It's probably been commented here before but I'll add my voice: they did NOT think this through.
If you're gonna try and make people use one app for everything, at least make it differently optimized between modes. And how are you supposed to chat with ChatGPT while Codex works on a technical task?! (once they retire Classic)
Ha, that's funny. When you say "a buck or two" do you really mean it was almost nothing or did Apple compensate you appropriately? I'm also surprised that Apple didn't catch that before if it was trademarked.
Sometimes I wonder if Tesla also has a much better software stack than most other manufacturers. IIRC, Tesla has had interior cameras in their cars for years now and I haven't heard about major issues stemming from it.
Ah, I see. Well, that does make more sense now. I guess just have a surplus of mini PCs so for me it makes more sense to run one routing box and one server box, but I know how much use cases vary.
I agree about Intel vs Realtek to some extent. My Lenovo M73 OPNsense actually has a 2.5G Realtek mPCIe NIC on the LAN side and it has actually been pretty great and reliable so far! Transmit maxes out early at 2.28Gbps-ish but receive is 2.47Gbps (Jumbo). However, the other week it glitched out and reported UP but was actually unresponsive. I'm still looking for an mPCI Intel i226-V version of the same thing...
The only downside to your solution is that most people (me included) would rather have auto generated configs so that you don't accidentally expose everything to Internet or break everything with an iptables rule, but that's down to experience I'm sure.
But what if you don't want to tinker? I switched to OPNsense as a direct replacement for our Asus "WiFi routers", and it has been phenomenal, reliable, and does everything needed - when you just want it to work, it really just does. But when you want more advanced functions, there are tons of plugins and stuff that you can run natively, while still having a true CLI.
I suppose it comes down to what you said - "if you intend to run other stuff on the same hardware." Is it a good idea to run all sorts of extra stuff on your literal firewall/router? And if you did, I'd assume using a hypervisor is safer anyway? That way you can have the GUI and reliability of OPNsense but have a Linux distro beside it.
You also said that Linux has much better performance vs BSD, which seems rather far fetched. Got any data for that?
One other thing: OPNsense comes with a ton of helpful rules to eliminate bot traffic, allow IPv6, different NATs, VLANS, etc which you'd have to add manually. Not the end of the world, but worth considering.
That seems very unusual for modern Apple Silicon. Our family has:
- M3 Pro MacBook Pro 36GB
- M2 Pro MacBook Pro 16GB
- Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB
and I have not heard the fans on any of them with normal use. The only time I've ever heard automatic fans was when I was using a local 12B model on the M3 MacBook Pro, and when running 70B models on the Studio.
You should consider checking Activity Monitor and making sure that the usual suspects are not causing issues with sustained high CPU. And you can use an app like [Stats](https://mac-stats.com) if you want to see that info while actively using the computer.
Not how I'm intending to come off as. I am more specifically mentioning the comments that say stuff like "Apple laptops are overpriced pieces of junk" but without thinking of those whose workflows would be impacted very negatively by moving to more open platforms (not because of the platform, but I mean because of hardware)
It's like they are looking at a specific application, finding that Macs are bad at it, and declaring it crap in every way, which isn't true.
That's true, if you want a Linux laptop. However, no ThinkPad at this moment can come close to the horsepower + battery life in a modern Mac. Not saying Apple is excused because of that, just an observation.
I am not (purposefully) granting them the benefit of the doubt.
In my comment I simply noted that the comments there are extremely anti-Apple yet without any solid arguments behind them, and I also noted that the whole thing is just because of an APFS flag which could be fixed from Asahi's side. The main reason I made the comment is because I am shocked at how poorly backed the arguments are.
As for Apple not helping the Linux team, why would they, or any major OEM? Apple is perfectly happy with https://github.com/apple/container
The comments there are absolutely insane lol, especially now that we know it's a bug.
I did not realize that some people were still so anti-Apple. I'm of course not saying that there's not a small element of truth in many of the comments, but talk about some straw man arguments.
Sure! I know the M3 series are still super fast chips, so I wonder what is slowing down...your CPU itself, RAM getting full, OS bloat...? Seems wild to me that processes that run in the cloud would take so many resources.
5-10 sessions?! Wow, not sure how you keep track of those.
For all my daily use + Codex Desktop and some local AIs in Ollama/LM Studio (which power my Home Assistant Voice Assistants) I have an Mac Studio M4 Max with 48GB of RAM (Which I bought early last year IIRC)
It's a complete beast and runs GPT-OSS 20B at over 100 tok/sec. The GUI never slows down, and I run Sequoia still, so it is always smooth and polished. I've also never heard the fans.
I got mine for $2250 USD because I am eligible for the student discount. I got the base 512GB SSD because I store most stuff on external SSDs/HDDs anyway.
Thank goodness, Gmail does not come on iOS. No other apps are pre installed except Apple's, and I am always very thankful for that when I set up a Samsung tablet as a kiosk and have to delete sponsored apps, AI apps, Spotify, Microsoft apps, Samsung apps, Google apps, kids apps...horrible experience.
I am so glad that I am not forced to use Office. I know for some that they can't escape, but I would hope your workplace would cover it if so.
I personally get by just fine with the built in converter tools in Apple Pages and Keynote, they seem just as robust as the Microsoft counterpoints. To be fair, I don't have those super complex and advanced word processing needs.
How does the Neo getting to 100°C make it crap? By that logic, aren't all older Intel/x86 chips crap? If anything, I find it impressive that a small laptop CPU can do 100°C without a problem...my i7-7700T M710qs hit 75°C and throttle within a minute if I use a tool like y-cruncher or stress-ng. To be fair, totally different purpose.
While I have slight worries about what it means for users if Apple and Google notification services go down/censoring, I do appreciate the features that they provide to me as an end user.
So many apps use annoying and questionable marketing notifications that I'd say I have about 70% of app notifications disabled globally (because the app itself does not allow disabling notifications / has no granular control).
True, but the use case that Flipper shows off is a chatbot style AI, which is different from the ML type stuff you're talking about. I find small AI chatbots to just not be very helpful for technical applications, thus my comment.
Of course, if you had a custom trained one that's different but then that brings me back to how are you gonna type with it easily?