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God the self importance of this community. The world can live without the 1000 people here.
Who is more important than the customer? You and I - we are the market.
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
I'm not sure that using Google as a cautionary tale is a good idea. Given their continued growth and success...
I am short Google and have been trying to figure out how to short their stock from ZA without losing opportunity on growth of other, better stocks.
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> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Idk, the several Linux distros I’ve used recently, and Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”
The thing you get with Linux is "more _predictable_ shit to deal with", not "less shit to deal with", no large capable desktop OS is perfect and never will be. Anxiety from what Apple's agenda will do to your computer next update? anxiety from if a 1hr windows update is awaiting you when you turn your pc on? ... Linux awaits.
Every time I've tried using Linux on the desktop, it's worked just fine until I tried to update something. Sooner or later, there's some broken patch or some incompatible thing here or there that breaks my window manager and throws me to the command line, ruins my network settings, overwrites my boot config or some other maddening mess. Linux works brilliantly, AS LONG AS YOU NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING
This is the reason I needed to switch to a Linux laptop. I cannot be beholden to Apple’s - or anyone’s - servers when it comes to running applications on my own machine. Any recommendations? I’ve heard good things about System76.
Linux performs similar checks.
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Code signing is an okay thing as long as the signing identities don't get discriminated. Android has had code signing ever since it was released, but you always generated the certificate yourself, and the purpose was simply to stop someone else from making an apk with the same package id that would install over yours and gain access to its data. The thing Apple does, on the other hand, with trusting themselves more t…
Give me, the owner of the computer, over the keystore for the root certificates I trust, and code signing is great. > I'm mostly libertarian, but if I ever become a president, this would be one of the first things I'd make illegal, right after shortening the copyright term to like 3 years. As a libertarian I can see the argument for getting rid of presumptive copyright (and tanking the US economy), but the government…
It's not that. Plain and simple: in an ideal world, more money shouldn't grant more power and immunity. Governments should disincentivize this growth into the sky by, for example, progressive taxation for companies. The world would be a better place if tech companies actually competed with each other by making better products, not trying their damnest to lock everyone into their walled gardens to earn even more money they have no clue what to do with. Currently, when choosing something like a computer or a phone, you just pick one that sucks the least. There's no healthy competition.
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I really don’t think the HN community is at all representative of what the masses think about. Just like in any online community, it is easy to think that the thoughts of that community somewhat resemble that of most people when that simply isn’t true. HN’s base consists highly of developers who are up to date with most things in the technology indust…
A surprisingly handful of non-tech people have asked me, "Hey, I see you use DuckDuckGo. Why not Google?" And then we have the conversation - it's a short conversation:
Well, you cannot prosper in an environment if you operate on inaccurate or censored information. Google & YouTube censor information and track everything you search for or watch. Today your views align, tomorrow they may not.
Secondly, you must insure yourself against tail risks, and having your Gmail account "cancelled" is a yuuuge tail risk. Therefore, avoid bundled Google products.
Then a few months will go buy, and I'll see they are now using Firefox and DDG.
When you have these conversations, it's important that it not be about your identity (open source! Linux!), but about risk-aversion.
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Yeah so basically in the windows world, a lot of the good laptops are under the "business class" of the various manufacturers: Dell Precision, HP Elite Book, MSI Prestige In the consumer world the Dell XPS, Asus Zenbook, Asus Pro Art are the way to go for a designer. Dell Precision is probably the overall best laptop. MSI Prestige is targetted right at you though, with color accuracy and a good display. The only bran…
Lenovo Thinkpad is another popular line, seems conspicuously absent from your list. They're known to have good resale value, and to work well with Linux. If you're getting up to the Precision line, the Lenovo P series workstations are also worth considering, though given they're actually professional-grade machines with Xeon and Quadro parts they'll be more expensive than a Macbook Pro. There are also boutiques like…
I know I'm not alone; even just in my circle there are two other stories of horrible mishaps with this company.
Lenovo makes some decent machines, sometimes, but their warranty service is not to be trusted.
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,…
The server is called OSCP which suggests to me that if we look at Apple in the most positive light - they sign and certify binaries as safe. If an app gets later reported as malicious, they need to revoke the certificate that has been used to sign said binary. So when you open an app, how else are they going to check whether the certificate is still valid or whether it has been revoked? Can anyone confirm whether thi…
Never block me from opening something, but warn me about bad stuff on a regular basis.