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Yes, this is what I do. The main pain point is that the touchpad is emulated as a scroll wheel so you don’t get pixel-perfect scrolling.

No hd scroll wheel?

I don’t exactly understand this setup. What’s the vm tech?


What I mean is: on a normal laptop, when you scroll with two fingers on the scroll wheel, the distance you scroll is nearly a continuous function of how much you move your fingers; that is, if you only move your fingers a tiny bit, you will only scroll a few pixels or just one.

Most VM software (at least all of it that I've tried) doesn't properly emulate this. Instead, after you've moved your fingers some distance, it's translated to one discrete "tick" of a mouse scroll wheel, which causes the document to scroll a few lines.

The VM software I use is UTM, which is a frontend to QEMU or Apple Virtualization framework depending on which setting you pick when setting up the VM.


Yeah OK. Googling and LLMing around, it sounds like you’d need to use the proprietary Parallels to get hd scroll on a mac from the touchpad.

> Linux is still playing catch-up on getting those usable

This is an understatement. It is completely impossible to even attempt to install Linux at all on an M3 or M4, and AFAIK there have been no public reports of any progress or anyone working on it. (Maybe there are people working on it, I don’t know).


In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support. There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app...

Sounds like the GPU architecture changed significantly with M3. With M4 and M5, the technique for efficiently reverse-engineering drivers using a hypervisor no longer works.


> In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support.

Thanks, I guess I stand corrected.

> There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here

That is encouraging! Still, there is no way for a normal to user to try to install it, unless something changed very recently.


Gmail labeled itself beta for many years (past tense). Not “has labeled” which would imply it is still doing so.

Meanwhile, for Apple:

Installation: nothing.

Sharing: Cmd+C/Cmd+V


It literally always works flawlessly for me unless Bluetooth is turned off.

> 2026 should be the year when every tech-minded person dumps Apple (and Google) for good

Why? I am a very tech-minded person but simply don't care about running alternative browser engines on my phone. Am I "wrong" in your opinion?


I am sure that they will not lead to “Christian theocratic values in public policy” in France. That value system is fringe in France, one of the most irreligious and historically anti-clerical cultures in the world.

Among people who identify as Christian in France, the ones who could be described as radical or fundamentalist are a very small minority.


My observation is that there is a big resurgence in supremacist politics and the main identity involved is white Christian male. Maybe it’s not yet big in France but that’s what I see gaining momentum in many parts of Europe and North America.

You’re talking about a completely different thing, right-wing populist neo-nationalism based on an idea of European ethnicity and culture (which, of course, includes culturally identifying as “Christian”). This isn’t the same thing as being based on religious doctrine.

Have you ever had the chance to look at the public-facing support email inbox for a SaaS company? You get absolutely bombarded with these low quality “bug reports” from people trying to farm bounties. They do not care whether the bug is real or impactful, it’s a game of volume for them.

Charles doesn’t “rule the roost” in any meaningful sense. Who knows whether Keir Starmer descends from Normans, but his predecessor certainly doesn’t.

Hey now, at least Rishi was elected to rule Britain - the old lady Vicky wasn't remotely connected to India but she was still Empress.

I don't think India had a democracy before the Brits, either.

Not that it gives anyone else the right to come in and declare themselves Raj. But Vicky wasn't the first to come to India and declare themselves in charge.


HN isn’t really for memes and quippy references. That’s the main reason you got downvoted, regardless of whether your substantive political point is a good one or not. The original comment matches the vibe of Reddit or Twitter a lot better than HN.

In that case, we'd better stop saying "Stallman was right"

Yes, we should, that would be great.

I bet the temporarily embarrassed millionaires/billionaires subset of HN would agree.

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