Comment by pxtail
4 years ago
I'm seriously admiring spirit of people working on Asahi Linux project. In my eyes Apple, it's hardware, software, whole ecosystem and philosophy is openly hostile towards any tinkering, customization, modifications - kind of antithesis of open source/linux. Yet another angle which would be a problem for me is about putting personal non-paid time towards increasing value of one of the wealthiest corporations on the globe.
Probably I'm too cynical (or maybe realistic?) because it's not hard to imagine situation in the future where thousands of work hours poured into project like this is easily and effortlessly decimated by corporation execs decision.
Check out https://libimobiledevice.org ; using it iOS will provide access to your Photos.app's SQLite database, including machine learning tags and other metadata[0].
Or the defaults(1) command, or how networking config works (it's just plain BSD configs with a GUI on top).
Apple isn't against tinkering or customization, they just don't document or guarantee it.
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[0] Simon Willison has neat demos with it https://simonwillison.net/2020/May/21/dogsheep-photos/