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by DCKing 5y ago
That's fair. I suppose Apple does care about third party OS support as long as it sells them a bunch more Macs with comparatively low engineering effort. The ability to run Windows probably helped them sell a significant percentage mor
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by DCKing 5y ago
> Stuff like this makes me wonder: why does Apple do this? If I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, I can assume that these changes are done for performance, cost, power-saving, or maybe even security reasons. Otherwise it just se
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Security Update for iOS 12(support.apple.com)
1 points by DCKing 5y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 5y ago
> I am afraid it does not matter any more, at least not for practical software freedom. The reason Google appears to be doing this is not software freedom, but enabling longer software updates. Google themselves cannot provide anythin
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by DCKing 5y ago
Here’s the thing with unofficial Android upgrades: they don’t have complete coverage in their security updates. LineageOS and Amazon can’t generally provide security updates for older chips. Only Qualcomm can compile new kernels for the Sna
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by DCKing 5y ago
To be fair to Google and Apple, the iPhone 5S has also only had security updates since 2018. They did add contact tracing features, but so did Google through the Play Store.
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by DCKing 5y ago
> Wait a second are you sure about that? I am not, as I didn't own the device (I did own a Nexus 4 around this time). I'm going by Google's available factory images [1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/an
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by DCKing 5y ago
If in October 2013 you bought a just released Google Nexus 5, you would have had official updates until December 2016. At the end of support, you could have then bought the recent Google Pixel (1). And you would have had official updates un
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by DCKing 5y ago
It is possible to sideload apps on iOS, it just requires jumping through hoops that you don’t have on Android. Apple allows sideloading of apps signed by the same Apple account that you’re signed into on your iDevice. Since this is really i
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by DCKing 5y ago
Ah TIL. The "obselescence" notion seems to apply somewhat cleanly to their previous deprecation waves. But it still doesn't seem to explain this deprecation list though? For Apple's "obsolete" counter of seven
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by DCKing 5y ago
I don't have any of the machines in this list. I'm commenting on Apple's sudden random deprecation strategy without a direct stake in the game.
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by DCKing 5y ago
This announcement puts the expiry date for software updates on the 2014 iMac in late 2023, which is 9 years of support on a potentially 3000 dollar machine at the time. I'm aware of patching projects that will likely give it a longer l
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by DCKing 5y ago
The hell is Apple doing with their supported machines? * iMac Late 2014 - Haswell 4th gen CPU with AMD GCN 1.0 or 1.2 GPU - not supported * Mac Mini Late 2014 - Haswell 4th gen CPU and GPU - supported (this came out the same day as aforemen
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by DCKing 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. The Apple A14 and M1 implement the ARMv8.4 spec, whereas memory tagging became part of the spec in 8.5.
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by DCKing 5y ago
The A510 small core is really the big news here for me. ARM updates their small core architecture very infrequently and the small cores hold back the features of their big cores. Because of the Cortex A55, the Cortex X1 was stuck on ARMv8.2
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by DCKing 5y ago
> If that's the case, who's the arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case? I see a lot of people replying with a slippery slope argument of this nature, which makes me think I should explain my argument b
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by DCKing 5y ago
Good. Very good. This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. Don't ban their trade because they make poor financial products, either beca
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by DCKing 5y ago
> As a developer, why do you want to fight your operating system to get basic things done? This kind of thing easily goes both ways, and shows you're considering things only from a narrow angle. Which is understandable by the way
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by DCKing 5y ago
The Switch's OS is not based on FreeBSD at all. The Switch's OS is a continued development of the operating system of the Nintendo 2DS/3DS which was likely a custom OS. Some news sites read the Switch's open source credi
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by DCKing 5y ago
Having to get any Apple code signing key for regular users is a barrier of entry for malware. However low it is, it is there. Moreover, it gives Apple the power to revoke certificates in the future to at least attempt to contain further
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Chipmaker says it will ramp up production of older 28nm chips(arstechnica.com)
1 points by DCKing 5y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 5y ago
> The real issue is not shipping the M1 with LPDDR5 support. I brought this up before but it was pointed out to me that the only manufacturer of LPDDR5 last year was Samsung, which was producing not-completely-standardized LPDDR5 at the
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by DCKing 5y ago
The current RAM restrictions in the M1 are dumb restrictions resulting from the fact that you can't get LPDDR4X chips larger than 8GB in size (the M1 has two on SoC LPDDR4X chips). This year we should see a lot of CPU manufacturers cha
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by DCKing 5y ago
The 7700K and 10700K use virtually the same Skylake architecture cores with very minor tweaks between them. The only CPU performance gains Intel made in the 2015-2020 period were clock speeds, core counts and support for higher memory speed
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by DCKing 5y ago
The M1 has the necessary hardware to run virtualization. Apple could decide to allow VMWare or Parallels to bring desktop virtualization software to the iPad. You could have an all-in-one device for casual use, note taking, art and media
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by DCKing 5y ago
Having mined cryptocurrency a long long time ago when it was still a novelty, it's really good to appreciate just how bad the externalities are for cryptocurrencies. The incentives are created for people to buy the cheapest energy poss
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Parallels 16.5 Can Virtualize ARM Windows Natively on M1 Macs(macrumors.com)
2 points by DCKing 5y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 6y ago
Oh I'm aware of passthrough. It's just a complete second class citizen because it isn't really virtualization, it's a hack. Virtualization is about multiplexing hardware. Passthrough is the opposite of multiplexing hardw
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by DCKing 6y ago
Dual booting is for chumps. If I could run a base Linux system and arbitrarily run fully hardware accelerated VMs of multiple Linux distros, BSDs and Windows, I'd be all over that. I could pretend here that I really need the ability
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by DCKing 6y ago
Gnome is still by some distance the most popular user interface on Linux, and is also very strongly opinionated and appears to lack customization options [1]. The project's "our way or the highway" approach is frequently vo

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