Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Raspberry Linux

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  • DietPi

    Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

  • Your can run DietPi[0], which is a minimal image based on Raspbian, on an x86_64 PC if you want

    [0]: https://dietpi.com/

  • macmediakeyforwarder

    Media Key Forwarder for iTunes and Spotify

  • I don't know the exact issues but might be related to the issues why I left Apple : I was developing a very successful little tool for MacOS ( https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder ) which listened for keypresses. From 2016 to 2019 it became harder and harder to install it because apple added more and more restrictions to apps like this. By 2019, you had to enable the application explicitly to listen for events at least in three places deep down in the system preferences, click accept in various popups and if you stuck somewhere then nobody could tell why it wasn't working. So I had a very expensive laptop and the OS didn't let me use it freely. So I just switched to freebsd and linux, I don't have fancy productivity apps like photoshop and final cut but with open source tools and with my own desktop applications I created the best looking/most usable desktop experience MacOS will never have. ( https://swayos.github.io/ )

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  • AltStore

    AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

  • There is zero reason to assume that sideloading will make jailbreaks easier. Anyone can already sideload today using a tool like AltStore [0]. It uses the same mechanism that app developers can use to test their apps on actual hardware. The only difference to “real” sideloading is that the apps need to be refreshed every couple of days.

    [0] https://altstore.io/

  • nixos-hardware

    A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

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