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by mrpippy 3y ago
Is that the actual sound of the engine, or fake engine noise being generated through the speakers?
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Yes, it’s entirely AppKit.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
That is totally false. If nothing else, SGI sold Itanium systems that only ran Linux. In addition, there were plenty of Linux Itanium HPC clusters on the Top500, there are 20 listed in June 2006 when I randomly searched: https://
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by mrpippy 3y ago
By HP I assume? Intel doesn’t sell them anymore, and HP was the last one to sell systems and support OSes.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
No mention of the kernel using 16K page sizes?
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by mrpippy 3y ago
And, CrossOver now includes D3DMetal, the important part from the game porting toolkit.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
CrossOver 23.5 includes D3DMetal from the Game porting toolkit
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Possible related to the ‘-fbounds-safety’ feature they’ve proposed for Clang https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-enforcing-bounds-safety-in-...
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CrossOver 23.5 is a real game changer(codeweavers.com)
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by mrpippy 3y ago
If the expected pattern holds, macOS Monterey will be getting security updates for another year.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Chrome OS already has an ARM emulator so that Android apps with ARM-only native libraries can run on x86 CrOS systems. If Google really wants to support RISC-V that badly, they could probably just retarget that.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
You can mix 32- and 64-bit code in a 64-bit process on both Linux and macOS (since 10.15), and this is what Wine uses. It works by setting a LDT with a 32-bit code segment and then doing a far/long cross-segment jump to the 32-bit segm
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Are you talking about games? Or old versions of apps? I know of very few actively-maintained 32-bit Mac applications that didn’t make it to 64-bit: MathType and AccountEdge are the ones I remember right now.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
With the “new”/32-bit-code-in-64-bit-process Wow64, the Unix process and all Unix code/shared libraries are 64-bit. But (most of) the Windows code is 32-bit, and calls through thunks to Unix code (either Nt* syscalls or into Unix
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by mrpippy 3y ago
> WOW64 in future versions of Wine will not work this way and shouldn't need 32-bit packages at all. Correct, with the “new”/32-bit-code-in-64-bit-process Wow64, there’s an option you pass to ./configure to specify what ar
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by mrpippy 3y ago
> Somehow the people at Apple thought an error code and a brief description would be scary, so they opted for this absolutely terrifying icon instead That error is the boot firmware telling you it can’t find a bootable OS. It doesn’t kno
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I haven’t used it in a few years, but one downside of an HE tunnel was that Netflix blocked traffic from it (since people were using it like a VPN to avoid geoblocks). I had to run a DNS proxy to filter out AAAA records for any Netflix doma
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Yes, it works on Intel but not ARM VMs (it’s a conscious limitation by Apple)
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Yes, it works on Intel but not ARM VMs (it’s a conscious limitation by Apple)
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by mrpippy 3y ago
They are managed both ways. I think updating in BIOS is preferable to ensure no CPU parameters change while (some part) of the kernel has already initialized. But of course BIOS updates have many downsides and often stop after a few years.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
It feels like not-a-coincidence that OpenBSD added AMD microcode loading in the last 3 days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838511
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Interesting, like which games? I know RDR2 uses normal Vulkan swapchains.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Basically a free clone of CrossOver, which has used “bottles” to refer to separate Wine prefixes for 20 years. (disclaimer: I work for CodeWeavers)
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by mrpippy 3y ago
It’s in the article
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by mrpippy 3y ago
This reminded me of work I did for Proton/Wine a few years back: finding a buffer overflow in the Rockstar Games Launcher installer NSIS script, having to implement an ancient deprecated Windows named pipe mode that RGL uses, reverse-e
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by mrpippy 3y ago
That's ironic, since NeXTSTEP 3.1 and later did run on Intel x86 machines (although with a much smaller universe of supported hardware than Linux/Windows).
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Some kind of “by opening this software you agree to the license terms contained within” notice was pretty common on the bag of floppies or on a sticker on the jewel case, etc. And of course, the EULA would be part of the setup process.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Slides: https://msrndcdn360.blob.core.windows.net/bluehat/bluehatil/...
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by mrpippy 4y ago
Only supporting a single CPU in the guest is a significant limitation too
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by mrpippy 4y ago
I'd be more worried that the TV would just say "T&C acceptance is required to use this product, please return me to the store" and turn itself off

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