I mean, obviously itâ(TM)s in that realm of software takeover. Bundling means people might use it for convenience over quality. If they kill off plugins, Iâ(TM)m another step closer to Linux and keeping my current solution.
waypipe is great. Xwayland is also ok.
A few points, each of which weird me out.
- Virtual avatar in Facetime... it has to create an interactive person sans-headwear. Are there outliers in appearances that this will be awkward? It will have to recreate my glasses, at least. The likelyhood it's uncanny valley is high, and if it's not, I just want to call it deepfaking yourself anyway. How long before you can borrow someone else's avatar?
- It presents itself as if it's transparent, but it's not. The eyes on the front are fake, and perspectively corrected for outside viewers. "Eye contact" but not...
- So. Many. Cameras.
I can't speak for everyone, but the Weather App is my second, or third most used function on my phone.
Clock, Weather (to see what I can do later that day, if I should go for a walk or not), Internet Browsing.
So, not calling people. Just so we're clear, this is a phone we're talking about, right?
Also with an approachable kernel space that mere mortals not only have control over, but can extend. macOS is among the OSes that have almost eliminated access, requiring all loadable kernel extensions to be signed by Apple. Building them yourself isn't as easy as it had been only a few years ago, even with a dev account. (newer macOS even prefers a userspace solution with better security, but i digress)
Linux, on the other hand, rather straight forward to compile and load. And for hardware tasks, a Pi actually does provide a lot of surface area for a hardware engineer to work with.
There isn't as much performance as mainstream machines, but there's plenty enough. Heck, there is H.264 acceleration in the Pi, and it's exposed by the V4L2 apis for any userspace program to use (ffmpeg, etc).
I think "open" is the word to describe this.
I think "security through obscurity" is the word.
Apple has to tightened macOS down, because fucking subhuman cyberterrorists relentlessly and viciously poke and prod at every conceivable framework and OS command to the point where it gets harder and harder to have a system that harkens back to a time where you could just depend on simple Unix permissions to keep curious paws out of dangerous places in the OS.
Unfortunately, macOS has gotten to the level of popularity that it just can't be as Dev-friendly as it used to be, and remain safe and secure for Normies.
Raspian doesn't have that problem. It's still living in a world where there is simply no concerted interest in wreaking havoc on a semi-nanosecond basis on every single line of code in the OS, nor a wide swath of hugely-complex Applications, like web browsers, that a large-enough number of Pi Users can be almost guaranteed of Running.
Ken is just getting nostalgic for the good old days. When most malicious hacking was at the level of making everyone's terminal randomly output "GIVE ME A COOKIE".
Those days are long past; and Ken is just pining for them.
I suspect he'll be back, as he realizes that Raspbian just doesn't cut it as a daily driver.
I think you mistake the security model that is working against the developer, which these days involves more encryption than obscurity. The public apis, which may be more restrictive than linux, are documented and a lot can be done. But even with this documentation, installing your own code in the kernel is encumbered by this hurdle of getting Apple to sign off (notarization will be required soon). That's not obscurity, thats encryption with a dose of gate-keeping while we're at it.
Raspian's ability to get around the security problem by your statement is actually still obscurity, just a different kind (synonym abuse here, since it's not hidden and "obsucred" but instead more "obscure", different, and uninteresting as you appear to describe)
Using a Pi as a daily driver is viable, depending on what you want. For a system that will make you aware of every task it's doing, in which case you can't easily sneak in an unwanted supplier-provided service if you want to, it's actually kinda great. Bare bones features and performance, which even phones aren't these days. If you pine for 15 years ago before your device/computer was part of the System, performance to match isn't actually as bad as it sounds. And the only modern operating system you'll find for such a platform that isn't horrendous to use and support? Linux.
Also with an approachable kernel space that mere mortals not only have control over, but can extend. macOS is among the OSes that have almost eliminated access, requiring all loadable kernel extensions to be signed by Apple. Building them yourself isn't as easy as it had been only a few years ago, even with a dev account. (newer macOS even prefers a userspace solution with better security, but i digress)
Linux, on the other hand, rather straight forward to compile and load. And for hardware tasks, a Pi actually does provide a lot of surface area for a hardware engineer to work with.
There isn't as much performance as mainstream machines, but there's plenty enough. Heck, there is H.264 acceleration in the Pi, and it's exposed by the V4L2 apis for any userspace program to use (ffmpeg, etc).
I think "open" is the word to describe this.
People already take their eyes off the road for several seconds, having the car do more and more to assist just adds to the complacency. Automatic braking, auto cruise control, and lane maintaining systems are pretty common now, so that inattention only grows. If they think it's harmless vast majority of the time, they presume it always will be. Which makes my straw man seem rather juvenile with the defence of "I never thought it would do that, it never did before." Back in my day (not really) you drove stick shift to be a part of the car, which required full attention. Nerve-wracking in stop and go traffic tho, I'll tell you.
Put your money where your mouth is. Drop MMS support now, and limit third parties to SMS. By the presented reasoning, people won't care. Who sends media in texts anymore anyway? Shoddy lock-in for profit bullshit when it should be about actual features people use, like communicating with other phones, apple or non.
I had an 11 year old Mac Pro that did well enough to run the latest software with reasonable performance. I had been wanting to replace the beast with something more modest, but nothing felt worth ponying up the cash. Target: mid-range desktop that was worth it... or any desktop. I considered an iMac, but the display made them overpriced for what I wanted. I kept on adding bits to keep it going (AC wifi hack, firmware 5,1 hack, 3rd party video card for Metal in Mojave, NVMe)
Cue the M1 Mini. Ordered first day offered.
It's everything I personally need, and can handle a lot of work-related stuff too (data science) since its faster than my work laptop, tho not enough RAM at 16GB. Extra issue to that point is that because the internal storage is so quick, swap is actually useful, so HUGE work tasks can be completed, but push extra wear on the storage. my 1TB drive is down to 92% life span remaining because of it. Yes, i know early on people were saying it was a bug, but i think it was early testers wailing on their M1's and the OS would use swap a little too preferentially. I have had tasks that I knew were going to swap, and take 2 days to complete. Over that weekend, it ate up 2 percentage points. has been very stable since I've stopped pushing it that hard. Great machine, and its pretty much the lowest performance Apple Silicon there will be. It's completely what I was waiting for.
https://asahilinux.org/blog/
Mostly updates on progress with supporting different aspects of the hardware in Linux, and how far they've gotten into mainstream kernels. Pretty detailed. Some of the core devs are already running Linux full-time on an M1 Mac. By no means does that mean it's ready for primetime, but it definitely means it's getting serious attention.
Who says they love something they have not used???
I might say something seems decent, but no way would I say I *LOVE* a language until I've done a few real things in it.
From what I understand about the language (which admittedly is not enough to be programming in it, let alone well), I love the concept of it. It leverages the complexity and smarts in modern compilers to enforce good programming techniques. Object ownership and mutability are big ones. It's not just an API or dialect, but it's part of the language itself. That said, I'll probably hate it once I start using it, because the learning curve of how it does things might be a bit much for any typical programmer that wants it to just work, and hasn't absorbed all of exactly what and why good code is good in an objective sense, which Rust strives for on a lower level (think replacing C) than any other language. Trying to reinvent the preverbal wheel is never a good idea, unless you really have gone thru the deep understanding why C still exists, and now you've gone to build something great to replace it.
Does it hit the mark in reality? I don't know. But the thought of a hard-core coders language, where you don't need to do fancy tricks with risks to make good fast code... I love it.
Enterprising Earwig
Effervescent Echidna
Eternal Empanada
Monopolies are not inherently illegal. Abusive usually are. Abusive non-monopolies can also be. As you state, some of these companies aren't monopolies, but they often use their strength and/or size in one market to unfairly strong arm their way to another market. That leverage can be anti-competitive and illegal. The breakups being proposed seem to be more related to that than a good-ol Ma Bell monopoly breakup.
When Apple's QuickTime came to Windows, Microsoft and Intel were astonished by its performance. When they couldn't compete, they just conspired to acquire the code from an Apple partner.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/5F0C866C-6DDF-4A9A-9515-531B0CA0C29C.html
Why did the chicken cross the road? Only way to know is to either be, or to ask the chicken. Dissection won't help you understand its mind.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
