I was curious about how the OS looks like, here is a demo https://youtu.be/lccQ5WhcKko
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...do you think that could actually work? I can't entirely tell if you're joking or not, it's true I never considered this... does WASM code have the network access that would be required for a proxy?
Looks like there is a project to transpile WASM w/ WASI APIs to portable C: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2 Sadly it doesn't seem to support the networking parts of WASI, though. If it did, then it might even be possible to port all the way back to Cheetah
Yep, that's the one I was thinking of. Still, I wonder if the platform's networking could just be added in ex-post facto (disclaimer: never actually touched this, just looked at it)
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> Can you even imagine a Mac that has upgradeable RAM? Well now I feel old. Not only can I imagine it, I used to routinely buy RAM upgrades for my Macs because it was more affordable than getting a Mac with more RAM in the first place. As I recall one of the early aluminum PowerBooks even had a really thoughtful design that made it easy to access and replace the RAM, battery, and hard drive.
Yeah, back in the day they used actual Philips head screws, I presume for that purpose. The user hostility is just outrageous, IMHO I've been thinking harder and harder about https://getupgraded.com/macbook/ to really get it in my mind that I don't own any Apple product, I just lease it from them for a while
They also used Torx screws for a long time. Honestly the process for upgrading RAM was always variable. Power Macs had a door with a hinge, but the original iMac needed a lot of disassembly to get to the RAM slots.
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10.6 was absolutely not 10.5 recompiled. It was entirely a reliability and bug fix release on top of 10.5.
Poor choice of word on my part/missing "re-written" and that it was reliability/bug fixes/removing PPC stuff was what I was trying to convey.
I know this isn't your point, but it actually seems like PPC got dropped from Snow Leopard at the last minute. Early developer preview disks worked on PowerPC Macs. The stability didn't come from dropping PPC.
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#195The MacBook Air mentioned (2014) will install Mavericks when booted into recovery mode anyway (unless you use Option-Command-R which will give you the newest compatible version which is Big Sur). I did that a few days ago and I agree, it’s quite snappy! Missing certificates can also be installed manually (e.g. from the curl CA bundle), but even then TLS 1.3 support is lacking in most apps which breaks a lot of stuff…
Regarding SSL: just make sure you are using macOS 10.9.3, earlier versions (all of them, and I mean, all since the 80s) never had a working SSL implementation. For more, read about the GOTO FAIL bug: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2014-1266
I often bring this one up when I see missing braces in PRs.
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It is trivial to escalate to root and then do precisely that when SIP is disabled.
That's because more recently Apple introduced an entitlement to make that trivial, right? I wish they hadn't done that.
Yes but it's natural considering that their security model is built on SIP being enabled
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Have you looked at https://ubuntubudgie.org/ ?
I have. Budgie is cool, but falls into a similar bucket as elementary/Pantheon in that it’s not mac-like even if it includes certain Mac features and qualities.
https://ravynos.com/ claims to support a lot of the mac niceties
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#198I preferred Snow Leopard, 10.6 over all others. With Lion the downfall started. And it cracked with the doomed butterfly keyboards, that's when I gave up and switched back to ThinkPads with Fedora. Battery life was nice, but I am not wandering around that much anymore. Those days I did work in the pool with an air.
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#199Reading "Why Mavericks" made me glad not to be alone in noticing the slow progression toward a general lack of usability in macOS.
For me, it started with 10.7 when a lot of things changed just to look different. From then forward, user habits were seemingly not considered and everything moved here and there on a yearly basis.
At least with Windows, the major overhauls to Explorer come so slowly that your productivity routines don't get sand in the cogs every year when you update and Apple's OS shifts extremely key parts of the window UI around and makes the hit points even smaller over time.
The killer for me is how difficult it is to fix things if you don't like them. Modern macOS has horrendous mouse speed handling, and changing this beyond Apple's very limited settings is a pain. And even then, Windows and Linux and older OS X handled the cursor movement better. I like(d) so much about Apple over the years, but it is clear they're an iPhone company that makes laptops and desktops... not the other way around.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poor choice of word on my part/missing "re-written" and that it was reliability/bug fixes/removing PPC stuff was what I was trying to convey.
I know this isn't your point, but it actually seems like PPC got dropped from Snow Leopard at the last minute. Early developer preview disks worked on PowerPC Macs. The stability didn't come from dropping PPC.
That _is_ interesting. It was always presented in the material that I read that speed and performance enhancements came from dropping PowerPC.