Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by Kwpolska on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:27AM (#50403589)

A kernel panic is the least of your worries with this hardware. Asahi had to introduce a custom daemon to avoid frying speakers. Apple doesn't need to care about making the hardware interfaces safe if they control the entire stack, so they don't, and expose dangerous capabilities to the OS.

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by LoganDark on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:18AM (#50403904)

There was a fun period of time where Boot Camp still existed, but Windows could fry the speakers because it didn't have any of macOS's thermal protection. I think this was after the 2016 redesigns, as I had a mid-2015 with no such issue.

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by Wowfunhappy on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:42AM (#50405911)

Does this generalize to basically anything outside of speakers though? I think a pretty easy solution is to not use AI for that specifically.

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by orangea on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:42PM (#50406875)

thermal management is the first thing that comes to mind. and battery management

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by getcrunk on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:24AM (#50410638)

You would hope both those systems have built in hw failsafes

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by kortilla on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:12AM (#50411095)

A blown fuse is a failsafe but that’s not helpful for users.

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by Kwpolska on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:10AM (#50412975)

If they removed the hardware failsafes from speakers to save a cent per device, I wouldn't be so sure.

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by Wowfunhappy on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:48AM (#50413351)

In the case of speakers, though, what would a hardware failsafe even look like? It would probably be some sort of secondary chip; Apple's design is to just move that to the main processor, the same way they don't have separate SSD controllers.

Monitoring the CPU temperature feels very different to me. I'm pretty sure the CPU can't cook itself. This is probably documented somewhere so we don't need to speculate, but I can't research right now...

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by perching_aix on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:09PM (#50410100)

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Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 by jasonvorhe on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:20AM (#50413597)

Has anyone blown out some component of their Apple Silicon Macs over the years, whether via traditional or AI-run RE?

Haven't encountered any reports about it yet.

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