GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 17d ago
After four years of watching the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel snap Google's foldable phones in half at the same spot along the antenna lines, I'm looking forward to seeing how well this holds up. Something this expensive sho
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by GeekyBear 19d ago
The AOSP does not run modern Android apps, since Google has been replacing the APIs those apps require with closed source versions (that only ship as part of Google Play) for over a decade.
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by GeekyBear 19d ago
> There is no alternative. There have been several projects like Ubuntu Touch to create an open Linux for smartphones. That would be an open alternative. Android is not open.
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by GeekyBear 19d ago
Clang, OpenCL, MLX
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
I'm pretty sure Intel is providing Xenon CPUs for free when they are used in Linux servers, so they have no financial interest in providing first party Linux drivers. Sure, they relied on community Linux drivers in the past, but that d
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
If selling Linux servers (or parts used in Linux servers) is a major chunk of your revenue, your company is likely to start providing first party Linux drivers? This is a shocking development.
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
> I'm not sure I understand the target user for Asahi. If you want to run bare metal Linux on Apple's hardware (instead of running it in a virtual machine) you are the target audience.
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
In the beginning, Bootcamp had a real job. It allowed a machine running Intel's EFI firmware (as Intel Macs have always done) to boot an OS that only understood the older BIOS standard. Once Microsoft and the various PC vendors started
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
The same thing that has previously happened with discontinued Intel Macs or PC hardware that is no longer supported by Windows. You can still boot Linux natively on it.
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by GeekyBear 20d ago
It serves the exact same purpose that WSL does in Windows. You can run any flavor of Linux you like in a virtual machine, while booted into the native OS.
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by GeekyBear 24d ago
> it looks like the software Google is shipping intentionally doesn't use MTE on the Pixel 11 hardware. That raises the question of...what does Google know is wrong with MTE on the Pixel 11? Apple replaced MTE with an upgraded versi
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by GeekyBear 25d ago
This is the sort of user focused feature you add when you take the phrase "user agent" seriously.
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by GeekyBear 25d ago
GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep I don't think the project kept up with changes to the APIs over the decades compared to h
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by GeekyBear 25d ago
I remember Google buying Chrome market share by tricking users into installing Chrome when they didn't pay attention while clicking next through the installers for more popular software.
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by GeekyBear 25d ago
MLX is an open source framework that allows you to run open models in a manner optimized for Apple's hardware. You can take advantage of larger amounts of memory, higher memory bandwidth, and clustering multiple systems. How is using a
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by GeekyBear 26d ago
They didn't "accidentally" add tensor units to the GPU cores in the M5 generation. However, I don't think they expected the level of Enterprise interest they saw.
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by GeekyBear 26d ago
> Classic monopoly move: Control the user base, then control hardware Classic monopoly move by who? Apple created MLX as an open source framework to allow users to run any open model locally.
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by GeekyBear 27d ago
The company that Google targeted with their Motorola patents was Microsoft. Google sought to ban the sale of Microsoft products that used the H.264 video standard on a global basis if Microsoft didn't hand over a literal fortune. >
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by GeekyBear 27d ago
> They purchased Motorola Mobility for the patent portfolio as essentially a nuclear deterrent against Apple By Apple, you mean Microsoft. The early Android device makers had to pay a per device patent licensing fee to Microsoft. Google
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
The new project leadership team prioritized upstreaming the existing work first. Once the upstreaming was largely done, they first mentioned beginning the work of adding M3 support in the February progress report. Now we have this: > Wit
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
> You don't need to write performant 3D graphics drivers for servers. Intel, AMD, Nvidia does it anyway. Apple is the only Linux-hostile company. You can't think of an Enterprise use case for GPUs that has become popular of lat
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Intel has stopped pushing clock speeds to such ridiculous extremes, so battery life is getting better. However they still have to nail single core performance on chips that can operate without a fan before they can be said to have caught up
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Sure. When you make a big chunk of your revenue selling Enterprise Servers, you can no longer rely on drivers written by volunteer labor, as they did in the past.
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
She was such an impressively kind person.
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
According to Mark Gurman, the base M6 is bumped up to 200 GB/s of memory bandwidth with a single core performance bump of 15%.
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
> For exactly the border search scenario, I wish smartphones could be imaged and restored as easily as PCs. You're always been able to backup and restore your iPhone to your local Windows PC or a Mac using free first party software
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Also Clang and OpenCL.
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
> it's got all the limitations of Manifest V3 which prevents it from doing a good bit of blocking The only mainstream browser left that can still run the full version of uBlock Origin is Firefox. All the others have the same limitat
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
Firefox is also the only browser that vets uBlock's code on every update to make sure the developer hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension. They don't do it for every extension, but they do so for a wide select
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by GeekyBear 1mo ago
> 1. These platforms are highly addictive So block them. > 2. Many parents are themselves addicted and don't understand the harms or choose to ignore them People are allowed to make choices others find objectionable. > 3. Even

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