I guess this day was inevitable, after Microsoft bought a huge share of Apple back in the day. Never thought I'd say I'd be giving up Macintosh in favor of pure (open-source) linix systems for online activity. Now have to keep BOTH Windows AND MacOs computers offline.
Your Computer Isn't Yours → https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
It’s here. It happened. Did you notice?
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.
On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
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This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.
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Your computer now serves a remote master, who has decided that they are entitled to spy on you. If you’ve the most efficient high-res laptop in the world, you can’t turn this off.
Let’s not think very much right now about the additional fact that Apple can, via these online certificate checks, prevent you from launching any app they (or their government) demands be censored.
We need a complete suite of open source solutions, software and hardware.
been a walled garden for quite some time.. now sol;idifying that garden around their shit tops.
macs are a fucking waste of money to be quite honest. they're not designed to be fixable for a start. they are massively over priced but peoiple that like a shiny thing instead of a functional and repairable thing will chose that bollocks.
build your own machine. you'll not only exceed Mac specs but fuck tonnes cheaper.
As for their crap tops... glorified Arm processor.... yeaaaaah. that's gonna work for productivity eh?
software os pretty much there. hardware ... not really but with a self built pc at least you know it's repairable!
always though buy a GOOD filtered case..... Fractal designs Meshify series are fucking GREAT, rock solid and nice looking. for sleeker more minimal? Lian Li could be for you but fuck apple.. fuck apple up their walled garden arses