What do you even mean by LLM help??

And imagine the numbers if downgrading was possible...

It's just like gambling addiction.

Why are you even encrypting? What's the threat model it's protecting against? Clearly it's not "prevent me from reading your data" since you have access to the keys anyway.

KDE Connect sends data directly between your devices, while QuickClip sends data through QuickClip servers using useless encryption.

Privacy minded user : "Eh... what, no."

VC funding surveillance capitalism startups : "Here, take my money!"

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They made significant changes to the bootloader with the explicit goal of allowing boot of third-party operating systems.

Unless you can find a way to implement U-Boot on Apple Silicon, they can make more significant changes with no easy opt-out.

If you're new to the topic, this is a good place to start https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/guide/security/welcome/web

This article is definitely the latter, not just "fixing grammar".

The bootloader doesn't even have a USB stack capable of reading external storage.

If you have kernel access you can do an OS-to-OS takeover from the original OS. That's how MkLinux worked on old Macs.

Or you can just sign your Linux kernel from macOS recovery mode, which is what the Asahi Linux installer does already. No need for weird hacks.

You also don't have "kernel access" in macOS. After boot, the memory region corresponding to the macOS kernel is marked as read-only at the memory controller level.

> Or you can just sign your Linux kernel from macOS recovery mode, which is what the Asahi Linux installer does already. No need for weird hacks.

Does that work for USB boot?

> You also don't have "kernel access" in macOS. After boot, the memory region corresponding to the macOS kernel is marked as read-only at the memory controller level.

You can turn that off from recovery mode. (see `bputil`) It's needed to use dtrace.

And then the author posts it himself to Hacker News. Nah, that's not opsec.