I never thought it would be Apple who would block Linux using Secure Boot. F*&# Apple!
Before you outrage you should realise that Apple didn't block anything anymore than any other motherboard vendor did. There's an Apple approved method to either disabled secure boot completely, or to enable MS's co-signing certificate. https://support.apple.com/en-u...
What if there was a law that punished companies for behaving in anticompetitive manners?
How is locking down your hardware to your software anti-competitive? The competition is free to create hardware to run whatever software they want. Anti-competitive would be *forcing some other company* to lock down their hardware to your software.
They say that if you do (c) it removes access to the internal storage. But you didn't fucking read because YOU hate apple being in the wrong somewhere or somehow.
They say no such thing. English may not be your first language but common there is only one sentence discussing option c). To help you along, click the below link to Google Translate and select a language you do understand: https://translate.google.com/#....
- Secure Boot enabled, locked down and unable to be changed. - Fully encrypted HDDs with decryption tied to user authentication. - Tamper proof case, encryption keys destroy themselves if the computer is opened.
- No password.
I was mocking the USA when they decided to 40 years late adopt Chip+Pin, a technology which caused credit card fraud to plummet in the rest of the world... and then they only adopted half of the technology.
And yet along with the T2 chip that enforces signed code at boot time they included a utility in MacOS to disable it specifically to allow dual booting. They even go as far as to allow dual booting with Windows while maintaining secure boot on.
So who, exactly, really has a problem with this limitation?
No one. Anyone capable of setting up a multi-boot system is also capable of following the simple instructions using the included utility in MacOS to simply disable code-signing, or to allow Microsoft's UEFI certificate (which is also used to cosign some Linux certificates).
Not sure if this should be considered fake news or ignorance. What Apple have done is no different that any other device shipped with Secure Boot enabled by default, and it is just as configurable.
Simply boot into MacOS via recovery mode and from there you can use the Startup Security Utility to configure the boot requirements by selecting a) only MacOS to boot, b) any signed certificate such as Microsoft's UEFI certificate which is also used by some Linux SecureBoot systems, or c) disable the check completely.
No it does make them idiots because they impact the future development of technology in negative ways that costs everyone more.
Two things: 1. It's not up to third parties to care about your desires. For the vast majority of users computers are considered good enough and it's not their responsibility to drive technology for others. 2. Your comment is a load of crap. People adopting one OS has no influence on technological development.
I remember when people "expected" an optical drive in their computers, are you still mad at Apple for not including that as standard equipment on their computers?
It's amazing you remember what people expected but completely ignore why they expected it. That oversight makes your entire comment incredibly dumb.
Live is going to be a real hassle, almost impossible.
No one has "live" encoded video on anything other than dedicated encoding hardware in a really REALLY long time. I'm concerned about unseating HEVC given that the CODECs are available on any graphics card (including CPU integrated) bought in the past few years. Hardware acceleration for AV1 is not expected to get mainstream until about 2020.
What is really exciting is the next MPEG JVET codec, VVC [itu.int] (likely H.266). Even better performance than AV1 or HEVC, but with a minor increase in complexity.
"Better" in the compression world is dime a dozen. The only thing that matters though is adoption and industry backing.
efficient video codec that has good industry support
Nitpick for a tech forum. Using the word support makes it sound like all those people listed are using AV1. No they are backing it in the hopes to adopt it in the future. Currently "support" for AV1 is horrible which is not surprising since it's brand new on the block.
Conversely HEVC has good industry support with efficient CODECs everywhere and hardware CODECs already in place in many computers, mobile devices and home entertainment devices. Fortunately it is losing favour with the primary content creators.
CODECs have incredible staying power once they exist. About the only thing that truly gives me hope for AV1 is seeing Intel and NVIDIA listed as founding members, and AMD as promotional. In the computer world these three are key in ensuring AV1 becomes something usable rather than a horrid drain on user's batteries. Unfortunately the hopes to truly unseat HEVC will depend on it being depreciated in the home entertainment world as well.
From a company who may be good at making motors but can only seem to find a practical use for them in the pre-existing patented designs of other companies.
Typical American Puritanism -- they want to control what employees do with each other, on their own damn time, outside of work. Hope this new intrusive policy leads to massive lawsuits for privacy violation.
There's nothing "American" or "outside of work" about any of this. Conflict of interest office relationships affect the workplace directly. This is also standard in pretty much every large company regardless of where they are based.
Picture this -- two employees in different departments start dating. Boss has a crush on one of them, and they disclose whom they're dating. Let the shitshow begin.
Nice dooms day scenario. Unfortunately for you these kinds of situations and scenarios are incredibly rare and in many cases don't work out well for the Boss.
US employers are far too intrusive as to employees' personal lives.
The only thing intrusive here was the forced arbitration. In the rest of what we have been discussing the past few weeks, the US's code of conducts lag well and truly behind those in other parts of the world.
USB 3.0 single device controller at one end of a SERIAL line. LPDDR4X: Multiple chips need to talk simultaneously sending multiple lines of data at the end of a PARALLEL line without controllers without anything in the way.
Bandwidth of a USB3.2 device (I'll be nice since you're comparing old technology vs new): 20Gbps Bandwidth of a stick of LPDDR4X: 273Gbps (but the memory controller is capable of 546Gbps in dual channel)
Now an additional reality check: USB3.2: Controllers both side of the bus. The latency for memory access application is simply horrible and is measured in the hundreds of microseconds. LPDDR4X: Typical latency: 10ns
Now just to make my point I will repeat it: The frequency is extracted from the data lines, a trick that works just fine at USB speeds, and then utterly fails at the type of speeds we expect RAM chips to use.
Yeah just a few 10s of thousands of people took their early lunch in a pre-organised way at offices around the world and like with every lunch they took with them megaphones and signs.
You're a fucking moron.
Google's only lack of workplace protections are for competent people trying to do their fucking job.
Exactly what we are talking about. That is the primary purpose of code of conducts against harassment of all kinds.
They already had anti-harassment policies, already enforced them
You're a fucking moron.
Unless the victims were white, male or ideally both, according to an extensive lawsuit raised against them.
Saying it twice is enough. I'll let you off without calling you a fucking moron again.
If there's fuel near your structure, remove it. That simple, but people crave the pretty.
You are ignorant as to how far a large fire can spread across a fuel gap, and likewise ignorant of what it is to be "fuel". No I do not crave pretty. I also don't crave the fact that my neighbour's house is 10m away from me, none the less I know that during hot dry and windy conditions if his house is on fire there's no amount of land clearing and composting that will save my house, which is precisely why fire departments aim a hose at the things that are not currently on fire while also fighting the fire.
Hardly. It's simply proof that most people don't care about things that don't interest them. As long as their computers boot and they can do activity x then they ultimately don't give a shit what model they have, especially when they aren't being charged for it.
It's called marketing. You call it Windows as a Service, the users only hear: Free updates!
That doesn't make them idiots, that makes them ignorant, and willfully so.
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Or I could just disable secure boot, install Linux, and not have to carry around a second laptop.
I never thought it would be Apple who would block Linux using Secure Boot. F*&# Apple!
Before you outrage you should realise that Apple didn't block anything anymore than any other motherboard vendor did. There's an Apple approved method to either disabled secure boot completely, or to enable MS's co-signing certificate.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
And even include a helpful software utility if you don't like buttstuff https://support.apple.com/en-u...
No. Apple simply enabled secure boot by default. Turn it off if you want to run Windows or Linux: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
What if there was a law that punished companies for behaving in anticompetitive manners?
How is locking down your hardware to your software anti-competitive? The competition is free to create hardware to run whatever software they want. Anti-competitive would be *forcing some other company* to lock down their hardware to your software.
1) It will be circumvented
Yeah, circumvention is so complicated that there's an official Apple method of doing so: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
You still can. Simply disable secure boot. https://support.apple.com/en-u...
They say that if you do (c) it removes access to the internal storage. But you didn't fucking read because YOU hate apple being in the wrong somewhere or somehow.
They say no such thing. English may not be your first language but common there is only one sentence discussing option c). To help you along, click the below link to Google Translate and select a language you do understand:
https://translate.google.com/#....
The point of moving from a magnetic strip to a chip, is that others cannot gain access to your card simply by swiping it.
This is something that works well with chip+pin, not so well if you don't actually have any "something you know" method of securing the transaction.
Let's apply the same design to securing out IT:
- Secure Boot enabled, locked down and unable to be changed.
- Fully encrypted HDDs with decryption tied to user authentication.
- Tamper proof case, encryption keys destroy themselves if the computer is opened.
- No password.
I was mocking the USA when they decided to 40 years late adopt Chip+Pin, a technology which caused credit card fraud to plummet in the rest of the world... and then they only adopted half of the technology.
apple doesn't care if they lose those people
And yet along with the T2 chip that enforces signed code at boot time they included a utility in MacOS to disable it specifically to allow dual booting. They even go as far as to allow dual booting with Windows while maintaining secure boot on.
That's a lot of effort for not caring.
So who, exactly, really has a problem with this limitation?
No one. Anyone capable of setting up a multi-boot system is also capable of following the simple instructions using the included utility in MacOS to simply disable code-signing, or to allow Microsoft's UEFI certificate (which is also used to cosign some Linux certificates).
Not sure if this should be considered fake news or ignorance. What Apple have done is no different that any other device shipped with Secure Boot enabled by default, and it is just as configurable.
Simply boot into MacOS via recovery mode and from there you can use the Startup Security Utility to configure the boot requirements by selecting
a) only MacOS to boot,
b) any signed certificate such as Microsoft's UEFI certificate which is also used by some Linux SecureBoot systems, or
c) disable the check completely.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
No it does make them idiots because they impact the future development of technology in negative ways that costs everyone more.
Two things:
1. It's not up to third parties to care about your desires. For the vast majority of users computers are considered good enough and it's not their responsibility to drive technology for others.
2. Your comment is a load of crap. People adopting one OS has no influence on technological development.
I remember when people "expected" an optical drive in their computers, are you still mad at Apple for not including that as standard equipment on their computers?
It's amazing you remember what people expected but completely ignore why they expected it. That oversight makes your entire comment incredibly dumb.
Live is going to be a real hassle, almost impossible.
No one has "live" encoded video on anything other than dedicated encoding hardware in a really REALLY long time. I'm concerned about unseating HEVC given that the CODECs are available on any graphics card (including CPU integrated) bought in the past few years. Hardware acceleration for AV1 is not expected to get mainstream until about 2020.
What is really exciting is the next MPEG JVET codec, VVC [itu.int] (likely H.266). Even better performance than AV1 or HEVC, but with a minor increase in complexity.
"Better" in the compression world is dime a dozen. The only thing that matters though is adoption and industry backing.
efficient video codec that has good industry support
Nitpick for a tech forum. Using the word support makes it sound like all those people listed are using AV1. No they are backing it in the hopes to adopt it in the future. Currently "support" for AV1 is horrible which is not surprising since it's brand new on the block.
Conversely HEVC has good industry support with efficient CODECs everywhere and hardware CODECs already in place in many computers, mobile devices and home entertainment devices. Fortunately it is losing favour with the primary content creators.
CODECs have incredible staying power once they exist. About the only thing that truly gives me hope for AV1 is seeing Intel and NVIDIA listed as founding members, and AMD as promotional. In the computer world these three are key in ensuring AV1 becomes something usable rather than a horrid drain on user's batteries. Unfortunately the hopes to truly unseat HEVC will depend on it being depreciated in the home entertainment world as well.
From a company who may be good at making motors but can only seem to find a practical use for them in the pre-existing patented designs of other companies.
Typical American Puritanism -- they want to control what employees do with each other, on their own damn time, outside of work. Hope this new intrusive policy leads to massive lawsuits for privacy violation.
There's nothing "American" or "outside of work" about any of this. Conflict of interest office relationships affect the workplace directly. This is also standard in pretty much every large company regardless of where they are based.
Picture this -- two employees in different departments start dating. Boss has a crush on one of them, and they disclose whom they're dating. Let the shitshow begin.
Nice dooms day scenario. Unfortunately for you these kinds of situations and scenarios are incredibly rare and in many cases don't work out well for the Boss.
US employers are far too intrusive as to employees' personal lives.
The only thing intrusive here was the forced arbitration. In the rest of what we have been discussing the past few weeks, the US's code of conducts lag well and truly behind those in other parts of the world.
USB 3.0 single device controller at one end of a SERIAL line.
LPDDR4X: Multiple chips need to talk simultaneously sending multiple lines of data at the end of a PARALLEL line without controllers without anything in the way.
Bandwidth of a USB3.2 device (I'll be nice since you're comparing old technology vs new): 20Gbps
Bandwidth of a stick of LPDDR4X: 273Gbps (but the memory controller is capable of 546Gbps in dual channel)
Now an additional reality check: USB3.2: Controllers both side of the bus. The latency for memory access application is simply horrible and is measured in the hundreds of microseconds.
LPDDR4X: Typical latency: 10ns
Now just to make my point I will repeat it: The frequency is extracted from the data lines, a trick that works just fine at USB speeds, and then utterly fails at the type of speeds we expect RAM chips to use.
Oh bullshit. There weren't mass protests.
Yeah just a few 10s of thousands of people took their early lunch in a pre-organised way at offices around the world and like with every lunch they took with them megaphones and signs.
You're a fucking moron.
Google's only lack of workplace protections are for competent people trying to do their fucking job.
Exactly what we are talking about. That is the primary purpose of code of conducts against harassment of all kinds.
They already had anti-harassment policies, already enforced them
You're a fucking moron.
Unless the victims were white, male or ideally both, according to an extensive lawsuit raised against them.
Saying it twice is enough. I'll let you off without calling you a fucking moron again.
If they could sell it at $3 or $4 a month
They wouldn't, and will continue to milk their consumer base just like they do with their existing Vault concept.
If there's fuel near your structure, remove it. That simple, but people crave the pretty.
You are ignorant as to how far a large fire can spread across a fuel gap, and likewise ignorant of what it is to be "fuel". No I do not crave pretty. I also don't crave the fact that my neighbour's house is 10m away from me, none the less I know that during hot dry and windy conditions if his house is on fire there's no amount of land clearing and composting that will save my house, which is precisely why fire departments aim a hose at the things that are not currently on fire while also fighting the fire.
Hardly. It's simply proof that most people don't care about things that don't interest them. As long as their computers boot and they can do activity x then they ultimately don't give a shit what model they have, especially when they aren't being charged for it.
It's called marketing. You call it Windows as a Service, the users only hear: Free updates!
That doesn't make them idiots, that makes them ignorant, and willfully so.
Subscribe to another.
Why bother, at that point you'll have seen spoilers for all the interesting stuff that was released ages ago on the other service.