messing with system

Investors hate this one glitch!

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

Though if we are using the brand UNIX, macos is one of the few UNIX brand products out there

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

The BSD family has evolved, and while not having the Unix trademark, does have its roots in the same codebase

And if you don’t feel like using physical dice:

https://diceware.rempe.us/#eff

Not just scammy

Epik is an American domain registrar and web hostingcompany known for providing services to alt-tech websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist materials. It has been described as a “safehaven for the extreme right” because of its willingness to provide services to far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik

I’m in no way surprised at what they did, and in fact only surprised that it wasn’t them that bought the expired domain, but instead was godaddy

Put on some socks, post in !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone, bam

Yeah I mean blame the MPEG group for that. There’s a reason all the tech companies tired of their licensing fees built avc1

Like Vegas? Sure. Open source stuff like kdenlive and shotcut exists. Davinci resolve is available for Linux for more professional stuff. Specifically Vegas? Probably only under a VM, and you’d likely get awful performance, so not worth it. If you’re a professional, Linux isn’t always an option, especially if you are in a software ecosystem that doesn’t work there

Probably that your display maxes out at 60hz but the graphics driver is rendering extra frames for increased fidelity

I won’t have the perfect OS until I’ve rewritten Temple OS from scratch as Hannah Montana’s Temple, The OS

At first I thought this was cursed

No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch

Now I think it’s very cursed

EDIT:

Ok after investigating the kernel is forked from https://github.com/klange/toaruos so it’s slightly less cursed

Windows CE skeletal hand shoots out of the ground in a cemetery somewhere

That reminds me of the oldschool Realtek WiFi cards which required you to run drivers through WINE just to have WiFi on Linux. It really is excellent to see how far it’s come. I have a cheap Chinese laptop with a celeron chip (jasper lake) that I use as essentially a thin client. Installing windows fresh: trackpad doesn’t work, audio doesn’t work, WiFi 6 card driver is a generic MS one that caps at 5mb a sec until I install the right Realtek drivers, graphics aren’t accelerated until I install intel’s drivers. Installing Linux: everything works out of the box, just need to install the right graphics drivers for accelerated graphics to work. Only sad spot is the fingerprint reader is just flat out not supported in Linux. Lol if I tried hard I guess I could hook up WINE to run it like the old days

Yeah it’s called open core and it’s basically every open source SaaS product where you can either:

1. self host the open source product
2. pay for their (usually better) cloud product which has features the open source product doesnt
3. self host the cloud product (usually labelled as “enterprise” and “contact sales”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

And subscriptions. Once hyper capitalism got its whiff of subscriptions there was no turning back.

Apple is really the only company that did serious research on building their initial UIs with their human interface guidelines. It’s clear they don’t anymore, and everything is about driving engagement or whatever, but like during the golden era of OS X, Tiger, their UI was far superior, and most desktop environments borrow much of that stuff to this day. I now want a hat that says “Make macOS Tiger again”

https://github.com/db0/lemmy-tagginator/blob/main/README.md#why-is-this-necessary

Basically to make lemmy content more easily accessible on mastadon

The thing is, it’s not a good general purpose OS. The filesystem is write protected, and you can disable that, but anything you do will be cleared on the next update. It uses proprietary repos that are behind Arch’s, so AUR software is often incompatible. Everything is based on the one steam deck user, so you can’t really do a multi user set up. It makes sense for a handheld gaming console (or maybe if you had a PC that you used purely as a gaming console connected to a TV), but it definitely doesn’t make sense to have as your OS on your gaming PC if you do anything except gaming

Yup, what makes flatpak more akin to the open source spirit is that new submissions to flathub are open source and rely on a PR model

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls

And software that exists on flathub is open and accessible in their repositories

https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories

Whereas snaps are a web based walled garden controlled by canonical

https://snapcraft.io/docs/using-the-snap-store

They both provide benefit as you explained, but flathub (flatpak’s default repo) is definitely more open in how it is handled