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2012 Macbook Pro. Get the highest-spec Magsafe laptop you can find.
I second this. Catalina runs great on my 15" mid-2015 16GB/1TB, and it even runs shockingly well (bootstrapped) on my (unsupported) 13" mid-2009 8GB/512GB. The 2009-2015 era of Macbooks are, not were, truly phenomenal machines.
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It might get worse: now that they're switching to their own SoCs, they might even block APIs and allow access only to certified parties. Basically Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro might forever be faster than any 3rd party software package by having access to IP blocks that aren't exposed to other developers complete with signature check to prevent reverse-engineered use...
If they really tried that, wouldn't the DoJ bring an anti-trust case against them? That's exactly what Microsoft was doing in the 90s, using undocumented internal APIs for their own software that let it run faster than competitors'.
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Note that it's ocsp.apple.com, not oSCp.apple.com.
I'm sure if the SCP Foundation gets involved in filtering our applications, they have a very good reason, like keeping Zalgo out of our reality.
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So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
Are there no other suggestions beyond the 2012 MBP? I use arch linux on a Lenova Thinkpad T580, and I'm really happy with it, but I'm not sure about the colour accuracy of the screen. I doubt it's as good as you find on an Apple. I, for one, am really interested in good, high quality alternative to apple laptop hardware, that meet the parent's criteria.
I wonder if there are startup attempting to challenge the Mac dominance? Good trackpad, good battery, good screen, with (some) Linux supported out of the box,and no wonky configuration seems to be the problem to solve
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something. And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% constantly. Next thing, I reboot into a laggy system. macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... it's basically an abusive relationship at this point.
Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
And then almost none of those bad things happen. I've witnessed this dozens of times now, so a safe interpretation would be to assume that this time none of those things happen.
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> keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it's off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that???) Those are laptops with numeric keypads, the trackpad is still centred relative to the "main area" of the keyboard (the home row and in particular the rest keys - the two keys with a little bump, F and J on a QWERTY) but it is off-centre relative to the body of the laptop due to the presence of the keypad. Macs don't hav…
I use my laptop on my lap, and usually when I sit with my hands folded in my lap, my hands fall along the center axis of my body. We are bilaterally symmetrical beings (with some internal asymmetries). So unless I scoot the laptop off-axis or I have to move my hands off axis to type. I'm unsure how this isn't unergonomic. It's not something to get used to. It's bad design. Period.