macOS 26.4 will notify users of Rosetta 2 discontinuation - 9to5Mac

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• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems kinda dumb to discontinue software that works just fine.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Intel macs about to go for cheap (hopefully) and will be great for putting Linux on.

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  • u_tamtam@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s the point then? Those ancient intel chips are just slow and overheating and getting their ass kicked by anything by AMD from the last 5 years.

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    • MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People don’t always need fastest possible computers for their tasks. As long as the browser works and is current is enough for most people.

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  • Await8987@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Other way round I believe rosetta was to run x86 compiled apps on arm chips. So they are just pulling up the bridge to avoid a situation where developers feel like just making an intel/amd binary that will work on both platforms

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  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But why would you? Those Intel Macs were terrible. If you’re thinking “cheap Linux box,” IMO the best way to do that is get a used PC from a corporation that is unloading them during an upgrade (like a Dell or HP workstation), like an i5 with 8GB RAM (or 16 if you’re lucky), they pull the hard drive for security (and it’s almost always an HDD), you drop a SATA SSD in it, put Linux on it, and you have a pretty good computer, even (and maybe especially) if you run a headless server and remote into it with your daily driver computer (what you surf the web on, which could even be an Android phone or maybe an iPhone, not sure about that).

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait

  WHAT

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