Ampere's primary focus is running lots of simple tasks concurrently, at relatively low power, with lots of I/O. So, many tens to hundreds of cores, not too fast, at lower power draw than amd64, with lots of PCIe lanes for storage and network.

Apple's primary focus is user experience and power efficiency. That's why you'll find a handful of fast performance cores and low power efficiency cores, along with graphics acceleration to drive high resolution displays.

... not investigating your field is a massive low effort failure mode. You don't have to know your field, but you have to investigate it, appreciate it, draw upon it... even, or perhaps especially, if you're standing in opposition to it.

(This is also why "first principles" twits like Elon are so annoying...)

the various embedded build systems make cross-compiling easy at scale, which means you often don't need to think about it when adding a new package

It's probably just garden variety disrespectful behaviour.

Purposeless agent spam won't be cheap entertainment forever, but you're right that later stages of industrialised abuse will be scary and unpleasant.

An example of improving efficiency: virtiofs has a relatively recent feature to map pages from host memory directly into guest memory, but that's a lot of risky acrobatics if your priorities are reliability and isolation...

... but it's not supported by Virtualization Framework's built-in virtiofs "folder sharing". (sad face)

... but someone could build it on top of the new macos 27+ custom virtio device support. (intrigued face)

My suggestion: Don't use the host filesystem from the guest at all. It'll be faster, and better isolated. It's a false convenience.

Depending on your threat model, that's fine, but a lot of people (including me) will say that containers are not a security mechanism.

But macOS requires[1] virtualisation for containers anyway; the security is just a bonus.

[1] at least for a real Linux kernel...

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage...

A few things contributed to its demise: less industry money sloshing around for travel and sponsorships, a growing sense that "Linux" didn't represent the entire community, and a pandemic.

Which left "Everything Open" launching weaker in every sense.

But I don't think Linux or Open Source feel sufficiently radical or inspiring to sustain that kind of community-building (local or global) these days... maybe a "Fuck AI" tech conference. :-D