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Posted by
Encounter on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:39PM
from the decomp.dev dept.
From
https://asahilinux.org/about/> Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices. That means that, unlike iOS devices, Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs (though they probably won’t help with the development).
Yes, it installs into a separate partition and you choose whether to boot into macOS or Linux.
As someone with diagnosed & medicated ADHD, it genuinely, truly affects my every day life. After medication, I remember thinking “oh, this is how normal people’s brains work”. I’ve been playing most of my life on hard mode. I won’t debate whether it’s over-diagnosed, but it’s 100% a real thing and it’s incredibly discouraging to see people dismiss it.
Think about how much worse PDF exploits would be if they did!
I've seen plenty of projects that use MoltenVK as a drop-in backend for macOS. It seems complete enough for general use, but I haven't used it directly so I'm not sure what's missing.
OpenGL still works on the M1 (Apple designed their own GL-over-Metal driver), albeit with the OpenGL version limitations from modern macOS in general. Vulkan works over MoltenVK.
Other than old games, I'm not sure why 64-bit only is an issue.
I've not hit any Docker-on-macOS issues with what I've used it for, at least.
Well you can use Vulkan over Metal with MoltenVK, so that point is a bit moot.
Opinion time: WebGPU will become the standard graphics API to target for cross-platform. gfx-rs/wgpu already works over Vulkan/Metal/D3D12/D3D11/OpenGL/WebGL & WebGPU in browsers. Much better than simply Vulkan, unless performance is your primary sticking point.
Metal is by far a much friendlier API than Vulkan. Its approach with opt-in complexity is arguably the correct one. (Ever tried writing a Vulkan "Hello triangle" from scratch?)
It's also gaining some nice features that are usable out of the gate, rather than waiting on Vulkan extension standardization and adoption. It simply makes the most sense for Apple.
Posted by
Encounter on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:18PM
from the gfx-rs.github.io dept.
You're still at the mercy of Apple giving you a valid (and revokable) app development certificate. Apps installed with a development certificate expire after a certain number of days. There's also a limit to the number of devices you can use with a development certificate.
There are enterprise distribution certificates that don't have these restrictions, but using them to distribute apps outside of the company will end up getting it revoked. (Like what happened with Facebook)
Or if the site was usable on mobile.
One where we still need to work to live.
uBlock Origin seems to bypass the quote page.
Why do you use a year old version of Chrome? You're just exposing yourself to dozens of public vulnerabilities.
Huh, they do a good job of making it look official. (Definitely more so than mediacccde.)
I'll have to link from media.ccc.de from now on.