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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by detourdog »

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flenserboy wrote: post #316

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Interesting that you think that of 7.5.3 — it worked , sure, but it could be painfully slow. System 6 was preferable as an OS — MultiFinder was better than 7, at least in the first couple iterations — but much of the software I needed demanded 7. 7.6.x was the first bright spot since 7.1 fixed much of what went wrong in 7.0, & there was a ton of waiting after that. 9 just chugged along for me, for the most part, whic…

System 7 was better for me due to AppleTalk file sharing. System 6 was confined to LocalTalk or printer sharing.

You were right I forgot about 7.6.1. I think I had a an WiredInc mpeg video card server based on System 7.5.3 for a project. So it had a particular memory burn. I suppose I need up using System 9 since all life forms were supported by carbon.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rollcat »

ddtaylor wrote: post #726
rollcat wrote: post #639

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> In general, I have found that things which are difficult on Linux are so because the problem is difficult [...]. Hard disagree. Audio mixing is not difficult[1]. The Linux kernel guys were right - it does not belong in the kernel. The userspace story however, has been a complete shitshow for decades . I think Pipewire mostly fixed that? Not sure, sometimes I still have to log out and back in to fix audio. The funni…

I agree PulseAudio, Pipewire, ALSA, etc. are a pretty big shit show in Linux and have been for some time. From what I understand there are a few stories there with various levels of screw ups, but at no point was this situation the goal, and we are moving closer to an easy to use system that "just works" for these needs. However, it's worth noting that audio experts doing high grade mixing in production are using the…

I work in live media production. I would never consider doing any mixing on Linux - just like I wouldn't consider putting Docker containers on a Mac to serve live HTTP traffic.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rollcat »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #714
rollcat wrote: post #587

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> At least production got fixed and money kept flowing. You were denied the tools to get your job done. You've put yourself at risk by applying an unapproved workaround. Never ever do this (unless you hold substantial shares). Let the company's bottom line take the fall. If that's the only thing they care about, that's your only way to make the problem visible.

Unfortunately the real world isn't black and white. Yes, according to the company policies, I should watch the world burn and do nothing, while looking at the company bleeding money due to customers SLA being broken. Of course, after submitting a ticket to get nmap approved, which takes days. Extra points if I'm on oncall, then racking that sweet incident money is great. But the underlying SRE culture here is that, i…

Well I found out the hard way that company culture or values can mean nothing if you don't CYA. Granted, the shop was small enough that our team was in charge of both the security policies and ops, but still, on one unfortunate occasion I've stepped outside my area of responsibility to "do what's right" and got punished. The next time I've been in a similar situation - well, I've walked away from the fire and grabbed the popcorn.

By the way, I'm still burnt out. This work is stressful. Don't let it take away what's already scarce for you.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rollcat »

hedora wrote: post #765
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Does the mini PC go from zero to eleven though? Can I play BG3, Factorio, or Minecraft on the same hardware? Can I saturate a TB3 port? Transcode video? Run an LLM or text2img? Any of that while remaining responsive, having a video call? If I already need a powerful machine for a desktop, why would I need a second one just so it can stay up 24/7 to run Miniflux or Syncthing? Less is more.

Yes; for about $1000. Eg: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-ser9-ai-9-hx-370 I have the ser-8 model, and can confirm everything works under Linux. This one has an 80 TOPS AI thing, since you asked about llms.

Huh, pretty cool. Would you mind submitting your scores to Geekbench? Can you also test idle power? Genuinely interested.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by queuebert »

rofrol wrote: post #301
queuebert wrote: post #227

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As a former Mac user, I'm really happy with my System76 linux laptops. The only tradeoff is the terrible built-in speakers. My Lemur is lighter and has better battery life than my Macbook Air and has been bulletproof despite my ill treatment. Each of my Macs, however, have had various hardware failures or the famous keyboard recall on the horrible touchbar Macbook Pro. I also prefer matte screens to glossy, so that's…

I have found this old comment: * Battery life is a lie, especially since it drains almost as much battery closed as it does open. ... Overall, I think I am probably going to switch back to a macbook after this, not being able to go a day without charging and your laptop always being on low battery is a bit anxiety inducing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38206173

They must have a bug, because my System76 laptops drain way less with the lid closed than my Macbooks.

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Post by jug »

bloppe wrote: post #287
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> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The newer XPS 13 comes with snapdragon x elite now (Qualcomm's answer to Apple silicon). Curious if anybody here runs Linux on one of those

I feel like this is the first real step towards a Mac like experience on a Linux system.

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

qwertox wrote: post #417
hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

Few things manage to make me as angry as a link (even if shown in form of a button) which does not open in a new background tab when clicked with the MMB. Preloading selected results in background tabs and then closing the main tab, so that I can iterate through the results of each clicked item per tab is simply so much more efficient than entering a page, hitting back, entering the next, hitting back, ... Like the i…

Frequently, getting the desired result requires ‹‹right-click->New tab››. Trying to remember which sites require me to do that, and which ones work properly is difficult. And every once in a while, some other git makes the link to respond to right-click, too, so you get the new tab _and_ lose the original page. )-:

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by bigpeopleareold »

bigpeopleareold wrote: post #537
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #92

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Also while Apples software quality has definitely diminished over the years, Windows in the same period has utterly CRATERED. Like I get along fine with 11 for my gaming PC but with every single update one feature or another becomes notably broken.

My job gave me an expensive high-specced laptop with Windows on it. This is the first time I am stuck using Windows daily. It's W10. With Windows Defender and a bunch of windows, it starts to slowly become unusable. Today, it blue screened for me just fixing again (and again and again) the bluetooth headphones never gets automatically switched to when I turn them on. Forget about having Visual Studio open on it for a…

oof I re-read this comment. I would only switch to the mac because the company didn't setup any of the required security rigamarole to run on their internal network, but otherwise, nah. I dropped that years ago - expensive, disposable machines to run emacs, a terminal and a browser ...

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by jpk »

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Tell me you're from the US without telling me you're from the US. Jokes aside, I had to wait years for Framework to finally allow shipping via a friend in Berlin. I think they ship to Sweden now—they seemed to have an unfortunate misunderstanding that they needed to produce a Swedish keyboard and translate their website before shipping here, which of course is poppycocks.

I am pretty sure that if you have reached the point that you are ordering a laptop online from a brand unknown to the general public, it means you are past the point you need the actual physical keys to match your keyboard layout on your OS settings. You could just have blank keys.

To be fair, some international keyboard layouts actually have variations of key shapes and locations. The shape of the Enter key and the cluster around it is the main example. So it's more than just the labels.
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