On: VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

[tecleandor → amelius]

What kind of, ahem, "non consumer hardware" should I buy to run a virtual machine?

[pram → tecleandor]

A 15 year old Thinkpad is the HN approved machine for Serious Work.

[sam_lowry_ → pram]

I only recently passed my good old T420s down the generation and switched to T14 Gen 2, the one that still has S3 ACPI Sleep Mode.

[imp0cat → sam_lowry_]

RIP S3 sleep. You'll be missed.

[lostlogin → tecleandor]

There was a good article here yesterday on Colossus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012309

[ChrisMarshallNY → lostlogin]

Beer->hold()

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/codebase

[r_lee → amelius]

you say that while I'm pretty sure the macbooks are the most popular laptop platform for developing software?

[NeckBeardPrince → amelius]

What hardware do you think Apple uses to build their "professional" software on?

[amelius → NeckBeardPrince]

Not sure but for CAD they use Windows:

https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/nd4ax1

> "Used to work as a mechanical design engineer at Apple. They use Siemens NX on Windows computers."

[NeckBeardPrince → amelius]

Yes, all Apple does is CAD work.