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Why would I get any of these over a MacBook Neo?

Perhaps you can install a real Linux on this one. Probably not though.

I feel dumb but how is this related?


I think it's an oblique threat. Just recently Trump made a direct threat on the bond markets.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-suggests-he-can-use-...


How would that even work? Park tanks on Wall Street and point them at stockbrokers?


His chain of thought has a length not beyond his nose. It's typical for dementia, and I have to see it all the time with my parent. Only the very last sentence is kept in mind, all other context is mostly gone.

I wish a reporter would ask him what question he heard and answered, because I'm sure he would be unable to correctly answer.


> How would that even work? Park tanks on Wall Street and point them at stockbrokers?

People are not quite sure, but Krugamn (for one) is willing to fight:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK20wZ0ofwY


If functional, you can download apps from the App Store, sign in to iCloud.. probably do a bunch of agentic stuff as if you had a real device


Looks like apple services compatibility is not currently supported for this [0]

[0] https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli/discussions/175


If you read a bit further, there's a jailbroken variant that has Sileo and Trollstore installed, so you can run whatever IPAs


Where?

Edit: ah now I see, in the main readme under heading Firmware Variants. https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli#firmware-variants


Exactly. It means it cannot download apps from the App Store or use Apple services and Apple knows this deliberate limitation.


Can do that with the simulator too


Running on ported userspace components, with a shim, isn't the same as running on the OS in itself.

That really matters, sometimes.

But not the vast majority of the time.

(source: been coding iOS since pre-SDK iPhone OS 1.0)


Can you give some examples of where it matters? I'm genuinely curious.


Testing AR apps, or any app that relies on hardware you can't simulate easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43b5ywnYpo


It’s been years but I ran into a problem with a notification extension years ago. Worked fine on simulator, not on device. Turned out it was because I was using a HEIF image and (I think) the on-device extension was trying to use hardware decoding and didn’t have access to it. Meanwhile the simulator had no such sandboxing restrictions.

The difference doesn’t matter until it does, and then it’s infuriating to work out what’s going on.


> The difference doesn’t matter until it does, and then it’s infuriating to work out what’s going on.

I love this quote, reminds me how annoying it can be when something isn’t reproducible locally… only in production…


Last I checked, VPN network extensions wouldn't run in the simulator.


Is the simulator faster than this? I would suspect so.


I have had instances where the app runs fine on the simulator but crashes on the device. This might solve that.


Will Apple break this?


That's how all your cat-and-mouse games eventually end.


They will find a way to break it.


Zerg rush


Please edit the title it’s wrong


Also the benefit of marginal environmental regulations...


Don’t forget the corruption and low income locals who won’t be able to provide any meaningful pushback


Pushback? Anyone wishes they lived there now. SpaceX bought out stragglers off Boca Chica for multiple times the value of their homes


Yes, it’s much easier to buy people off and legally “persuade” them out of their homes when the local economy is depressed and they can’t afford a lawyer.


people getting paid an order of magnitude more money for their property and yet people like you will find a reason to complain. Where is this coming from? Some anti-capitalist, degrowth thing? Genuinely curious


Typical "everything is bad" response. This is going to employ thousands of blue collar workers for years. Reasonable environmental protections will be in place. It's not going to become some barren toxic waste zone.


"In mice" is the right caveat for outcomes and the wrong one for mechanisms. Nobody’s selling you a drug here--they’re describing a chromatin change, and that’s the part rodents are actually good for.

The alternative study design is randomizing infants to early-life stress and biopsying their hippocampi at 30. Committee’s still reviewing it.


I remember having this in middle school, it was a nightmare and majorly fucked me up


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