I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.

DO NOT fire at those vintage Macs. They are not responsible for this.

Le poisson Steve?

They probably mean “we use cheap shocks.”

How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?

I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?

We waste less by often making small trips to a local market to get just what we intend to cook for one day or evening. That may not work for everyone, but it works for us.

Oh that’s cool! I thought virtio and such were KVM-specific things. I have never been super clear on the relationship between QEMU and the hypervisor itself, like where one ends and the other begins.

It also seems likely that the perf hit from x86_64 -> ARM64 emulation, even if the emulation is really excellent, might very well eat up any battery savings from the more efficient ARM chip.

My understanding is that ARM chips work fine for gaming when games are built for ARM, but that is far from the norm at the moment.

Is Apple’s tech going to be using KVM machinery then, or are you just saying that it’s possible in general?

Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal

I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.