This Pi thing does not have a DAC.

it reliably keeps buffers between restarts, including for unsaved files. It's kinda amazing at that.

Note how noone clones bbedit for other oses.

Can't escape the macOS event horizon.

They don't usually want to. Why restrict yourself in such contortions?

Bit it's entirely possible, and common. E. g., uses of Linux in schools and governments are not more terminal-heavy for end-users than Windows setups.

Fedora on supported hardware does not require the use of a terminal for the kind of things people use Windows for.

Your bar has been cleared long ago.

(that's without even mentioning steam, chrome os, android, &c)

> The hardware is almost universally agreed to be great

There is some agreement in terms of the M chips. There is no universl agreement re keyboard layout, screen technology and surfacing, trackpoints, touchscreens, 2-in-1 form factors, port selection, or aluminium unibodies.

Are we giving strategic advice to Microsoft now?

Anyway: consumer OSes are historically cheap, and cannot be easily converted into subscriptions. So the market is low-margin, and shrinking (due to both phones and clouds). I suspect it is already unprofitable for Microsoft. So they need to exit; while exiting, ideally, sell people something else.

Which is what we observe.

The article advises them to “have a boring year” to “stop the slide” to stay dominant in a market they should have left years ago.

Tailscale somehow found use for self-hosters, despite being wildly unergonomic for an all-Linux, non-corporate, network. Yggdrasil lacks marketing effort, but is otherwise a great option.

I actually use Yggdrasil in lieu of Tailscale because I love the idea of a decentralized routing system.

I never understand why people enjoy having a centralized control plane.

easier to implement and understand

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but assuming you're not: Tailscale makes security easier because networks are private by default. To achieve a similar effect with Yggdrasil you'd have to use a firewall to whitelist the Yggdrasil IPs of all your devices. So it's more work to set up.

You have to use a firewall anyway. If you use Tailscale, you have two firewalls, which is not strictly easier.

Huh? I thought one of the appeals of Tailscale is that security is done at the network level; plus that your network is private, so you don't get randos knocking at your ports.

What does “at the network level” mean?..

Anyway; Tailscale is not your only network. If you’re on a laptop, you need to be able to log onto rando wifi networks. If you’re at home, you need to be mindful of your smart fridge going rogue. You need to run a firewall. Tailscale adds a separate, Tailscale-specific, firewall with centralized management. Now you have two firewalls.

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, that's true; you'd still need a firewall for LAN.

> What does “at the network level” mean?..

I meant the normal non-Tailscale firewall (e.g. iptables).

I suspect Linux has better hardware support than Haiku, which is not exactly easy to run on laptop hardware (w/ wifi, sleep, &c)

I suspect it was a freak occurence, but I actually had incredible luck running Haiku on an old laptop back in the day. It was incredibly fast, and just about all the amenities you'd expect worked with no or minimal intervention.

In the last year sometime I ran the Haiku live image off USB on my only laptop (2011 X201t), it worked fairly well.

Me too. The laptop was so old that I couldn't play a 360p mpg video without pauses on Windows 2K or XFCE, but it ran smoothly with BeOS5 (the Intel-based abandonware version)

Even running from an HDD?

I recently tried the latest version (Beta 5?) on a 2005-ish PC with an even older HDD and it ran surprisingly fast off that. The only thing where it was somewhat slow was web browsing.

Yeah. I installed it to HDD and it worked great. You'd think the thing had an SSD ot was so snappy. No issues with compat on the drive or anything.

> I suspect Linux has better hardware support than Haiku, which is not exactly easy to run on laptop hardware (w/ wifi, sleep, &c)

So true. I had an old Dell Latitude D620, 3GB/500GB, 1.66ghz Intel Core Duo Processor and it was sound that tripped me up. Haiku was lightning fast on this machine.

I think that eventually I might've gotten sound to work but... this was many years ago and the laptop was mostly for testing light-weight distros on modest hardware.

Yeah, a good opportunity to contribute upstream.

Also opposite in terms of feature-richness.

Yep

You can block your own internet, if you feel that way.