MacOS is a full Unix distribution and is an odd mishmash of an OS that used to care about power users and a weird iOS based facade. You can actually do quite a few of the things in macOS that you can do in Linux you just have to know where to look, some things have been hidden from the Applications folder but can still be found using Spotlight for instance. MacOS even still has a native X11 implementation for what it’s worth.

I would still prefer Linux but given the choice I will take macOS over Windows every time.

How is paying somebody else to read the manual going to help you operate the cruise control while going down the interstate at 85MPH?

Technical writing was a required class in my CS program. Is that not the norm?

I got downvoted into oblivion a few weeks ago for suggesting something similar about car manuals. I’m glad to see that the sentiment isn’t totally lost. I honestly don’t get why people don’t read the fucking manual.

I’m not sure why you thought my comment was defensive. It wasn’t in disagreement with you. I was pointing out that legally, because of Apple’s founder status, they have more rights to modify the ARM core than, for instance, Qualcomm or Samsung.

As far as I know both all of the ARM chips that Apple makes are heavily modified to the point that it’s never been totally clear if it is a superset or not.

Apple was part of the founding of the current version of ARM and produced the first consumer mobile ARM device. As a result they uniquely have extreme latitude to use the ARM core however they want. There are differences to the hardware as well as the instruction set. The combined graphics memory and ram for instance.

You might try using rEFInd instead.

Silicone =/= silicon.

I was saying that my theory is that this functionality is broken or being bypassed on Windows such that when it gets hit by for instance the Network Discovery or “Do you have this update already downloaded?” ping from another Windows computer it wakes up to have a chat. I meant other systems are looking for active machines and those pings are waking it up or keeping it from going to sleep. I may have chosen a bad slang since ‘ping’ is a net command.

This theory is based on my understanding that computers don’t go all the way to sleep anymore and reenabling S3 restores normal sleeping. I included WoL because I have a machine that doesn’t have the S3 option but disabling WoL seemed to help on that one.

Right but my point was that doesn’t matter if your machine is in S3 or S4 instead of S1.

I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

I have had some luck disabling Wake-On-LAN on the systems that don’t need it, or enabling higher sleep modes on the systems where that is available. My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

As with a lot of 90s software, it’s a bit more complicated than which source code did they download (or, rather, mail order on floppy… because it was the 90s). Not the least of which is due to the fact that many of the projects don’t exist anymore and there weren’t that many copies to begin with.

However, they both embrace and extend LDAP and Kerberos among other open and not open projects of the time. Both choices were related to the results of the Protocol Wars and Microsoft’s attempts, in the 90s, to do to the Internet what Google is doing today.

Active Directory and Exchange were both based on open source projects. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s whole jam.

If I am reading this correctly the Linux kernel needs to give more fucks…

For the curious, here is the actual inspiration:

OP has already answered but I want to point out also that these exist:

The other commenter is on the right track but the chip controls both USB and PS/2 as well as others;

In the 90s and 2000s, for x86 machines, slower I/O was handled by a chip called the Southbridge which worked in conjunction with a chip called the Northbridge that handled faster I/O like IDE and PCI. Later these were integrated into a single chip and, as of recent processor generations, into the processor itself.

AFAIK ghosting and key rollover are issues when using PS/2 but it can offer some milliseconds off latency when used in high cpu games.

You may be right about the copyrights in the individual unit, but I was talking about the underlying car OS in response to the commenter who said “most car systems run android”. QNX is a real-time operating system which is required for something like a car. Another for instance would be Microsoft Auto which Ford used before switching to QNX.

In general a modern car will have dozens or hundreds of computers running their own software and communicating in a sort of API fashion usually through something like CAN bus. Most of these systems can’t afford to wait on something to boot when you start your car.

In very general terms we are talking about the main difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

I was under the impression that a large portion of cars still ran QNX.