I switched from macos to Linux because it can't stop babying users and being unnecessarily restrictive

I dont think it has a native arm version

I think this is only conditionally true... A good AMD based system on say Fedora with a GPU that's at least a year old ... you really won't have much of a problem on Linux in my experience or much to fix.

Really? i remember having to install some software to get me to do it. Though it was only like 7 years ago lol.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who played Roblox growing up... But like over a decade ago. Weird to see it still around.

Random memories:

• couldn't figure out how to drive vehicles (equip the drive tool and press T or something)

• there used to be a FREE currency called TIX that they gutted

• the old sound effects

• the old forcefield effect

• killing yourself precisely so that your head bounced onto the obby's next spawn point skipping the obstacle

-games were so much less commercialized, but they were also for the most part games made by other kids, they lacked the labor required to make a GAME game, but had charm. The fun games were FUN, and all they really offered in terms of monetization were VIP t shirts

• desert Base Battle, ultimate paintball, ultimate build, sword fight on the heights, galleons, work at Pizza place, disaster survival

• mashing yourself under geometry only slightly higher than you are, and then holding spacebar until you jump so hard your character model shoots out at a random tangent at Mach speed

• calling my friend to play, using the wireless house phone, holding it against my ear with my shoulder for hours until I got cramps

• constant status bars at the bottom from scripts included in free models "the maker of this place would like to thank xyzname for using their models!"

• magic path tools, rocket launchers, slingshots, bombs, swords

• Roblox is the reason I'm a programmer today, I was diving into LUA when I was a kid

There are several different distro's built on asahi IIRC, asahi is more of a Mac platform for distro's than a distro itself if I understand the project correctly.

I have definitely looked into Asahi awhile ago, and knew that was the big one. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that’s the only one, but didn’t know if maybe there were more.

Asahi is not only a distribution but a modified kernel which in theory can be added to nearly any Linux distribution

Most distros build for ARM now. Disregard, I just realized we're talking about Macs. 🤦

It's an extra step in macOS 15. You need to go into System Settings now.

Used to just be able to use the contextual menu to open it and get an approval dialog.

Oh yeah, we only want to pre-configure it with a static IP address on its Ethernet port, so that we can SSH into it in a controlled manner and then we intend to do the rest with a deployment tool.

Yeah, that is a very good question. It's one of the last commands in the script and initially I thought they had set up the script so that it would abort, if any of the commands before it would fail.

But then a colleague pointed out that it's actually the opposite. So, you can tell the shell to abort execution on error by running set -e. But what they had written at the top was set +e, which explicitly turns that off (even though it should be off by default).
The last command in the script is also exit 0, so it always indicates success.
So, yeah, they seem to have knowingly made it so that if the script fails, then it doesn't retry or anything. It tries to plough through as many of the commands as it can manage (ignoring any that fail on the way) and then it always deletes itself.

I guess, it's not as egregious of an assumption, because it only runs on a fresh OS. That's a pretty controlled environment to be executing in, so the chance of something going wrong is rather low.
Well, and the other question is what else would you do? If the script fails and you don't delete it, it's going to re-run on the next boot. What's going to be different on the next boot to make it succeed then? Might as well do as much as you can and then quit...