Shocking, shocking I say.
Oh no! Anyway, I prefer Android and Windows. Seriously!
One for unionizing, two to cover for closing the store that unionized.
Rich pedophiles really will close entire stores, losing 100% of profits from them, rather than let them unionize, losing potentially 5% of profits short-term.
100% of profits from 3 stores vs the risk of all their employees in the entire company having leverage for all future compensation negotiations.
Americans? Busting Unions? Surely not 🤣?
I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.
Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.
This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.
I encourage others to consider the same.
Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.
I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.
Fuck this. Fuck apple. Fuck me.
My industry has a lot of Apple laptop users for the reasons you mention. Every time I pull out my Zenbook Duo, I hear converts in the making. Sure, it’s a bit thick, but it runs Linux great and has two monitors in a portable platform with a good battery.
I recently got allocated an m5 macbook.
They last like 15 minutes before they’re chipped and scratched, the version of Bash they ship is a million years old, the UI is a fucking mess. Package management is a mess. The walled garden is a mess. I have had to brew this and fix my path for that just to have a working environment. This is ignoring the soldered on RAM bullshit. Can you even do
memmap=to recover from bad soldered ram on a macbook or does it just become ewaste?They sound nice and they feel nice until they’re scratched.
Also the keyboards are heinous.
If Jobs was alive, he’d be punching people for re-inventing Vista Aero.
I thought the UI was supposed to be good.
Fuck these devices.
don’t worry, the soldered ssd will fail and brick your computer long before the ram!
And that’s where the T2 chip keeps its firmware so when the soldered-on storage goes bad, the whole computer can’t boot and must go directly in the ewaste…
I hate it so damn much.
🤡🌎
yep! I mean soldered ssds are 100% replacable. it sucks and is expensive, but definitely doable with the right tools. but then they pair them with the t2 and underfill them trying to prevent exactly that
M-series MacBook shipping with bash? I thought they switched away from bash a few years ago.
The default is zsh, I’m not a fan. Bash 3.2 is present by default, however, and is as old as the hills.
There was a licensing issue from what I’ve read. They were kinda stuck there until they said fuck it and moved to zsh.
They ship with zsh
Apple’s UI has always been a joke. A case of looks pretty but is actually annoying and impractical to use. The greatest Apple joke is that you need to pay for a third party app to get basic window snapping. That is just one of many UI issues. It does look nice on screenshots though.
That’s not true anymore btw
I know, since 2024. I’ve seen what they did, and their windows tiling and snap management is still egregiously inferior to almost every other desktop environment. So much so that people still pay for the app because it is so much better than default macOS, adding shortcuts, for example.
Honestly is really good now though I will say popOS is better. Windows is the worst.
Mine is a bit old already, the first m1 air, and I haven’t a bad word to say. Although I mostly live in the terminal anyway, zellij, aerospace, alacritty, fresh as my ide, very elaborate sketchybar for ricing and all that. I’ve not yet faced many problems I couldn’t solve via terminal or a temporary boot into the whatever unsafe mode the newer os versions have brought.
The aluminium chassis has been incredible and I can still open the lid with a single finger without needing the other hand. No other laptop I’ve ever tried has been able to manage that, even if it sounds so simple.
But because I already live in a riced up i3-ish environment instead of the actual macos gui, switching to linux is mostly about migrating my personal dotfiles to equivalents I already have set up for a few of my systems at home and various remotes.
So the change won’t be big in impact. Only thing I foresee myself missing is the lid and build quality and battery life
Previous employer gave me an m1 pro and it just lived in a drawer until I quit.
I’m sure some salesrep got a nice nearly new linkedin machine after that.
The hardware is nice to touch but it is unethically designed by assholes who hold you, the device “owner” in complete contempt.
I had m1 for a week or so and sincerely tried to use it, everything felt just wrong and basic things didn’t work. All in all it was horrible experience, asked my old machine back. Working in a mac shop is tiring at least with windows laptops and desktops you can install linux on most of them easily and forget the pain.
Nah bro, I understand everythign you say, if I get rid of my iphone, what am I supposed to go to instead, android? run and controlled my microsoft, which is EVEN worse in nearly every regard. No, no I don’t think I’ll do that to myself. And no Pine phone for me either. No every single thing can be a purity test. The world fucking sucks, we just have to deal with it.
Android is Google, not MS. Not much better.
Consider Fairphone. You pay a bit more for mid tier device, but hopefully (and so far seemingly) the money is being well spent.
Software security is not their top priority if the discussion with the Graphene OS project is anything to go by. Not necessarily a deal breaker but something you may want to know.
Is that info from the latest Motorola collab? I heard about the beef between GOS and e/os, but nothing directly about Fairphone itself.
It take it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361352
🥲🥹🫡 https://system76.com/ I have used all main systems… I was a mac fanboy… and I can tell you gnome… you will like. So much you can do. Best of all no apple ID. It also appears the CEO is fighting back with the whole age gating. There is a way. There is hope.
We have different lines, but yours is respectable. It’s sad that Android is also enshitifying.
a bit late, but never too late
And that’s why companies should have a limit to growth. They become authoritarian countries at some point.
Edit: typo
Really wish I could boycott a brand twice
Unions Strong!! Fuck corporations and the dirtbags that run them!!
following the starbucks method, ive seen a couple SB around me suddenly closed overnight, in a high traffic area(conference events every week), they likely smelled a potential union talks going on in some of the shops. the ones in target are not likely affected by it.
I actualy like coffee and small coffee shops…The shop I like…in which I can’t walk to anymore because I moved, I still order from them because they roast their own beans…bunch of ethopians who have ties to home… Yet I am also trash so it is instant for me. I wouldn’t be caught dead in a SB on my own accord.
I, for one, am shocked!
I think the last apple product I bought was a 2008 imac that I turned into my first server and a iphone 6 which apple decided for me that I was no longer going to use it after they did a remote brick. For my safety of cource thank gawd. I will never buy a (hold your tounge and say ---->)apple—>) product EVER again and F_or U_nlawful C_arnal K_nowledge Samsung_dung_Ok_I_amDone.
I’m not sure what this has to do with the article, but cool story bro.
I am implying that apple amoung many prodict manufatures have pushed away and created grudges of the very people that buy them. I am combating over zealous mods and the corpos by sprickling in some human mahjahdick by sharing my two cents. Same ol story bro. The problem is people take themselves too seriously. The human perspective is the most important, the artical… I could of found else where in… which I do. What do you got to say snark?
Sort of person that says “and a half” after their age.
deleted by creator
I am childish? is that what you mean? You sound like someones mother. Well if the shoe fits… watcha gonna do meh
I’m ok with buying their used stuff as long as I can install Linux on them
I basically use macOS like Linux. I don’t use a single default app or Apple service (apart from Photos but I want to switch to Immich eventually) and over the years I’ve customised it so much that most people are confused when they try to use my computer lol
I run a dusty satalite tosheeebahhh 3 core like 4gbs of ram from 2008 as a DVR for 9 camers. Linux is awsome and has changed my mind about computing. I also would like to see what up with BSD. I need an old dusty rig to try that out. Eventually
Those days will come to a end eventually… Apple is a walled garden… their hardware is for their dragnet. All these companies will lock it down eventually… like they did to my old iphone.
denile is strong with these ones. I used to be a loser apple fanboy by the way
“For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” wasn’t a crime. They wouldn’t start the name of a crime with “for”. You’d have stuff like “for murder”.
Initialisms weren’t even common back then when that word was first attested
ok… whats this like the 1800’s or sum sheet
so popular hahaha -19… I am making waves 🙂
