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by alwillis 7mo ago
> Last I checked VirtualBox on Apple Silicon only permits the running of ARM64 guests. I used to use VirtualBox a lot back in the day. I tried it recently on my Mac; it's become pretty bloated over the years. On the other hand, this
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> As long as you're ok with arm64 guests I've run amd64 guests on M-series CPUs using Quem. Apple's Rosetta 2 is still a thing [1] for now. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527 [2]: https:&#x2
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Like any other Apple Silicon Mac, you can't currently boot into Linux but Apple has native container support that Linux works on [1]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Yes; macOS has native container support for Linux [1]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> browsers can and do set their own rules. Here's a link to the minutes of the CABF meeting where the 25 certificate issuers and the 4 browser vendors—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla—agreed to reduce the validity period of TLS cer
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by alwillis 7mo ago
The CA/Browser Forum, not Google, decides the length of time certificates are valid for. If you don’t like a particular CA’s policies, you can choose a different one.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Not $3 trillion in revenue; a $3 trillion market cap.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
The Neo’s battery is rated for 1,000 charge cycles, same as the MBP.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I’m sure Apple has wanted to create a low-cost Mac laptop (the base Mac mini was already $499) for a long time, regardless of what previous models have done. They waited until they could do it in alignment with Apple’s brand, going back to
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Sure, but there’s a difference between a hack and an intentional architectural decision.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> You can tell when you hit swap, and it doesn’t matter what Mac OS X is designed to do, when you hit swap, you hit swap. When you’re hitting swap a lot, you’re hitting swap a lot. I have a 16GB M1 Pro machine from 2021 with 200 GB/
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> Windows 10+ and Linux also have memory compression, though I don't know how the implementations compare. A combination of Apple's Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) and hardware-accelerated instructions (SIMD/NEON) makes
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by alwillis 7mo ago
RAM Doubler was a third-party application in the days when a top-of-the-line Mac had 128MB of RAM, with a 40Mhz processor. The level 2 cache was 256 bytes . That's not in the same universe as hardware compression on a 6-core, 64-bit A
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> macOS itself has been declining in quality since at least Mojave; people don't rave about it anymore. There are levels to this. Sure, recent versions of macOS have some issues, no doubt. Part of the reason Mac users complain about
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> Swap still absolutely sucks no matter how fast the SSD People always forget that Apple does realtime compression on data that's in RAM allowing more things to fit in RAM; it also effectively increases the bandwidth of the SSD.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I know that Walmart and Costco sold discounted M1 MacBook Airs, which why I used introductory prices. > so I guess they started to have trouble sourcing components and came up with the Neo as their replacement. There’s no indication Appl
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> Apple has been delivering way cheaper laptops ever since M1 I wouldn’t "way cheaper". A baseline Neo with 256GB SSD is $599 vs the first M1 MacBook Air with 256GB SSD was $999 ($1,251.09 in 2026 dollars) A Neo with 512GB SSD
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by alwillis 7mo ago
It's not hidden or undocumented; it's in the man page. Here's 15-year old HN link about it: http://grack.com/blog/2011/02/23/ssh-escape-sequences-or-don...
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> I doubt a highly tuned Linux box will be slower than the equivalent FreeBSD one. That tracks but there's been a lot of work being done on FreeBSD's stack as well. Most people are aware about the contributions Netflix has made
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Asus executive says MacBook Neo is 'shock' to PC industry(macrumors.com)
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I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app(simonwillison.net)
3 points by alwillis 7mo ago|0 comments
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Local-First CI/CD with Makefiles(shipyard.build)
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by alwillis 7mo ago
In a terminal on macOS, to disable writing .DS_Store files to network file shares: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE And for removable media: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> and approaches Linux performance in some areas (e.g. Networking) FreeBSD has been the gold standard for networking features and performance for decades; not sure I'd agree. > FreeBSD tends to have fewer features in almost all a
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Rising Memory, CPU Prices Could Push Mainstream Notebook Prices Up by Nearly 40%(trendforce.com)
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I’ve read many blog posts over the years on ssh. This one was refreshingly informative by covering topics I hadn’t known about before.
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SSH Config: The File Nobody Reads(vivianvoss.net)
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> This looks really nice, but I suppose I might ask the hard questions - how does this compare to Obsidian, To be honest, other than both of them allowing you to write markdown, they're not comparable. Obsidian is the current favori
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by alwillis 7mo ago
One of my favorite Markdown apps from back was MacDown. Somebody updated it; it's now called MacDown 3000 [1]. [1]: https://macdown.app
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> This means not everyone with compromised phone will get alerted. You are still in the dark Apple only alerts people who are potentially in life threatening situations because of who they are or what they do: Apple today detailed two i

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