Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.
That’s impressive. A full Linux system on Apple devices would go crazy.
Almost zero info, but they do sell a €150 stick with an AI slop unicorn on it. Sounds very fishy to me.
TBH, we’re going to see a lot of this shit. Documented exploits, documented hardware, documented OS, The current gen of AI tooling is pretty good at retrying tons of shit until it gets SOMETHING working. What runs will probably not be performant, and since no one wrote it or understands it, they won’t have any clue how to make it run better and that’s something that the current tooling is NOT good at.
Could people review what the AI shits out and clean it up?
Of course.
Seems a decent use for it then, just having it brute force corpo nonsense. Kind of a “let them fight” situation.
We agree.
To an extent. Perf is often as much about architecture as it is about code. That guy who created Adobe alternatives- all those apps are dog slow; they have to do low-quality preview renders. That’s something Adobe probably spent a few lifetimes siphoning out every last watt of power from, and it’s the reason they didn’t want to move to Linux. The app is still serviceable, but it has to degrade active quality to work at a reasonable pace. To fix that in Rust is going to be an enormous ask. There needs to be hackery and jiggery-pokery, the kind of things that aren’t documented well in training.
Maybe he can go back and have it try to figure out what Adobe is going or brainstorm ways to do it at full quality. Maybe someone will have to dive into the code, get familiar with it (hoping it’s not too confusing), and either fix the architecture, fuck with the security to let it use more base system calls, or maybe just tell another Claude session how to make it more performant.
Impressive!!
Congratulations!! We want moorreee! Power to the people.
Excellent. I want a not Android and not iOS.
Can I interest you in a Windows phone?
Stupid monkey’s paw
Was actually good
I had one and enjoyed it.
I had one and you are incorrect
The hardware was good for the time, and the UI/UX was a solid concept. However, it came way late to the party.
and the UI/UX was a solid concept
I couldn’t hate anything more than I hated the Windows phone UI. It constantly felt like everything was constantly cut off, or like I was looking at my phone through a keyhole.
I miss my Windows phone. Just wish it had more app support
That’s pretty dope but also the writing makes my clanker senses tingle.
Literal nonissue to use ai for sht like this and the decompiling of games to make mods people have been doing, it could all potentially run locally, its not replacing any jobs and its tedious sht ppl wouldnt do otherwise unless they were insane, like game crackers
Holy balls
Blessed plums
Anointed orbs
Divine spheres
Sacred cojones
Heavenly globes
Celestial sacks
Hallowed nuts
This could be good news for then environment. Apple’s planned obsolescence means their phones are essentially life-long e-waste but with an initial few years of enrichment for some.
The devices are still destined to be ewaste, but the more years we can get out of them is still slightly better.
Not just Apple, I know.
Aren’t apple like the least bad guys here with their phones? My wife is still using an almost 7 year old iPhone without any issues at all. It’s still fully functional and snappy to use, still using all the original parts (never needed repair)
All tech eventually becomes e-waste, especially if it has a timebomb in it known as a LI Battery…
All people die eventually too, but it’s not an argument to lower our standards of living.
If your argument is that we need to reduce consumption, I agree completely. But consumers alone cannot fix/improve this problem.
This is awesome. I was able to recycle my wheel iPod way back 00s with Linux when an os update failed and bricked my device. Nice to see someone doing this.
Why on earth would you want that… Surely you’d be better off putting Linux on literally any other type of phone
I’m curious if they are able (or have any intentions) to access the gsm modem to send/receive phone calls.
Historically, on android, this was a vendor specific binary blob, which really limited what you could do with it “as a phone”.
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I’d be happy to drop the phone part of the phone switching to mobile Linux if I could still send and receive calls using an app and wifi only without a carrier
That’d be kinda useless as soon as you’re out of wi-fi range which for me personally is pretty much any time I’m not home
However, if they could get just the data part of LTE working, that would be good enough, I’d just tell people who actually know me to use an app to call me and everyone else doesn’t need to reach me this badly anyway
never thought i would even consider buying anything with i infront of the name
I still wont. But its nice to have an out if android keeps locking itself down
iNever
iWill if it runs linux
iSame
I’m already buying an m3 book to run Asahi, I guess iPhone is next?
(Ofc /s or /jk but kinda funny)
What about older devices?
Linux has been booted on some older ones before as far as I know, this is the first time it’s been done on the 11. There’s even (very) partial Nura (PostMarketOS) support for iPhones from 5s to X.
