They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.
Dude as soon as I read that I stopped reading the article and rushed straight to the comment to the comment and I wasn’t disappointed to find I wasn’t the only one that noticed that.
Unlike him, I maxed both out at the time so they’d last me 7 years. Also, unlike him, I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for 41 years, been in the Linux ecosystem for 29 years, been in the BSD ecosystem for 32 years, and been in the Windows ecosystem for 27 years.
So far, so good… they still do everything I want them to.
For anything else, I have my Linux server I can remote into. Both devices are still beefy enough to run VMs as needed for most tasks that won’t run on bare metal.
My takeaways? Apple still has the most reliable out of the box experience for hardware. I’ve run macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD as my base OS, and get along fine with all of them these days. But I always have containers and VMs running other OSes so I can use the best tool for the job (or at least the best tool for me).
I generally want a computer I can pick up and use to get a task done these days, without having to spend a few hours on the update and configure cycle first. My hardware on hand can’t handle it? That’s what networked compute is for — I can even set up a container locally and deploy it to beefier inline infrastructure if I need to.
Maybe if I were a PC gamer who always wanted to play the latest games, this setup wouldn’t work — but for my actual needs, it works.
My friend recently sold his Mac as he's very accustomed to tinkering and MacOS either didn't listen or broke. The ouf of the box experience is real but once you are ouf of this box (aka you need more customisation and configuration) it's not enough. But of course very Linux approach to MacOS.
Brew is the only thing that saves it somehow however that's only package manager with formulas.
MacOS is perfect for people that just want to install the software and use it (still out of the box).
But for even system configuration MacOS falls behind in many ways - I mean even in the settings. I use Ubuntu at my work and more people with Mac have DNS / Wireguard (VPN) problems than me.
Apple still has the most reliable out of the box experience for hardware.
Out of curiosity, did you try an equivalent, e.g. Framework or Tuxedo or a SteamDeck, or only generic hardware, like a PC, then slapped on it a random distribution?
I don't want to presume of your experiences and only to highlight that Apple out of the box experience better be flawless precisely because they have very limited hardware to support. In fact I would argue any distribution, even an obscure one, could fare very very well if it only had well known hardware (even if hundreds of them) supported, as opposed to an open and thus endless ecosystem.
While I always love a good privacy tantrum and throwing your toys out of the pram, I don’t really get why there has to be a public announcement of ”switching”.
But I guess it’s his blog, so whatever. Wish him the best of luck with the new HP 2-in-1. Hope he remembered to turn off all the tracking features in his Ubuntu.
Fair enough but I think every single "I managed to leave the wall garden!" is a rally cry for others who are still on the verge of trying. It's encouraging to see the success of others.
You are correct about the awareness part. Sometimes I forget that people make tech choices a big part of their identities (like being an "Apple user") and fixing problems becomes a social cost, more than a technical or privacy choice.
Even if you're using a privacy-focused app like Signal, if your messages are shown in notifications (which is the default), Apple will give up your messages with a subpoena. You can turn off showing the message contents in notifications, which you'll need to do and then convince all your friends to do as well if you want messages to be truly private
Is this true? I.e. Apple can ship notification contents after an app has made the actual notifications with contents? Can’t read the linked article behind the paywall
Dude had a problem with Framework supporting a politically dubtious FOSS project so he went with HP as the morally superior choice 😆
Or HPE software
Commissioned article
It ain't much, but it's dis-honest work.
Can I get a quick rundown on hp controversy?
https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp
If you want the "morally superior choice" just head over to your nearest electronics recycling center and pick up some old laptops.
Dude as soon as I read that I stopped reading the article and rushed straight to the comment to the comment and I wasn’t disappointed to find I wasn’t the only one that noticed that.
Heh… like him, I have an M1 Pro and an iPhone 13.
Unlike him, I maxed both out at the time so they’d last me 7 years. Also, unlike him, I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for 41 years, been in the Linux ecosystem for 29 years, been in the BSD ecosystem for 32 years, and been in the Windows ecosystem for 27 years.
So far, so good… they still do everything I want them to.
For anything else, I have my Linux server I can remote into. Both devices are still beefy enough to run VMs as needed for most tasks that won’t run on bare metal.
My takeaways? Apple still has the most reliable out of the box experience for hardware. I’ve run macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD as my base OS, and get along fine with all of them these days. But I always have containers and VMs running other OSes so I can use the best tool for the job (or at least the best tool for me).
I generally want a computer I can pick up and use to get a task done these days, without having to spend a few hours on the update and configure cycle first. My hardware on hand can’t handle it? That’s what networked compute is for — I can even set up a container locally and deploy it to beefier inline infrastructure if I need to.
Maybe if I were a PC gamer who always wanted to play the latest games, this setup wouldn’t work — but for my actual needs, it works.
My friend recently sold his Mac as he's very accustomed to tinkering and MacOS either didn't listen or broke. The ouf of the box experience is real but once you are ouf of this box (aka you need more customisation and configuration) it's not enough. But of course very Linux approach to MacOS.
Same experience here... Luckily we have brew ^^ Gives some freedom to customize !
But things like .plst... What a hellish dumb experience ! Nowadays I use my Mac as testing ground before they go into my main server...
But what a surprise when I found out that bash on Mac doesn't work the same as on Linux...
Yeaaah Macs are good for a set/forget/pay workflow... But tinkering?? Naaaah.
pkgsrc also works well with MacOS
Brew is the only thing that saves it somehow however that's only package manager with formulas.
MacOS is perfect for people that just want to install the software and use it (still out of the box).
But for even system configuration MacOS falls behind in many ways - I mean even in the settings. I use Ubuntu at my work and more people with Mac have DNS / Wireguard (VPN) problems than me.
Out of curiosity, did you try an equivalent, e.g. Framework or Tuxedo or a SteamDeck, or only generic hardware, like a PC, then slapped on it a random distribution?
I don't want to presume of your experiences and only to highlight that Apple out of the box experience better be flawless precisely because they have very limited hardware to support. In fact I would argue any distribution, even an obscure one, could fare very very well if it only had well known hardware (even if hundreds of them) supported, as opposed to an open and thus endless ecosystem.
While I always love a good privacy tantrum and throwing your toys out of the pram, I don’t really get why there has to be a public announcement of ”switching”.
But I guess it’s his blog, so whatever. Wish him the best of luck with the new HP 2-in-1. Hope he remembered to turn off all the tracking features in his Ubuntu.
Fair enough but I think every single "I managed to leave the wall garden!" is a rally cry for others who are still on the verge of trying. It's encouraging to see the success of others.
You are correct about the awareness part. Sometimes I forget that people make tech choices a big part of their identities (like being an "Apple user") and fixing problems becomes a social cost, more than a technical or privacy choice.
Is this true? I.e. Apple can ship notification contents after an app has made the actual notifications with contents? Can’t read the linked article behind the paywall