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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by tambourine_man on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:42AM (#29568315)
>gives me hope that I can eventually repurpose my old iPads and iPhones

That would involve jailbraking. The nice thing about the M series Macs is that there is an offical way to run alternative OSs, AFAIK. Something that should be required by law after X number of units sold IMO, but that's another conversation altogether.

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Re:Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021 by kaba0 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:52PM (#29570765)
To give credit where it is due, I remember one member from the project mentioning that Apple actually did quite stellar work to enable other OSs while still maintaining a secure booting mechanism (for both osx and future third party ones!)
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