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I think we're getting faster at iterating on bringing up dev environments.

Silverblue is my favorite, but it's becoming common for me to develop everything within a docker image. As quickly as we're committing to a project, we're updating the env and rebuilding that image at the same time? I'm new to this.

I have a friend who's really big into k8s and ansible. Right now it feels like I'm toying around in 1 pod. He can bring up a set of services around the thing he's developing in a few minutes. I want his power. :x

This is something I'd be comfortable with maintaining, but I couldn't leave with my dad. (I work on the road for months, and it's unpredictable when I come back. Longest I was out was 2 years..)

The GPU is important.. afaik the keyboard and trackpad aren't working yet in Asahi Linux.

I don't expect Apple to support the Linux community. It feels like this is trending in one direction. It felt like things stopped being "favorable" to us when they stopped supporting OpenGL and made no effort with Vulkan. The touchbar and some wifi chipsets were poorly supported for years before M1 debuted.

What has been implemented in Asahi is impressive, but it's not ready to be a daily driver. I hope this becomes my mobile device of choice someday. I'd use MacOS for work-work, and I would choose Linux every time for fun-work. So tired of everything having telemetry and vendor lock-in and basic pieces of software moving to subscription models.

Apple laptops became the dev machines of choice because they embraced the OSS community in pretty big ways. Right now the water feels tepid.

1) We are now 2 generations in without full Linux support for the hardware.

2) I used my Powerbook G4 for 12 years; this is mostly because I was a kid with no money. When I got something else, my sister used it for another 3 years. With thermals as they are in this device, instead of selling it after 4-5 years I'd rather keep it for one-off projects as a server like a Mac Mini. I know laptops aren't designed for server work, but I love that it's a server with a builtin terminal. Also a device I'd use for hiking, because I could charge it from backpack solar.

3) The worst experience I've had was telling my dad MacOS Catalina couldn't be installed on his $3.5k iMac.

As you said in your other comment, M3 will be 3nm TSMC? Maybe Linux will look good on Apple Silicon then.

I want it, but I'm not getting it until all the hardware works under Linux.

MacOS is great, but someday they will stop updating MacOS for this. I see it as a device with incredible longevity because of the fanless thermals and how it sips energy. I could see myself using it 10 years later. I want to run MacOS or Fedora Silverblue, with Silverblue being my true love. Immutable OS images <3

HAH, downvoted in seconds. Would not be surprised if there are Apple employees brigading this.

That's an important distinction, but I think it's getting more common to post for positions you have filled so there are resumes available if someone takes flight. Resumes don't mean someone is available either.

This is the most tactless thing they could have done to bring 2A proponents to the table to discuss responsible legislation. *puts on tinfoil hat*

I'm optimistic growing remote work means extending the working life of an SWE (counter to ageism).

I'm not saying it's a good idea to give everyone a gun, but I do like the argument that the disadvantaged have the same opportunity to pull a trigger. I hope humanity learns wisdom as quickly as we innovate. We've made it this far..

While likely not your situation, a free and open-source app doesn't guarantee it will safeguard your data :x

I'd like to think these ideas have been around and well-known for decades, and we're starting to see the hardware rise up to support them. If you told someone in 2001 that Linux would be rewritten in say, Java, with a garbage collector it would have been dismissed as starkly inefficient. Nowadays we have hardware that makes certain safeties negligible on performance (memory tagging, bounds checking, etc). Nowadays we can make an OS out of Java and it will stand just fine. Or Rust. Faster hardware means we run slower (and safer) software. Not everything gets isolated into an ASIC, of course.

That + the Temporary Containers extension can make every new tab a new container by default. I also use Container Proxy so I can route traffic from each tab through a different proxy if needed (mitmproxy). I've wanted to go to Chrome but Chrome has nothing like per-tab sessions/isolation. I looked at first party isolation but it's vague and doesn't seem like what Firefox provides.

Firefox is the only browser that can do this. Also Google's UI decisions are just unilateral and awful. At least with Firefox we can still tweak some of it.

Still coming to my own conclusion here, but I wouldn't dismiss "easy button" as marketing. We keep hoping for easy buttons and reasonable default settings in things like openssl or pgp. I do like organizations that understand an easy button is the safest default. Is that what we have here?

While likely not your situation, paying for an app doesn't guarantee it will safeguard your data :x