly open' philosophy. Even Stallman couldn't maintain using fully open hardware. He had to switch to a Thinkpad with Coreboot.

People have expectations when using devices as complex as a phone or laptop to where, compared to even a desktop with Linux, having a smartphone that is fully open comes with serious drawbacks.

You could always get a LibrePhone or a Pinephone but you probably won't enjoy the experience.

> Doctors are not immune from the effects of ego and hubris.

And that's why you recommend someone who isn't a doctor at all for issues with the body?

Sounds like ego and hubris to me: "I can fix things that I've never studied like actual Medical Doctors have simply by twisting someone's back suddenly!"

No thanks.

I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome.

https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png

I think it may be your own history popping up there.

Color theme is generated from Wallpaper.

Color theme consists of at least 3 colors taken from the wallpaper.

At least 3 unique colors is enough to make the user potentially uniquely identifiable, depending on how rare the color combos are.

2²⁴ (R⁸G⁸B⁸) combinations for every color times 3 colors means 2⁷² combinations.

And there are color samples taken from potentially two different wallpapers.

Other apps have access to the colors picked for the theme generated from the wallpaper so they can theme themselves accordingly.

This means an app can use your color theme (of 3 or 6 colors) as a nearly unique fingerprint. The odds of collision for smaller apps (sub 1 million downloads) are pretty damn low.

MacOSX was released in 2001, so it would have had to have been System 7/8/9 by that point.

Reusing passwords is one of the single dumbest things you can do online these days. Do not recycle passwords. Ever.

Why? Any breach that involves usernames/passwords are account name and password combos that get tried on EVERY POSSIBLE SITE after.

It only takes one pair of username with a reused password for this to work.

The bigger point that I've been trying to make (regardless of whether or not you think Apple would try to lock down an M1 Macbook) is that I don't trust Apple because of their history.

They have a LONG history of making decisions that ultimately are hostile to the user. Apple also has a history of explicitly locking out Linux users.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...

> It looks like even if disabling the Secure Boot functionality, the T2 chip is reportedly still blocking operating systems aside from macOS and Windows 10.

This is further than Microsoft has ever gone with hardware.

Apple has been dipping their toes into the telemetry and ad tracking waters for a while now. If they see Asahi cutting into those margins because people are buying Apple hardware and installing an OS that prevents them from collecting user data, I can believe they'd see them as a threat.

Why? Again, history. Apple has shut down numerous developers who made "competing" features for iOS via apps in the App Store... even though those developers had the app first before Apple decided to add the features into iOS.

But yeah, something something security something...

That sure don't look like commits to open source projects managed by other people, bucko.

The one you're defending... linked a benchmark of the Mac Mini. Not an M1 based Macbook.

Try again.

Nice dishonestly selected single benchmark screenshot.

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-...

The Ryzen 5900HX is more than 70% faster than the M1 in Cinebench Multicore... and 1% slower in single core.

You know. Real world shit.

Also. Max 16GB Ram for the M1. L Oh fuckin' L. Even my Celeron laptop could do more than that.

At least Oracle supports open source.

Apple does not.

Way to blow me over with facts and citations.

Apple: Prevents sideloading without a host MacOS computer.

Sideloading is temporary.

Blocks third party app stores.

Blocks any and all browsers using a non-Safari engine.

Not one iPad or iPhone has ever been bootloader unlockable.

They've locked out iMessage people from being able to port their number out of the service for YEARS.

Tell me what part of this screams openness.

Even the most restrictive devices are less restrictive than Apple's. If the "ability to install Linux" is the benchmark here, guess what... that's nearly every single fucking device in the world. Except the majority of Apple devices, of course.

Apple explicitly has gone out of their way to prevent this.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/06/booti...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-must-be-done-to-bring-lin...

Apple does ZERO to allow people to use an OS outside of their sandboxes. With the Intel based systems, Bootcamp is still restricted and limits hardware access necessary to run Windows properly on their systems.

Yes. Apple is restrictive as fuck. As far as Technology companies go, yes, I'd put them up at the top.

Your turn with sources and citations.

Openess.

Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world. "the ability to install Linux" with zero commits and support from Apple themselves, all reverse engineered. Meanwhile Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kernel.

How much kool aid do you have to drink to think that 'ability' is actually something you can say is a feature with Apple devices?

Come back when I can unlock the bootloader of an iDevice and we'll talk about the 'ability' to install Linux.

Fanboys have driven the word 'revolutionary' into the ground so deeply that it ceases to have any actual meaning anymore.

Meanwhile, through temporal prescience, the previous Intel based Macbooks were simultaneously revolutionary and merely tolerated before the M1 variants ever existed.

Don't you guys ever get tired of twisting your Apple apologeticism thought processes into a gordian knot all the time?

And before the M1 variants ever existed, people moaned about how they only tolerated the Intel MacBook/Air/Pro variants?

Bullshit. It's fanboy revisionism.

Surprise. Heart attack, stroke, hypertension, kidney damage are also risk factors of NOT taking NSAIDs for the reasons people commonly take NSAIDs for.

Nice to see braindead design from 2008 persisting.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-11-22-macbook-and-macbookpro-s...

I guess you missed all those stories of Apple doing the same thing to developers... even going as far as to shut down accounts when they want to use the features from their apps in the next version of iOS.

TIL someone who bans you for life is forced to do business with you.

Ah. That explains why job applications often don't have the line where you check next to a box to indicate if you've ever been convicted of a crime.

Oh wait. They do.

> So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do?

Not hire someone who had been banned before due to ad fraud.

I like how you think you can infer the way the rest of the world should be just based on your local petrol prices.

The date on this post is around that time.

It was considered something that would void your warranty to use a third party cooler.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/Does-the-use-of-an...

> Yes, the usage of third party fan&heatsink void the Intel warranty on your processor. The Intel fan is made to keep the Intel processor working correctly. When we run the processor without the original fan means we are running the system out of the specifications and it may damage the processor.

Intel did everything they could with scare tactics to deny warranties. They basically implied that they would consider your RMA an overclocking case if you used a cooler with capabilities that exceeded the slug cooler included with your CPU.