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by DCKing 6y ago
Your comment made me rewatch that section of the Keynote [1], and I believe you're right. Docker and Parallels were shown in a 'virtualization' subsection, and not the Rosetta subsection. So that must have been ARM64 Debian w
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by DCKing 6y ago
> * ARM macbooks Superior performance characteristics and vertical integration. > * iOS Apps on macOS > * iOS look-and-feel on macOS > * iOS features like Control Center, Widgets on macOS Because there's changes in how peop
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by DCKing 6y ago
I gotta say: really slick presentation. 1) Before the demo even starts: all Apple apps, pro or casual? Already running. Microsoft Office? Already running. Adobe Creative Cloud? Already running. That's the vast majority of the Mac userb
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by DCKing 6y ago
Sort of. Netscape Communicator critically never included server infrastructure and was completely focused on e.g. connecting to your ISP's email servers. Although a great 'client' experience is absolutely crucial for Firefox
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by DCKing 6y ago
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync
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by DCKing 6y ago
There's a good reason that they're making it more possible to boot a Raspberry Pi from USB. It's more reliable storage and has better performance for many use cases :)
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by DCKing 6y ago
I don't mean to speak against Windows on ARM viability - it's a necessary product and it's well executed. But Windows on ARM is still building a market, and can't run significant high performance software yet. Even for g
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by DCKing 6y ago
RAM as disk cache is only useful for things you have already loaded. It doesn't help your boot times, new program launches, or loading new content in your program. I'm not saying SBCs are "unusable" for desktop use cases
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by DCKing 6y ago
Apple has to significantly invest to continue with Bootcamp, only to offer people Windows on ARM . Windows on ARM is actually a great product, but it's not what people use Bootcamp for. There's no value add here for Apple, and I
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by DCKing 6y ago
If your experience with "desktop UI on ARM" is based on the RPi and other ARM SBCs, the overwhelmingly likely explanation for this perceived lag is lacking I/O performance. Running a Raspberry Pi (or any system) from any chea
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by DCKing 6y ago
The RISC vs CISC discussion was important in the nineties but not anymore. There's absolutely nothing 'reduced' about modern ARM chips, and every Intel processor since the late 1990s has used significant RISC design elements.
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's a combination of development in CPU performance. The peak performance levels of the Apple's ARM architectures have reached peak Intel/AMD levels around the Apple A12, so they haven't been at this level for that long
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by DCKing 6y ago
The law intended to restrict profiteering off of user behavior. Companies did not intend on having this profiteering limited, and would rather lower themselves to dark patterns and degrading the user experience. It goes to show what the rea
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by DCKing 6y ago
RetroArch and Vulkan based projects in general are supported on Macs, since RetroArch has integrated MoltenVK. For this particular project, it's up in the air whether it actually works. Parallel RDP is not a "standard Vulkan game&
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by DCKing 6y ago
The Mali G31 is used in some pretty cool ultra cheap devices. Getting good mainline support for this GPU is really cool because of these ones :) The Mali G31 is used in the Amlogic S905X{2,3,4} SoCs. You can buy a "TV box" with a
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by DCKing 6y ago
I bought a 2012 MacBook Air when it was new with the 8GB RAM upgrade, and it's the best computer hardware I've ever purchased. The 2013 Macbook Air the author uses was only an upgrade in CPU and Wifi. I still use mine almost daily
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by DCKing 6y ago
Given the weak single core performance despite running at 3 GHz, and the ARM v8.0 compliance (ARM v8.5 is published, Apple is on ARM v8.4), is this not some thin repackaging of the ARM Cortex A72/73 IP as a server processor? Cortex A73
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by DCKing 6y ago
Great news this was forked. It was pretty clear the previous project was not really a project but a code dump (still: thank you to the original devs for sharing this with the world!), and so I refrained from using it. Really great this has
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by DCKing 6y ago
I can confirm the author's experience with Apple's SSH-agent implementation. It does not allow you to load Yubikey agent libraries from Homebrew's default /usr/local, which makes it an inconvenience to set up.
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by DCKing 6y ago
People are expressing they will stop using Keybase because of this. That's fine, probably a good idea. But reading this, Zoom+Keybase will make sure of this themselves. This press release indicates that this is a 100% acquihire. There&
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by DCKing 6y ago
As a case in point: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-not-a-draft-05 I think publishing an IETF RFC on security best practices is hard, but I hope these authors manage to pull through
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by DCKing 6y ago
Linux kernel drivers don't have to be GPL though. There exist plenty of closed source drivers for GNU/Linux. The "kernel" on Android devices are a small open source kernel and a huge amount of closed source blobs for wir
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by DCKing 6y ago
Since Google supports Pixel devices longer than the three years Qualcomm gives or used to give, they're probably already doing that. Not saying they care enough, but they care more than any vendor besides Apple.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes, sort of. Google depends on Qualcomm to make updated drivers, as Qualcomm owns the intellectual property. All Pixel phones are based on a Qualcomm platform. Qualcomm stops supporting their processors after a few years, usually three. Th
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by DCKing 6y ago
IBM continued making PowerPC G3 derivatives for a while for Nintendo. Nintendo ended Wii U production in January 2017, which would I guess would mark the end of IBM's production of PowerPC as well. The Wii U for all its flaws is probab
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by DCKing 6y ago
The PowerPC G3 and G4 were great chips. The G3 was much better than competing x86 chips, and G4 beat contemporary ones consistently too. The G5 wasn't great though. When Steve Jobs announced it, Apple already showed it only trading b
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by DCKing 6y ago
I should have clarified that Geekbench can be more accurately described as a set of microbenchmarks. It does test a lot of different kinds of performance, but it does not test sustained performance.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Okay, thanks? Two actual apples are never identical either, but they're still more comparable than to oranges.
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by DCKing 7y ago
The Jetstream benchmark is made by the WebKit team. Its scores will vary per browser, so you have to compare browser to browser. I compared an iPhone 11 running Safari to a MacBook Pro running Safari. Apples to apples. Moreover, while the T
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by DCKing 7y ago
> Being able to match big core i7s in some benchmarks single threaded is to a large extent something that Intel's own low power chips can also do, at least burstily. You're not wrong. In general, it's true that a microbenc

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