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The dual boot is the default install. The installer is a single terminal command in OSX with the installer being the guided setup. The installer is right on the front page of the distro web site: https://asahilinux.org/

It is literally just:

curl https://alx.sh/ | sh

The biggest decisions you have to make are how you want to partition the SSD between OSX and Linux.

I’ve been installing Linux in various ways since the late 90s using Slackware, and the Asahi installation experience was the easiest and seamless installation of Linux I’ve ever experienced. It on only occurred to me later why the installer could be so good. Asahi only runs on M1/M2 hardware. The developers knew exactly what the hardware would be and could tailor the experience around it.

I wouldn’t really recommend Asahi if you only have 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in your Mac. It will certainly run, but is cramped in daily use.

A quick question before research: is it fully working by now?

Is every hardware function in the laptop that works in OSX available in Asahi? No.

I’d like to have a functioning display

I think you’re asking about “DisplayPort Alt Mode” which is where you can plug a dongle into one of the USB-C ports and output the local GPU to DP or HDMI. The answer to that is “yes, depending on how adventurous you are”. There’s an experimental kernel that does support it today. I don’t think its in the main branch yet. I intentionally run version 43 (1 behind the current 44). However, I use a USB-C DisplayLink HDMI adapter for an external display and it does most of what I want right now without the experimental kernel. I do want “DisplayPort Alt Mode”, and will use it when its available though.

If you have an M1 or M2 Macbook Pro with HDMI port built-in, those work right now. The challenge being worked through is a display port that gets unplugged, which only happens on the USB-C port Display Port.

I’ve got an impression that Linux can work on Apple Silicon, if you’re ready to abandon some things here and there.

I wouldn’t use the word “abandon” but rather “wait for”. Power management efficiency doesn’t come close to native Apple OSX, but under Asahi it has enough battery for my needs. I only charge to 80% (supported natively in Fedora KDE) and get about 3 hours of runtime on battery for light to moderate use. I also read that this has improved a chunk in version 44, but again, I’m not running that version yet.

Another piece of hardware not supported on Asahi yet is the MLX engine. I’ve been experimenting with running local LLMs, and they do run under Asahi Linux, but the hardware includes MLX in OSX. There are some models specifically made to utilize MLX which result in significant performance improvements in inferencing speeds. The unified memory of the Macbooks means system RAM is available for LLM use, so I can run 16GB models while still having 8GB of RAM left over for other applications and OS functions on this Macbook Air. The RAM footprint for LLM works in both Asahi and OSX.

Keep in mind, this is a dual boot system. I still have OSX available if I need one of those Apple OSX specific function or extended battery life only one reboot away.

I wasn’t prepared for those stings on my skin to still be hurting some a week later.

Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it.

This was my experience too. I had thought that bees had moved into a bush in my yard. I was happy to have bees there. A week later I was mowing the grass and felt several stabs of pain on my back and wrist. I turn around and see the air is filled with them. I had swatted one in my escape and had a corpse to inspect later and found it was a Yellow jacket wasp. From a distance I could see they were entering and exiting a hole near the bottom of the bush. A quick internet search later I knew that they were nearly dormant at night, and that they need a special oil they produce on the outside of their body to breath. Dawn dish soap apparently strips that away and they die, and its not toxic to the ground or environment.

I put half a bottle of Dawn squirted into their hole at the bottom of the bush at night. I never saw another Yellowjack wasp.

My daily driver is an M2 Macbook air running Asahi Linux. There are certainly some hardware parts I wished worked better right now, but its fully for my needs usable as is. Improvements are occurring regularly by the development team. Apple hardware really is solid, and I’m very happy that in the rare cases I do have to use a commercial OS (Netflix streaming for example), I don’t have to use Windows. Its a dual boot machine (Linux/OSX).

Overall I’m pretty happy with Linux on this M2. Theres a handful of us here on Lemmy running it. You can find us at !asahilinux@lemmy.world

I’ll just leave this here:

I don’t use Brave, but one correction. From the article: "Brave sells Origin to strip added features—a $60 one-time fee (free on Linux). "

Brave thinks its Windows and OSX users are suckers, not its Linux users apparently.

DenverCoder9 strikes again?

So he’s saying [paraphrased] “It wasn’t broken, but I decided to ‘fix’ it anyway”

I mean when, let’s say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness

The likelihood you’ll have any clue your going to die in such a short time as a month is extremely low. You’re much more likely going to die in an instant through fatal injury or bodily failure like a heart attack or brain aneurysm. Lets say you live to 85 years old and are finally dying of something entirely predictable for old age like congestive heart failure or late discovered end-stage cancer. You’re going to be long past having any energy or ability to do anything about without help.

If you actually get some kind of clear guidance you’re going to die from a prolonged (meaning not instant) ordeal, you’ll likely be in hospice where they will give you amazing narcotic drugs in whatever massive doses you need so you feel no pain and are simply swimming in dopamine as your body gives out.

The takeaway is, there’s no point trying to spend your healthy hours trying to plan for something like this. No plan you can think of will be useful even in the extremely unlikely scenario, the conditions you imagine do happen.

OSHA inspector: “No PPE. I’m filing this as a violation.”

Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre “ribbon” interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.

I’m confused on one main point from the author. Are these created projects for work or just personal? This answer changes the dynamic of the entire article.

Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don’t want to maintain any of it.

If they were personal projects, then there’s nothing wrong. They were useful for a moment, or were fun to build, and if they’ve exceeded their usefulness, get rid of them. We do this all the time with hobbies, so why would it be a sin with personal code? Nobody spends an hour finishing a crossword puzzle and says “well that was a waste of time”. We spend money on hobbies too, so if your hobby is coding and you want to spend money on an LLM subscription for your hobby, as long as you get value and enjoyment out of it, its fine.

However, if these were supposed to be commercial marketable products, and that business resources were used they yes, clearly there is a lack of planning and resource allocation. Spending time and money building something which has no use can can’t be maintained is a major business error.

When Wahlberg assaulted people when he as 15 and 16 years old. That doesn’t excuse the behavior, but 15/16 year olds aren’t adults with fully formed brains. Wahlberg also went to the police and claimed responsibility for the attack. He then plead guilty in court and served time. It still bothers me how racially motivated it was and for that I would personally always have disdain for Wahlberg.

Cosby was 28 years old for his first time of rape allegations. There would be more than a dozen other women that came forward with reports. The most recent was Feb of 2000 when Cosby was then 63 years old. Cosby was a fully formed adult doing these horrible acts to women he had power over, and he used that power to abuse them.

Spacy and Weinstein also did their horrible acts as fully formed adults and had a repeated pattern of doing them again and again to people they had power over.

It takes more than a name to deliver the result. MS Office365 also claims to be great for collaboration, and its a trainwreck to try to use it in that way.

You’re proving my point. They just started working on it 3 months ago. It will be a long time, if ever, before it is a Gsuite replacement. They even said they tried this a few years ago and abandoned it. There’s a risk they’d do it again.

So if there’s another open source effort specifically focused on an online product, its a good thing.

I like and use Libreoffice, but its a local application. This makes it fine for working by yourself and on your own hardware. Google Docs (Gstuite) is an online application with the best collaboration integration I’ve seen and works on nearly any device you can open a modern browser on. Yes, both products have a word processor and a spreadsheet, but they don’t serve all the same use cases.

If this new Euro-office can replicate the Gsuite offerings (that Libreoffice lacks), then Euro-office could be a great addition to the open source community.

Corporations to workers: “Use AI for everything you do!”

Workers use AI.

Corporations to workers: “Not like that!!”

The actual paper (PDF) this is based on gives much better information than the article. From that we get some really key information:

To allow FROST to measure SSD contention, the victim must perform activities that result in storage accesses to the same disk as the file used for contention measurement

This can’t ready your SSD. It can only listen in on the conversation between your CPU and SSD when something else reads it or writes to it. The whole FROST approach has a number of clever tricks to generate reads from open applications though. Further, it requires the attacker’s code to be running in an active browser session.

Also, If you have two SSDs, and your browser is on one, this FROST approach can’t see anything written to or read from on the other SSD.

Lastly, there’s a mention in the paper about hardware based SSD encryption being vulnerable, there’s no mention of Software Whole Disk Encryption. Given how the researchers are using the SSD timing exploit, I would guess that a software (not hardware) whole disk encryption might be immune to this attack because the patterns of timings would be different with encrypted data being written to the SSD (instead of the data being encrypted by the SSD when written.

something something tAx MoNeY

Nice fake quote

Idk maybe tax the fucking billionaires? Maybe instead of useless foreign wars spend it on schools? Tax the NFL? I’m just spit balling.

Get out of here with that lazy answer. Saying [paraphrased] “Have someone else pay for it somehow” is the most throwaway answer to any cited problem. If you want to contribute to the conversation looking for a solution, then contribute. What you posted here isn’t a useful or meaningful contribution.

I’m not opposed to taxing fucking billionaires, but how are you proposing? Increase on capital gains taxes? Higher taxes on non-resident properties? Wealth tax on unrealized gains? That’s a great conversation to have, but its pretty far away from school spending which is what we’re talking about here.

I’m not opposed to lowering defense spending, but in the USA you might as well try to boil the ocean than try to reform the Military Industrial Complex today. Short of revolution, that’s not happening in our lifetime. If we have revolution, school taxation will be the last of our worries.