When westerns fell out of favour in the late '70s and early '80s, the content industry was able to adapt across radio, TV and full lenght film.
and westerns were MUCH MORE prevalent than superhero has been.
do not worry, the content industry will adapt once more...
Imagine waving your workflow disrupted by weird feature changes only once a year, istead of each 4 weeks...
I think I've had my "workflow disrupted" maybe once in the past decade. I honestly don't know what you people are doing with your browsers that your workflow breaks with every version.
In the times before I started using ESR, while my workflow was not disrupted "every time a new version lands" it was certainly disrupted more than once a year.
And since there are so many people with so many workflows and so many plug-in mixes, there will be a sizeable portion of the user base whose workflows will be disrupted by the new version landing.
That's why many linux distros use FireFox ESR and NOT normal firefox as the default browser...
Also, you seem to have missed the next line, where I said: "On a more serious note"
Imagine waving your workflow disrupted by weird feature changes only once a year, istead of each 4 weeks...
Bliss...
On a more serious note, until the do something very brutal, I'll stick with the ESR. After all, what is the option today? Chrome? Edgium? Some other Chrome derivative? Projects with usage percentages measured in less than 1% or even less than 0.1%?
Having said that, I am looking at ladybird with the utmost interest (servo too), so, who knows what the future will bring...?
You have a smartphone with talk & text messaging already, why let your data be handled by this creepy bastard zuckerberg?
Try to Voice/Video-call your firends/Family in the USoA/Colombia/Mexico/Spain/Belgium/Hungary/Germany/Italy/Switzerland/Argentina/Peru/Chile/Ecuador while you are in venezuela and see how much it costs.
Try to do Group chat over RCS and see how much that costs.
Try to convince all those people to move to another free+ no Ads service (like signal) and see how hard is that (obligatory herding cats joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ).
Wait until said service starts to charge, or puts Ads, or both, and repeat the process...
Nah, not feasible.
Originally, you got Whatsapp free for one year, and after that you had to pay $1 for each year. Later on they forfeited the fee (I do not remeber if it was Whatsapp or Facebook the ones who forfeited the fee).
Had WhatsApp/Facebook/Meta not forfeited the fee, maybe they woud have slowly increased both the ammount per payment (from $1 to 2 to 3 To
So, pick your poison, but free AND no Ads is not sustainable, even for megacorps.
Thank god for AdGuard Home or PiHole...
In 2006, when Red hat was a "small"company, with a market cap of only ~U$D 3 Milliards, a much bigger company (~24x the size) called Oracle, with a market cap of ~ USD 73 Milliards copied their homework wholesale.
Making their own package manager like Debian's DPKG or Suse's Zypper? Nope, they lifted RPM wholesale.
Doing their own testing and integration to be sure that all packages included in the distro from upstream play nice with one another, like Suse, canonical or pretty much every other distro did? Nope, they took every single one, the same exact version RedHat validated, therefore diminishing Oracle's testing load.
Making their own backporting of patches from Upstream? Nope, they took Red Hat patches wholesale.
Oracle even brazenly trumpeted themselves as "Bug for Bug Compatible with RHEL", like that was some pride badge.
And remeber, all this from a company ~24x the size...
I guess that left an indelible mark on RH people, from Junior Engineers at the time, to the top Brass of the company.
So, no wonder RedHat is doing everything in their power (and then some) to hinder the copycats/lazycats.
Too bad that smaller distros like Scientific Linux, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux et al are collateral damage in this war.
JM2C
YMMV
OCLP reintroduces past libraries and Kexts (drivers in Windows parlance KLMs in Linux parlance) into new versions of MacOS. Being that Tahoe/MacOS26 will be the last intel mac, it means that OCLP will not be able to put MacOS 27 onto intel Macs.
Well, thanks to OCPL, at least most intel macs will be supported (on MacOS 26) until fall 2028.
I need to plan accordingly for my Mini late 2018 and Air early 2015
I really hope that, when Apple discontinues the M1 architecture, OCPL can pick up where they left off, and bring new life to those macs with an ARM version of OCLP
you know, the bust that preceded the Intyernet bubble bust of mid 2001
Fixed carriers overinvested in fibre backbone deployments, meanwhile, mobile operators overpaid for 3G spectrum, leaving them with a massive financial burden AND little money to buy telecom kit, which in turn brought down the telecom kit providers...
I lost a great job opportunity because of that...
Anywho... the Datacenter boom, be it for Cloud, AI, or CryptoMining is looking A LOT like that...
A Hyperscaler/datacenter burst is nigh, repent.
?? Hopefully yes
Only downside is that AMD will be collateral damage for this initiative, as many an AMD platform has asymetrical ports. See, for example Framework's AMD 13" and 16"Laptops.
Thank you for chivarlous answer.
All things eventually end, and that includes Intel Mac support. I have been warning one of my clients, who is still using a Mac Mini 2018, for a number of months now, that they likely need to start to plan to upgrade to be able to stay current.
If your customer is able and Willing to stay on N-1 or N-2
OR
If they are able and willing to use OCLP
a 2018 MacMini is still a perfectly cromulent machine. Specially the 6 core one.
My oldest Intel NUC circa 2016 is still my primary workstation, the others are all servers. All have 32 GB of RAM, run Linux, with no software issues as to modernity. So far, so good, with no end in sight.
Apple is consumer grade hardware that comes with limited hand-holding if you visit the Apple Store where you bought it, it seems. For those that can afford anything, I won't knock it, especially if they're pros, but for most folks Apple is a poor value due to planned obsolescence, but then go and try to explain Linux to everyone.
People understand Apple, Microsoft, Linux, SAMSUNG, because they saw an ad financed by a product that costs real money. This is why Linux always loses. #marketing
One has to distinguish between the Linux Kernel, the Linux collective, and specific Linux distros. A 2013 NUC will run RHEL 10 no problem, but earlier NUCs will not, as they Lack the necesary AMD64 V3 instruction set.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Meanwhile NUCs containing processors as late as Broadwell or Zen4 will not work as soon and RHEL decides that they will go to AMD64-V4. Yes, ther will be other distros still supporting AMD64-V3, as right now there are distros supporting AMD64-V2 and older. But the more time progresses, the more obscure those distros will be.
the adequate comparision is not between MacOS (and windows) and the linux Kernel, or between MacOS (and windows) and the linux collective, is between MacOS (and windows) and the more Known and Supported Linux DISTROS (Ubuntu, RHEL & Suse, et al)
Linux dropped support for 486 and early Pentium processors so it's not like Linux is innocent on this matter.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
I don't know how long Apple, or other organizations that produce operating systems, should support hardware. Someone is certainly going to complain about seeing trusted hardware losing access to the latest software. I'd likely still be running classic video games on a Pentium II if a power surge had not killed it years ago. I ran that computer with the knowledge it would not likely run anything new, and I didn't need it to run anything new since I had other computers. I ran games on this old computer because it meant that I'd avoid odd behavior I've seen in emulators and other means to attempt to run older software I liked on newer hardware.
Maybe abandoning hardware from five years ago is "too soon". That's a matter of opinion, and of economics for a company driven by profit. Even nonprofit efforts like Linux has a breaking point on this, at some point people lose interest in maintaining support for old hardware with new software.
If you wanted to throw shade at Linux, you should have talked about DISTROS dropping HW support, instead of the Linux Kernel dropping support. No one is crying for dropped i486 support.
While the linux kernel still support the OG pentium and the i686, Many relevant distros (ubuntu, RH, Suse) dropped 32 bit OS support althogether*, Ditto for Win11.
Meanwhile, RedHat 10 requires AMD64 V3 (meaning 6th gen compared to Win11's 8th gen), V1 and V2, will not run at all....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Having said that, I still think that Linux is more forgiving on old hardware than either Windows or MacOS (but no one tops NetBSD, for what is worth)
* unlike apple, 32 bit APPs still work, even if the OS can not be installed on a 32 bit only machine.
I'm trying to think when the last time was that I saw an actual advantage to a newer version of OS X / macOS... but I'm drawing a blank.
Apple issues security patches only for versions N, N-1 and N-2, but they only guarantee ALL HOLES will be patched in version N. For N-1 and N-2 they reserve the right to decide wich holes will be patched and which ones will not be patched...
From a puerly security standpoint, one is better of on Version N than on version N-1 or N-2.
Let me use myself as an example. My two machines are a MacMini 2018 6 core, and a 2015 Air 13". Due to a desire of UI consistency, both are on version N (the Air via OCPL). This is more secure overall, but less stable for the 13"Air.
As soon as the 2018 goes out of support, I'll stay on Sequioia (i.e. N-1) until even OCLP can not support N-1, so I drop to N2. And then, and only then, change HW.
PS: I Bootcamp to play, with a GTX1070 on a Sonnet box, not ideal, but workable for the time being. Will move from Vanilla Win10 to either Server 2022 or server 2019. A new build will come if/when the current HW goes completely out of support
Thank you OCPL.
Good for you. We ditched my wife's 2015 MBP (and went to Dell) after it wasn't able to be updated to the latest OS, and Photoshop and other applications she uses couldn't be installed unless the latest OS was installed, which Apple no longer supported. Glad you aren't doing anything serious with your computer and you can let it limp along with an outdated OS. YMMV.
I perfectly understand you (and your wife). In a proffesional setting, using OCPL may not be allowed, for certification or liability reasons...
I hope the Dell you guys got is Win11 compatible, and also hope that can be brought to Win12 when the time comes (my guess is a couple of years).
I plan on going back to Windows/Linux, I as Want both RAM and SSD to be upgradeable, and upgradeable with parts from multiple vendors. If, from now to the Time OCPL stops supporting supported MacOS versions on my current HW (MacMini 2018 6 core + 2015 13"Air) apple offers machines with that, I may stay.
Programmers do it bit by bit.
