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ameliustoday at 2:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> If you care about personal computing or Linux, don’t buy a Mac.

^ This

Also, the security teams at Apple must be watching Asahi closely from an exploit-perspective. They are basically holes that must be patched.


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Encountertoday at 4:01 PM

From https://asahilinux.org/about/

> Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices. That means that, unlike iOS devices, Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs (though they probably won’t help with the development).

gf000today at 3:08 PM

Then why did they go out of their way and made the bootloader able to load another OS?

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