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Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

Such as?

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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post #2

I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

This is common apple fanatism bs.

Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well.

In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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post #2

I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

Surprisingly, running Docker is not one.

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

Such as?

Literally everything. Like a good trackpad, build quality, stability, ...

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

#15
post #2

I honestly can't understand why on earth would a sane minded person spend all that money on apple hardware and then on top of that spend a a lot of time fighting a losing fight against the software. Just switch to something else.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

So you are going to fight against your own laptop which you paid for.

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

#17
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

This is common apple fanatism bs. Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well. In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.

> windows

Hey now, WRT the topic at hand Windows is no better [0]

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are things which Apple Macs excel at, and no other laptop even comes close. This is not me speaking in thin air, you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

This is common apple fanatism bs. Except for a few very specific workloads and iDevices development, most things can be done on windows or Linux equally well. In the meantime, have fun with your dumbed down is where you can only run apple-approved things.

I respectfully disagree.

The entire desktop experience on macOS feels WAY more cohesive than windows (which I have used since early 90s), or any of the DE i have tried on linux/bsd (which i have used extensively for over 20 years). Additionally the quality of the hardware (specification/cost aside) far exceeds the alternatives.

I HATE the way that apple are going. Their products are absolutely fantastic, but it is evident that the direction is to lock-down the "computer" as they have done their mobile ecosystem. I hope that legislation and regulation will tear their walled garden (and others!) apart. Then we can get back to bashing peoples OS for being not our own - rather than for being the authoritarian minefield they have become.

Re: Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such as?

Literally everything. Like a good trackpad, build quality, stability, ...

A lot of Apple fans say this, but I find many components in Apple products in general to be of average to poor build quality. Keyboards, display hinges, CPU/GPU cooling, weak display bezel/frames, weak outer-frames on their phones, laptop case creaking, etc. Heck they have yet to figure out how to design cables that don't fray. I'm sure there are some nice aspects to owning a mac too, otherwise nobody would purchase them. But I have yet to find anything that they've done w.r.t good build quality. I do admit they have a very good handle on making their products look pretty. So there's that..
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