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I have ditched MacBook Pro for whatever-brand with UNIX-like OS as well, due to decreasing user control of OS X which started happening around the time it was r
by voytec 4y ago
I have ditched MacBook Pro for whatever-brand with UNIX-like OS as well, due to decreasing user control of OS X which started happening around the time it was renamed to mac OS.
MacBook stopped feeling like my (quite expensive) hardware doing what I want and became an (even more expensive) device controlled by Apple often forcing unwanted changes on me.
I miss MacBook's touchpad but am happy with the trade-off.
- andsoitis 4y ago> decreasing user control of OS X which started happening around the time it was renamed to mac OS what were you able to control before that you can't anymore?
- voytec 4y agoUser interface (can't get examples from the top of my head right now but less and less was configurable), privacy settings (it used to be "set what you want to share" and now it's "learn what is shared") and... a keyboard before the 2016/2017 fiasco. I was increasingly locked out of my computer. Apple is now MacBook's superuser and I'm just the user. Their hardware is too expensive for that.
- spritefs 4y ago> privacy settings (it used to be "set what you want to share" and now it's "learn what is shared") What I like to do with this is have two versions of hosts file and two versions of /etc/pf.conf In one setting, I use https://gitlab.com/intr0/AppleBlock/-/blob/master/AppleBlock.txt https://gitlab.com/intr0/AppleBlock/-/blob/master/AppleBlock... in the hosts file and block the whole 17.X.X.X ip range (Apple's range) in the pf.conf The other setting doesn't have any of these blocks Whenever I need some apple service (e.g. updates or apple developer stuff), I run a script to toggle the blocks The benefit of this approach is you get apple services only when you need them
- fsflover 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959