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Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by vetinari »

RMPR wrote: post #485
withinboredom wrote: post #421

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> But you can’t deny they made (and in many ways, still do) good UNIX machines. If you mean the hardware, it's OK I guess. It still lacks basic computer features like PXE booting (unless you count the proprietary "netboot"). You can't really install much on it or use it for anything but MacOS, which really isn't that great, IMHO. For the same cost as a MacBook, I got a really nice PC laptop with double the specs that…

> For the same cost as a MacBook, I got a really nice PC laptop with double the specs that runs linux flawlessly. I can also update the CPU, GPU, and RAM, which I can't do with a macbook. My go to Laptop these days is the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 (either carbon or Yoga) very nicely built with a great keyboard, I hardly (if ever) heard the fan noise and except on a couple of models where the fingerprint driver isn't present…

I'm still wondering what Lenovo were thinking when they came with Gen8 X1.

They used Comet Lake instead of Ice Lake - that results in things like HDMI port supporting only 1.4 (i.e. no 4k@60 there). It makes their current non competitive with 2020 XPS13 or 2020 MBP13, that do come with Ice Lake.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by simonklitj »

wtracy wrote: post #16
bangonkeyboard wrote: post #9

On a related note, the macOS 11 Beta 5 released today reveals that Apple silicon Macs will require all ARM executables to be signed: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/08/19/apple-silicon-macs-to-req... , https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

From Apple's documentation: > There isn’t a specific identity requirement for this signature: a simple ad-hoc signature issued locally is sufficient, which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker. This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs So, the sky isn't falling yet, but it is reasonable to be conce…

Should be possible to get around, no? I guess technically they could lock us out, but my naïve self is thinking that surely there would always be a way to disable it, like how we can disable SIP now, through Recovery-mode?

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by _qulr »

simonh wrote: post #425
bluescrn wrote: post #408

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But when a company makes such shiny and popular devices they seem exempt from any usual criticisms of hypercapitalism and near-monopoly power

Near monopoly power. We are talking about Macs still, right? Oh I'm against this latest erosion of the ability to run whatever code you want on a Mac. This is one of the reasons I just got one of the new Intel iMacs, because I can see this coming on the ARM side. It's their product though, they legitimately get a monopoly on what features it has, and I don't have any right to tell them how to design it. That's histri…

> Near monopoly power. We are talking about Macs still, right?

The problem is that there's only one Apple Developer Program for both iOS and macOS.

If you get kicked out of the developer program for reasons related to the iOS App Store, you're also kicked out of independent Mac distribution outside the App Store. You no longer have true independence on the Mac either.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by iso1631 »

ronreiter wrote: post #549

The whole idea here is to protect the user. If it's important enough for you to have your app signed then you will do it. iOS does this in a much more violent approach - the app verification process.

I'm the user, where can I disable this on my machine?

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

kjksf wrote: post #80
cuddlybacon wrote: post #6

This feature is at about the right spot for me. It is still convenient enough for me to run software I want that isn't signed, but sufficiently obtuse that neither of my parents have figured it out. Given they are both prone to running any executable that any website tells them to download and run, this feature has probably save me several dozen hours of fixing their computers.

Apple has been making things more and more restrictive over a decade now. New versions of mac os introducing new restrictions. Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. When that happens, will it still be the right spot for you?

I'd really be interested to hear someone who defended Apple's 30% cut battle against Epic on why Macs shouldn't be locked down and everything forced through the store.

People like Gruber coined the term "App Console" to try and justify locked down iOS yet we're also told how powerful iPads are and how they're computers.

Why is it ok for the iPads to be locked down "App Consoles", if that's ok shouldn't it also be fine to lock down Macs and force everything through the App Store and make sure Apple gets a cut from say Creative Cloud subscriptions and Alberton Live installations?

I personally don't agree with any of it but I'd like to try and understand why people think one is ok but also not the other.

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Post by reportgunner »

roboyoshi wrote: post #443
hu3 wrote: post #410

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I had similar experience. They gave me a brand new beefed up macbook. I tried to like that thing. I really did. For months. One day I just got tired of that thing overheating and being loud. Was given a real linux machine to work with.

What OS are you running on linux that makes the experience worth it over macOS? I've grown up using macs and am used to the UI quite a bit. Have a work machine (t580) and used Ubuntu and Fedore. Both have been quite challenging to use with lots of Graphics Issues. Sure the thing runs everything I throws at it in terms of docker/system-services/etc., but UI stuff is really ugly.

> Ubuntu and Fedora

> but UI stuff is really ugly.

Have you tried a linux distro without an ugly UI ? Ubuntu especially is a horrid horrid UI.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by _qulr »

amatix wrote: post #445
ultrarunner wrote: post #404

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The notarization check phones home before failing, which leads to the dialog. That may be what they mean.

Only if the notarization signature hasn’t been stapled to the binary.

This is not accurate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217942

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by vladvasiliu »

loxs wrote: post #521
vladvasiliu wrote: post #391

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While I haven't seen those comparisons, I did do a similar one myself. Like GP, I have a 2013 mbp. It still works perfectly and handles whatever I throw at it. As it's getting long in the tooth and it could end up not working anymore, and also because I got curious with the release of the 16" mbp, I looked a bit at the market, and also at similar offerings from Lenovo, HP and Dell. You are right, for the price of a 1…

Actually, this is the wrong comparison (at least for me). I went from a 2017 15" MBP that was around 3.5k EUR to a ThinkPad T495 (with AMD hardware) for around 1k EUR and I also maxed out the RAM to 32GB for another EUR 150. I couldn't be happier. You mention the worse touch pad, and I agree, it took me a week to adjust... but on the other hand, the keyboard of the ThinkPad is so much better, in fact it might be the…

Does that come with a 4k screen? I don't remember seeing any AMD models - I only looked at models that had that option and no soldered RAM.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by mFixman »

I was surprised to find out the something even worse is happening on default installations of Windows 10: you cannot install non-Microsoft software at all unless you go to the system settings and disable "S mode".

It's impossible for someone who's not technically oriented to know how to disable S mode or even what it is, and trying to get my mum to install Google Chrome on her new computer was harder than it has any right to be.

When did the ability to run software get this bad?

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #550
oblio wrote: post #448

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Try Razer stuff.

Isn't that as expensive as a mbp though? Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition - OLED 4K Touch 60Hz - Quadro RTX 5000 - Mercury Intel Core i7-10875H Windows 10 Pro 15.6" 60Hz OLED 4K Touch Quadro RTX 5000 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD US$4,299.99 16-inch MacBook Pro - Space Gray 2.4GHz 8‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 memory 1TB SSD st…

Worth considering that Razer has a far superior GPU https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Quadro-RTX-5000...

Different enough that certain pro workflows (e.g GPU rendering) would be feasible on that machine that are not on the MacBook

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