absolutely none

The only thing Apple silicon has going for it is power use and that gap is getting closed. I can't really see any reason why I would switch to Mac, it just seems like you pay a lot more for a closed expensive environment that fights you at every step.

I'll never pay anyone for a developer licence or fee either. They can sponsor me to port my software to their platform.

Is it? I recently paid $999 for a pre-build intel mini-pc system thats best case in line in perf with a M2 from four years ago. That seems roughly the same as what I'd paid for an equivalent mac mini in the past, and I thought prices for custom builds were going up quite a bit too?

Mac lets you run any software you want, but I understand the principle of not wanting to support them.

Delete Chrome and use Brave. Problem solved.

They're self employed because workplaces are toxic.

Luckily the red flags are usually all over the website and walls of most places so you know not to even interview.

It's kinda funny. I used to run custom roms all Android phones came with a shit OS.

I stopped because Pixel AOSP phones were actually decent.

Now I guess i'll be buying phones based on which I can flash with custom roms again.

good luck finding a phone with custom ROM support, when there will be no phones with bootloader unlock available :(

The only malware I've had to clean off peoples devices has come from the Google Play Store.

OpenWork supports Linux where this does not

This doesn't support Linux where Open Code does.

Can someone like... boot Windows 98 on these on a system with no ram?!

Conceptually - yes, easily.

But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assumptions baked into the designs of the CPU, support chips, firmwares, etc.

Make a fake ram which offers write through guarantee and returns bus no matter what address is referenced. You could possibly short circuit any "is ram there" test if it just says yes for whatever size and stride got configured.

The CPU literally initialises itself without DDR then initialises the DDR PHY, there must be a way of keeping the CPU in that "cache as RAM" mode.

Theoretically anything is possible with enough thought and work.

or an older version of puppy linux?