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Re: Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

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Post by novok »

anonuser123456 wrote: post #190
jrockway wrote: post #130

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Apple's using my electricity and my silicon to call the cops on me. We have no idea what hashes they're checking images against; we can't see the raw data, and we can't see the hashes, and we can't see what they're sending to their servers. There is no technical reason why this needs to exist. If they want to scan iCloud photos for something, they can do that on their servers. iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Law…

> But I can't accept this. It's a step too far. So turn off iCloud photos?

For now. We see the direction apple is moving.

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Post by jon-wood »

system16 wrote: post #174
redisman wrote: post #135

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I find it funny how many people pick a random Chinese phone in their bid for privacy (???)

I think it's less about privacy and more about what the invading actor will/can actually do. People are less concerned about the Chinese government's reach vs. the NSA or other three letter agencies in the US. I suppose if you are important enough to the Chinese government whatever they have on you could be used as blackmail, but most 'regular' people don't fall into that category.

If one of the US TLAs has decided to target you you’re fucked. No amount of switching phones and OS is going to help you, short of completely disconnecting from the internet and not using any sort of financial infrastructure.

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Post by username91 »

neverminder wrote: post #313
username91 wrote: post #308

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May I ask what software you use for pro audio production? I'm looking for an alternative to Logic. Thanks!

I use Bitwig Studio. It has that polished feel of Jetbrains products and has very good MIDI production tools among other things. Of course the downside it's not free and rather expensive, but it's linux native. All the VSTs that I need work through wine/yabridge flawlessly - Ample Guitars, Pianoteq. Even the crappy Kontakt works, but I don't use it much. Backend audio server is JACK2 with Pulseaudio sink. Ardour is p…

Great info. Surprised to hear Wine gets the job done for some of that stuff. Thankyou. :)

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Post by mohanmcgeek »

wayoutthere wrote: post #77
ByteWelder wrote: post #59

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For me, it was well thought-out. Apple betrayed my trust as a consumer and the response in the past week was plain gaslighting. I thought about it for a couple of days and then decided that I don't want to support a company like that anymore. (edit)I was planning to buy a new MBP/iPhone/Watch in Q4, so this made it easier to decide on those purchases earlier.(/edit) It's correct that the CSAM scanning is currently on…

You’re fooling yourself if you don’t think the government has a dozen other ways to backdoor you. Heck they basically just have packet scanners sitting on the networks of all the major telecoms, and almost certainly have compromised SSL root signing keys so they can trivially decrypt your traffic. Anything that goes over the network is fair game. Love it or not, we live in a police state enforced by surveillance. Mos…

The government doing this is one thing but corporations controlled by a few vocal groups deciding what you can do and what you are allowed to know is a completely different thing.

Re: Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

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Post by hpkuarg »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #103

I don’t care anymore. Actually I do, but I’m exhausted. However if I buy a new laptop, with or without CSAM, it won’t be a Mac. I would wish for a Framework kinda thing here (with local service), but since that’s not gonna happen - ASUS it would be most probably, with ElementaryOS on it (or some distro like that - non ugly and kinda simple looking). It feels like WhatsApp —> Signal brouhaha all over again. After tryi…

New LG Grams are nice laptops and could be a good alternative to ASUS. I've had no problems with recent Ubuntu versions on them.

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Post by pshirshov »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #317
pshirshov wrote: post #277

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JFYI Google left China. Not sure about Russia. Anyway that's not an excuse for implementing such a neat surveillance tool. Fortunately for now you have some escape hatches. I believe that it would be a smart move for everyone to stop paying for nooses for their own gallows and start investing into privacy. There are some realistic ways to do it, just buy a damn Fairphone for a no-brainer start.

> JFYI Google left China I know they did briefly after some attacks, but I also know that they had very little market share to lose at the time and have subsequently worked to get back in. Do you have a good summary of their current position there?

> Do you have a good summary of their current position there?

Nope, why would I? Also I'm pro-google, just pointed to a fact I know.

Re: Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

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Post by swiley »

josteink wrote: post #110
karlzt wrote: post #50

Desktop: Arch Linux Phone: Pinephone At the end of this article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e77y/the-dollar149-smartph... "But even without those changes, this device could be enough to kickstart a Linux-driven mobile revolution."

> Phone: Pinephone Talking as a Pinephone (and iPhone 12) owner, I think the software is starting to show promise, but the SoC is nowhere beefy enough. If I’ll go this route fully and make a Linux-phone my daily driver, I’d seriously consider the Purism Librem 5 instead.

It's nowhere beafy enough for Gnome. It runs fluxbox, FVWM, and apparently i3 and dwm just fine.
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