GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> AMD PSP is little more than an embedded TPM Again, you've got some reading to do. > the subsystem is "responsible for creating, monitoring and maintaining the security environment" and "its functions include mana
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Asahi Linux already does use an open source UEFI implementation (U-Boot) to boot Linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot The Asahi installer will also allow you to install UEFI alone, in case you want to use UE
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
You should probably do do some reading on the subject to gain a bit more understanding: > This puts [Apple Silicon Macs] somewhere between x86 PCs and a libre-first system like the Talos II in terms of freedom to replace firmware and boo
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> M series macs are weird More weird than the opaque Management Engines on Intel or AMD chips that can take full control of your system at any time that you have no control over? > Can't help but to think the goal of this wasn&#x
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Apple designed a bootloader for Apple Silicon Macs that allows you to run an unsigned OS without degrading security when you boot into MacOS. This wasn't an accident. Macs have always allowed you to run another OS. iDevices have always
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> rather than opening their platform a tiny bit Handing full access to the data on a user's device over to a company with the scruples of somebody like Facebook is a privacy nightmare, not "opening their platform a tiny bit&quo
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> I think agents are scary and complicated and dangerous enough that it is genuinely scary to give an agent an instruction like go buy this ticket. Once again, early 1990's General Magic looks prescient. They were working on smartph
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Apple has always tweaked new UI designs over the first few OS releases. They did it with Aqua when MacOS launched and again with the iPhone's original skeuomorphic UI and yet again with the flat redesign of iOS.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
You can't scrub back and forth on the timeline until the live stream is finished.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Macs were known for far longer standby times while sleeping long before MS completely screwed the pooch with their "modern" standby.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Until LPCAMM2 came along, using low power LPDDR RAM meant soldiering RAM to the motherboard. If you wanted to get sleep right and improve battery life, that was the trade off.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> However, it will make decent machines to play video games." Where you will need games to be rewritten for ARM to get full performance, just like on Apple's M series chips.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
It's worth remembering that schools in American farming regions would shut down during planting and harvest seasons just 100 years ago. Large families were your source of farm labor.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
They have the cheap one, the little one, the premium consumer one, and the Pro.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
There wouldn't be so many people who see no need to upgrade their M1 series computers if this were a real concern.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
I saw a recent report stating that the Neo was selling well in India, where the iPhone's share is negligible.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
I actually have seen a business upgrade PCs that were fairly recently purchased once, back during the transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Dell has just announced an 8 Gig of RAM version of their XPS laptop and the PR surrounding the launch is pretty funny. > "Apple's MacBook Neo is a capable machine, and its arrival confirms that there's real appetite for pr
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Apple's advantage is that they design a large share of their own parts, and their partners build them at a very high volume since they are used in more than one product line. They don't have to pay a margin to so many component ve
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Apple's MacBook Neo is winning over a new generation of buyers(techcrunch.com)
7 points by GeekyBear 4mo ago|2 comments
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
I personally switched to DDG months ago when Google opted me into AI search against my will.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
The Apple Silicon dev kit shipped in 2019 and the cutoff date is 2028, so it's a pretty mild form of hurry. If you want to continue to run older software, do what you would do in Windows 11 and spin up VM with an older version of the O
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
x86 gaming and running x86 Linux software are the exceptions. > Starting with macOS 28, Rosetta 2 will be largely discontinued. Apple says that after that point, it “will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older u
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> The unremovable U2 album is also a cause for concern Open the settings and uncheck "automatically download purchased music that isn't on the device". Fixed. > movies require another level of trust When Apple paid the
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Steam games with DRM can be revoked as well. We've also seen Apple upgrade 480p movies purchased in the past to HD which is an improvement compared to buying physical media.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Jef did go on to create a computer along the lines of his original vision after leaving Apple. > The Canon Cat used a text-based user interface, without any pointer, mouse, icons, or graphics. All data was seen as a long "stream&quo
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
A patch set landed shortly there after. https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
USB display support was demoed at a conference at the end of last year.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
The current leadership team at Asahi decided to prioritize upstreaming their existing work over reverse engineering on newer systems. Given that you can score a used M1 Air for half the price of a new Macbook Neo (and have Linux be supporte
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
> it's about paying a bit extra now to be able to go from decent-in-2026 Does "slower than an iPhone chip from a couple of years ago" meet that bar?

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