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“This is not the computer for you”

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Post by nickvec »

TheDong wrote: post #19

> The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Or they learn to enable developer mode, unlock the bootloader, and install Linux, or use the officially supported Crostini, or so on. There's like 3 different ways to run Linux desktop apps on a modern Chromebook. The Macbooks don't let have an officially supported path…

I was sadly too dumb in high school to figure out how to get Linux running on my Chromebook.

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Post by realusername »

hollerith wrote: post #82
bigyabai wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default Mac terminal environment is the Weetabix of UNIX-likes. You need GNU coreutils to do pretty much anything.

Name one thing lacking in the utilities included with MacOS (which come from BSD).

Is it still shipping with that ancient bash, the awful Iterm and without a package manager? I haven't used OSX for a while.

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Post by sedatk »

Gigachad wrote: post #55
sedatk wrote: post #53

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ARM PC laptops are on par with Macbooks in terms of battery life nowadays.

Is ARM Windows usable these days?

Very much so if you don't care about gaming. x86-64 emulation has already been great, and 99% of popular apps have native ARM64 versions. The only exception was Discord for me for a long time. I used to use an unofficial wrapper called "Legcord" instead. But, now even Discord has a native Windows version. I mostly use my laptop for software development + browsing.

I haven't tried gaming, but I feel like it'll suck for almost anything that's not natively ARM64. Steam doesn't have an ARM64 based client yet, AFAIK.

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Post by wnoise »

pjerem wrote: post #92
rafram wrote: post #39

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The bootloader isn’t locked. Asahi’s developers have written about how Apple specifically built support for third-party OSes into the bootloader.

The same Asahi developers also wrote about how Apple didn’t document anything and especially, Apple never talked in public about this. Apple betting Apple, If they had cared a single second about this, they would have called this Bootcamp 2. Honestly I’m pretty convinced that this « open » bootloader was just there to avoid criticism and bad press from specialized outlets when they presented the M1 because, for once,…

To be clear, "Apple" is a group, not a unified thing with one will.

That doesn't mean that the engineeers will necessarily ship something more flexible than what the PMs asked for. Often not.

But sometimes they will.

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Post by _qib3 »

randallsquared wrote: post #111
_qib3 wrote: post #97

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Why do you think they're fewer and farther between? It's almost certainly at least partially because of Chromebooks and the save-the-user-from-themself design philosophy.

I would say it's primarily because their phone (android or iphone) does nearly everything they would ever want a "computer" to do, and so they never had a hook into real curiosity about computing. This will probably be exactly the same whether the school supplies a Macbook Neo or a Chromebook.

It's the same epidemic. I don't think the author has a problem specifically with Chromebooks.

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Post by asdff »

dwd wrote: post #65

Sometimes I feel privileged for being in the generation that learnt to program BASIC on a C64 when it was the coolest thing around at the time. Being that much closer to the metal is a whole different experience of learning what a computer is and can do. Is that even possible now? Probably not. Years ago I tried to get my kids interested in playing with their own Raspberry Pi when they came out, that they could do wh…

I tried to learn to program as a kid too. It didn't take, couldn't get past the hello world/simple program stage interest wise. I just wanted to go right to making games. Closest I got was messing with configs and skins and some map making. Took until later in college when I started programming "for real."

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Post by Paracompact »

hollerith wrote: post #82
bigyabai wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default Mac terminal environment is the Weetabix of UNIX-likes. You need GNU coreutils to do pretty much anything.

Name one thing lacking in the utilities included with MacOS (which come from BSD).

`grep -P` kinda annoying. GNU has Perl-compatible regex, and BSD does not. You're reaching for `perl` or installing `ggrep` the moment you need a lookbehind.
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