Everyone is free to work on whatever they want, but...

I wish the amount of time and brain power spent on this project was instead used to work on something more friendly to the Linux community.

For example to improve Strix Halo GPU and NPU support.

People who work on Asahi want exactly that - working on black box hardware with no specification.

Most likely they just not interested in working on well maintained drivers that require 1000 times more effort to upstream code.

Really seems like the worlds most complex and intriguing sudoku - it would all go away if Apple bothered to properly document their hardware.

they're probably documenting it very well. they just refuse to give it, which is worse imo

I agree with this sentiment. If someone wants to do a bunch of reverse engineering, maybe they could try to get full mainline support for older Qualcomm mobile phone/tablet SoCs and minimize/get rid of BLOBs?

All the fun of reverse engineering and we know the processors already run Linux...

Yes, and it looked pretty good for an engineering sample.

See this video from chineese youtubeer geerkerwan:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCJuOopLK8

Oh, so we're at the "good for an engineering sample" stage not "competitive with Apple" stage

Not sure what you mean, but production silicon will be used in their phones next month.

I mean that we don't have numbers for how this competes with Apple

Or ICE.

Half of the employees deported and a few shot dead just for good measures should be enough to bring Dario to the negotiations table.

    "The union representing those workers said that was news to them."

Smells like IRL hallucination...

You're right! The union did not actually threaten to go on strike.

And that quiet failure was totally on me— and here’s why:

Can you expand this a little bit? What makes this book different?

It speaks to people like you and me.

Folks in the modern age, who want to get up to speed with an old trusty tool, without the biases of other folk getting in the way.

You get up to speed enough, that you can then go find your own way.

Mickey’s writing is conversational yet pithy and laconic. (in a very good way)

O3 is supposed to draw 25% less than O1, which according to reviews of their tablets did not throttle.

Their next Fold phone (TBA September) will use O3. I guess we will find out very soon.

All Canada needs to do to become the center of innovation now is to... become 10°C warmer.

Warmer would help, but the latitude difference still gets you on sun height and hours of daylight in the winter months.

Ireland nd UK are doing fine and we're farther north than most Canadian cities.

I dont know, warm weather but not too much direct sunlight could actually be a good thing.

This is why their forests are currently burning

They're getting a nice assist from global warming.

Linus Torvalds has in past used laptops from Apple, Lenovo and Dell and probably many more.

His current laptop is an Intel laptop.

After this news they might suddenly be.

The U.S. is already making moves to completely halt the export of ASML machines to China, including non-EUV ones. Every semiconductor China produces could be used in weapons and that's agains U.S. law.

Last I knew, ASML was a Dutch company with a Veldhoven HQ. With the amount of shit that Trump's been pulling in Europe, The EU might be more willing to side with China and ban exports to the US.

Not as long as there's a NATO.

Europe needs to acquire a nuclear arsenal that stands head-to-head with the Russian one quantitatively and independent from the U.S. or any other nation (including the French and British) for nuclear deterrence. This means many more European nations need to acquire a nuclear arsenal.

The frustrating part is that the U.S. doesn't want to give assurances whether it will come to Europe's aid if it were attacked, but at the same time doesn't want European nations to develop an independent nuclear capability. Many European nations (Poland, Finland, Sweden, Germany) are currently contemplating going nuclear. The U.S. is actively discouraging them to do so.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (to which they are all signatories) effectively prevents these countries from acquiring nuclear weapons. Unless they are willing to face international sanctions and economic ruin, that’s the end of the story.

If you leave the treaty are you still subject to international sanctions if you develop nukes? Me thinks not. That makes the treaty a paper tiger.

The NPT was only useful when the lines were clear and larger nations would come to the aid of smaller ones when they were attacked. That's no longer the case.

I would argue that NATO under Trump is a paper tiger. There is a reason no-one wants to buy US weapons any more, though the intricacies of where they are, having assumed the US would be a reliable ally, mean the current flood of US weaponry to European countries will slow down gradually, not all at once.

Reputation is a fickle thing, so difficult to build, and so easy to lose.

The strategic and economic importance of Europe is too great for even the U.S. to ignore. That's the reason I'm convinced the U.S. will always come to Europe's aid if the need arises.

I'm pretty sure the Trump Administration has made this clear to the Russians through diplomatic channels. A Russian attack is therefore unlikely.