Welcome to modern telemetry. All this proves is MacOS is no different. Linux is the only safe haven, and even then - only if the user is careful about the programs they install.
+ templeos (you have no internet)
Reject modern operating systems, return to punch tape
TBH all the claims you commonly hear about Macs are either outright false or outdated:
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Macs don’t get malware? Yes they do.
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Macs are more private? More than Windows maybe, but that’s like saying you should go to the restaurant that gives you explosive diarrhea instead of the one that gives you botulism. The one that serves normal non-infected food is not an option I guess. Apple being “not as bad” as the worst offender is not praiseworthy and still means they’re in no way private.
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Macs “just work?” Unless Apple decides it shouldn’t. They can prevent you from installing paid apps you already own because the latest version arbitrarily doesn’t support your older device anymore. Want to install an older version? Fuck you, stop being poor and buy a new Mac. Oh you installed a genuine Apple replacement part with the wrong serial number? Fuck you, your device is banned.
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Macs have better support than Windows computers? Yeah maybe when the Apple logo was still rainbow coloured and they had CRTs built in. Now a battery replacement costs nearly as much as a new device and they go out of their way to make sure you can’t do it yourself.
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Macs don’t come with bloatware? Then what do you call that bullshit AI they’re pushing to compete with Copilot? What do you call Safari? What do you call Photo Booth? Has anyone ever opened Photo Booth once the novelty of their first time using a Mac wears off?
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Macs are intuitive? Look, maybe I’m just a tech illiterate idiot, but I had more problems figuring out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook than I had tinkering with the Linux kernel and systemd.
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Macs are good for developers? Yeah they’re so good they’ve recently had to cave and introduce a WSL-like system so you can run Linux containers.
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Macs are innovative? Yeah they’re so innovative they don’t even support snapping windows to half or a quarter of the screen when Linux desktop environments and even Windows have had it for ages. Gotta either leave all the windows floating, or full screen them all and swipe between them, or manually resize the windows to the layout you want.(They have this now.) -
Macs are convenient? Yeah I just love carrying
HDMI(some newer Macbooks have HDMI again) and USB A to C adapters forever because they couldn’t be bothered to install those ports on a laptop sized device that can clearly fit them. Also fuck Apple for giving other laptop companies the idea that everyone wants only USB-C on their devices. No, we want ports we can use today, not in 10 years when all the peripherals switch to USB-C and all the computers bought today will already be obsolete regardless of what ports they have. I’ll buy a computer with only USB-C when everything else I own actually uses USB-C. -
Macs are more secure? How do you know? Do you control the disk encryption keys? No, Apple does. Can you encrypt the drive yourself with a key you control like you can on Linux? No, fuck you for even thinking about that.
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Macs are elegant and their design is well thought out? Because gluing the battery to the chassis with double sided tape is the elegant way to do it and not redneck engineering. And with glue so strong that you risk puncturing the battery and burning your house down if you try to remove it yourself. Another great attention to detail is soldering the SSD to the motherboard, thoughtfully ensuring you lose data when the motherboard fails. But hey, I’m sure the Genius bar will be happy to recover your data for you since they made sure you can’t do it yourself, and for only $999.99! Your wedding photos and your PHD thesis are each worth more than that right? So it’s a bargain!
Linux beats Mac in every one of those categories (other than the hardware ones) and you can install Linux on every device. Even ancient ones, and you get to decide if it’s too old to be usable or not, not the company who’s incentivized to obsolete devices as fast as possible so you’re forced to buy a new one. How many years before a brand new Mac stops getting OS updates?
Just to prevent you from falling to your own outdated claim, here’s a correction or two:
Window snapping and arranging windows in the corners is a thing now (and with hotkeys too, a million years late- I had to look this up since I’ve been using Rectangle for a long time)
Some mac laptops have HDMI ports. If you get a mac without an HDMI port, it’s in apple’s “paperweight class” of machines and shouldn’t be bought. Macbook Airs are just expensive mac flavored chromebooks.
The repairability sucks, but I still use my 2014 macbook pro daily because it still works really well (though those old intel chips make the fans go wild even after repasting everything and cleaning the fans). I was able to buy a cheapo replacement battery off ebay and it’s working great after a fairly tedious process of using IPA and dental floss to release the old battery. It is no longer supported by apple through software, though I use OpenCore legacy patcher to update to the newest system so I don’t have to worry about an old system without security updates connecting to the internet. I’ve tried installing various Linux distros on it and none of them are very happy with the process. Most of the time it’s the stupid broadcom wifi chip and other times only a single speaker works and I’m too much of a dunce to troubleshoot things like that. Tails OS becomes nearly useless on an old macbook because of the broadcom issue. But also, I’m not about to go buy a thinkpad just so linux will work properly- I don’t need more devices in my house, I’ll just use what I already have.
Thanks for the corrections! I edited my post to reflect them.
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Now do one for a Windows PC and get back to us… lol
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This is mostly likely iCloud and nothing to get worked up about. The “article” doesn’t even mention if they logged out or not.
It is while logged in to icloud for sure because it’s trying to find the private relay server.
Adguard on my router has apple services at 7% of all blocked domains in the last 24 hours (545 times). Adobe is 14% in that same window (1135 times). I hate it here.
Do you have a Roku? Mine is losing its mind that it can’t phone home, and all those ad settings are off.
Theres probably some Roku specific blocklists out there, but I got tired of playing whack a mole with all the new connections every week when I had my Roku. My partner also just wanted to watch tv without me fiddling with filters constantly, so I swapped to an Apple TV. It’s been nearly perfect with adguard (it even stops all ads on Hulu).
I have zero things Apple. Does it need Apple stuff to work? And is Jellyfin available?
I don’t think it requires iCloud or anything else apple. I’m not sure how “casting” works if you have a non-Apple mobile device, but that’s the only issue I can think of. Jellyfin works (I think it is called swiftfin) as well as Infuse. I also use Tailscale to watch things on my Apple TV from my NAS.
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The fuck is gafam? It was faang before? Right?
Yes, but faang meant Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google
Should be FMAGA
If they added yandex they can be GAYFAM.
Shouldn’t it be MANGA now that Facebook renamed itself to Meta?
FAGMAN
Not sure where you take the N from. Plus it’s needlessly derogatory. How about FMAGA instead? Because F MAGA!
and BTW the N is Netflix
idk I got it from this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEUzKTt7j0
apple stans keep telling me apple is much more private. but apple stans are annoying anyway.
