People will suggest what works for them, sometimes it will apply, often it will not. You have to find what works for you, and maybe multiple times because once you graduate, you will find yourself back in the same situation.
The best suggestion I received was to imagine where I wanted to be long term, and to go on working on that. Somehow it took me out of the loop of trying to find an answer outside of my own self.
The other thing that helped was to stop trying to do the same as what others around are (saying they are) doing and be honest with myself and others about what I wanted.
Is there a difference from 2024? Is the M2 still a good choice for Linux? I don’t mind older generations, I’m used to be a bit behind in terms of hardware as a tradeoff for good Linux support.
I used to enjoy the X line of ThinkPads but nowadays I don’t see a point going for them anymore, as the things I appreciated about them are slowly being phased out.
There is no support really for Linux on the M3+, nor should anyone expect the situation to change now that the main devs have moved on.
If you would be happy with a M1/M2 laptop knowing full well that it is a dead end and you will never have another Mac laptop with Linux support (the default assumption at this point), then yes it is a great machine.
How confident are you in this statement? I have no particular knowledge of Asahi. But I do know this narrative emerged about Rust-for-Linux after a couple of high-profile individuals quit.
In that case it was plainly bogus but this was only obvious if you were somewhat adjacent to the relevant community. So now I'm curious if it could be the same thing.
(Hopefully by now it's clear to everyone that R4L is a healthy project, since the official announcement that Rust is no longer "experimental" in the kernel tree).
I know Asahi is a much smaller project than R4L so it's naturally at higher risk of losing momentum.
I would really love Asahi to succeed. I recently bought a Framework and, while I am pretty happy with it in isolation... when I use my partner's M4 Macbook Air I just think... damn. The quality of this thing is head and shoulders above the rest of the field. And it doesn't even cost more than the competition. If you could run Linux on it, it would be completely insane to use anything else.
It's similarly bogus here. Early Asahi development tried to upstream as much as possible but ultimately still maintained a gigantic pile of downsteam patches, which wasn't a sustainable model.
Most of current development is focused on reducing that pile to zero to get things into a tractable state again. So things continue to be active, but the progress has become much less visible.
M2 to M3 was a complete architectural change that will require a lot of reverse engineering. As far as I know no one is working on this. The M1/M2 work was a labor of love of largely one dev that has since moved on.
The project is still active and working to upstream the work of these devs. But as far as I know, no NEW reverse engineering is being done. Ergo, it’s a dead end.
Someone should create a minimal, nearly-headless macOS distribution (similar to the old hackintosh distros) that bootstraps just enough to manage the machine's hardware, with no UI, and fires up the Apple virtualization framework and a Linux VM, which would own the whole display.
Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder.
If they ban OpenVPN and WireGuard through what I can only think is something akin to the great firewall of China, then what is the next step, making ssh -D unlawful?
Maybe encryption too? Maybe they need to ban booting Linux and filter access to open source software as well? Running unsigned code? Might as well just shut down the internet.
> Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder.
Sure. Why not? Paid VPNs are cheap to use, and kids are smart.
A kid who already has a computer to use can turn a relatively large amount of electricity into a relatively small amount of crypto, and can do so very informally. It's usually a money-losing operation, but that matters less when a person is (say) 14 and someone else pays the electric bill: Out of sight, out of mind.
After that: Simply use the proceeds to pay for something like Mullvad or AirVPN (they accept crypto payments just fine).
It's been quite a long time since I was 14 and it was a very different world back then, but I don't think I would have had any trouble connecting these dots at that age.
(And indeed, that's how I used to pay for my own VPN service as a grown adult back when using those things was a lot less common. Rather than potentially draw unwanted interest from my bank by making international payments, I'd just mine some crypto to cover the VPN, and pay the electric bill. It wasn't strictly anonymous or untraceable or anything like that, but it did help cover the tracks that I cared about covering.)
I'd say Mullvad is on the more accessible side, since a Mullvad subscription can be obtained through a relatively small amount of cash. All you need is a few dollars and the ability to mail a letter with a few bucks to Europe.
Wisconsin is a state that's been looking at banning VPNs[1]. And they also apply laws to "companies commonly known to provide VPN services" - which makes me wonder how far that goes. Because technically I could get a free AWS instance, spin up Tailscale on it, and I have a VPN. Is AWS a VPN company since they certainly host servers that are used for VPNs? Who knows!
That’s nice, I once ended up alone around New Year, a mix of being far away from family, busy with studies and not actively asking people around to join their events due to being shy.
One of my friends that lived nearby spotted me walking alone and invited me over. Another of her friends joined in. It was just the three of us, and it was much, much better than spending it alone.
I learned that a long time ago when I was a student and wanted to submit a pdf generated by a trial version of some software as an assignment and was trying to be clever and cover the watermark that said unregistered with a white box.
When opening the file in my slow computer, I could see all the rendering of the watermark happening in slow motion until the white box would pop up on top of the text.
When I was a student, and using a shareware or trial version of some software and wanted some printed output from it without a watermark, I printed to postscript (chose a printer that supported postscript and the driver used it instead of rasterized images), but using a file instead of a printer.
I could then open up the postscript, delete the commands that rendered the watermark, save it, then I converted it to PDF so it would be easy to print.
You don't need PostScript for that. The PDF text commands are Tj and TJ, and rarely ' and ". They are easy to delete without going through PostScript. Tj means showing a simple text string. TJ means showing an array of strings possibly with space adjustments. ' means moving to the next line and showing a simple string. " means doing that and setting character spacing.
Perhaps, but it's easier to open up and edit a .ps file in a text editor than a PDF. PDF is a binary format with compressed streams, while postscript is just a stack-oriented programming language.
Tools like qpdf makes it easy to edit a .pdf file in a text editor too. I’d argue using such tools is easier than and simpler than printing to postscript.
It's actually quite easy to open the pdf and see that there are several different elements per page to the document, eg the main text, an image, the footer, the title.
Randomly removing these by trial and error will usually quite easily allow you to find the watermark and nix it, with the advantage that even a sophisticated recipient will not be able to find out from the pdf file what the watermark was.
The article started well until it changed from "you" to "I". After that, it felt like a mix of bragging and trying to sell a book.
I think its OK if some people don't get to live their dream jobs, some dreams have no equivalent in real life, and some people need to do the mundane, boring underground jobs that keep things together.
Solve your two problems first! I do think this resonates with a lot of especially YC founders who have broken through 1 and 2 but are missing the most important 3.
I will keep arguing that canvassing for a political movement is the highest potential thing most Americans could be doing now. I'm not talking about running for office yourself. You don't have to do it full-time. But try it. Focus on one issue and one bill. You could solve a key problem in weeks. See how this changes your life!
Being through the game recently, I am not surprised Goldenrod Underground was a challenge, it is very confusing and even though I solved it through trial and error, I still don't know what I did. Olivine Lighthouse is the real surprise, as it felt quite obvious to me.
The best suggestion I received was to imagine where I wanted to be long term, and to go on working on that. Somehow it took me out of the loop of trying to find an answer outside of my own self.
The other thing that helped was to stop trying to do the same as what others around are (saying they are) doing and be honest with myself and others about what I wanted.
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