Though given how it scales with voltage I can’t think of of any use cases where weight saving is that desperately needed where it would be viable…
It may not be a weight savings benefit but potentially cost savings. Copper prices are volatile and currently pretty high. If this new technology can be scaled to be produced cheaply, it could replace some expensive copper is specific applications.
I already have almost a dozen original and remake Commodore 64s. Also Plus/4, C128, and so on.
We're similar then. I am a long time user of VICE, built parallel port (IEEE 1284) to 1541 interfaces to read my old floppies onto PC in the 90s, and even bought one of the c64 Minis when it came out. I also have 3 original C64s (in various states of function).
All of the "modern" c64s have always been just a bit off from the legacy hardware experience. I still love them, but they don't compare to the experience on the original hardware.
I don’t know who the target market of the new Commodore is
Well, me, I suppose. I bought one of the new Commodore Ultimate units (breadbin model). There are absolutely hardware limitations to the legacy c64 experience using in with modern computing in 2026. Sure there are workarounds for most of them, but those workarounds add up in cost, and even then aren't always the best solutions. Even then SID chips were never all identical, and many continue to fail with age. Certain revs of original hardware have specific bugs (which sometimes are beneficial) so having the option to use or avoid those would mean owning multiple original hardware in working order. That still won't get you HDMI, Ethernet, USB or flash storage access without lots of extra addon hardware.
The Commodore Ultimate has on that baked in. Currently I'm still using my original hardware more because of some projects I'm working on that require the TTL signals of the USER Port, but more regular use I am glad to have the Ultimate for better interoperability and maximum compatibility to the original 6510 CPU and SID (from its FPGA).
The new slimline Ultimate units are actually made from the original CBM case molds which were found in a warehouse!
, but it doesn’t feel like its me.
Thats certainly fine. This is a hobby after all, and there's no requirement to buy something you don't find interesting.
I want a retro computer with new Herdware in it.
You're in luck! It was their first product of this reborn company. They sell that right here: https://commodore.net/computer/
Compared to trump? Absolutely.
But picking one specific even to try to define an administration isn't very helpful. By your same measure you could define Carter as a right wing extremist for overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1979.
I'm not following you. Are you saying Bill Clinton was a left extremist?
Both Republicans and Democrats would run to the center for success. Bush Senior and Bush Junior were also centrist. It wasn't just a Democrat thing.
Yeah it was always lies.
It wasn't always lies. The game changed when the other side started electing their extremists, but worse, those more in the center have done fuck-all with what power they do have to act as a check on those other elected extremists.
I think the reason progressives are winning now is that voters have nothing to lose. Far right extremists will fuck them. Most of those closest to the center won't help them, and there's now a precedent of voting in extremists (currently far right) into high office.
If anything I think the elected far right extremists were the best argument for voting for those farther left. There's also the Overton window. 2008's Obama championing the ACA and the 2015 Supreme Court's Obergefell decision looks quite progressive compared to today's centerists.
Because it lets people simply horrendous actions as "Nazi" and ignore it. People say "Nazis are bad" (true BTW!), but then think no further. Many of the Cardassians actions against Bajor mirror closer to European colonization during the 15th and 16th centuries.
I was actively avoiding Godwin's law here, but you fasttracked us right to it. 😀
For me, this cannot work, the results can only be considered good if the intentions were good. If you do something good out of bad intentions, then the result might be objectively good, but I won’t count it as something good from you.
We're bordering on reinventing Kantianism vs Utilitarianism arguments here because there is no objective definition of "good". Each of us subjectively decides what is "good". To illustrate with your position that the intent to do good is the deciding factor, then that would follow that Hitler would be good because his intent was to do "good" as he saw it. Obviously neither one of use would consider Hitler or his actions good.
Here's your statement with the extra dimension of intent we're discussing added:
If you do something good (and good by my standard) out of bad intentions (good by your own standards), then the result might be objectively bad, but I won’t count it as something good from you (because even though your intent was good by your standards your result was bad from my standards).
Doesn't this seems to negate the "intent" element argument returning judgment purely base end result judgment?
Not really out of moral reasons though
Now we're going down a rabbit hole.
What is the true definition of "good" or "bad"? Further, is either best measured by word or by deed? If person A simply says "we should stand up and prevent rape", and person B intentionally kills 100 serial rapists, who did the most good?
I don't think Senator Vreenak would agree with you.
Well, he did ...
kill Kai Winn in the end.
The dual boot is the default install. The installer is a single terminal command in OSX with the installer being the guided setup. The installer is right on the front page of the distro web site: https://asahilinux.org/
It is literally just:
curl https://alx.sh/ | sh
The biggest decisions you have to make are how you want to partition the SSD between OSX and Linux.
I’ve been installing Linux in various ways since the late 90s using Slackware, and the Asahi installation experience was the easiest and seamless installation of Linux I’ve ever experienced. It on only occurred to me later why the installer could be so good. Asahi only runs on M1/M2 hardware. The developers knew exactly what the hardware would be and could tailor the experience around it.
I wouldn’t really recommend Asahi if you only have 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in your Mac. It will certainly run, but is cramped in daily use.
A quick question before research: is it fully working by now?
Is every hardware function in the laptop that works in OSX available in Asahi? No.
I’d like to have a functioning display
I think you're asking about "DisplayPort Alt Mode" which is where you can plug a dongle into one of the USB-C ports and output the local GPU to DP or HDMI. The answer to that is "yes, depending on how adventurous you are". There's an experimental kernel that does support it today. I don't think its in the main branch yet. I intentionally run version 43 (1 behind the current 44). However, I use a USB-C DisplayLink HDMI adapter for an external display and it does most of what I want right now without the experimental kernel. I do want "DisplayPort Alt Mode", and will use it when its available though.
If you have an M1 or M2 Macbook Pro with HDMI port built-in, those work right now. The challenge being worked through is a display port that gets unplugged, which only happens on the USB-C port Display Port.
I’ve got an impression that Linux can work on Apple Silicon, if you’re ready to abandon some things here and there.
I wouldn't use the word "abandon" but rather "wait for". Power management efficiency doesn't come close to native Apple OSX, but under Asahi it has enough battery for my needs. I only charge to 80% (supported natively in Fedora KDE) and get about 3 hours of runtime on battery for light to moderate use. I also read that this has improved a chunk in version 44, but again, I'm not running that version yet.
Another piece of hardware not supported on Asahi yet is the MLX engine. I've been experimenting with running local LLMs, and they do run under Asahi Linux, but the hardware includes MLX in OSX. There are some models specifically made to utilize MLX which result in significant performance improvements in inferencing speeds. The unified memory of the Macbooks means system RAM is available for LLM use, so I can run 16GB models while still having 8GB of RAM left over for other applications and OS functions on this Macbook Air. The RAM footprint for LLM works in both Asahi and OSX.
Keep in mind, this is a dual boot system. I still have OSX available if I need one of those Apple OSX specific function or extended battery life only one reboot away.
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I wasn't prepared for those stings on my skin to still be hurting some a week later.
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Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it.
This was my experience too. I had thought that bees had moved into a bush in my yard. I was happy to have bees there. A week later I was mowing the grass and felt several stabs of pain on my back and wrist. I turn around and see the air is filled with them. I had swatted one in my escape and had a corpse to inspect later and found it was a Yellow jacket wasp. From a distance I could see they were entering and exiting a hole near the bottom of the bush. A quick internet search later I knew that they were nearly dormant at night, and that they need a special oil they produce on the outside of their body to breath. Dawn dish soap apparently strips that away and they die, and its not toxic to the ground or environment.
I put half a bottle of Dawn squirted into their hole at the bottom of the bush at night. I never saw another Yellowjack wasp.
My daily driver is an M2 Macbook air running Asahi Linux. There are certainly some hardware parts I wished worked better right now, but its fully for my needs usable as is. Improvements are occurring regularly by the development team. Apple hardware really is solid, and I'm very happy that in the rare cases I do have to use a commercial OS (Netflix streaming for example), I don't have to use Windows. Its a dual boot machine (Linux/OSX).
Overall I'm pretty happy with Linux on this M2. Theres a handful of us here on Lemmy running it. You can find us at !asahilinux@lemmy.world
Because normalcy is subjective to each of us. If an unmade bed is normal in my house, then the unmade bed is what contributes to a sense of normalcy for me.
Chevy Bolt MSRP is $28,995.