eurodyne

Woohoo! Let’s go M4!

Well, since this extension is also on GitHub, I can try to sync it up that way, and then do a little editing to try to get it to work.

Thanks for the tip!

Shows up as “unsupported” and doesn’t seem to work for me on gnome 50 😔

Every extension that did the whole “free-floating/pill-shaped” COSMIC-style top panel (and there was a number of them) — not a single one got updated for gnome 50.

Fortunately, gnome 51 will support top panel transparency, just like macOS. If I can’t make it look the way I want, at least I can just not look at it at all.

Asahi Linux

Oh, that’s nice

What extension gets you that rounded top panel and dock?

Common sense

Sheesh M4 Support already? Wow.

While the Apple M4 SoCs aren’t yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn’t yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4.

Oh, still…

For just a second, I thought I was looking at a remaster of Ultima underworld, and my heart skipped a beat

Mmmmyeeaahhh, maybe, but I am a couple decades past trying to read the tea leaves with that guy. If that’s what he really meant, he could’ve come out and just said that – but he didn’t. He was intentionally ambiguous, mostly because I think he’s just tired of dealing with the issue (and an increasingly cunty crowd), and wanted to push the responsibility of making a decision off of himself and back onto the users. I will admit that he is far more composed than I would be in his position.

On one hand, I don’t blame him, but on another hand, I really wish he would’ve taken a stance (prefer preferably anti-AI).

He gave a professional response to a gigantic community because he has a professional responsibility to do so. Personally, I think he gave the only response he could. What does he personally think? Like I said, I’m a couple of decades past trying to read the tea leaves on that guy. But you could be right.

Linus:

The bootloader has already seen fixes because of issues asahi uncovered.

Oh, I didn’t know that.

You know what they say: a rising tide lifts all boats

Also, Apple was questioned about this when the project started, and they basically said that they wish the project the best of luck and that Apple isn’t going to do anything to stand in their way.

As absurdly proprietary as Apple‘s hardware is, they’ve never explicitly done anything to block others from running different software on it. Yes, it is difficult to do so under certain circumstances, for all sorts of weird proprietary, Apple reasons, but to explicitly go out of their way to block it? Certainly never on their computers.

Although they do completely lock out their EFI and boot controllers, but they say that strictly a matter of preserving system security or whatever, and that’s believable. Inconvenient, but because that is also extremely proprietary, I believe them.

After all, I have fedora running on a 14 year-old iMac, and it was surprisingly easy to install. The only issues I had related to a dead internal display, but I would imagine I would also have similar problems with any other all-in-one computer with a dead internal display.

Wait, what?!

Recently switched to Fedora myself, and I could not be happier ❤️

My point? I’m old and I’m mad and I’m drunk and I’m stoned. I should probably stop talking.

But I’m also really glad that I’m not the only one who remembers when Apple was a fucking awesome company that was a legitimate public good. Maybe eventually could be again. Tim Cook is gone, thank goodness.

Time well spent, I say!

You didn’t come off rude, but there was a bit of indignance— but I interpreted that as directed towards Apple, not at me.

I grew up with Steve Job’s Apple, not Tim Cook’s Apple. Those two were galaxies apart. While Steve Jones was, perhaps, the biggest asshole in the entire world of computers, he insured that Apple and Apple computers, and Apple operating systems were the best. They were open, they were open source, and they served, before anyone, the user. Under Steve Jobs, Apple computer went up against the goddamn United States, Supreme Court, and won, in the name of user freedom and user privacy, not just for Apple users, but for everyone.

Because of Steve Jobs, we finally got the first and only BSD distro for PCs— the very PCs that Steve Jobs, himself, invented. (By means of an extraordinarily talented team of engineers at the company he created, NeXT). Then, by means of business wizardry, he tricked the idiots remaining at Apple computers to buyout him and the remaining people at NeXT computers back into Apple, and convincing them to adopt NeXTSTEP as the new Mac OS X. The first iteration of BSD as a consumer-faced operating system. A silent revolution for UNIX. And FOSS. hate on Apple all you like, but even to this day, they’re one of the biggest single contributors to the free and open source software movement.

And when he died, that all ended under the leadership of Tim Cook who spent his time rallying stock prices and profits and sucking Donald Trump‘s cock. Not to mention being a huge traitor to the LGBTQ community as a gay man myself, we all fucking hate that Cunt.

Now we have a new CEO, and we’ll see how that goes.

Before Linux was a widespread viable option like it is today, the BSD option offered by Apple and the FOSS contributions they made were a very important manner in this community.

• USB. 1. 2. 3. Thanks, Apple!
• firewire. 400. 800. Thanks, Apple!
• thunderbolt. 1. 2. 3. 4. Thanks, Apple!
• HDMI thanks Apple!
• DisplayPort - thanks Apple!

I could go on, covering 40 years of I/O transport technologies that Apple has been crucial in developing or helping to develop, but I’ll save you 20 hours of the lecture. Google it if you’re curious. but, long story short, we wouldn’t have any of that shit without Apple.

And just because Apple, as a corporate entity, has become the unsufferable shit they are today, shouldn’t subtract from the contributions they’ve made in the past, nor the contributions they still make today.

Under their veil of corporate cuntery, Apple still makes massive contributions to the FOSS community. Hopefully, under the leadership of a new CEO, we will see improvement in conduct and culture.

SEAGATE EXOS ENTERPRISE. SHELL OUT THOSE DOLLARS ON THE FRONT END AND NEVER LOOK BACK.

Not just my server, but I have set up and can attest to the integrity of at least six other Plex servers that are a similar vintage to mine that live on safe and sound

In my 45+ years of computery, i’ve never known a hard drive quite like the Seagate EXOS. Expensive as fuck, but quite invincible.

Edit: *under normal operating conditions. If it gets a little too hot, that shit will melt. Like any enterprise hardware, you gotta keep your eye very carefully on its operating temperature. I have known a situation or two wherein a drivebox overheated, causing drives to fail. But that was a USER error, NOT a hardware failure. But this is 2026, not 1986, so you’re gonna get plenty of system warnings before you get to that point.

But if everything is properly monitored and cared for, it will operate perfectly for an extra extraordinarily long time, and it will do so perfectly.

Just for the sake of titillation, this is the oldest drive. I still have running on that server:

I’m pretty sure that this drive and the two other drives, which are in similarly terrible condition, could simply just die at any moment

And I am so poor, that I could, of course, not afford to replace any of them, especially considering hard drive prices at the moment.

Edit: if you know how to read Smart status output, you can clearly see that this hard drive is, for all intense and purposes, already quite dead. It’s a fucking miracle. I can read any data off of it at all. But it chugs along, as if it was brand new. Bless fucking Seagate.

You know it’s even more frustrating? Hoping you’re almost 15 year-old computer and almost 10 year-old storage array hosting your 20 y/o media library will continue to work because you’re too poor to replace any of that.

Times are tough

Edit: Seagate EXOS— worth every fucking penny. I’ve never had a Drive fail, and I have witnessed many drives work 24/7/365 perfectly well beyond 10 and even 12 years without losing a byte.

Ever seen a drive return a full bank of SMART diagnostics with “OLD AGE”? Yeah, that’s a thing.

Seagate EXOS Enterprise Hard Drives. There are no other others.