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Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by phforms »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #224
wyclif wrote: post #183

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How do you turn it off?

It's in System Preferences somewhere (good luck). It's the option to allow software updates while your machine is asleep.

In Ventura (13.2), you can turn off automatic updates in the “General” tab, then “Software Update” and click on the little “(i)” icon to the right of “Automatic updates”.

When I saw it the first time, it was unclear to me that I can even click on it, since it doesn’t look much like a button. They shouldn’t hide such important settings in a tiny icon or at least should have made it much more apparent that it is clickable.

Couldn’t find any settings related to the closed lid though.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by pxc »

kagakuninja wrote: post #255
dagmx wrote: post #108

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What code is prevented by security? Other than limits to kexts, your code isn’t beholden to most of the system security changes unless you specifically opt in to make a sandboxed app.

I have to deal with refusal to install apps from "untrusted developers" constantly, I can't even believe you wrote that. For starters, the UI experience is terrible. You get a dialog telling you you can't install an app; close the dialog then you have to know to go to a certain Settings tab under Privacy & Security, and there will (hopefully) be some text that allows you to enable the app. This is a UI disaster. Mayb…

> I mean, are Steam and Firaxis not "trusted developers".

Does 'app from a trusted developer' mean something other than 'app from the app store, or from someone you've specifically allowlisted'?

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by nvarsj »

justinzollars wrote: post #40
kjhughes wrote: post #30

For those who might prefer text over video: Q: What's your operating system of choice, today? A: I have for most of my life, because I was sort of born into it, run Apple. Right now, recently, meaning within the last five years, I’ve become more and more and more depressed and [Laughter] what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious, but they are taking a lot of space and time to d…

I have to admit, I tried and failed to switch away from Apple. I bought a Linux Laptop - an System 76. I was surprised at how terrible the battery management of linux was compared with my mac. And that particular issue broke me.

I feel like this comment has short memory. Battery life on intel macbooks was terrible ime. Frequently it would drain completely while the lid was closed overnight. Always had to keep it plugged in. Of course Apple silicon is fantastic and nothing beats it now.

On the Linux side, I've had great luck with AMD + recent kernels. I get around 6 hours now on my Thinkpad X13 gen 2 which is good enough for me.

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Post by akho »

runjake wrote: post #190
drivebyops wrote: post #146

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There simply isn’t a proper contender to Apple. And with Apple silicon, it’s a done deal for the next decade at least. Apart from hardware, you need a company that is willing to take Linux from the ground up and create a macOS type OS. Not simply make your own distribution and DE and call it a day. Chromebook was close, but they had bad execution and wrong ideas.

Linux is a kernel. Making your own distribution and DE is how you create a Linux-based macOS. I’d say System 76 is doing that but their execution has stumbled for the past year or so. They are working on their own Rust-based DE, to some level of success. I hope they get back on track.

How do I get full-disk encryption on Linux without having to type a password twice on boot? This is not a surface-level issue you can solve at distribution / DE level, and it’s not the only one.

A good pre-installed environment of current tools would be nice, of course.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #77

I was at the talk, and it's strange this what people take from it. You should watch the whole thing and see what he built over years. I was a bit disappointed that most of the questions ignored his talk about a very cool jukebox he built and focused on OS drama. He built a jukebox with all hit songs he could find in it 1900-2000 and for prerecorded music, got a player piano and sheet music and midi and integrated the…

Thanks for this.

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Post by troad »

sircastor wrote: post #171

I’ve given strong thought to switching away from macOS. I too have been a Max user all my life, a Macintosh Plus being the first computer in our house. I would get fed up at Apple’s hardware choices or its limitations on users. I have had a dozen Linux computers with various systems on them. I don’t know if it’s because they were Dell machines, or if it’s an Ubuntu thing, but I have had almost every single one turn i…

I'm sorry to hear about your experience! I feel like noting that my primary driver has been Kubuntu on an (nvidia) laptop for a few years now, and it's been the most pleasant experience. Sure, you get rough edges every now and again, but I was honestly getting rougher edges on the Mac (it's been a long time since they 'just worked', alas).

Certainly no involuntary grub prompts to date, thankfully! Happy as a clam with my Linux laptop as a daily driver, including for gaming (!) and work.

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Post by amelius »

jen20 wrote: post #277
amelius wrote: post #240

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They should have built this in from the start then, not semi-randomly break things.

This is a bizarre argument. Do you feel the same way about Windows finally starting to take security seriously back in the mid 2000s?

Security should never come as an after-thought.

This especially holds for complex systems with multiple stakeholders, like OSes.

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Post by hrrsn »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #104
bmitc wrote: post #80

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An Intel NUC is not much more than the top tier Raspberry Pi, once you get a case and stuff it needs, but is orders of magnitude faster. I got one and installed Linux Mint on it. It's a much, much better system than the Raspberry Pi 4 I have.

I bought my pi 4 at launch in 2020 before the shortages and scalping, it was $49 IIRC. There is no Intel NUC that's only 50 bucks. And I like that the pi is aarch64 architecture as I am developing for that architecture.

You can pick up a Wyse 3040 with an Atom X5 for ~$20. It's limited to 2GB RAM, and of course x86, but the processor benches on par with the Pi 4.

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Post by freeplay »

_9rq6 wrote: post #118

My main three asks for Ubuntu to replace my mac is - 1. Alternative to magnet or any window management systems that does not require elaborate tmux setup. 2. More adoption of snapstore and auto-updates. 3. Comparable performance and battery life to today's arm laptops.

> 1. Alternative to magnet or any window management systems that does not require elaborate tmux setup.

Try Pop_Os or install Gnome extention on you're current install (https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/)

> 2. More adoption of snapstore and auto-updates.

Flatpak is what you're looking for.

> 3. Comparable performance and battery life to today's arm laptops.

While I agree with this one, I think this is more on the chip and hardware manufacturers.

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