It won't have all the niceties / hardware support of MacOS, but it seamlessly coexists with MacOS, can handle the GPU/CPU/RAM with no issues, and can provide you a good GNU/Linux environment.
IIRC one of the major factors holding back M3 support was the lack of a M3 mini for use in their CI environment. Now that there's an M4 mini hopefully there aren't any obstacles to them adding M4 support
How? What cloud providers offer it? MacStadium and AWS don't.
I guess you could have a physical MBP in your house and connect it to some bring-your-own-infrastructure CI setup, but most people wouldn't want to do that.
How do you imagine that a cloud computing platform designed around running Macs with macOS would work for testing an entirely different OS running on bare metal on hardware that doesn't have a BMC, and usefully catching and logging frequent kernel panics and failed boots?
It's a pretty hard problem to partially automate for setups with an engineer in the room. It doesn't sound at all feasible for an unattended data center setup that's designed to host Xcode for compiling apps under macOS.
Speaking of decompilers, would Binary Ninja be a safe bet to pick? I've been told IDA is the gold standard, but it's also expensive for someone who wants to recreationally reverse engineer.
Binja decompiler is more-or-less fine. Its not as mature as IDA or Ghidra but its not a bad decompiler.
Though for me the big selling point on Binja is the Intermediate Languages (ILs). HIgh-level IL is the decompiler but you also get Low-level and Medium-level ILs as steps between assembly and source. If the decompiler is a bit funky you can look at the ILs to get a better idea of what is happening. the ILs are also just much nicer to read than plain assembly so I tend to use them a lot.
Its a feature that isn't really matched on any other platform. Ghidra and IDA both have a single IL that is more machine readable compared to Binja's human-readable ones.
Honestly just use Ghidra. It has it's quirks but it's pretty good. And open source.
If it's good enough for the NSA it's probably good enough for recreational use.
The code is open source and has been looked at by several people over the years.
It would be quite hard for the NSA to sneak in a backdoor but it is never out of the question.
However, the risk is so extremely minuscule when compared to other alternatives since they are not even open source.
I think protists (like the amoeba) are considered a fourth kingdom within the eukaryotes. But that isn't even the highest level of classification: eukaryotes are only one of three domains of life, the other two being bacteria and archaea. (Eukaryotes are believed to have originated as symbiotic unions of ancestors of archaea and bacteria.)
https://asahilinux.org
It won't have all the niceties / hardware support of MacOS, but it seamlessly coexists with MacOS, can handle the GPU/CPU/RAM with no issues, and can provide you a good GNU/Linux environment.
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