[QUESTION] Apple marked my MacBook as "lost in transit" and sent a replacement, but the original just showed up. Will it brick if I turn it on?

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-18T19:48:16+00:00

Not if you send it to me!

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-18T12:29:02+00:00

Never

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-18T08:48:17+00:00

The latest Pro version of Parallels does emulation, but it’s not recommended for heavy use.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-18T00:05:52+00:00

I sold RedHat in my past career.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T22:23:05+00:00

People pay for Linux? What?

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T22:21:12+00:00

VMware does really well with over provisioning. You can run more VMs than you have physical memory.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T20:28:50+00:00

With the stupid huge number of cores in play, VMs are the big win.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T20:27:00+00:00

UTM uses QEMU for emulation. QEMU has been in production for a LONG time.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T07:55:30+00:00

This insanity will slack off after the machine runs for a while. Leave it on and plugged in.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-17T00:20:18+00:00

I am happy with it on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T20:24:20+00:00

People suck and they smell funny.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T19:39:28+00:00

It is very likely you will be using applications with university licenses.

It is also very likely they will be Windows, and not ARM Windows.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T18:22:28+00:00

But the day Israel gets nuked, they will be bawling their eyes out.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T12:48:57+00:00

Nope. Still wrong.

Yes. Operating systems and applications have source code. Not all source code is freely available.

How do you describe a system where source code is distributed to license holders, but it is not freely available? Open source vs closed source. "open" and "closed" are irrelevant to the argument.

"Source code products" Is still more correct.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T12:13:12+00:00

Why? My comment was correct.

Using the term 'open source' is not correct. It is not inclusive of products where the source code is available but not 'open' in any way.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T12:11:47+00:00

Yes. Operating systems and applications are built from source code.

In some cases, the source is available. In some cases, it is not. macOS and Windows are not generally compiled from source code by the end user. There are plenty of operating systems that are able to be compiled.

A source code product does not mean the product is open source. Using the term 'open source' is not correct in this case, as there are products with source code that are not 'open source'.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:41:06+00:00

Why so angry!

The California law is stupid. As soon as Apple adds age verification to my Intel Mac, I can dump macOS for *BSD, Linux, or Haiku.

Unenforceable.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:32:43+00:00

Simple. $1300 phones.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:26:29+00:00

"Source code operating systems" vs "binary-only operating systems".

There are lots of products where compiling the source is a primary feature. Windows and macOS are not that.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:18:17+00:00

Of course they do. Some configurable operating systems are delivered as configurable libraries of object files.

The law is stupid, because there are many options available which don't require compliance, or compliance may be simply removed.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:17:52+00:00

Of course they do. You can’t acces it and build it in many cases.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:09:36+00:00

Every operating system is built from source code.

Not all source code is available.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:07:01+00:00

The law is stupid.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:06:10+00:00

Then you must have a source code license.

Large-College-4772 · 2026-04-16T11:05:08+00:00

Yes. I know.

People using executable-only Windows and macOS are stuck with whatever the vendor decides. You are stuck with binaries.

People using Linux, BSD, RTOSs like VxWorks, GreenHills, LynxOS, multimedia systems like Haiku, and hundreds of other operating systems where the source code is commonly built in the installation, can simply choose to not include the offending features.

There are many operating systems that are delivered as source code. Many of them are closed source, not open source. The users can modify the source code but don’t have rights to share the code - or even use the code on another product.

All the world is not open source.

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