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by opengears 2y ago
I would love to know more about this. Would it not be (at least theoretically) possible to hackintosh ARM, as Asahi Linux reverse engineered at least some parts of the M series?
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by opengears 2y ago
Exactly! And even if Sequoia is the last OS to have Intel support, it will be some years before it stops receiving updates. Currently you are only missing out on "Apple Intelligence" when using Hackintosh or Intel Mac - some even
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by opengears 2y ago
This is a very good idea! But how would we enforce and check this (see recent issues to enforce right to repair)? What would be the KPIs - repairability score? Apple for example is arguing against this by saying that when they repair things
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by opengears 2y ago
To quote Louis Rossmann: "tldr: install Librewolf and go on with your life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos
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by opengears 2y ago
Hackintoshing supports internal GPUs (iGPU) as well (not only RX 580) - and lots of people install on their Lenovo Thinkpads or other notebooks.
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by opengears 2y ago
ARM processors significantly differ from Apple Silicon. Apple's M series are not fully compliant with the ARM64 ISA and contain undocumented instructions. There was a discussion about that a few month ago on /r/hackintosh ht
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by opengears 2y ago
To be fair - the reverse engineering has to be done for every of the M series, and the M1 is the best supported Apple SoC so far. I guess we should support the project if we want them to succeed (they live from donations).
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by opengears 2y ago
The power savings of new computers are not relevant if compared with the energy that is needed to build them. University of Edinburgh (2016) found that by extending the lifetime of a single computer and monitor from four years to six years,
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by opengears 2y ago
Luckily we have Asahi Linux. https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/
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by opengears 2y ago
This is what I use them for exactly. The HFSPlus driver is three years old now, and seems to not get updated anymore. Does anyone know if it is the same one as in Linux kernel? https://github.com/acidanthera/OcBinaryDat
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Nobody Enforces "Right to Repair"(techdirt.com)
3 points by opengears 2y ago|0 comments
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Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice(opengears.medium.com)
50 points by opengears 2y ago|78 comments
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OpenCore v1.0.4 hackintosh bootloader released(old.reddit.com)
2 points by opengears 2y ago|0 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
This is a great summary of the Framework 2nd Gen Event Q&A featuring the Framework 16 laptop, the Framework printer and other things not directly covered in the video of the event.
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Framework 2nd Gen Event Q&A: Framework 16, Framework Printer and others(old.reddit.com)
2 points by opengears 2y ago|1 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
I am one of the mods of /r/linuxhardware, and we had a long thread ca 1 year ago which until recently was completely spamming our moderation queue. There are some statements from malibal there, in case some of you are interested i
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AMD 7840U confirmed to support 128GB of RAM (CT2K64G56C46S5, frame.work)(old.reddit.com)
4 points by opengears 2y ago|1 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
Here is an official post from framework confirming it works: "For those wondering, the 7840U DOES support 128GB of RAM. CT2K64G56C46S5" https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1iuc5ze/for_th
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Bringing back OpenCL acceleration in Blender 3 for old AMD GPUs(old.reddit.com)
1 points by opengears 2y ago|1 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
OP: here is an approach to restore OpenCL acceleration in Blender on Linux using Rusticl and chipStar. Rusticl is an OpenCL implementation on top of Gallium drivers (and part of Mesa). chipStar is a tool for compiling and running HIP/C
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Success: Black Magic DaVinci Resolve 19 on Linux with Old AMD GPU and Wayland(old.reddit.com)
1 points by opengears 2y ago|2 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
OP here. I have Black Magic Davinci Resolve 19 running on Linux with Wayland (confirmed with Gnome, Hyprland and Niri). The complication was that I am running on an old AMD GPU (fiji) the AMD R9 Fury X. I have used the open source AMD drive
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128GB RAM kit for Framework Notebook spotted(old.reddit.com)
2 points by opengears 2y ago|0 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
if you are on openwrt i can recommend checking out unbound and adblock as alternatives (running directlly on your routers without the need of a raspberry pi)
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LLMs Were Backdoored Years Ago(remyhax.xyz)
21 points by opengears 2y ago|13 comments
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Shotcut FOSS video editor based on FFmpeg introduces new features(shotcut.org)
2 points by opengears 2y ago|0 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
don't you think that these instructions are escaped by now bobby tables?
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A free BIOS with GNU Boot [video](media.ccc.de)
4 points by opengears 2y ago|1 comments
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by opengears 2y ago
Video presentation of GNU Boot, a 100% free boot firmware distribution that aims to provide "freedom, technological independence and security" for its users.
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Sixos: A Nix OS without systemd [video](media.ccc.de)
8 points by opengears 2y ago|1 comments

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