JIT emulation is also interpreted code. Not everything that is interpreted code is something high level, like javascript or python.

As for apple's relaxation of interpreted code, they still put the kabosh on most of the more useful applications of it.

Like JIT.
https://oatmealdome.me/blog/wh...

which is why I can still do more with my ancient pixel 4A, than you kids can do with your latest edition ipad/phone.

Apple's walled garden comes at a price.

I'll definitely give you these ones.

PDF manipulation on Android is *TRASH*, and windows 11 is a horrible operating system, that wants very much to treat you very poorly.

Sadly, device makers really *REALLY* do not want to open up their tablets for Linux like they should. Touch interface on linux might be a bit rough, but there are much better tools for office productivity and PDF manipulation for linux, than for either windows or android.

I just dont feel that I would be willing to fork out the extra dough for an apple tablet, where I would lose all manner of other functionality, just for PDF and office tasks.

While support is limited to a handful of models, due to a shortage of skilled maintainers, there are a few android tablets that support lineage OS, or postmarket OS.

Like OnePlus tablets, and Galaxy series tablets from samsung.
Good support from LineageOS for those. The Galaxy Tab A7, from 6 years ago, *IS STILL GETTING UPDATES* from Lineage, for instance.

LineageOS on android devices push their service lives *WAAAY* past what is normally doable. My now very ancient Pixel 4A is *STILL* getting monthly updates via LineageOS, for instance.

"nothing gets fixed"
Say again? What part of Monthly Updates did you not understand?

*IPv6 support*
My phone supports it natively. Dunno what you are going on about.

*superior AI*
This is a matter of personal preference, and I will assert that my preference trumps yours, when it comes to the device that *I* am using. Thank you very, very much.

*Able to play older games*
I can sideload on old android 2.x games on my phone fine-- Oh, wait, I said sideload, Thats a thing apple products cant do, isn't it? Awww.

*Unless they are old mac games, ironically*
Must really suck that Apple wont let you run interpreted code, huh? As for myself, I can run all kinds of stuff. Emulated game consoles, Winlator for older windows titles, BasiliskII for that classic mac experience you mentioned, ADosBox for classic DOS titles, all manner of stuff. Real shame apple doesn't let *ANY* of that play on their products!

*Able to use UNIX tools because its UNIX*
You do know that you can in fact get access to the console, without rooting, on android devices, right? There's any number of solutions for that, of varying quality, from the playstore-- and if you dont like any of those, you can sideload (Ohh--- there it is again!) F-DROID and get direct-compiled FOSS tools.

*Superior Hardware*
In what ways, exactly? They are all sealed units that you cant easily open, All have unremovable batteries, etc. If you mean "It has an alumalloy frame", I hate to burst your bubble, but there are plenty of such tablets in the android offering space. A great many android devices are built around very mature 3D rendering capable graphics chips as well, so when you load up things like Winlator, you can actually do D3D games on them. Not terribly well, since its ARM64 emulating an X86-64 CPU, but good enough for most things that you would actually find pleasurable to play on a tablet form factor.

*High performance graphically and otherwise for the cost*
Look above in the comments for how a savvy buyer saved over 1000$ buying an android tablet, then get back to me on that.

It also blocks all those dildo popup ads when I'm looking for pirate software!

Thank goodness for Texas!

No, SystemD wants to grow up into a REAL despotic gatekeeping process that locks you out of your own hardware for idiotic reasons that only its developer thinks are important, just like the big corporate offerings do!

Its just a humble bit of free software with big dreams! Wont you love it?

[massive sarcasm]

Less smarmy, I feel that this is just more of the same basic mindset from the systemD development folks. They have yet to find an onerous feature that they have been unwilling to embrace, and then angrily evangelize for.

"oh, but California said they want this done-- Nevermind that they explicitly exempted FOSS projects and OSes, That's not important, we are doing our best to satisfy this new legal requirement! Yes! This requirement that we dont actually have to follow! We need to follow it! Yes! We're doing our part!"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

For clarity.

But CITIZEN! THAT is an OBSTACLE to police investigations!

Don't you want police to investigate crimes!?
You aren't SOFT ON CRIME, are you!? Only criminals would have anything to fear from expanded police powers, citizen!

Remember Citizen, Reauthorizing FISA is absolutely ESSENTIAL to our national security, because the gatekeeping by all those bad, onerous warrants we used to need were OBSTACLES to INVESTIGATION! Those mean, bad terrorists that hate our way of life are aided and abetted by our heroic men and women being stymied in this most important work! (Pay absolutely no attention to what's in the Kissinger memos! We're good guys! You can TRUST us!)

--- That is to say, 'We gotta be able to do this whenever, however, however often, and for whatever reason we want!' Is indeed *exactly the thing they cannot be allowed to have*, (for the very reason you just illustrated), and is also expressly they very thing they have been crying publicly about until govt gave it to them.

There is not a category where it is at once cheap and easy to do, and 'does not get abused'.

That means it cannot be cheap and easy to do, if you want to prevent its abuse.

Not only common, but necessary.

Planets don't just spring into being. They form through gradual accretion, and that is not constrained to just one big thing eating all the other little things. Its a bunch of little things all eating littler things, getting bigger in the process, and then colliding with each other as their orbital mechanics change from the changes in mass and angular velocity/momentum.

Most models have things forming in the outer solar system and falling in, as they get heavier and slower-- or things in the inner system getting ejected out after such a shift, plunging toward the sun, picking up a lot of speed, then getting slingshotted out.

This is why there are so many rogue planets floating around in deep space. (On the average of 20 per star, in the milky way galaxy.)

Until things settle down, early solar systems are very chaotic places with lots of collisions, things falling into and out of orbits, getting shot out of the system, all the while getting bombarded by highly unstable and variable/unpredictable solar radiation effects from the host star being turbulent.

Trick question-- There is nothing "good" about social networking as it currently exists.

Moreover, the very same people here who are wanting to shut down child access, are the same folks who have been doing all manner of organized child exploitation through government systems abuse.

You seem to think that just because one thing is bad, the other must be good.

The reality that none of the things are actually good, seems to escape your grasp.

I am being pragmatic, and suggesting instead that No Force On This Earth will be successful in stopping the kids from their favorite haunts, and that the effort to try to shove that genie back into its bottle is pointless.

The only reason anyone who understands the problem would try, is if there is some other ancillary goal they have in mind, with the impossible boondoggle that looks good to rubes as a cover.

There's no way to make social media safe for children. The only way to make children moderately safer from this, is to completely outlaw the very concept of social media as a service. Even then, kids will form them on their own, and the very same things will be discussed in them. Don't think for a minute I dont understand that this happened with IRC in the days of yore, and still happens today on services like Discord.

The genie will never go back into that bottle, short of civilization regressing to an earlier state.

Dont be silly!

This is a truly visionary, and ambitious programme undertaken by the british PM!

By restricting the information and content young people have access to, they can double down on state owned television and enforce messaging that favors them!

It'll only take half a decade or so to come to fruition, but it'll work, I'm sure of it!

There's no way those kids will use stuff like proxy servers, VPNS, fake identities, or TOR exit nodes! If they just block social media, they can shut down all those bad dirty ideas! Surely!

It has *much* more to do with the memory card's erase block size.

NTFS wants to use a 512 BYTE or 1kbyte allocation unit size. (Dont believe me? Right click your system volume, and choose properties. See what your allocation unit size is.)

This size was selected because it is 1:1 the sector size of original winchester style hard disk drives, which makes those sizes the most efficient to transfer to or from the disk controller.

Modern drives tend to favor 4kbyte sized sectors, but still emulate 512 BYTE ones.

FAT had cluster (allocation unit) sizes quite a bit larger than this. Usually between 4k and 16k, but 32k and 64k clusters are supported.

For early flash memory cards, 32k and 64k cluster sizes were 1:1 what the eraseblock sizes of the flash array were, meaning having the filesystem use that size gave the best possible efficiency with the device controller.

SDHC and SDXC devices though, have erase block sizes that (cough), 'greatly exceed' (cough) what FAT32 can support.

ExFAT however, happily lets you use cluster sizes in the MULTIPLE MEGABYTES size range, allowing the flash makers to still have 1:1 cluster->erase unit parity, and maximized device IO efficiency.

Your camera formats that card as ExFAT because that's what the SDCard Assn demands.

The SDCard Assn demands it, so that they can reliably claim the write speeds written on the top of the card.

NTFS will annihilate flash cards with write amplification, and have piss-poor io performance writing to them.

Yes, and no.

For PCs of the late 90s and early to mid 00s, yes. 'To promote NTFS.'

For Memory cards?

No.

That's much more closely tied to 'convenience of the memory card consortium'. Specifically, 'It's VERY convenient for the filesystem to have an allocation unit size that is a whole divisible factor of the erase unit size, with 1:1 being *oh so VERY convenient*!'

For devices up to about 32gb in size, this 'convenient coincidence!' Held. Larger devices however, have erase unit sizes far too large for FAT32 to be 'convenient' for.

This is, (among other reasons), my microsoft created ExFAT. It's 'FAT', with 'Absurdly large cluster sizes!'

Exactly what the memory card consortium THIRSTED for.

It also let mictosoft get a shiny new exclusive patent that *everyone* would need to get a license for, which is what *microsoft* THIRSTED for.

This marriage of convenience saw fat32 not having 'official' large volume support for ages.

I would not at all be surprised if this recent change coincides with ExFAT patent expiration.

Every time I see this argument made, I want to see the Neilson demography for the show.

I do NOT hear the young people we have at work talk about this show in a way that's good. They talk about the Orville (which is rarely), much more than they ever have about Academy.

Oh, Absolutely. Young people in a series can very much be a very important asset to that series.

The trap, is wanting to shoehorn them into the "Idiot teenager" mold, or the "Executive Producer's Shameless Self Insert" mold.

Both of those are pure poison. People coming to terms with the realities that what they learned in school is not sufficient to cope with what they encounter in life, and that the relationships they forge with colleagues are essential to not only their futures, but their survival as well, makes for a fantastic story.

But that requires actual story telling.

That's the drama majors.

Here's the thing-- The actual startrek universe is *generally peaceful*. (or rather, was meant to be.)

This is bad for dramatists. There is no conflict, thus no climax. Big bad terrorists? Pure candy for a dramatist. "We have been at peace with our neighbors for 200 years, and have a large interstellar, free-moving society of excess" however? That's really hard for them to work with, which is why you get stuff like Troi+Worf, because they are desperate for some source of friction.

The notion that *THE MESSAGE* of the show is that *WE CAN IN FACT HAVE SUCH A SOCIETY, IF WE TRY*, is wasted on the dramatists. They dont care about such messages, That's why they want to rip that idea down, and replace it with blackjack and hookers. Sometimes literally.

The worst part, is that this kind of 'candy drama' does in fact appeal to the target audience you mention.

The reason startrek is dead, is a combination of:

1) We suck at doing narrative drama that isn't pure sex, explosions, and badguys.

2) At least half (statistically) of the US public audience wants candy drama made of pure sex, explosions, sad cliche's and paper-thin badguys.

3) People dont value the idea of presenting a peaceful and productive future that has its shit together, filled with competent people that aren't assholes, and so dont push for better.

Throw in hollywood having some kind of weird fetish for teenagers trying to 'run things' on top, and you have the whole ensemble.

The same one that hollywood always seems to think exists, *EVERY SINGLE TIME* they make a series about "Teenagers, with Teenager problems, Dealing with a grownup's world" ?

You know, when they make the entire cast have the mindset of a 6 year old who never learned that they cant just eat candy, now with sex hormones, and a lack of oversight?

There seems to be some demographic in Hollywood that *really* wants that kind of show (or really wants that kind of show to be successful), since they keep trying this formula and having it fail.

You'd think that at some point "Young Idiots with more hormones than intelligence--THE SHOW!" not working out, and being a dismal failure each and every time they've tried it, would send a message. It's happened with pirate movies in the past, and with other genres that Hollywood has taken a sharp rebuke toward, but this one never seems to have that issue.

It really looks like the target audience is *Hollywood Executives*.