Because Windows was a fucking joke and SCO UNIX was stupidly expensive.

Linux was ABSOLUTELY superior to Win95 and NT Workstation. Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD were the closest most of us could get to a pro UNIX workstation without spending over ten grand.

That "hobbyist" OS is now the backbone of modern society and runs on probably no less than 5 devices you own including your phone.

So we support bypassing censorship when it's convenient to destabilize things for folks in foreign lands....

then we squeal about social media NOT censoring viewpoints we disagree with at home.... while claiming the first amendment doesn't apply to private businesses.... while supporting the complete deplatforming of annoying people entirely and other forms of cancel culture bullshit.

Fuck this entire planet.

Yep.... stream ripping is no different than pressing record on a VCR. That has been settled for decades.

That's like saying you need to be an IT pro to install Winblows software. Sideloading on Android is pathetically easy and can be done from a web link if you enable sideloading. It's a single option enabled in Settings.

If you aren't willing to figure out how to use your handheld computer safely and properly you shouldn't have one.

Now Apple makes sideloading and gaining full access to your phone a nightmare. They also make using alternate app stores near impossible. They actually have a case with iOS devices in my opinion. Apple shouldn't be able to dictate what I can and cannot run on my device. The Play store in Android? Not so much.

NetBSD supported softFPU on Macs without a math co. NetBSD would make much more sense in a 68k than Linux. Hell, NetBSD still has VAX support.

But really, if you want to run UNIX on a 68k Mac A/UX is where it's at.

Apple has already said they will happily support running 3rd party OS's on M1 macs. Why the trolling?

And why would you take the channels over? Only reason I can think of is to cause confusion and try to cause hassle for people switching to a network that hasn't been usurped by dicks.

ChanOps have a right to advertise that they are moving their channels for their projects to another network.

Freenode has no inherent right to keep users or cause projects grief because they choose to migrate their channels to another network over the new owner's douchebaggery. It's not spam by any stretch of the imagination to inform users on an old service that you are moving to a new one rather than leave them confused.

How much is the current "owner" of Freenode paying you to simp for him? Do you think Github has a right to hold projects hostage and say they can't advertise the move to another host?

Quit kissing ass. The rich boy thought he was special. Turns out he's not and his new toy is dying as people leave in droves and now that his antics have been brought to light, Freenode will continue to shrink and decay.

Any network that promotes that kind of heavyhanded censorship and attempt to control the narrative will not win favor with anyone anyway. RIP Freenode.

If they were smart and wanted to succeed they'd make the ARM Windows ecosystem and open and widely available as possible. Maybe even sell mATX ARM boards with tons of free documentation.

Apple has already said the M1 Macs do not have locked bootloaders and support virtualization as well. You can certainly run Linux in a VM on an ARM Mac and the Win10 ARM port has been demonstrated running under QEMU. Stop spreading FUD. Apple wants this hardware to spread far an wide and knew that some of the appeal on the modern Mac was people being able to run awful Winblows software if and when they had to.

Apple tends to latch on to good ideas and drag the industry forward. The exception was the Newton which is a shame because the Newton MP2100 was fantastic and far more productive than a modern iPhone IMHO. No, Apple didn't invent USB but the iMac made it attractive. No, Apple didn't invent the smartphone by a long shot but the iPhone made it attractive to regular people. Apple didn't invent the GUI but had a useful and functional GUI environment long before MS that took MS 10 years to catch up. Apple/NeXT didn't invent desktop UNIX workstations with a GUI environment but they made them suck a hell of a lot less. And a lot of GUI concepts in Vista/7/Win10 are shitty clones of OSX functionality.

I doubt Apple invented a lot of things but they were the first to jump in and spit out a decent usable product that people actually want.

You realize that the ARM architecture started life as a desktop CPU, right? In the Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC back in the 80s and 90s and certainly spanked the 386 like it was standing still. Acorn Risc Machine. And the StrongARM had pretty damn impressive integer back in the 90s. This is not the ARM Architectures first rodeo on the desktop. But it is likely to be it's golden age.

The ARM surface flopped because WinRT was a joke. There's a proper Win10 ARM port that does x86 binary translation similar to Rosetta2. You just can't buy it off the shelf yet. There's builds floating around and performance doesn't suck.

How about learning to use the mac UI instead of treating it like a Windows clone or some wreckage like GNOME3 or KDE? It's different. In mostly better ways. Considering they beat MS to the punch having a useful GUI that people took seriously by several years you would think MS would learn something. There's keyboard shortcuts for just about everything in OSX and the drag-and-drop functionality is much more pervasive throughout the GUI. Especially between applications. If you want to automate GUI shit you have Applescript and Automator. You also have a ton of shell scripting options out of the box.

The iPhone was not the first smartphone. It was evolutionary, not revolutionary. Both PalmOS and WinCE color smartphones were around prior to the iPhone and were quite useful. My Samsung i330 was great.