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My current stance is that I'm fine with using any device not internally linked to an online identity. I.e., not associating my user account with an apple ID. I
by tammer 13y ago
My current stance is that I'm fine with using any device not internally linked to an online identity. I.e., not associating my user account with an apple ID.
I still think of OS X as an open platform since I can use entirely free software alongside Apple's amazing apps. I also still trust that the Mac's limited market share makes known backdoors less valuable to the powers that be, and more dangerous to Apple's reputation if discovered by anyone else.
Using iOS, on the other hand, necessarily waives the right to privately install software. That's one I won't give up.
- catmanjan 13y agoCan you please list the free software you use on OS X?
- tammer 13y agovim, tmux, zsh, mutt (ppl & ldap for addressing), vimperator, qemu, pass, homebrew, seahorse, general programming languages, general unix utils, pandoc (& LaTeX), ffmpeg, kdenlive, lots of associated plugins and helper scripts, keyremap4macbook, tarsnap, rtorrent, nginx, plex. Probably much more in the future (homebrew's repo is huge); I'm just recently making the switch from Arch. I'll need a better free & open cloud sync solution, but I was using Dropbox on Linux anyway.