A-series would already be at a disadvantage due to being designed for iPhones and the design parameters that entails compared to the M-series.

The M-series Mac Pro was always for companies which were going to rack them and use them in render farms. Normal people was never its intended market. It was more of an Xserve successor.

Apple would need to design a different CPU for the Mac Pro, and the limited market doesn’t make it feasible. Descending the M-series CPUs from the A-series limits what the designs can do.

There are rumors of a CPU split in the Apple lineup. iPhone, iPad, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook get the A-series, and MacBook Pro, Mac Studio. Mac Pro get the M-series. That would make sense, and might give them some room to expand the “Pro” procs.

It would be great It he ran for governor down there. I want to see Desantis vs Cuomo. 😆

We can hope. 🍷🍷🍷🍾

That’s part of the plan. 😏

I’m getting $40 worth of joy looking at that, so fair. 😃

One nit to pick for anyone who reads this later.

/srv is probably a more appropriate location than /mnt. /srv is for local data services are going to serve.

Yeah, it’s not hard to rehab a cast iron skillet after messing it up. 🙂 I still got a cheap stainless skillet after some sauces experiences though.

I do this too, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem most of the time. 🙂

I also regularly cook fatty meat or fry things in it, so it gets some nice work inbetween, which probably helps.

Acidic stuff will eat into the seasoning on cast iron, so that be careful with those.

The old cast iron skillets might have lead.

This is why god made humans. He gave us free will as an experiment in chaos. We are the millions of monkeys typing on typewriters.

That sounds like a milestone. Pop some champagne and go on a date. 😄

TSMC does have fabs in Arizona now. Next to the Intel fabs. 😆

It’s more about money and proprietary tech.

Cutting edge fabs are expensive and risky, which is why most chip companies are fabless, and they should be a state project because of the risk and expense. I’ve seen estimates of $15-$20 billion dollars to setup a new 3nm fab.

Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are the 3 companies left which run cutting edge fabs. Intel missed on a couple generations, and they are sinking. Samsung is lagging, so it remains to be seen how long they’re in the game.

TSMC figured out the new tech and Intel didn’t. TSMC picked the correct horse, and Intel didn’t. It’s my understanding Intel couldn’t switch to the TSMC process if they wanted to. The two are different enough to be incompatible.

Companies are rolling vacation time and sick time into one block called “Paid Time Off” make themselves look better.

Was it a conversation or a knowledge dump without a lot of interaction?

I like the other person to show a little bit of interest in me, but that’s just me. I could be wrong.

Qualcomm is pretty dumb. Even if this were true, they’d still be leaving Linux support to the community.

That’s fair. This seems like desktop Linux 25 years ago. Only special hardware works, and there are lots of hacks to get around the Windows only hardware.

It can work, but there are limits.

Pretty much. Google does a lot of heavy lifting, and they have a lot more pull with companies, which is why Android works now.

It really is too bad that Google didn’t have to move Android to the Linux Foundation and make it a true community project.

Hardware wise, I’m not sure. Google Pixels seem to be the most likely hardware target in the short term.

Software wise… Probably GrapheneOS and LinageOS forking Android to create a community OS around it, and PostmarketOS as the full Linux phone distro.

There’s bigger problem is going to be replication of the backend services Google provides. Push services for instance. That’s going to be a project in itself.