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Anyways I don't understand why this process would not be completely asynchronous.
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
I would say that the current Microsoft Surface laptop/book has the same build quality feel as the Macbook line, but unfortunately you're stuck with Windows 10, which is a downgrade if you're used to MacOS.
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
Try to install an apk without internet connection, and then try over a slow 3G connection to see the several(!) minutes it takes.
If your phone has the old style data arrows, you will see the upload one all the time while you stare at the "installing" screen.
You've got to be kidding me. When Apple's servers are down, all Macs worldwide start freezing randomly? My XCode is hanging during builds, is this why? This code signing enforcement stuff has gone way too far. Heads should roll for this.
The thing Apple does, on the other hand, with trusting themselves more than the user, is disgusting. I'm mostly libertarian, but if I ever become a president, this would be one of the first things I'd make illegal, right after shortening the copyright term to like 3 years.
This may sound hyperbolic. Oh well. I was deeply considering one of the new M1 MacBooks last night, but held off on completing the order. Now today, I can't use my computer for nearly an hour. And my daughter as well during school time... all because a remote server can't respond. I just do not find that acceptable for a computer I own to simply stop working because of remote non-response. I am now deeply considering…
I can kinda see a noble intention behind this: protect system integrity by making sure no "known evil" application runs, like say a ransomware. But I have two problems with it.
First, it seems to assume that the call-home server will always be available, which seems a bad assumption from an engineering standpoint. Even the mighty and holy Apple can suffer outages, for a myriad of possible reasons. Be it a fat-fingering of some parameter during an approved maintenance window, the criticality of of which was heretofore unappreciated, a cascade of on-their-own-innocuous failures transforming into a deadlocked hard-down situation, or the fact that the North-American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe is not and never will be an endangered species, the result is ultimately the same: the mother-may-I server is not available.
The second reason, giving Apple further capability of evil shenanigans is already well covered by other comments here.
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
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Get a Thinkpad, P-series, lots of options. Run Fedora on it. Great machines, great keyboard, 4k screens, good color, goot battery life, lightweight. Everything works. Mac-level price, and worth it.
Aren’t those all huge?