Pact Foundation

I have wanted to have a channel to ask off-topic tech questions (eg API design). <#C5F4KFKR8|general> didn't feel right, and neither did <#C5F7CCDK7|random>

I also wanted this, because I wanted to ask about advice on mono-repos because Lerna was unmaintained, and probably overkill for what I needed.

Something like

general-tech
dev-chat

&gt; A place for more general conversation about technology not necessarily related to Pact

also I don't have whatever question I wanted to ask any more. I can't remember what I did. Probably asked <@U9WKNLPNZ>

I think <#C5F7CCDK7|random> is ok :facing_think:

&gt; think <#C5F7CCDK7|random> is ok :facing_think:
It probably is, but just limited audience compared to some of the other channels, and people may not want to add random for additional noise, if they are just here for the tech related chatter or help.

Mind you a new channel needs to be seeded with people first and takes ages. Probably just overthinking and should just post in general :sweat_smile:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1hM-k3aUY>

The Optimist says the glass is half full.  The Pessimist says the glass is half empty.   The Engineer asks why the glass was built twice the size. -Malcolm Gladwell

I feel there's a Pact adaptation of this somewhere

Love that <@U9WPJMT8Q> :sweat_smile: 

Also yay to life in random! :smiling_face_with_3_hearts:

Hope every one has opened their advents calendars and looking forward to crimbo.

It would be about this time, when I worked back in an office job rather than the open source, that we would be gearing up for change freezes, and smashing in loads of releases before the office becomes a ghost town.

The joys of software delivery :sweat_smile:

Who else was always successful (or maybe not), in getting approval to deploy during such freezes?

I recall at least 3 years running a xmas eve (or last working day before xmas) release :laughing:

Very impressed with UTM

<https://docs.getutm.app/>

Have been able to get ARM copies of Windows/MacOS &amp; Linux running on my M1 Mac.

Their documentation is particularly nice, I love their labelling system.

I've used many of the other virtualization tools on a mac (Fusion/Parallels/VirtualBox) but QEMU via UTM is pretty decent so far.

Also for anyone following the efforts for getting Linux installed on an M1 mac, the Asahi Project has been doing incredible things

<https://asahilinux.org/>

and it has come on leaps and bounds since I last looked, managed to get a copy of Ubuntu running on my M1 - <https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi>

Not done much with it so far, bar getting it installed but looks promising.

Wow, I did not know about this, very cool!

Is the idea of Asahi to replace your OSX install with Linux/dual boot? Or more like a virtual machine?

Asahi allows for dual booting, you can run linux ARM vm's natively in MacOS via QEMU/UTM or Parallels. (I've got a copy of Parallels on my home machine, it is VERY nice, you get app's from the VM's in your host macs dock)

Dual Booted, you still need the mac os system, basically asahi pretends it's a macos install at startup to allow it semi bypass security conditions.

It's not quite ready as a full replacement, no Thunderbolt 4, no display port / hdmi and no sound on a macbook, so I can't get an external monitor.

Nice to play around with, and it is bloody quick, like 1/3 quicker compiling 26 projects (my hello_ffi project)

need to test it with Docker, as that should be alot quicker, and macos is a bit of a hack for Docker.

As I've got an m1 machine for work and m1 personal laptop, I planned to just have it running linux and could vnc or ssh into it when needed.

I have an i9 hackintosh and windows 11 pc which sit connected to the network too, mainly with the aim of connecting them up with the iPad so I could use it as a decent workstation.

Other adventures have been running UTM on my Ipad, running code-server on it, port forwarding the connection, and running it with a safari PWA.

I'm setting the same up for rasp pi, but UTM is working quite nicely, also it is in emulation mode (which is a bit slow, ipad allows for JIT emulation but its not able to take advantage of the m1's speed)

wow, that speed improvement is… incredible. One would have thought the apple engineers would have optimised it. I guess Asahi probably removes a bunch of the non essential things that Apple has added for UX/experience?

Some updates in the land of MacOS Virtualisation -

If you have a macos, and you want more than 2 virtual machines using apples new virtualisation framework, there is now a way. :rocket:

<https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html>

Also Asahi Linux is switching up to Fedora for their flagship distro

<https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/>