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Some trouble

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No idea what you mean. I just quickly wanted to update before calling it a night, got a grub update and now it neither boots the default nor the fallback image. I use Arch BTW.

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Please don't repeat the same mistake as Linux

I won't nitpick how Linux is a kernel not an OS but how is it not widespread? It just runs basically the whole internet...

The reasons the average Joe doesn't use it for their desktop are convenience (Windows and macOS come pre-installed) and that you can run into technical issues due to bad support by hardware vendors. The latter is a chicken/egg problem and will possibly never be resolved.

Anyway, I disagree it's due to the number of choices - we don't need monopolies. Your grocery store is full of different brands of cheese and all of them still stay in business.

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Twitter users right now

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where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

They've been giving away their data for all that time and it hasn't visible affected them negatively.

Of course it will eventually and they'll Pikachu face then but that's hardly comforting.

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Firmware.

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Well, it's usually closer to the hardware though. Your average x86/64 software dev doesn't have to struggle with pins, addresses, buses and timings that much, if at all.

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Apple watching & logging EVERY APP YOU OPEN [Louis Rossmann]

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The video is basically some dude reading a blog post (boy, I hate those, provide no value). The blog post he reads is this: https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

The author comments to the blog post you linked and it partially makes sense: if you fetch the developer's certificate, Apple knows when you started an application of that developer (and which public IP address you have).

Whether or not there are many devs that only made one application, so you can identify this, I cannot estimate, I'm not an Apple user. But you don't need to send a hash calculated in client side to get this info.