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I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I
by ctrl-j 7y ago
I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices.
Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card)
Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to mention the charging port location. I actually replaced it with a logitech because it's pretty much unusable for any precision work.
Heck, I bought an eGPU enclosure recently because I had a set of nvidia cards lying around.. I can only use it in bootcamp though, because of course macs only support AMD cards...
Microsoft may be an abusive ex, but apple is pretty much the same melody with different lyrics.
- Razengan 7y agoPerhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
- fit2rule 7y agoHad my Linux machine up and running somewhere since the day Linus announced it on minix-list. Still though, also have my stack of MacBooks. Apple becoming a Unix vendor lured me to their hardware, which functions as a terminal server in most regards, for my needs. For everything else, there's a fat Linux machine. Windows: just, no. Only use it if I get paid to use it.
- michaelcampbell 7y agoGuess who's on the board of the Linux Foundation?
- _eht 7y agoAt the platinum level, even.
- chefandy 7y agoLinux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
- thrax 7y agoJust wanted to throw out a plug for photopea.com .. discovered it recently and it handles everything that I, as a programmer ever needed from Photoshop.
- _eht 7y agoWhat is it specifically you are needing to run? I only ask because I’ve been running Linux for the last 15 years exclusively, in and out of the commercial corporate world, and have yet to feel limited software wise.
- godelski 7y agoI do graphics, but on the scientific side, we all use Linux. Except when the lab provides us Macs, then we get frustrated and just remote in. I'm just trying to detangle the type of graphics being mentioned. I do wish Nvidia drivers were better, but maybe that'll happen with ROCs coming out soon.
- est31 7y agoMay I ask what ROCs is and why is it making Nvidia drivers better?
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- polotics 7y agoWell thank you captain obvious! And Qubes at that...
- asveikau 7y agoWhat do you mean keep a spare machine for emergencies? Some of us have always had them as primaries, rather than leaving that world. 20 years ago, the type of person analogous to a typical HN type would have been on Linux. Thread after thread on places like Slashdot started from a position of Linux advocacy as a common baseline. Then in the early 2000s there was a massive shift to Mac among those types. Personally, I miss the days of rank and file in such communities being desktop Linux advocates. We lost something of our soul.
- tapoxi 7y agoIt's ironic, Linux today is in a better state than its ever been. Chrome is Chrome, dependency hell is more easily mitigated by containerization, desktop environments have mostly become stable, hardware from Purism, System76, and Dell is quite good. I think a lot of us just end up with Macs because work IT hates the idea of managing Linux machines and macOS gets you 95% of what you need.
- JoshTriplett 7y ago> I think a lot of us just end up with Macs because work IT hates the idea of managing Linux machines Many of us end up with Linux precisely because work IT doesn't manage Linux machines. (What's worse is when they think they can manage Linux machines.)
- pault 7y agoIt seems that GP forgot to include the sarcasm flag.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoI, for one, don't miss it. Linux Desktop evangelists are horrifically annoying people to deal with because they look down on everyone, believing themselves superior for using it. Tell them Linux doesn't work for what you're doing and they'll say you should change what you're doing, tell them it is missing essential functionality for you and they'll insist you don't need it, tell them you don't like the way parts of the system work and they'll list a dozen reasons you're wrong. Then, after roundly dismissing all criticism, they'll gaze into the heavens and shout "why won't more people use the Linux Desktop? Is it not pretty enough!?". In short, they're condescending assholes and I'm glad they aren't nearly as prevalent as they used to be.
- noonespecial 7y agoIt's the apples and mickies I keep on a shelf "just in case". I pull them out a few times a year for that odd doc or onerous requirement. Otherwise I've been happy with debian for a decade.
- msla 7y ago> Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over. It's already happened.
- emsy 7y agoI agree that the lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw. But they're on a different level. One is an inconvenience, the other is utter disrespect of your privacy.
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- Razengan 7y ago> like a matte screen By the way, if you need a matte screen, third-party screen filters can help there. I got a Kensington “Privacy Guard” that attaches magnetically and can be flipped around between the gloss or matte side. It may be slightly blurry at times but after getting comfortable with the reduction in glare and reflections, I dislike going back to the default Mac screens. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLXJ2ZM/A/kensington-mp15-magnetic-privacy-screen-for-15-macbook-pro https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLXJ2ZM/A/kensington-mp15...
- kofejnik 7y ago>> lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw it's a strength, not a flaw choice fatigue is real, just go dell.com and try to pick a laptop
- ctrl-j 7y agoApple has a lot of inconveniences that pile up. I want to like their ecosystem to the point where I dropped thousands of dollars to be here - but there's SO many day to day issues that I can't stay. My next laptop will most likely be a linux laptop and leaving my production workflows on windows on my desktops. If they would pay attention to the usability of their machines they'd be amazing. But I can't afford pay thousands of dollars to work slower.
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- longcommonname 7y agoHow long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoWhy not? We live in a world where the latest processor from Intel still boots into 16 bit real mode, and we have emulators and virtual machines.
- ryanianian 7y agoThere is a real cost to supporting old architectures and associated risk in telling users they can run production workloads on them.
- badsectoracula 7y agoThere is also a real cost to dropping support for software working perfectly fine.
- asveikau 7y agoWhen a big company explains away how they are not doing something because of engineering resource constraints, put your skeptic's hat on, it's likely an exaggeration.
- Razengan 7y agoYou can still use emulators on macOS Catalina (the version that drops 32-bit support.)
- mappu 7y agoAside from the noticably lower memory usage due to smaller pointers - Microsoft found that x86_32 is the lingua franca for WoA emulation. If all the binaries are x86_64 and there are legal problems emulating it, there might be problems switching Macs to ARM CPUs.
- girvo 7y agoI have a lot of the same dramas... but then my Windows computer and ecosystem has so many equivalents (in terms of frustration and lost time, more than specifics) that frankly I’m exhausted with computing in general at this point. Question: what enclosure did you get? I’m thinking of getting the Razer Core X myself, for an AMD card for bootcamp and macOS
- ctrl-j 7y agoI got the Razer Core X. There is an issue where I have to plug it in right after windows starts to boot because the mac tries to disable the integrated graphics if it's plugged in when the laptop boots (which causes windows to not boot). But if you don't plug it in while windows is in the early boot stages then windows doesn't seem to want to identify it. Apparently this is solvable with a custom efi module but I haven't explored that yet. Otherwise it works solid in windows. Pretty much the same performance as when the card was in my desktop.
- zten 7y agoI've recently gone through the eGPU enclosure drama after reading an article linked here. I'm using one of the 2019 refreshes of a MacBook Pro, with a Radeon Pro Vega 20. I bought a Radeon RX 5700 XT at launch this week, paired with a Razer Core X, like you've got. (I can go into more detail, but AMD dGPU + eGPU is a ridiculous battle of knowing which obscure config setting to add to drivers to get them to install [Google for EnableFalcon=true]). rEFInd successfully gets Windows to find the Intel UHD integrated graphics, so that's good. That let me uninstall the Vega 20's drivers and disable it entirely. Even then, I still don't boot with the enclosure attached - it seems to ignore its presence? Unplugging and plugging it back in triggers Windows to go find all of the hardware, and then I have to wait 30 seconds while things grind to a halt as devices install. I'm eagerly awaiting AMD Navi 10 driver support in OS X, which I suspect will come around since people have found the names in kernel extension strings earlier this year.
- usbseeker 7y agoDid you start experiencing the random auto double click bug on your logitech yet?
- ctrl-j 7y agoNope, I've never had that problem with any of the Logitech mice I've owned. Which model has that issue?
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- IloveHN84 7y agoWhat about the case of Zoom? Not that privacy focused