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The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

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  1. PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
    Weird to buy machine with company actively hostile to anything open to run open stuff
    1. inventor7777 · · focus · HN ↗
      Is Apple taking steps to purposefully blocking open stuff, or are they just pointedly ignoring it and continuing to develop new hardware? I am genuinely asking, I don't know myself.

      edit: speaking mostly about macOS here, mobile OSes are much more locked down

      1. lmz · · focus · HN ↗
        The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.
        1. londons_explore · · focus · HN ↗
          And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.

          It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.

          1. musictubes · · focus · HN ↗
            Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.

            You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.

            1. londons_explore · · focus · HN ↗
              It will still run arbitrary code... Within macos...

              But they'll remove support for other OS's

              1. GeekyBear · · focus · HN ↗
                The company making locked down laptops is Google.
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