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Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by socksy »

sneak wrote: post #95
unnouinceput wrote: post #82

Quote: "These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one." I call BS on Apple having the fastest machine, even at current moment, not to mention in the future. I can make a gaming rig with latest Ryzen CPU that will run whatever I want and be both faster and cheaper than Apple's expensive cr…

If you know of any other 8 core, 64 bit, 220+ ppi, >=13", 18 hour battery life machines with a great keyboard that weigh less than 1300g, please do let me know. Bonus points for metal enclosure. If you find such a beast, I will buy it instantly, and I will happily ignore the fact that the MBAir will still have a better trackpad and speakers. I am not looking to buy a "rig", but a laptop.

Doesn't the Dell XPS meet those expectations? The 15" version can be specced to an 8 core i9 with around 290ppi and an 87Whr battery, and if you're happy with a 6 core i7 you can get a 13" with around 330ppi (same resolution), but with a 52Whr battery.

I'm not sure what "18 hours" means, I am inherently skeptical of any "hour" claims of battery — obviously the less you demand of your machine the less battery it will take.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by cassepipe »

est31 wrote: post #141
arcticbull wrote: post #124

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Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public -- that's the lesson Android has taught us. Until it does it will not budge the numbers. It just won't. The real apologism here comes from the Linux community, who believes that by vir…

> Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. There are probably also plenty of companies which exclusively develop on Windows. You can have an entire career in the embedded industry, target Linux all the time, but never use it for development. Development is not all Linux based, I never said that. What I quoted were percentages. > it should be widely accepted in spite of be…

+1 for the printer story. Linux was plug and play. On windows... Uuuugh.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by fakedang »

e_proxus wrote: post #180
fakedang wrote: post #172

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Not MS. MS today is much less into the anti-user, anti-privacy, rentseeking game, compared to Apple or Google. Apple today is M$ 2.0, as much as people here hate that trope.

The privacy-invasive tracking in Windows 10 is much more obnoxious and tricky to workaround (since it is spread out and hard/impossible to disable). This tracking in macOS is at least under the guise of security whereas the Windows tracking is pure telemetry.

And you can disable that tracking on setup /installation.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by e_proxus »

I’m surprised more has not been made of the claim that all this information is being sent unencrypted.

If that’s really true, how can anyone take the claim being made by one of the largest and most privacy-touting companies seriously?

If they send, in real-time, location and which program is being run unencrypted over the Internet for anyone to read, this should get a lot more traction. Especially because of it being Apple, making this a huge double standard.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by cassepipe »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #142
arcticbull wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public -- that's the lesson Android has taught us. Until it does it will not budge the numbers. It just won't. The real apologism here comes from the Linux community, who believes that by vir…

This could have been written by an Apple user circa 2000, when the entire world ran on Windows. I switched from Mac to Linux, and it's been fine, partly because I used a laptop that has Linux installed by the manufacturer. If you only ever used Hackintoshes you'd think MacOS was a mess, too.

Even better : Switching to Linux on a Mac. So you get a blazing fast Linux experience on a very sturdy long-lasting laptop. I did just that. I love it.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by long_warmup »

joana035 wrote: post #198
long_warmup wrote: post #186

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Well, I do hope for this, because there is market for Linux so somebody will pick this up :)

And those are true heroes. It is an immense effort to make proprietary hardware to work well, specially Apple hardware.

I meant the original comment, that soon there will be no PC that runs Linux - I do hope for this because I feel this would be perfect business opportunity for somebody to come by and build PC's that run Linux and sell them for $ :)

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by e_proxus »

fakedang wrote: post #203
e_proxus wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The privacy-invasive tracking in Windows 10 is much more obnoxious and tricky to workaround (since it is spread out and hard/impossible to disable). This tracking in macOS is at least under the guise of security whereas the Windows tracking is pure telemetry.

And you can disable that tracking on setup /installation.

Not all in one place, and not everything. See for example https://superuser.com/a/1512224

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by 6510 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #159
rsanheim wrote: post #103

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You pointed out a core problem here, and a common blindspot with the HN crowd: > continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft That is probably 98%+ of devices that most typical people use for everyday computing, across phone, laptop, and desktop. Whether it is an android device, an iPhone, a Dell laptop or a new M1 macbook you are beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about privacy. I would argue that Apple cares a…

Setting up Ubuntu was easy enough. But the file manager locks up regularly, switching between multiple windows of the same app with alt+tab doesn't work reliably, and I actually had to Google how to create a new folder. The stock picture viewer is lacking information such as ICC profile and when I installed the recommended Gimp, it was a mess of windows and the save dialog was horrible. I suffer through all of it bec…

I like Thunar for file browsing. I would give it 6 stars out of 5.
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