It's from the FSF, so I expect my eyeballs to start rolling involuntarily. They do have a few good points that are consistent with their principles, but they di

It's from the FSF, so I expect my eyeballs to start rolling involuntarily. They do have a few good points that are consistent with their principles, but they dilute their message with disprovable claims. Like this one: > In MacOS and iOS, the procedure for converting images from the Photos format to a free format is so tedious and time-consuming that users just give up if they have a lot of them. First, there is no "Photos" format. The Photos apps are just catalog viewers. On macOS, the original files are easily accessible on disk organized inside the .photoslibrary file. There are a few proprietary aspects: - As of iOS 11, iPhones will store photos using the patent-encumbered HEVC codec. This can be disabled. - Live Photos are undocumented but nothing special: a still frame bundled with a short video. (The video likely uses proprietary codecs.) - Adjustments to images are nondestructive and stored separately from the file, in an opaque way. Exporting a photo to a free format is trivial. The system usually does it automatically whenever you share the photo. Otherwise, it's literally just File > Export or even dragging to another app. --- This is also rich, coming from the FSF: > “Dark patterns” are user interfaces designed to mislead users, or make option settings hard to find. This allows a company such as Apple to say, “We allow users to turn this off” while ensuring that few will understand how to actually turn it off. Yes, because open source software is widely celebrated for the ease with which the everyday user can figure out how to change settings or modify source code. (I agree Apple buried the ad tracking setting in a counter-intuitive place. But it's now in the top-level Privacy settings, where it belongs.)