octalfudge

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Apple’s new Arm licensing deal covers the tech behind iPhone and Mac chips for many years to come

[–] octalfudge 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing the link so that we can also track this issue! This is the first time I saw that

[–] octalfudge 12 points 2 years ago

It’s a developer tool so likely never, but we can install it now and there are tonnes of guides, e.g. https://youtu.be/dQAPWwhInqo

[–] octalfudge 2 points 2 years ago

Was using wefwef but could not get over the PWA feel, now using Mlem and loving it!

[–] octalfudge 6 points 2 years ago

Looks beautiful! I think you can be proud that your first attempt looks so amazing!

[–] octalfudge 21 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Fantastic description! This is an issue that made it difficult to justify to my management to allow them to allow Macs, but thankfully Apple Silicon was big enough of a game changer to sway the decision

[–] octalfudge 45 points 2 years ago

Was an ultra lifetime member, now using Lemmy full time. No longer using Reddit regularly, we need to make Lemmy succeed or we’ll always be at the mercy of these corporations.

[–] octalfudge 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I feel WSL just gives enterprises an excuse not to let developers have pure Linux machines. After putting up with horrible and buggy WSL for years, managed to have my organisation bless running proper Linux on our machines. Bye Windows, hardly ever knew you.

[–] octalfudge 2 points 2 years ago

Came across your post from c/all. Absolutely breathtaking and practical background! Thanks for sharing!

[–] octalfudge 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for that amazing mental image

[–] octalfudge 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks absolutely amazing and so useful! Thanks for sharing! Only a little sad they didn’t test it on Fedora.

[–] octalfudge 2 points 2 years ago

This looks absolutely amazing and so useful! Thanks for sharing! Only a little sad they didn’t test it on Fedora.

[–] octalfudge 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Apple has always been greedy, in my opinion, but seldom evil.

They are the only major corporation that still makes an effort for privacy (though many people are understandably very skeptical) e.g.

  • fully end-to-end-encrypting most of your iCloud data,
  • blocking tracking pixels in Mail (not technically correct, but good enough approximation)
  • having iCloud Private Relay (something like Tor network) built into Safari
  • blocking tracking of your behaviour by anonymising your device
  • they even scramble data about your Maps trips, inserting wrong information before they send analytics back to themselves, through what is called differential privacy.

Other reasons I use iOS:

  • They offer software updates for >6 years, so I really get great bang for my buck. Total cost of ownership is typically less than other flagship products.
  • Integration with their other products.
  • General polish, smoothness and ease of use.

I too rely on governments to rein in their greediness (e.g. Right to Repair, having multiple App Stores, etc.)

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