I assume Apple will go well out of their way to plug whatever hole allowed this boot to happen on new generations.

That’s probably not really a concern, since I’m guessing the main thing that enables this is jailbreak, which is an ongoing cat & m game since the iphone 3g’s era.

Also, when the Linux kernel itself allows AI commits, is there any practicality in a Linux distribution strictly limiting or restricting AI commits?

Upstream is unrestricted, unless you want to detach from upstream it’s hopeless.

I don’t know about other normal people, but I’m certainly actively maintaining my own vibecoded apps as long as it’s affordable to do so. By that I mean they give me the niche functionality I want & new features are not added anymore, but if a pillow or pyqt update breaks my app, I may figure out how to fix it even on my own.

Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.

Most of these are very modular, so should be very easy to maintain. I guess we’ll just have to see.

Software that was forever, “almost working properly.”

That describes how I feel about MS Word quite well.

Looking at the PR’s & git activity & the interest in this whole project, I doubt LLM powered humans couldn’t keep this running if nothing unexpected -like a lawsuit- happens.

My personal experience with LLMs is that they are very good for adapting existing code to newer libraries & various other changes.

There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix’s comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don’t need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.

I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.

If you care about Linux it’s worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough)
If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you’ll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you’ll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.

*If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it’s unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.

I was trying to demonstrate a point, IF YOU DID THAT with PostmarketOS the battery would drain like crazy still. In normal use you would need to charge your phone twice a day. (or maybe even 3-4 times, depending on the specific device)

The list of well supported phones is vanishingly small & what’s even worse is that it’s not really daily drivable on any device. The idle battery drain is immense with the modem on. Honestly I’m not even certain that without a proper relationship with the hardware vendors it’s possible to build something that doesn’t drain itself in 2 days of idling.

Lmao good luck

Jolla is a startup that is taking advantage of foss being free & are not really contributing back. All the innovations they made to actually make their Linux phone usable is lost to the community at large.

I think we need something similar to the Lenovo + Graphene collab. Mass produced phones sold at commodity prices with a usable Linux option.

That one is not fully open source. I understand why, but I don’t like it.