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

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.

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.

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.

Typically if you run a particular operating system you're not going to see several types of executable formats. The question wouldn't come up.

There have to be others with odd advantages, like an executable format that lends itself toward streaming-in the parts of the binary you're executing (exec as you torrent, lol). Or perhaps 1 that stores different parts of itself in a SQL database (read-only, strings, debugging info, etc). Someone has to have created an executable format out of sqlite databases. I remember "Universal" binaries on Mac archived several architectures' binaries together.

In the interest of a discussion I haven't seen: What is the best executable format and why? What are some creative ones?

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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.

I think California deserves more praise for how it protects people. Net Neutrality is effectively upheld by state-by-state regulation, because the federal gov couldn't secure this for us.

I wonder if anyone is tracking the average amount of memory somewhere from 1980-forward. I'd take that value * 2 for a developer.

(This is my layman understanding.)

I solidly believe AMD is the king for efficiency, but I wish I could find better benchmarks showing idle power use for AMD vs Intel (not peak power use). My understanding is that Intel has deeper power states its processors settle into.

I'm surprised someone doesn't artificially limit or undervolt their Intel proc to approach or surpass what we're seeing from AMD. Would it significantly lengthen the total execution time of the program? Would there still be a significant difference in "performance"?

Performance-per-watt is important, and the total amount of power to execute the program. Would this be in Kilowatt/hours?

I want to see how many Kilowatt/hours something like Cinebench consumes on similar AMD & Intel processors, so we can derive the "real computing efficiency".