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🍎 Tor Browser 12.0 now provides native support for Apple Silicon. We've opted for a Universal Binary too – meaning both x86-64 (for Intel) and ARM64 (for Apple Silicon) builds are bundled together and the correct version chosen automatically.

Like 7 Dec 2022 at 19:25 | Open on mastodon.social

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BeegyPsi

@torproject

You package ARM and x86 into a single binary? That seems awfully wasteful.

How much unneeded space are you occupying on other people's hard drives?

7 Dec 2022 at 19:40 | Open on mastodon.online

jackson

@BeegyPsi
that's one way to support for both arch. complain to apple.
actually, don't. base model macbooks has 250GB for storage. macOS is 15GB. macOS apps are usually in the range of 100-300MB (there are things outside that range but that's the usual).
furthermore, your complaint sounds more like outrage (but that appears to be the nature of you as you describe).
wikipedia for these kinds of binaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary

7 Dec 2022 at 21:37 | Open on micro.jacksonchen666.com

BeegyPsi

@jacksonchen666

Why complain to Apple? They're moving the world forward by moving passed x86. Good on them.

If that sounds like outrage, you're probably a bit too sensitive to be online. It was a pretty mundane statement about wasting user space to accommodate ancient technology and allow the dev to be lazy. Generally I reserve outrage for a tiny bit more than drive space.

That said, as far as "the nature of [me]" goes, do fuck off.

7 Dec 2022 at 21:43 | Open on mastodon.online

Foster Irwin

@torproject perfect timing! My M2 MacBook Air delivered today 🙂

7 Dec 2022 at 20:01 | Open on mastodon.online