The battery life is a non issue for me so far.

It’s much lighter both in my pocket and my hands. It feels much less obtrusive in a pocket overall despite the bump, which when holding it one-handed can sometimes even be an affordance that keeps it from slipping.

I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

Intermediate Linux user + 6 months of Gentoo = advanced Linux user.

I’m not kidding. You can do this with other distros, but it will get you used to parts of the software engineering process you might not otherwise be exposed to. That was my experience at least.

I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.

I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.

It was not just MS. There were those who followed that lead and announced that it was an industry thing.

Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.

The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.

They probably mean “we use cheap shocks.”

How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?

I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?

Oh that’s cool! I thought virtio and such were KVM-specific things. I have never been super clear on the relationship between QEMU and the hypervisor itself, like where one ends and the other begins.

Is Apple’s tech going to be using KVM machinery then, or are you just saying that it’s possible in general?

Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal

I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.