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Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by eru »

RunSet wrote: post #136
acdha wrote: post #73

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> By and large, governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations Is this something you know firsthand or something you think you know because a huge amount of money has gone into spreading that message for political purposes? Anyone who’s worked for or with a multi-national knows that they’re hardly as efficient as the marketing would have you believe, and anyone who’s looked at libertarian…

Privatize the fire department and you'll soon see just how shrewd they become.

Denmark hasn't burned down yet. And there are plenty of other examples.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by eru »

acdha wrote: post #171
RunSet wrote: post #136

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Privatize the fire department and you'll soon see just how shrewd they become.

As a recovering libertarian, I remember how the idea of making all roads tolled to pay for maintenance was an instant conversation killer.

Roads should be privately provided: they aren't even a public good.

How they are financed is up to the operators. Perhaps they want tolls, perhaps local stores want to chip in to improve their business? Perhaps something else that would take someone more than 30 seconds to imagine?

(In any case, roads being provided by local government isn't all that bad. It's relatively easy to change your local government by moving from one town to the next. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity)

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by eru »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #68
eru wrote: post #31

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Alas, no. By and large, governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations. MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes or buy their products.

You are "forced to pay taxes" to have schools and roads and rescue services and law and everything else that makes the United States still a mostly habitable place to live. Corporations do not force you to pay taxes YET. When the corporations get in total control and you cannot even vote just wait to see what a slave you are.

> You are "forced to pay taxes" to have schools and roads and rescue services and law and everything else that makes the United States still a mostly habitable place to live.

I don't live in the US, and don't pay taxes for that. Most of the things you mention aren't even public goods. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics))

In any case, I grew up in Germany and have adopted Singapore as my home. And in comparison I am very happy that my overall tax rates here are perhaps a third of what they would be in Germany, while the services provided here are at least three times as good. (But the latter is subjective.)

Not incidentally, Singapore is perhaps the most well run city on the globe, and the place most run like an MNC.

> Corporations do not force you to pay taxes YET. When the corporations get in total control and you cannot even vote just wait to see what a slave you are.

Huh? That seems about as relevant as making an analogous argument against current real world governments by pointing out that someone might clone Stalin.

Yes, theoretically possible, but rather far-fetched.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by eru »

lupusreal wrote: post #101
fl0id wrote: post #72

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this. also any profit margins sure are a "tax" in that comparison. Only you don't even get a public service for it, however bad it might be. For taxes, at least some of them are used for public services.

The less local the government, the less likely I am to see any material benifit from the taxes I pay. Local and state taxes fund roads and other infrastructure, public schools, social programs, etc. Federal taxes fund military adventurism, pure corrupt waste like SLS and worst of all ""aid"" for shitty foreign countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel so they can wage wars on their neighbors, for which America's interna…

Foreign aid is a very small part of the budget.

But you are right that more local government has advantages over more centralised government. For example, it's easier to change your local government, if you don't like it: just move to the next town over.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by eru »

throwaway19972 wrote: post #63
eru wrote: post #31

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Alas, no. By and large, governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations. MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes or buy their products.

I never got this sentiment. Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent—and that's before you consider profit inefficiency. I suspect this would be a lot more obvious if it weren't for the last seventy years of intentionally hampering government from competing with the market players directly. Once a product hits enshittification it benefits everyone (but shareholders, who contribute nothing to soci…

What do you mean by 'profit inefficiency'?

> Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent [...]

Corporations have varying levels of efficiency. MNCs are by and large _fairly_ competent.

Of course, if you see them from the inside, there's still enough weird and incompetent stuff going on.

Compare to how western militaries have their fair share of screw ups, but they still wipe the floor with non-western militaries, whenever there's any conflict.

There's plenty of studies comparing the quality of management in local companies versus multinational corporations. See eg https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2020008...

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

idunnoman1222 wrote: post #113
throw73484858 wrote: post #94

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Because Linux is soo hard to use. You have to use supported hardware (like with any other OS), and once a year paste a few commands into terminal.

Your Wi-Fi drivers have been removed from the kernel. Please download them on USB stick. You were warned

I've actually had to get Wi-Fi drivers on a USB stick a lot more times for Windows than for Linux.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

idunnoman1222 wrote: post #114
userbinator wrote: post #104

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every time I update macOS, some of the system settings are changed to default including some in the firewall Windows has also been doing that for some time now. Only Linux is relatively "clean" from that perspective, but even now some distros are beginning to sneak in spyware. The enshittification of OSes continues...

Please tell me that upgrading fedora versions works every time ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I've been in-place upgrading my Fedora install for about 7 years. Or is it 10? IDR. As far as I remember the upgrade has always succeeded. Sometimes things are broken afterwards because software I liked got removed or something, but I never got locked out or the operating system unusable.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

gear54rus wrote: post #61
rand0mx1 wrote: post #40

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It's quite easy with kdeconnect.

Except it requires VPN when not on the same LAN for some reason...

How should it work? Send everything through a central server? Try to hole-punch through NAT? Ubiquitous IPv6 might help, but we're not there yet.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by Jerrrrrrry »

lupusreal wrote: post #101
fl0id wrote: post #72

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this. also any profit margins sure are a "tax" in that comparison. Only you don't even get a public service for it, however bad it might be. For taxes, at least some of them are used for public services.

The less local the government, the less likely I am to see any material benifit from the taxes I pay. Local and state taxes fund roads and other infrastructure, public schools, social programs, etc. Federal taxes fund military adventurism, pure corrupt waste like SLS and worst of all ""aid"" for shitty foreign countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel so they can wage wars on their neighbors, for which America's interna…

You elk of America's international reputation and foreign fiscal affairs is ironic as you are only inconvenienced a fraction that the hundreds of third world humans endure daily to prop up our unsustainable standard of living.

You have definitely maimed and killed a non-zero amount of humans indirectly by the stochastic math that tallies the bodies on your Luxury products.

We are bias. Your gas wouldn't be less than $10 a gallon if we didn't drop $10b a year policing the Canals, Gulfs, and ports.

The higher your standard of living, the more dependencies, the more complexities, the more abstractions, and more susceptible to changes/perturbations until the "millionaire if not for taxes" thinks he can go without the "taxation without representation" route.

Re: MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

backtoyoujim wrote: post #164
freedomben wrote: post #126

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If you've been on a MacBook since 2011 or 2012, it's definitely time to give modern Linux a try. It has come in enormously long way since then. I am not exaggerating when I say, I have a better out of the box experience with Fedora. Then I do with Mac OS. Mac OS certainly has a lot of features, and visually has a great deal of Polish, but it also increasingly has a lot of bugs.

can it send txt messages to a phone ?

Probably; look at https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ (note that in spite of the branding, you can run it on a non-KDE desktop if desired)
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