We seriously need an open hardware law or something. Like it doesn't have to be regulation necessarily (as by law) but we really need to start very strongly pressuring/forcing companies to open up their hardware and provide all documentation to get any operating system to run on it, and to hell with what the manufacturer wants (to prevent things like attestation requirements). This entire "just let random volunteers figure it out" isn't sustainable and locks out competition.
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ummm if repairability is a concern, I’ve got some news to share about your new Macbook.
Apple saves itself a lot of the trouble with superior build quality. With Samsung devices (so no cheap crap), USB ports last me about three years of heavy use. With my old iPhone 12, 2019 16-inch MBP or my 2022 MBA? Not a single issue. The housing is simply constructed so tight and, being made of solid metal, rigid that the housing bears the torsion load and not the tiny PCB solder pads. The only problem I have with…
> With Samsung devices (so no cheap crap), USB ports last me about three years of heavy use.
What are you doing to these machines?! I work in the safety and security biz, including in the field, and my trusty HP EliteBook 2730p is still rocking along on its first USB ports. That machine is over 15 bloody years old!
Re: Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
#143> Thanks to the combined efforts of mildsunrise and chaos_princess, we discovered that ACE3 has pretty much the same register set as CD3217, only wrapped in a SPMI interface instead of addressed over I2C. Both the SPMI interface and ACE3 itself are now working in Asahi Linux, bringing USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt support to all M3 series devices. When I got my M3 Pro MBP, I got it with the intention of eventually installi…
> other than that all I really need is a web browser and Ghostty with good battery life.
Then why bother installing a different OS?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I’ve been a big Lenovo fan, settled on the X1 carbon. I’ve had three of them, G5, G6 and G9. The USB-C port broke on both G6 and G9 models. Apparently it’s a common problem. Unfortunately the ports are soldered directly on the motherboard making it difficult to fix(should be a small separate board for easy replacement). I was going to desolder and replace the ports, but haven’t gotten around to it. I’m now u…
Ummm if repairability is a concern, I’ve got some news to share about your new Macbook.
No, repair ability is only important if it’s crappy quality to begin with.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
My MacBook Pro M1 is 5 years old now and the SSD wear level is at 4%. SSD wear is not a problem for normal users. Meanwhile Apple's standard OS support period is 7 years, that's a much more imminent limit. Not saying that I support non-user-replaceable SSDs, but if your goal is reducing e-waste, there are more impactful changes to make.
Thanks, that's a fair data point. Although i'm sure it depends on actual user workloads. I'm not saying that I support closed-source firmware, locked bootloaders, or even that replacing SSDs is the one true path to sustainability. I believe it's a whole field and we shouldn't tolerate compromises on any level. It should be 100% illegal in any civilized country to sell the kind of lame hardware we have today. It shoul…
Totally agree that lawmakers need to crack down on locked-down hardware.
The DMA crap that the EU passed even seems to go in the wrong direction, allowing Apple to audit the financials of anyone who makes an iOS app.
I was mostly just reacting to your "barely matters" wording :)
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#147> If you think about it, m1n1 is almost like our own firmware for Apple Silicon.
If you really think about it, it's kinda amusing how far we came from https://wiibrew.org/wiki/MINI being used to bootstrap homebrew on the Nintendo Wii on PPC to being used to fire up our Macs daily running Asahi on ARM.
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"I paid thousands of dollars to apple who provided a great hw product with their own OS preinstalled and free".
"... so that I can never switch to anything ever due to vendor lock-in, which includes hard-to-transfer data, muscle memory and habit forming not applicable to other OSes, accounts bound to iCloud, voluntary surrender of privacy, acceptance of planned obsolescence and non-repairability, lack of support beyond 'try turning it off-on' or 'replace your device for half its price', etc., etc. But hey, the hw is great!"
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Unfortunately, the state of non-Apple hardware makes your parent’s comment a defensible position. Btw, using Linux in general means having “some unpaid volunteer do it for you”
No it doesn't. This reads like someone who hasn't touched a non-apple Laptop in 15-20 years.
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The command key really has to be my favorite thing about OSX, it lets you do system things without intercepting whatever is going on in the terminal. It also leaves the ctrl key with barely any use, so you can just customize its behavior (for example, I have ctrl+opt+some letter keys assigned to different desktops/spaces, that works great for me)
My favourite thing about the command key is the position - it’s way further to the right than ctrl on most keyboards, which means you don’t have to contort your thumb back and apply lateral pressure to your thumb joint when copy-pasting. I’m either doing it wrong on Windows or the entire world is putting up with unnecessary finger pain because whoever chose Ctrl-C was a masochist.
Originally, the Ctrl key was to the left of A, where Caps Lock is now. This makes most Ctrl key shortcuts a lot more comfortable. They moved Ctrl to the bottom left with the Model M keyboard, which became the standard modern PC keyboard layout. As far as I can tell, the justification for this was that it made the layout more familiar to typewriter users, since Caps Lock is in the same position it's in on a typewriter (see https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/pc/IBM_Personal_Computer_Semin... page 24). Personally, I always remap my key layout on every PC I use so left Ctrl is swapped with Caps Lock.