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hackintoshes have been a thing forever. Apple hopes to kill them off with the transition to arm...SPOILER: they won't.

The problem is that macOS ARM uses extra features that don't exist on CPUs outside of Apple Silicon. So you can run virtual macOS ARM on a macOS host (such as inside UTM), but not on anything else.

There isn't currently a real ecosystem of non-Apple ARM machines anyway.


Servers exist. Also, maybe the missing instructions can be trapped and emulated?

It’s possible. As far as I know nobody has done this yet (outside of Apple).

The virtual kernels are almost stock.

Yeah, it wouldn’t be a huge amount of work.

Uh, I think they will! A few people will just keep running older versions forever, but anyone who wants a modern Mac operating system is going to be out of luck once Intel support is dropped next year.

Intel-based Macs were fundamentally commodity hardware. You can buy AMD GPUs which are very close to what Apple shipped. Select the right components, add a few software patches, and everything just kind of works.

By contrast, you can't get an Apple Silicon GPU. And on ARM, macOS doesn't support software rendering at all. Graphics alone are going to kill any future Hackintosh prospects, because even if you can get Darwin to boot on your ARM laptop, you won't be able to display anything.

An an aside, Apple never seemed to try very hard to kill personal Hackintoshes, I really don't think they cared. Now it's going to happen incidentally.


Please see my comment above.

That's because jailbreak became irrelevant. The EU mandated sideloading, and for those of us elsewhere, there is this: https://sidestore.io/

The EU mandated sideloading doesn't let you replace the existing OS with a new one though right? I thought it was just apps.

Multiple publicly traded companies, including Microsoft, have invested significant amounts of money in OpenAI.

Nice! Looking forward to finally getting proper support for my Lichee Pi 4A!

IIRC, There are also bindings for other languages, at least I know Ruby used to have one that I played with.

That may or may not be an INTERNAL NVIDIA goal, or even a goal for multiple companies, however, that is NOT how the situation will play out.

The ecosystem isn't closed. TSMC doesn't exist in a vacuum. They may be the most advanced, however, there are a few reasons this will never work:

1) older fabs can be built in a garage by a smart person (it's been done a few times, I'd link the articles, but I don't have them handy)

2) Indie devs exist and often provide better gaming experience than AAA developers.

3) Old hardware/consoles exist, and will continue to exist for many decades to come (my Atari 2600 still works, as an example, and it it is older than I)

Sure, they MAY attempt to grab the market in this way. The attempt will backfire. Companies will go under, including possibly team green if they actually do exit the gaming market (because let's be real, at least in the U.S. a full blown depression is coming. When? No idea. However, yes, it's coming unless folks vote out the garbage.), and the player that doesn't give in, or possibly a chinese player that has yet to enter the market, will take over.


> "older fabs can be built in a garage by a smart person"

Yeah, with 1970s-era feature size. That's fine if your idea of AAA gaming is Hunt The Wumpus or Pong.


It's probably not an Nvidia goal no but the publishers want that too. It's the wet dream of copy protection for them. It's easy to record a cloud streamed movie but a game not so much.

You are absolutely wrong on this subject. Importantly, what matters is PPI, not resolution. 1080P would look like crap in a movie theater or on a 55" TV, for example, while it'll look amazing on a 7" monitor.

I would not have believed for a second if stores here in my location in the U.S. did not recently begin locking up gift cards in a cage. I thought the move was quite odd, until I remembered a story that I read (possibly here?) about specific types of imaging that could see the pin behind the scratch off part.

Originally I assumed it was due to customer education/fraud, however no additional signage is posted at the stores doing this. Second thought was people must think these cards are already activated, however there is tons of text stating these things are only activated at POS.

The retailers I mentioned are nationwide. However, they've only recently began to do this, and only in a few locations that I am aware of.


https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans possible with the current supply chain.


For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card. Its some kind of money laundering scheme I think? So recently stores in affected areas started locking up gift cards, though its hard to stop as buying all gift cards isnt really illegal

>For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card.

Source?


European country, it was a fairly big news story this summer

I wonder if that's for bypassing Chinese restrictions on getting money out of the country.

Disclosure, I've not run a website since my health issues began, however, Cloudflare has an AI firewall, Cloudflare is super cheap (also: unsure if the AI firewall is on the free tier, however I would be surprised if it is not). Ignoring the recent drama about a couple incidents they've had (because this would not matter for a personal blog), why not use this instead?

Just curious. Hoping to be able to work on a website again someday, if I ever regain my health/stamina/etc back.


Cloudflare has created a bit of grief with regular users getting spammed with "prove your human" requests.


Yes, e.g: I'll immediately close any attempt at Cloudfare's verification.


Out of interest, why that extreme? Just out of principle or some other reason?


My main terminal uses a PiHole with 120,000+ blacklist rules (not Cloudfare specifically — I allow most CDN's). This includes an entire blackout of Google/Facebook products, as well as most tracking/analytics services.

For example, I do not allow reCAPTCHA.

As a similar commentor noted, when just casually browsing I don't really have any desire to try hard to read random content. Should I absolutely need to access some information garden-walled behind Cloudfare: I have another computer that uses much less restrictive black-listing.


Not OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway


Can confirm. I have been blocked plenty of times and it's really annoying.


All the solutions are going to have a few false positives, sadly.


Or a lot if you use privacy extensions.

Cloudflare's automatic checks (before you get the captcha) must be pretty close to what ad peddlers do.


All the best with getting back on your feet.


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