My M2 Air is my last Mac. I'm so fed with gatekeeper breaking Nix packages randomly that I decided to buy a Framework laptop.
Not surprised. I've heard Nix support on macOS is significantly worse than Linux.
I don't buy Macs anymore
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#12OP lost me when he said the edges of his Mac were “painfully sharp”…
Why? I agree. I could send you pictures of indentations in my skin, right below my wrists, that are present on my arms right now. It's a bit better with the newest, thinner, generation, but last generation was uncomfortable enough that I would use wrist support, or drape a mousepad on the edge. An 8 hours shift of typing would get uncomfortable, with questions of "wtf happened to your wrists?". Not to mention the ever present indentation in my hand, like this [1]. I'm probably "holding it wrong".
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1k07yqj/sharp_edges/
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#13OP lost me when he said the edges of his Mac were “painfully sharp”…
Exactly. I have carried my 27-inch retina iMac multiple times. It's only slightly sharper than the typical monitor given its thinness. But "painfully sharp" really? OP probably just has soft hands.
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#14I'll never get those five minutes back. Author is too busy dunking on low-T hipsters (no need to call me names) and imagined pin-dicked Apple employees while blathering on about skill issues.
Woah, walled-garden company doesn't have a convenient way for you to exit?
>NoteStore.sqlite
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#15OP lost me when he said the edges of his Mac were “painfully sharp”…
Low-T hipsters is when I closed the tab. Just.. what?
Don’t forget “soft urban yupsters who don’t know adversity” and “pin-dick contrarians”.
Over-the-top machismo from a Karen crying about an incident ten years ago when his computer was too pointy and now he’ll never shop here again and he’ll make sure none of his friends shop here, either.
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#16Reminds me of the day I found an iPod mini on the ground, brought it home, had to download an entire damn software to put songs into it, and when I accessed it as a storage I discovered all the song names had become UUIDs.
Fucking LOL.
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#17> Not only does the computer have no grab handles, but every single edge is painfully sharp. The iMac’s physical housing was designed to be “art” rather than a functional tool.
How many people are moving their computers like this?
I have a Dell Laptop and Monitor on my desk now. I move the laptop, never the monitor. It has lots of dust on it to prove it.
Not sure of the Author’s point
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#18The claim that Apple don’t deserve to be praised for their UX because Apple is a hardware company, so therefore are not constrained by the realities affecting software businesses, and are thus able to pursue an uncompromised user experience… is rather given the lie by the fact that every other hardware vendor is universally and uniformly terrible at UX.
It can be looked at from a different angle: Apple always had a more restricted ecosystem (even now, when arguably it's at peak popularity), driven by a "our way or the highway" mentality that helps keep the experience within a happy path while forcing other needs outside of the platform.
It's not a ding against Apple, if you're running a select shop people expect a curated experience, but you can't look at it the same way as a home center or hardware shop.
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#19I find similarly annoying issues with Mac software and hardware. Exporting all your keychain settings can't be done as a bulk export last time I tried; it kept prompting my password for every entry using the `security` cli tool. I had a fusion drive iMac at my workplace and it was a horrid experience, and similarly I've had butterfly keyboard Macbooks were pretty unusable (I gave up on work laptops and just use my 2015 Macbook Pro) etc.
But I find the competitors in shambles. The hardware for virtually all PC laptops is pretty horrible. Software and UX have their own issues etc.
What keeps me on the Mac is Apple dedication to accessible technologies and having a *nix base, and for the most part they've been pretty consistent with that offering.
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#20What makes someone write so many words just to tell the world they don’t like a brand?
Years of pent-up frustration that were spleen-dumped into the post, as far as I can tell.