i remember when in 2020 apple announced ditching x86 and i was calling that insane and incredibly anti-consumer
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i remember when in 2020 apple announced ditching x86 and i was calling that insane and incredibly anti-consumer
however, one thing has changed. it’s 2026
@xyla tbh the only bad part about it imho is that this year they're killing x86 entirely
no macOS builds for older systems, no backwards compatibility (except, conveniently, for games which opt-in), no nothing
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i remember when in 2020 apple announced ditching x86 and i was calling that insane and incredibly anti-consumer
however, one thing has changed. it’s 2026
@xyla i'm uh, not seeing the big picture on that here i guess
besides windows not working on there (which, to my knowledge, is microsoft's own fault for signing contracts with snapdragon), i don't see how that's any more anti-consumer than their x86 computers
like. they always had soldered on RAM, soldered on storage, etc., none of that changed with the architecture changed. since 2016 at least, macbooks have been shitty deals if you care about having a laptop that won't die if you blink at it too hard lol
only difference is now it runs on a different architecture for better battery life -
i remember when in 2020 apple announced ditching x86 and i was calling that insane and incredibly anti-consumer
however, one thing has changed. it’s 2026
@xyla Apple silicon is awesome honestly shame that there isn’t any good Linux compatible hardware with ARM
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@xyla tbh the only bad part about it imho is that this year they're killing x86 entirely
no macOS builds for older systems, no backwards compatibility (except, conveniently, for games which opt-in), no nothing
@xyla oh, and they should have documented iBoot and helped with drivers and all that, but alas
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i remember when in 2020 apple announced ditching x86 and i was calling that insane and incredibly anti-consumer
however, one thing has changed. it’s 2026
@xyla we'll never get a duopoly as consumer friendly as x86 ever again
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@xyla we'll never get a duopoly as consumer friendly as x86 ever again
@xyla chainloading edk2 on my raspberry pi just to feel like arm isn't a huge mess
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@xyla we'll never get a duopoly as consumer friendly as x86 ever again
@aura fuck
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@xyla Apple silicon is awesome honestly shame that there isn’t any good Linux compatible hardware with ARM
@pecet apple is helping to keep that state of things
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@aura fuck
@xyla then again, remember bulldozer?
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@pecet apple is helping to keep that state of things
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@xyla tbh the only bad part about it imho is that this year they're killing x86 entirely
no macOS builds for older systems, no backwards compatibility (except, conveniently, for games which opt-in), no nothing
@xerz another bad part is that m1 will most certainly lose support next year and running unsupported macos will be close to impossible
so, macs now have a hard expiry date of ~7 years, even though their hardware allows them for way more
heh, hello from my imac 2017 running macos 15
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