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Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by acomjean »

MeatBro wrote: post #943
areoform wrote: post #533

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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…

System76 may be good

I have one. It’s not the finest quality hardware (rebranded Clevo I’m told)but it’s lasted and the os has been trouble free. I’d get another.

The onyx pro model, it’s not great on battery when using the nvidia graphics but it can play 3D games via steam.

I do kinda like the pop! Os Linux distro.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by UglyToad »

monocasa wrote: post #686
areoform wrote: post #533

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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…

My Huawei Matebook Pro has been everything I wanted in a Mac, in a way I couldn't get from Apple. Pros that Macbooks don't have: USB-A (along with USB-C), no touch bar, 3:2 screen, can enable secure boot if I choose so feel like I'll be able to run whatever I want on it, replaceable SSD, etc. Pros that Macbooks also have: still has a great build quality, full day battery Cons that both have: Non replaceable RAM

I can second this, I'm on the Matebook 14 2020 with the Ryzen 7 I think rather than the Pro. But after a dreadful run of luck with the XPS15, the Matebook (so far) is an amazing bit of kit for almost half the price.

It feels like if they play the next iteration right Huawei could blow most of the top end out the water, there's so little choice at the top end and they all seem riddled with build quality, hardware or software issues.

I'm glad I took the risk on the Huawei and I don't really regard the Chinese spying moral panic as an issue. If they want to spy on you I'm sure there's far easier ways online than trying to backdoor a highly scrutinised laptop.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by zero_deg_kevin »

choward wrote: post #931
zero_deg_kevin wrote: post #889

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No there are not good alternatives. Linux only makes sense as a desktop operating system if your top priority is telling people online that you use Linux as your desktop operating system.

This isn't true. I know this because I've been using Linux as my desktop operating system for years.

I’m assuming your intent was to prove my point.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by iainctduncan »

abruzzi wrote: post #921
zapataband wrote: post #637

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My music software became completely useless on catalina, and I was also running into issues with spotlight so I disabled it. I downgraded(painfully) to Mojave and my system is so much speedier. wish I could completely switch to linux.

yeah, but in the end, choice of OS is secondary to choice of application. I'm staying on Mojave for the foreseeable future, but I'll stay with Mac because Logic Pro is not available on any other platform. Sometimes applications are fungible, or you're lucky and your critical application is available on multiple platforms, but sometimes there are only certain applications that can do what you want. I run a MacOS Syste…

And that, my friend, is exactly why they bought Logic. Don't know if you were in the music game back then, but they way it played out was:

- Logic had the pole position for non-pro-tools music at the time, and sold (IIRC) for about $600

- Apple bought Logic and stated publicly "we will not discontinue it on windows"

- I think a year later, might have been two, they cancelled it on windows

- Some time later, they dropped the price, and also put out garage band, using Logic's engine.

- Logic's product roadmap (from what I've heard) became more general user friendly (can't attest to this personally though)

Basically, anything Apple owns becomes part of the plan to get you on a mac and iEverything, secondary to whatever it's originally purpose is. I won't touch any music software now that doesn't run on at least 2 operating systems. Fortunately most of them now realize the importance of this.

I'd recommend looking at other options like Reaper, Cubase, or Digital Performer, all of which have been improving steadily and can on windows or OSX.

Personally I'm sticking on High Sierra, and doubt my next machine will be a mac. Man I'm going to miss Bash everywhere though. Sigh

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by submeta »

draebek wrote: post #41
submeta wrote: post #2

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,…

Note that it's ocsp.apple.com, not oSCp.apple.com.

Ahh, thanks for the hint. It was a bad typo, but I can't edit my post anymore.

Edit:

Just reached out to Dang with a request to correct my typo.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

Iolaum wrote: post #685
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #139

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I will be a full on linux junkie when that happens.

Are you sure? It's happening piece by piece so that its preferable for most people to bear one more bad thing than bear the cost of switching.

I will begin programming in C when the day comes to my switch as well.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by passwordreset »

submeta wrote: post #2

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,…

ocsp.apple.com also has an IPv6 address. Firefox connects to it even with 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file and a flushed cache (you need to also clear firefox's internal cache if you're testing with it), so I'd assume that trustd could connect to the ocsp site as well. I don't think this will work without ensuring there is no IPv6 traffic on your network, or otherwise dumping both IPv4 and v6 packets to ocsp.apple.com.

Disable IPv6: sudo networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi (where Wi-Fi is the name of the network service)

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by fwipsy »

lliamander wrote: post #690
areoform wrote: post #533

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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…

NotebookCheck is a great website for laptop reviews. They even get into the nitty-gritty details of display calibration, input devices, power consumption, etc. Here's a list of the laptops with the best displays: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebooks-with-the-Be... And here's a list of general multimedia laptops that would be roughly equivalent to a MacBook Pro: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Notebookcheck-…

I find that their reviews are amazing but their "top 10" lists are lacking. Their search: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Search.8222.0.html is marginally better, but in general, they're for researching specific models, not finding models, imo.

Edit to add: The other thing is that for their percentage laptop score, you should generally subtract 80 and multiply by 10. I've never seen them review a laptop below 60% or above 92%.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by pkulak »

bobmaxup wrote: post #950
pkulak wrote: post #949

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Do you _really_ need a laptop? That's my solution to the problem of no good Linux laptops. I've got a desktop at home now, and when I go back to the office, I'll pick up a mini desktop. I'll keep an old MacBook in a drawer if I need to take it into a meeting. When I used laptops only, they were just plugged into a monitor/keyboard/mouse at all times anyway.

What would make a good linux laptop for you?

We need new touchpad drivers (which are in the works) and screen resolutions that work at either 1x or 2x, not something in between.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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Post by floatingatoll »

totalZero wrote: post #891
floatingatoll wrote: post #355

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The payoff for the very slight risk is an effective built-in malware prevention system that doesn’t treat me abusively and reacts in a timely manner to abusive circumstances. After decades of production operations, I have no complaints about how this was handled, and I expect they’ll investigate and patch any defects exposed by the outage. I went for a walk when this happened and when I got back it was fixed. Works f…

Normally I'm of a similar opinion to yours...but in this case I'm not. What happens if you're trading securities, or if you have an imminent deadline? Apple sells a fail-closed security feature, without investing the resources necessary to keep it as near to 100% serviceable as possible, and never really discusses it with the user. When it hangs, most users don't even know why. WTF! Seems like they could partner with…

Apple’s entire CDN collapsed on Big Sur launch day, which for years was and probably still is backed by Akamai. The OCSP endpoint was just one of many that was impacted. Seems like that’s exactly what you suggest they should have done to make this more robust. The endpoint failed for the first time in a decade this week. That’s better uptime than any stock exchange you’re trading securities on.
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