Big Sur(veillance) should be called macOS Derpy. everything is rounded and colorful and looks like a toy.

i've had this M1 air for less than an hour and i'm already sad that catalina won't run on it. :(

@sneak alright how do we make pinebook cases with high quality parts :thinking_cirno:

@icedquinn rms cold emailed me this week asking me why i'm still running macOS. questions like this are some of the things i raised in my open letter response draft.

@sneak @thor i actually have done some of these steps before :blobcatoh: but with 3d printers, not CNC's.

it's mostly uh. designing some nice concepts (quinn is bad at art :blobcatderpy:), getting the clearances for parts and zooping it over to CAD files, and then getting some crazy people to run the milling/cutting.

@icedquinn @thor the motherboard and battery need to be designed at the same time as the case. the keyboard as well; the unibody macs have the keyboard layout milled into the bottom case, so there are different bottom cases for the different keyboard layouts.

@sneak @thor a pine's mainboard is very smol actually. it's mostly a pine64 jammed in a case.

@icedquinn @thor i am willing to bet this m1 air is somewhere between 3 and 10 times faster than it, not even counting the GPU.

@sneak @thor i'm sure it is, but this is something i can make happen. :cirno_shrug:

i can't make apple stop being evil.
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@icedquinn @thor no but we can disable the signing on the root, remount it rw in recovery, and remove a bunch of the trash

@sneak @thor we ultimately need to play our own games, and stop playing theirs. :blobcatsleep2:
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