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I'm not talking about whether it is legal or not. There is not going to be an Intel build of MacOS 27. The Arm build is going to expect an Apple Neural Engine and other Apple specific stuff. Maybe you could emulate those in software, but it is not going to work very well.
On identical hardware, Debian boots in < 1 second, Windows in about 3 seconds, and FreeBSD in about 5.
So yes, SystemD does boot faster than BSD init, but FreeBSD tends to be faster once it is booted, and 5 seconds generally isn’t a big deal anyway.
IPadOS, on different hardware, is actually really slow to boot, measured in minutes rather than seconds, but given that you almost never need to reboot, this is not a problem, and it wakes up from sleep pretty much instantly.
That approach works until it doesn't. See for example WH Smith.
The thing is, moving from VMWare to a different virtualisation platform is relatively easy compared to some other IT migrations. Obviously not completely painless, but very doable.
For sure, if you pay your money to Starlink, what you receive in return is a very good product.
However, it is just not sustainable as a business model, as they are losing vast amounts of money, and the satellites only have a working life of about 5 years before they fall out of the sky and need to be replaced.
There are MVNOs that run on the O2 network, you could switch to one of them.
Moneysaving Expert lists GiffGaff which is a subsidiary of O2, Sky who are probably just as bad, and Tesco.
My requirements were to avoid Vodafone and Three, because my other phone is with IDMobile which is on the Three network, and I want both of my phones to be on different networks so there's a better chance that one of them will have a signal. I also want included European roaming because I travel abroad frequently, so I've switched to Spusu which is on the EE network. Only signed up yesterday, and the transfer hasn't happened yet, so I can't comment on what they are like.
REFS exists, and presumably some people use it.
As far as I'm aware, you still can't boot from an REFS volume, so that means it can't be a replacement for NTFS.
There was a bug in a recentish Windows Update that made REFS volumes unable to mount, so at this point, I can't consider it to be stable enough for production use.
It isn't supported in Home or Business versions of Windows 11, only higher tier desktop versions and server versions of Windows.
"Management says there must be a regular meeting, then there will be one regardless."
AI isn't going to fix bad management.
Go into the meeting with a single item on the agenda "any other business".
Finish the meeting about 10 seconds later when it is determined that there is none.
The argument is that the patent is supposed to be a temporary monopoly in exchange for disclosing the invention to the public, and the trade-off is that after that limited period, people get to use the invention in the public domain.
If the invention is long-since obsolete by the time the patent expires, then the patent is effectively unlimited.
Or alternatively, as practical as moving from Freenode to Libera Chat ...
I have moved off of Twitter. The thing is that my followers and people I follow split mostly between Blue Sky and Threads with a few going to Mastodon.
I cross-post to all three, I have twice as many followers on BlueSky as on Threads, but get a lot more engagement on Threads.
I have the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge which has the Snapdragon X[1] Elite.
It is not as fast as the M4 in my MacBook Air, but it is also a lot cheaper.
The M4 is vastly over-powered for most people - the non-binned M4 (Apple's second slowest laptop chip) is about the same speed as the non-K i9 (Intel's second fastest laptop chip).
If you are looking for a gaming laptop, don't buy either of them, but in everyday use, the only time I actually notice the difference in speed between the M4 and X-Elite is when I run benchmarking software on them. There are just no delays or lagginess when doing things on either of those laptops.
Anyone remember this review from 15 years ago?
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2010/11/03/review_netbook_toshiba_ac100/
In summary, very nice hardware let down by utterly unusable software. Have they fixed those problems with Android yet? Realistically, Android on laptop is going to have to be as different as MacOS is to iOS over in Cupertinoland.
And of course the smaller councils would still be part of the West Midlands Combined Authority.
Remember that Birmingham City Council isn't the largest local authority in Europe, it isn't even the largest in Birmingham. It is however the largest lower tier local authority, and that would tend to suggest that it is maybe too big. The largest upper tier local authority is Île de France (Paris region).
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