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  • [ - ] Avatar. TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    2 points 22 hours ago.

    Haha apparently they blocked me from their .world account so TIL that’s my Lemmy experience permalink report parent reply [ - ] Avatar Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM 12 points 17 hours ago.

    I didn’t block you.

    You, being so majestically brilliant, blocked them and you’re apparently obsessed with saying they did it.

    You’re going to have to go for a third try on the meaning of the word “assumption”.




  • That may be, but buying a Mac Mini is like buying a device made from the ground up for Windows, where any other operating system has to reverse engineer 100% of the things to work well, or you have to emulate another OS on it (which comes with its own pitfalls), and it’s 200+€ more expensive than its nearest equivalent.

    Every single company I’ve worked at which introduced Apple Silicon to its developers has had headaches with compatibility. The worst I’ve seen was it taking a developer a month to get up and running because the specific component we used didn’t have a build for the specific ARM architecture. Multipass, UTM, podman, docker desktop, all didn’t work until colima and forcing the VM to emulate x86 + forcing docker in the VM to use the x86 image worked. There was a persistent problem with disk IO since it used 9p or whatever. Installing dependencies from scratch meant waiting 30 minutes on the M2.

    Why pay a premium for less compatibility and worse specs? Just get yourself something that works, which is cheaper, maybe even supports a company that invests in Linux and its ecosystem, and be able to ask an existing developer community instead of asking the subsection of linux users that run your specific app on however you’re running linux on Appe hardware.