To expand on this. You can compile whatever you want and upload it to your device and run it. What you cannot do is distribute the binary in general. You have to physically plug the device into the Mac and give permission to upload and run the code. That is what is different than macOS. macOS will let you run a binary you downloaded from the internet, iOS/iPadOS will not.

macOS allows the user to download arbitrary app from the internet.
iOS/iPadOS allows only apps from the Apple App Store or that are part of your organization's internal enterprise apps.

Plus in an organizational setting there can be more administrative controls.

It depended on the major. Also, before the federal gov't got involved in student loans tuition and fees were more modest. As loans became easy to get for any major, with higher limits, "coincidentally" tuition and fees climbed rapidly. Imagine that, as ability to pay increased (due to loans not earning potential of major) the costs increased.

Credit was "reformed" too, not just "education". Before the federal gov't screwed up students loans, your ability to pay back a loan was considered. STEM major, bigger loans available. Liberal Arts major, only modest loads available. The system thus prevented the stupidity we see today.

During HS I applied for a part-time job at a lumber yard. I had to take a written test, it was stapled to my job application.

The test was on arithmetic, heavy with fractions. I handed my test to the manager after I took it, I commented that this is "elementary school" stuff. He shrugged and said "You wouldn't believe the number of people who apply for a job at a lumber yard who can't do fractions."

Its so simple it occurred to the current US Gov't, their idea is that data/ai providers have their own local power generation so the local public grid is not affected.

Careful, that's the Trump position. He said they should have their own on-site power generation to avoid impacting the public grid.

This is Meta, the company notorious for "make the code live so we can see if it works".

Judging is subject to whether the position aligns with your politics or not. We're usually quite hypocritical in that respect.

Exactly. One of my grandfathers was vegetarian. I am a committed carnivore. :-) On 4th of July he cooked up lentil burgers. They tasted fine. My favorite vegi-burger today is a black bean burger. Its delicious.

Why the hell do we have to have the fakery? I've raised cows myself in a semi-rural environment, their beef tasted so much better than store bought. But when friends want to go a local vegetarian restaurant, no problem. They have those delicious black been burgers I mentioned above.

Vegi-burgers can taste great. Get your recipes right and you don't need the fakery.

Wait until you raise a cow yourself. It doesn't require a lot of grassland, although that would be best. Even in a semi-rural setting, with high quality commercial feed, it is so much better than factory farm produced beef.

If you can't do it yourself, sponsor a 4H kid.

There is no random process for livestock. It's selective breeding. Part of that selection involves taste.

Open source development occurs under two scenarios.
(1) Voluntary contributions of time.
(2) Users paying developers to implement the user's needs and wants. Users take various forms, the developer's employer, the developer's client, etc.

Corporations seem to be the largest group of users, so today we have the corporate-driven evolution of Linux. One way or another, they fund the majority of the development. And that's how open source works. You want a change, make it yourself or pay someone else.

Its been a long time since Linux was hobbyist driven.

Individuals too. I've been using VMWare on Mac for over 15 years. Windows VMs, Linux VMs, even macOS VMs with over versions of macOS. One machine to develop for and test all three platforms.

However I recently switched to Parallels. A Windows VM, a Linux VM, and a macOS VM with the older version of the OS.
As a special bonus, since the new Mac is ARM, I get to run ARM Windows and ARM Linux. Both run really well.

I'm happy with the switch to Parallels. My currently licensed VMWare can sit on the old Intel Mac with the old Intel VMs should I needed them.

Yesterday's. :-)