That would be way more complex to have the motherboard play than a sequence of beeps at different frequencies. Especially at the time.

Yes, Apple, like many other corporations, uses FOSS components in their closed source software because it saves them money from free labor. There are also parts that make sense for them to distribute under a free license because they need developers to implement them in their software to work with their OS or browser.

That doesn’t mean they’re actually benefitting the FOSS community in any way, it just means the FOSS community is benefitting their closed source software for free.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a server in a corporate environment running on anything other than 24-hour UTC time. That sounds like a nightmare.

It really isn’t. At least not for what most people try to use it for.

Authoritarianism is bad regardless of the ideology behind it and leads to people with reasonable beliefs (communism could help people that capitalism harms) doing unreasonable things (denying active genocides being carried out by governments that have historically been pro-communism because… cognitive dissonance?) like the subject of this post.

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R is living in your head rent free.

Just let it go. None of those things are reliant on anything either of those sites does going forward.