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Since I'm being boring and moaning about the scam de jour again, let me also go 'WTF' about people blindly taking the word of people who stand to make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on this topic at face value?

Like I don't fucking want to hear 'the CEO of nvidia says AI stuff is incredible', yeah OBVIOUSLY he says that, I mean jesus christ how naive are people??

"I asked the local butcher whether he thinks more people should buy meat and he said they should!"

WOWWWW!!
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@ljs I asked local Linux kernel developer which OS I should use and the answer shocked me

(not serious)
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@a1ba @ljs (very serious)
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@kirby @a1ba actually you definitely shouldn't use linux it's terrible

Use OS/2 instead
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@ljs @a1ba BASED. Installing on all my hardware. Installing it on the smart TV will be fun.
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@a1ba @kirby @ljs Meanwhile FreeBSD devs unironically: Best OS is MacOS.
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@lanodan @kirby @a1ba FreeBSD engineers stop crying long enough to give recommendations? Wow
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@a1ba @kirby @lanodan yes in the same way you 'share' your living room with a home invader
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@ljs @lanodan @a1ba holy crap are we getting into unix dev drama I'm all in for it
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@kirby @lanodan @a1ba haha no drama from me man, I love these cute hobbyist projects live + let live
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@kirby @a1ba @lanodan they have a great license too, like redis, big fan
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how does that analogy work?
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@mischievoustomato @kirby @lanodan @a1ba you can review how the analogy works by reading some of the playstation source code. Oh wait hang on... ;)
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why would i do that
in any case, freebsd devs like macos anyway 😁
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@ljs @kirby @lanodan @mischievoustomato cuck license never stops winning
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@mischievoustomato @lanodan @ljs @a1ba well apple when they needed some userland tools just sort of went
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@mischievoustomato @lanodan @ljs @a1ba I don't know but I'd imagine... probably not
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@kirby @lanodan @mischievoustomato @ljs @a1ba You can't be sued if you take parts from few BSDs (mainly FreeBSD) and repackage it into the new shiny things called Mac OS X 1 with Darwin.
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makes sense, that's why i chose bsd3 as license for my stuff, idrc what you do with em
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@mischievoustomato @kirby @lanodan @ljs @a1ba I use MIT for throwaway code that basically has purpose only for me. GPLv2 for anything that might get traction and if I wanted something that companies would like to touch while still somewhat protecting the code and name, I would probably choose MPL (never had that happen to me, so I can't really tell you.)
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@sparkledragon5 they're very factual until it turns out they were completely wrong at which point they're very quiet
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i only write stuff for myself, so i use bsd3. If I care about something specially or wanna sell it I'll keep it private/propietary
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@a1ba @kirby @ljs AFAIK somewhat, IIRC MacOS just picks up a bunch of stuff from BSDs/illumos/pre-GPLv3-GNU/… and puts it in a blender.
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@ljs @kirby @a1ba I think there's bits of BeOS lurking in there with AppleScript or whatever it's called to make scripts against the GUI elements.

But the most I've used MacOS is like 40 minutes in a VM and I think I had enough for like 10 years.
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@lanodan @kirby @a1ba I recommend MacOS to anybody who's not insane enough to use linux, it is my default OS recommendation
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im in that odd space where i like what apple does but i still prefer NixOS+x86
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Edited 8 months ago
@ljs @kirby @a1ba MacOS is a thing I just can't recommend, hardware is expensive and the hardware support is just so bad it's basically vendor-locking you.

Meanwhile most people I know can just get a random medium-entry laptop where you then slap a random distro like Mint/Debian/Fedora.
Worst is like chromebooks could have a serious impact but the support is so abysmal it's just not a serious alternative.
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@lanodan @kirby @a1ba yeah but a random normal human can't cope with that
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