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.
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 you are incorrect
I miss my Windows phone. Just wish it had more app support
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.
Then on the other end windows 8 it felt like there was too much empty space, bad on small and large displays.
This 10,000 times. I thought the phone UI was novel and useful at the time but that never translated to the desktop or even a touch screen.
Compared to the recent iOS versions, I’ll take it.
One of my most miserable job phones.
I had one and enjoyed it.
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?
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.
Of course.
Seems a decent use for it then, just having it brute force corpo nonsense. Kind of a “let them fight” situation.
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
Is Voices38 using AI on Denuvo? I hope so for their own sanity but also hoping more than 1 guy starts doing it so Irdeto’s legal department gets swamped chasing ghosts.
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 will never trust faceID. At least with a 6 digit pin the cops have to escalate to a super swamped tech dept
Most implementations have a way to kill off the Face ID authentication. On modern iPhones you can spam the power button 5 times and Face ID is disabled. If you want a “cold boot” situation which is much harder to get into, just press and hold volume down and power for 10 seconds to hard reboot it.
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
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That’s one step closer to running Linux on the Macbook Neos A18 Pro.
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.
Nice job, but are you Rosenzweig level? Because booting the kernel on iPhones has been done before. Getting a usable software stack is a whole other territory.
And I think running Android (with every hardware working) on these would be harder than what’s Asahi done for M-Macbooks.
Why would you want Android anyway, it only works properly if you have it as closed down as iOS, otherwise you lose a ton of apps. If you’re gonna lose the ability to use banks and whatnot, might as well just go mainline Linux.
Not saying Android is a good OS, but this is false. It is 100% possible to use android rooted and with the bootloader unlocked while still retaining access to any apps you want. Banks or otherwise.
Not that I would want Android on iPhones, it just looked that would be eaiser to achieve than pure Linux because some components of iPhones already have driver blobs for Android. Of course Android has its own quirks too, so maybe not so different.
What about seeecond breakfast?
never thought i would even consider buying anything with i infront of the name
iNever
iWill if it runs linux
iSame
I still wont. But its nice to have an out if android keeps locking itself down
I’m already buying an m3 book to run Asahi, I guess iPhone is next?
(Ofc /s or /jk but kinda funny)
I would like to see how the GUs will be handled, i tried to play with something similar using ATV, i didn’t sleep for three days reading logs of hardware failure.
But i hope they can make it.
So how long until a 12 mini boot is out?
I wish there were good tablet running Linux… That would be a portable & light desktop.
That’s impressive. A full Linux system on Apple devices would go crazy.
We talking interconnected systems operating on Apple devices? Like the LinuxOS for {Pad,I,Mac,Watch}OS that would be really awesome. I would go back to an apple phone
