Time for the New California Republic?

There is a difference between scheduled update for security patches which the user agrees to on initial setup (and can modify at any time) alongside optional feature updates that are entirely… optional, and shoving feature and security updates automatically on the user regardless if active programs are running, without consent, and not granting an easy opt-out solution.

Placing a bet now: under 10% of vulnerable units will be patched within a year’s time.

MacOS repeatedly got in my way when trying to run specialist software needed for my work at [organization], because I had the audacity to use an executable not in line with Apple’s walled garden. Additionally, transferring files was a pain in the nuts - so many “mac moments” of files resulting in 0 bytes after drive ejection and repeated permission error messages despite having the appropriate credentials active.

Throw in some minor annoyances with frankly unintuitive UX for general settings and layout configuration, and I was sick of the damn thing by day 3.

Made me miss my old job where I got to smash a vacated lab’s worth of Macs with a sledgehammer. And where I was allowed to bring my own laptop.

Still embarrassing that you need separate desktops to easily switch between active programs rather than just cycling through them on one desktop with alt+tab.

Wow, that sounds awful. If you needed to use a touchpad their UX developers already failed.

Yes, last contract IT job (Macbook Pro, approx 10 months ago). I wanted to smash it in half over my knee and grab a random Thinkpad with my ventoy usb in hand.

“They put the TF2 into the tabletop game”

“Which side are you on?”

“Bombs away!”

“Heads up!”

Think Nouveau will catch up by then?

I still can’t stand the Apple design philosophy no matter how much exposure. Mostly has to do with their “saving the user from themselves” restrictions in their operating systems. I’d rather defang windows instead, even if it takes much longer per machine.

I’m happy for them, and now there’s more players in my friend group! :)

Waterfox has been pretty good with keeping up with updates as a fork, not sure what you’re smokin’ there.

Librewolf has aggressive anti-fingerprinting techniques that break stuff, but they mention that up front. You can disable those components tho if needed.

Storage capacity for datacenters and other data-hungry business operations (think YouTube scale).

Current alternatives don’t reach the same capacity per dollar without caveats (magnetic tape has an incredibly slow seek time and SSDs are too expensive for non-cache usage).

Of course, AI data harvesting is essentially creating artificial (sorry) demand for even more data capacity, and it doesn’t make rational sense for them to use other forms of hardware.

Fun fact - the scale of data involved is so great that Google famously used “sneakernets” (give an employee a backpack of hard drives and tell them to go from A to B) over traditional internet or intranet connections between their larger facilities in the 2010s, because it was faster.

It’s better with something like Winboat (virtualized windows container) within your OS than something like Wine. This is the same case for other “We don’t support Linux officially and actively block it because fuck you” productivity applications like Adobe’s suite.

Personally, I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD instead, but I haven’t heard anything negative about the Winboat method.

Yes. Especially if said application was developed before 2010.

Unironically: e-waste recyclers or things like government auctions for their ancient equipment getting upgraded from the windows 10 EOL phase. Those are usually verified working parts that are not as abused as stock that may come from ancient gaming PCs or home users.

Yep, standard stuff. I actually wanted to learn more about firearms from a mechanical perspective (electrical engineering student, but I always found firearms design fascinating). I’ve already done a lot of background research on how to diagnose things like jams and malfunctions, along with responsible precautions like trigger finger discipline and proper transport/carry positions (fun fact: VR shooters work surprisingly well as a no-risk environment to practice this stuff).

I guess I’m getting into more detail than I need to, but I’m really just looking for good organizations to learn and share in the hobby with others here in Cali without getting tangled with those red hat chucklefucks. At least I already bought my own earpro - industrial intern environments already gave me the excuse to get a Razor Slim headset XD

Best thing to do is to report 'em. Unlike “THE COMPANIES”™, your local instance or community admin will take a look at their inbox and sort em out. Self-hosters don’t want em, we’re not trying to fake numbers for VC money.