Posts by littletijn

Multiple flaws in Microsoft macOS apps unpatched despite potential risks

"...stopping malicious libraries from being run, other than those specified by the devs or Apple itself..."

To call those libraries malicious is quite a stretch, although also a bit honest :)

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

Nice subscriptions app you got there. Be a shame if anything happen to it...

It's like some extorsion, cranking up the price with 30% and be forced to take it just because it now looks like there is some pretty money to make for the house of the shiny things.

Sometimes you just wished that those big companies did not try to pursuit (the illusional) unlimited grow no matter what.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

I would have fired the marketing departement

Where is the line of people walking in a straight line like lemmings/sheep to the latest Apple Store to buy the newest greatness, while holding the previous model like a big brick? They can include some nice pictures of trade-ins and recycling of perfectly working kit and a Apple Care subscription for the inevitable moment their ultra thin slab will break.

No wonder this commercial did fail.

Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree

Requirements?

The worst part of it all with those Windows 11 requirements? They are not even requirements at all.

I do understand (somewhat) that some older CPU's aren't supported when the security of the system is depending on them. Like the VBS and HVCI. But Windows 11 doesn't enforce any of it.

Because I have a motherboard that I sometimes upgrade the firmware to the latest version. It sometimes forgets all settings and reset them to default. Some of those settings are the "required" things for Windows 11 like TPM that are disabled. Windows 11 just boots as normal. I even doesn't notice it. Only a small triangle is shown in Windows Security that some things are off.

Even better, I have a ARM based Windows 11 machine that doesn't even support the required things. I always get a message that for instance "Kernel Isolation" is off that every Windows 11 system should have enabled when delivered with it.

It is even documented here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/

So much for those requirements...

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

That Linux inside Android...

Although at first it looks that Android is a completely different thing than any other Linux OS, that kernel is really just a hacked Linux kernel.

It is possible to run a userland on top of Android than is more in line with what is know as a Linux OS. Apps like UserLAnd and Termux will run a userland known from Linux without emulation on the Linux kernel of Android.

As some experiment (and just the question "Does this works?") I installed the UserLAnd Android app on ChromeOS, installed Wine and tried to run a Windows game. Yes, it did work..

Also, on ChromeOS the Android environment (ARC++) does run directly on the Linux kernel beneath.

So the question remains: what is exactly a Linux OS? :)