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[–] 220 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Of you look at all of the work behind Asahi, it's incredible. I'm so grateful for heroes like Alyssa who are saving millions of computers from landfills when Apple no longer supports them

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How far developed is asahi now? Is every hardware working? Last time i looked into it wifi didn't work, i think. So i thought it was not useful for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I've been using Asahi as my daily driver on my m1 MacBook for a few weeks now. The only thing I've noticed that seems to not work is audio through the built in speakers. I normally use Bluetooth headphones anyways so I haven't tried to fix it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    saving millions of computers from landfills when Apple no longer supports them

    Kindof except that their build quality tanked during the late Intel era and the motherboards will die a lot sooner now

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I have traveled extensively with my m1 and gave it 2 solid drops (which left massive dents in the metal) and I feel like they are holding up. To Apple's credit, the original os which I use for photography still feels like new after 5 years. Yes, they have a myriad of other ethical problems, but the M series have been great hardware with not bad software... So far

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I had one and it died after 4 years. From what I've seen on the internet and what Apple's technicians told me this isn't an uncommon issue. Fortunately my 7-8 year old HP laptop still functions (aside from the battery which completely crapped out after 2-3 years). Also they started soldering everything to the motherboard so you have to replace almost the entire computer if it breaks.

    the original os which I use for photography still feels like new after 5 years

    Near the end macOS felt slow/throttled. Linux was fast though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    My macbook pro, 2019, just stopped charging or responding to anything in the USB ports.

    Took it to repair shop abcd they said "the logic board was fried" and it needed replacing.

    It's been a while since I dabbled with hardware (built my own pcs back in the day) but is logic board just apple for motherboard?

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  • [–] 433 points 2 months ago (26 children)

    At age 20, she reverse-engineered the Apple GPU. At age 40, I got the LED to blink on my Arduino.

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  • [–] 139 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    I mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    I have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can't imagine doing that daily, it's so tedious.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    And imagine doing it without expecting a cent!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It’s the challenge of it though.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    thaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The high of cracking an intractable problem (pre-AI) was just unreal. I’d struggle to sleep, awaiting the morning so I could get back at it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Nothing groundbreaking but writing my own Huffman compressor in C and seeing the whole thing work knowing where nearly all the real physical bits were going, was seriously satisfying. Recommended exercise ☺️

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Wins no matter how small are wins!

    Don’t compare yourself to others, just enjoy the learning process & satisfaction it hopefully brings you for every single win, no matter the size!

    Arduino is a fantastic platform for learning, I still remember a lot of my ‘firsts’ with it, I had no idea what I was doing, we all start somewhere. Have fun!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    While I agree partially, want to mention that having someone to compare to is not as bad as it sounds. Its only bad if you think its unreachable and you give up doing anything. Sometimes you need a hero to look up and fight and dream about it, for the motivation. I think looking up to people like Alyssa's work is inspirational. In a similar way how I look up to those magicians who create emulators... but that is a different topic for another day.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I'm 30 and I wiped my own ass. So I'm feeling pretty accomplished.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Makes we want to buy a second-hand Apple device just to try it out.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I ran it on my M1 mini for several months a year or so back. At that stage it was probably 90% of what I needed it to be, which was bloody impressive. After I no longer needed it for work, I tried using it as my Home Assistant server, but with only 8gb RAM, ultimately it ended up being far more efficient to run HA in a virtual machine in macOS.

    But yeah, if you can pick up an M1 for a good price, give it a go. It's good fun.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I've already been using Linux for ten years, it definitely puts the fun back into computing. This would actually be primarily to know how to install it on a Mac, because when offering to install Linux as a replacement for Windows in groups I am part of, there have been multiple requests for doing so on a Mac. Unfortunately always had to answer I've never done so, so couldn't promise anything.

    Anyway, is €375 for an Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1, 256GB a good price?

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  • [–] 129 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Sometimes I think I'm smart then I hear stories like this and I'm humbled.

    She is a hero and a legend. It just makes me think, it's so sad that we live in a world where the most altruistic, talented, and capable people make less than those that are the best at taking advantage of the system and others for their own greed.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    That's what our economic system suppresses to bring the losers to the top.

    Wanna bet someone else profited off her hard work in some fashion without her seeing a dime? I know AI did.

    Did you know that the board game "Monopoly" was originally called The Landlord's Game, meant to showcase how property ownership breaks the capitalist system for the common man?

    A capitalist came along, rebranded it "Monopoly", took all the credit and lived like a king.

    Sweat of my brow indeed.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Alyssa Rosenzweig. Not Resenzweig. It means Twig of Roses. Here's her website: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Canada has been killing it for like 50 years, being all the things the United States thinks it is

    I knew I should’ve escaped to Canada during Trump 1, they seem to be feeding and educating their kids right (except Alberta fuck Alberta ;) )

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I had heard that other provinces university's apply a 2 to 3% bump in GPAs to applicants from Alberta. The Alberta reason: They respect the advanced program as being more difficult. The other provinces reason: charity for the poor students raised there with a heavily exam-based GPA.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago

    So encouraging the bright young minds that are still being spawned. Amazing on her.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    We need more people who know how to reverse engineer

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    We need more open hardware standards. Late-stage capitalism ruins everything.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's so weird how Apple basically explicitly said, "yeah so you can write software for it if you want, we won't stop you. Also, we will obfuscate everything and provide no documentation." So it is a very soft fuck you that should likely prevent lawsuits.

    I miss Apple, the company that gave you schematics and programming instructions for their computers. Wonder whatever happened to them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You observe input and output across the entire API surface with every combination of discrete configuration options possible, then determine the function by which those outputs can be reproduced with the same parameters?

    You can probably automate collection of the I/O data. Determining the function probably requires some extra brain juice.

    Does it get more fancy than that?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I've always wondered how the fuck people do that? Absolute wizards.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Insane levels of dedication. And probably autism

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Insane levels of medication. And probably flautism (fixed it for you)

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  • [–] 76 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

    And beside those who survive (and provide us with great software), let us spare a thought for the ones who didn't, proof the opensource community can be an evil pit of haters: marcan and AsahiLina.

    Both quit for different reasons, but both did it facing extremely unpleasant behaviours.

    As a regular Asahi user (m2pro mbp), I literally felt the project slowing down when they quit.

    An outcome of that crisis was the buildup of an organised directorial structure, with funding through the "Open Collective" organisation. That's good, and it's full of good people in there. Alyssa is an admin now btw.

    Let us wish them all the best (and strength against all evil neckbeards).

    Support them if you can!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    opensource community can be an evil pit of haters

    More like worthless shits on Kiwi Farms

    As a regular Asahi user (m2pro mbp), I literally felt the project slowing down when they quit.

    Me too, there's still great work being done on the project but the pace hasn't been the same since

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Wasn't Asahi Lina alter ego of marcan? Or am I misremembering things

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Some missing links:

    Alyssa Rosenzweig, GPU lead. Alyssa is a Linux graphics hacker. After reverse-engineering the Arm Mali GPUs and building the free Panfrost driver for them, she did the same magic trick on the Apple GPU and built the userspace Asahi graphics drivers.

    - https://asahilinux.org/about/

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  • [–] 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    IIRC Apple were refusing to implement open standards because they were trying to force developers to use their proprietary Metal API.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know if a lack of direct support is exactly the same as trying to force everyone, as they could've easily prevented her from reverse engineering this project, but that's sort of splitting hairs and they definitely know they have an open source community who would appreciate even a modicum of support that they're ignoring.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    People weren't forced to use Metal as it turns out - they just didn't make games for Mac instead.

    Apple tried to force people to use Metal, they just forgot that MacOS isn't the iPhone and they don't have enough weight in the desktop PC market to dictate terms like that.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Her live streams are something else

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    What does she do on the livestreams?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Truly doing the lords work here.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Immense respect!

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    very based

    personally grateful as i daily drive asahi linux

    posting this comment from an m2 macbook pro running fedora asahi

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The only reason I'm not buying an M series macbook is because I thought there's no Linux support, have things changed? Is it all unofficial?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    support is neither official (by apple) nor unofficial (a hack), you can install other operating systems to apple silicon macs without any jailbreaks/hacks, but linux was ported by a community team

    only m1 and m2 are properly supported

    m3 is WIP, m4 is very WIP, m5 and m6 idk if are even started

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    M1 and M2 got unofficial Linux support pretty quickly. M3 still lacks GPU support last I checked and Apple is on M6 now. The oldest devices they sell are M4 and M1 is a year away from losing all support from Apple from what I was told, so yes things have changed but not in a good way. I've heard that the Framework 13 Pro might be a decent alternative though

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago*

    She's the GOAT. I've known about her since 2024 LibrePlanet. Apple Inc. can take the L.

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