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A year ago I excised MacBooks from my main computing life. An old System76 Galago Pro with a stand and a bluetooth keyboard became my couch computer, a Windows
by vinceguidry 8y ago
A year ago I excised MacBooks from my main computing life. An old System76 Galago Pro with a stand and a bluetooth keyboard became my couch computer, a Windows 10 with a Ubuntu VM for webdev Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga became my coffee shop / bar computer, and I turned my work MacBook Pro into a glorified desktop by adding an external display, keyboard, and mouse. Eventually I want to replace it with a Mac Mini but can't justify the expenditure this year. There's also an Arch Linux desktop that I'm typing this on now.
The only thing I use one for is at home in bed at 3am where f.lux Darkroom Mode on OSX is still unbeatable at what it does, and there's zero chance of liquid spills.
Apple's legendary quality just isn't there anymore, and the machines are so fragile to liquid damage and the repair experience went from awesome to utter shit over the last 5 or so years. I just can't justify it anymore. My next phone is a Librem 5, my next laptop a Librem 13. I love the OSX ecosystem but not enough to turn all my machines into hackintoshes.
I really didn't think it would only be a few years after Jobs died before Apple started whiffing. Now it's easy to see just how well he was able to keep the jackals away. Now the whole company is solely interested in making stupid amounts of money.
Such a shame.