macOS runs on the Mach/xnu micro kernel and is pretty successful with it.
Apparently there have been attempts to make a free OS based on Apple’s kernel, but wikipedia mostly talks about them in the past tense. Too bad, it would’ve been good to have such an option.
Pure Darwin ist still around.
I tried out a Darwin distribution a few years ago. It was a BSD with some apple flavor. None of the GUI was included, not all drivers, firmware, etc.
The community is tiny. There was also little incentive to try and fix things or add features, because upstream Apple ignored it pretty much. Grabbing the sources and compiling them into an operating system has little documentation from Apple.
Mac OS X used to install XQuartz, a hardware accelerated Xorg/X11 server by default in the 2000s, but dropped it at some point.
Even back when OpenDarwin and such were around, people would rather install YellowDog Linux that supported PowerPC Macs.
I think at some point the old NeXtStep/OpenStep folks left Apple and the new engineers didn’t understand Unix or think it’s important.
Alt-double-click to open Properties on a file is straight out of Windows. It’s something I really missed!
Alt-double-click to open Properties on a file is straight out of Windows
I learned a fun new thing today.
OCR for screenshots sounds super cool :0
As always, this is incredible engineering. I’m so excited that M series macs have a supportability path beyond Apple’s proprietary support
Don’t scare me like that, Phoronics. I thought yoy were talking about DRM = Digital Rights Management. That’s theblast thing we need in the Linux kernel.
Digital Restrictions Management.
As someone who relies on systemd, but wants to have alternatives:
While it is good othat other login managers will still be able to start Plasma, making the default new login manager reliant on systemd is bad. It means that non-standard installations of KDE will now require more manual labor to make it work just right. And while installing sddm is not big of a hassle, this sets a precedent that can later be expanded, making it a death by a thousand cuts for everything that dares not use systemd in its operation.
It was but a mere example
Fair enough.
It could help, but it’s not a problem that any one solution is the solution. There’s going to be some combination of solutions to actually solve it.
Also reasonable
Not really, I might have a lot of accounts, but it’s still only 1 per instance so it’s not really inflating the numbers. Besides most go by monthly active users for gauging the Threadiverse health which because of my pattern I might not even make up 1 MAU lol
Reasonable again.
I don’t just make them, I do my best to actively contribute to them, like I said I also post “organically sourced” content and not just crossposts for this very reason.
I missed that, if that’s whats happening i retract my implication.
Um I’m not sure how that would be a user education error? I’m talking about someone maliciously making an imposter account and posting heinous crap “in their name” But there is currently no technical solution on the Threadiverse afaik for it
I think imposter account is a misnomer, two accounts with the same name on different instances are distinct entities afaik,
like mike@gmail.com isn’t the same as mike@outlook.com.
if you look at a post and it’s written by “mike” and you don’t look at the instance it’s from you’re only getting half of the information you need.
Solutions for this type of problem exist already (PGP keys etc), they just aren’t very practical for regular people.
The “could be better solved in a different manner.” part was mostly about how the underlying software for the instances might be changed to allow for some of these existing solutions to be integrated more seamlessly.
Or something entirely new, who knows.
Nah crossposts are a solution for a different problem, 4 is for when an instance hasn’t federated with another instances remote comm yet and is therefore unknown to the instance
For example, I made this post to my comm at !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe today from this toast.ooo instance I’m on rn
But toast.ooo never federated with that comm so as far as this instance knew !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe didn’t exist until I manually went to the comm by URL (toast.ooo/c/gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe) and subbed to it
Until then nobody on this instance would have been seeing posts from that comm in their c/all/new/whatever feed, even if a post went “viral”. But now they will and for every other comm I sub to as I go
I didn’t know this is how it worked, makes sense in that context.
It’s not the ads. I can still get ad free via browser, which is all I ever use anyways. On my main home entertainment, I don’t have an ad blocker and this is what’s broken.
Connect your VPN to Albania and no more ads.