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by mrpippy 8d ago
> A potential concern is that when jumping between x86 emulation and ARM code, that the ARM code will pay unnecessary overhead due to all its accesses being TSO now. While this is a reasonable concern, the amount of ARM native code execu
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by mrpippy 8d ago
That’s possible (never underestimate the bad decision-making of phone makers), but what would they have done instead? Windows Mobile 6 was the only licensable alternative, but it was a known quantity and obviously a generation behind Androi
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by mrpippy 12d ago
AFAIK they still aren't shipping an actual ARM64 version of Steam, making it difficult to actually use those (unsupported) ARM builds of Proton. That article is 5 months old.
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by mrpippy 13d ago
Sonoma will be getting its last security update imminently (possibly tomorrow).
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by mrpippy 26d ago
Yes, real apps use Mach messaging directly. i.e.: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:ipc...
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by mrpippy 26d ago
The Mach APIs are available to userland applications, if you used a different kernel you’d have to implement them somehow
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by mrpippy 1mo ago
Especially since the Linux kernel dropping support usually happens years after distributions already have, so it would be quite difficult to run actual software on such hardware anyway. Whereas NetBSD is an entire OS.
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by mrpippy 1mo ago
Alan Coopersmith works at Oracle, on Solaris. I don't know of any effort to use Wayland on Solaris, so maintaining X really is their only option. OTOH, RedHat seems happy to let X die.
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
There were Itanium workstations ( https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_i2000.html , https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_zx2000.html ), but of course these quickly crashed and burned with the rest of Itani
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
Not to mention rendering the driver’s display (gauge cluster)
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
It’s rendering the driver’s display (i.e. the gauge cluster), the driver HUD, the central display, watching a driver-facing camera for fatigue alerting, handling Bluetooth, WiFi, navigation. Calling it an “infotainment” system is underselli
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
That’s correct, Rosetta for running x86_64 binaries in Linux VMs is not going away. They’re no longer branding this feature as Rosetta, so it doesn’t get lumped in with the Rosetta removal for Mac binaries (although it’s all still kinda con
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
For some reason, the PS4 and PS5 actually cannot play audio CDs
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
These links show the pinout: https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/keyboards.shtml https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.pi/keyboard.shtml And the keyboard(7) man page actually has
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by mrpippy 2mo ago
Also, SGI keyboards never used ADB. Indigo-era SGIs used a mini-DIN keyboard/mouse, but it was proprietary. They were PS/2 starting with the Indigo2 and Indy.
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
My memory from classic Mac OS is that pushing the keyboard soft-power key brought up a system-modal dialog asking if you wanted to shut down, restart, or cancel, a dialog with exactly the same design as: < http://www.christianb
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
The author discussed this a bit on Mastodon as well: https://xoxo.zone/@numist/116716469017975106
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
At this point that would be a 2018 Mac mini, which can only run Sequoia (which will be out-of-support at the same time as Homebrew drops Intel support). If you want Intel support, MacPorts still runs back to Leopard.
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
Virtualization.framework just gained USB passthrough support in macOS 27. It might be a niche feature for containers to add, but other VM software will likely add support soon.
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
I would consider HFS+ to be a legacy filesystem at this point, something you shouldn't use without a really good reason (interop with pre-macOS 10.13 machines being the only one I can think of). Fun fact: HFS dates back to the 80s, and
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
Note to the author: did you file an Apple feedback for this? You should put that FB number in your post and the GitHub repo, it will ease the process for any Apple employees who see this and want to get it fixed.
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
Right, that’s why you get a simpler yes/no dialog for notifications, and a conplex “navigate to this settings pane and click a separate button” flow for a keylogger
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
Those are still needed for the Rosetta use-cases that are sticking around (old games, Linux binaries)
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
I feel like that's true for early/mid-90s games where the PC version targeted DOS (+ the varied universe of PC video/sound hardware), and the Mac version could just target the much more uniform Mac platform. But SimCity 3000
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by mrpippy 4mo ago
WinCE 6 Platform Builder was based on Visual Studio 2005 I think. Building applications for WinCE 6 was also only supported with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, which put a hard cap on available language features and development OS support. I h
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by mrpippy 5mo ago
See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
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by mrpippy 5mo ago
Correct, that is staying around. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note... : > There will continue to be support for older, unmaintained gaming titles leveraging Rosetta along with software runn
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by mrpippy 5mo ago
True, Apple's developer and support pages are not all fully up-to-date or explicit. From the macOS 26.4 release notes ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note... ): > There will continue to
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by mrpippy 5mo ago
No, those need to stay (at least the ones needed to run the targeted "old unmaintained games"). What can go is all the x86_64 slices of system binaries (i.e. bash, perl, etc etc)
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by mrpippy 6mo ago
Evidence that NVIDIA has even been trying? My understanding is that Apple didn’t allow 3rd parties to write graphics drivers past 10.13, but they could’ve done a non-graphics driver like this.

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