alt Hacker NewsTL;DR you sacrificed your freedom for convenience, you think quality assurance is worth being at Apple's mercy, you signed away the keys to "your" machine so they can "manage" it for you along with the rest of your life.
Meanwhile I'm running about a dozen of development virtual machines right now. I'm limited only by the amount of RAM my computer has. It never even occurred to me that some gigacorporation out there would have thought to limit the VMs their own users can spawn. Every day, they reach a new low.
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On the other hand I’m very conveniently enjoying my experience, I don’t have to waste time screwing with stuff I have no interest in screwing with - like the OP’s examples, and if I want to run Linux I’ll just install it and do what I want or rent out some compute time somewhere.
Besides, you can buy a Mac and do whatever you want and go buy a bunch of off the shelf components to do whatever hobby stuff you want to do too.
Freedom, perhaps, starts with not making up and applying limitations on yourself.
>TL;DR you sacrificed your freedom for convenience
Yes I did, just like you did when you chose to live as a taxpaying member of society rather than a hermit scouring the bush for berries and fish.
Enjoy your VMs.
The VM limitation is only for macOS guests, otherwise I can spin up as many VMs as I like, which is no different to doing so in Linux (since it cannot run macOS VMs).