She also did this while she was still a full time undergraduate university student. Normally you'd expect someone with more experience to be doing this kind of low level hardware hacking, but she did all this while still young, before even graduating from university.

Aren't macOS and OSX just different versions of the same thing? Why break them out when Windows is all in one? Never been a Mac user, someone help me out.

At this rate, it will. Windows 11 is a turd, and i don’t expect it to get any better unless shareholders get rid of the current CEO.

Foreign governments are trying to wean themselves from US tech. That’ll be a big chunk soon. I expect they will roll their own unix/linux distros.

Since it's just a share of total usage, that doesn't necessarily mean that people switched.

There were a lot of layoffs in 2023, and big companies tend to use Windows as their enterprise desktop. So a drop in Windows users at the enterprise level would necessitate that other OSs now have a larger share of the remaining pie.

Part of why it happened for Apple's chips is that there weren't any Linux-compatible GPU drivers. It's easier to justify investing lots of time and effort into something like this if it makes hardware start working than if all it does is mean you're not using a proprietary driver and in the medium term likely have worse performance.

Still needs to drop much more.

What's the anomaly around 2023/2024 where people seemed to switch to OS X and then back?

That doesn't seem like a switch people would undertake lightly, considering they'd need new hardware.

Please do this with the Nvidia chips too! Running Linux on this old Macbook pro is great but I can't turn the brightness down with the generic driver.

The other day I had to play a 4k video on a factory-reset Windows10 laptop, and upon loading the video with Windows' new default Media Player, I got shown a missing codec popup, which led to a PAID codec download page of Microsoft Store for HEVC/H.265 (which cost about €1, dunno if price changes by region).

It was bewildering. Of course I downloaded VLC immediately and everything was great there, but the whole store just feels like a scam to me.
I tried to gather more information on this and even more bewilderingly, I came across this subreddit and this post...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1u89lmu/windows_users_can_still_get_or_use_hevc_h265/

it's quite a read if anyone's interested.

My last work computer was locked down and i learned the microsoft store was full of expensive garbage.

Kudos to them for removing Microsoft Store. Absolutely hate Microsoft for obvious other things but them forcing their built-in stuff by only being available from store is BS. More of a problem in Win11 than Win10 but I hate Micro$oft nonetheless.

No you won't

TIL (from a different part of the internet):

Windows 10 China Government Edition supports Mandarin Chinese only, region locked.

• OneDrive / Microsoft Cloud is removed,
• no Microsoft Store,
• Minimal or no telemetry to meet government demands,
• uses Chinese-approved encryption standards (unlike BitLocker),
• Entra ID / Azure AD Support replaced with local directory services,
• more localized control over system updates in Win 10 China Govt Ed.

I wonder if China asked to compile it themselves.

Yup, it's not generating anything, which is where all the problems come in.

Finding flaws in code is probably the most useful thing claude can do.

Honestly don't know enough about programming to be sure but this seems like a responsible use of AI: flagging issues in large blocks of code for manual review.

The DM changes merged for Linux 7.3 include six minor code clean-ups for issues spotted by Claude Opus 4.6. There are also various manual code clean-ups to different DM targets, improved metadata validation for DM-PCACHE and DM-ARRAY, and various fixes.

"Protable" man this guy is going nowhere.

15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago

He was 21.

As Torvalds wrote in his book Just for Fun, he eventually ended up writing an operating system kernel. On 25 August 1991, he (at age 21) announced this system in another posting to the comp.os.minix newsgroup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Noted. Will find time to migrate to NetBSD by then.

Probably never will support anything other than AT hard disks

Let me check on that, using my Linux computer. With an M.2 SSD.

Linux users propose Intel fuck a rake.

I don’t know if I would call Linux the most professional, but it’s definitely the biggest.

15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago:

> It won't be big and professional

Turns his "hobby" into the biggest, most professional, and most important software project in the solar system.

I thought this was referring to direct rendering manager, not stinky drm 😅

here's some background: https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2412/