m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@autolycus
Most of my hardware is also Apple hardware, you don't have to tell me what it is. Even 10 years ago this hardware was supported better than average PC hardware because it was the same commodity hardware based on Intel chipsets. And we have e.g. hardware video decoding support not because someone reverse-engineered it on their spare time, but because a qualified engineer on Intel's payroll *with access to the spec* have contributed it.
@phoronix

@bria
…one of the points from my post dated *last September* : the novelty and excitement from the initial success fades and at the same time the visible progress stalls — it doesn't take hating them to see it, it's just what is likely to happen to such an ambitious reverse-engineering effort without proper support from the hardware maker.
The worst thing you can accuse me of is this "told you so" — but I assure you there are plenty of things worse than that.
@phoronix

@bria
Those who fall for this implied promise are (in broader sense) the target audience of my post, not Asahi! I'd rather see people helping RISC-V succeed or support open ARM-based computers such as MNT Reform — because I think we would all benefit more from that than from supporting highly-customised, closed and poorly serviceable hardware that are ARM-based Macs.
Again, I might be wrong and I'd be willing to admit it, but the linked news article confirms…
@phoronix

@bria
This news feed is unrelated to them and I'm not attempting to discourage them — neither am I in position to prevent them from their reverse-engineering effort — that is isn't the problem IMO. Their promise that those who buy ARM-based Macs today will get a well-supported machine in the future is! Based on my experience with Apple, reverse engineered technology and support for Linux on non-open hardware, I think this promise is unlikely to get delivered on.
@phoronix

@ErictheCerise
So not only writing them down, but keeping them in the same place where you store your other passwords? That is an excellent idea! 😂
If your password manager ever gets compromised (which doesn't happen often, but there is still a non-zero possibility), at least the perpetrator might not know your pet's name — but with this you're leaving them no such option.

@ben

@bria
And? I'm not chasing the members of Asahi project around the Internet telling them what to do, I'm expressing my
own opinion on my own gemlog.
There is nothing wrong with 2000 — or any number of words for that matter when I'm elaborating on the opinion I have expressed on Fedi to the one who was never involved with Asahi project.
You are confusing the right to have an opinion with imposing said opinion on others 🤷

@phoronix

@ErictheCerise @ben
But then you have to write them down which is also a bad security practice 😏

@phoronix
Nothing of value was lost, my stance on Asahi Linux remains the same: https://m0xEE.Net/gemlog/posts/2024-09-05-asahi-linux-is-pointless.gmi
It's a waste of effort that'd better be used elsewhere, nowadays we have plenty of hardware that's way more open than that of Apple, and hardware based on reverse-engineering effort would always remain far from perfect.

@kevinrothrock
Earthworm Rob,
The soil he did crawl
Earthworm Rob,
A Super Suit did fall

@newt @Economic_Hitman
Aiming at one of those girls who choose the bear? 😜

@rl_dane @Natanox @amin
It also effects battery life quite noticeably — I get amazing battery life even with computers that are more than a decade old, maybe avoiding systemd only contributes a part of it, Void allows me to have a more minimal system overall: I can do "ps ax" and tell you what each of these processes does at nearly any time, unlike with systemd-based distros where something always keeps happening in the background.

@mirabilos @wyatt
> people please drop it, I don’t have an HDMI-capable monitor anyway)
My line of thinking 😏

@Kathrin
Wasn't that Hitachi thing also originally a… ehm, regular massager? 🤭

@kaia
> bodily harm
What about psychological torture, say what if they make him watch the best interviews with RFK Jr. for a week straigh? 😈

@DarcMoughty @geerlingguy
Big Endian PowerPC machines could still be alive and kicking with Linux had Google not given up on the architecture, phasing it out in Go (you can have Go 1.10 with gccgo, but that isn't much by today's standards) and in V8 (and consequently Node.js), LLVM on PowerPC is often buggy so your mileage with Rust may vary. All in all lots of modern software simply can't be built 😩