Joe Ortiz  

So #Apple is scanning your local files on #macOS without consent according to Jeffrey Paul ( @sneak ) sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-sc

Again folks, #Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind.

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tux0r :openbsd:  

@joeo10 @sneak Try OpenBSD.

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sneak  

@tux0r @joeo10 there are precisely 0 laptops that run OpenBSD that aren't super shitty

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tux0r :openbsd:  

@sneak @joeo10 ThinkPads are quite good.

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@tux0r @joeo10 people who believe that (and there are many of them) have never had or used a truly great laptop. it's not even like, remotely fuckin' close. if the best thinkpad ever made is a 5, any macbook air from the last 3 years is a 14, and that's apple's lowest end machine. my macbook pro has 8tb of flash, 10 cpu cores, 64gb ram, 3456x2234@254ppi, HDR, hardware accelerated HEVC/x265 encode and decode, 21 hours of battery life, and can run 4 displays. it's 2.2kg. enjoy your lenovo

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tux0r :openbsd:  

@sneak @joeo10 Plot twist: OpenBSD is able to run on your MacBook Pro.

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sneak  

@tux0r @joeo10 not in a way that can use any of the hardware acceleration, or run resolve (afaik)

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tux0r :openbsd:  

@sneak @joeo10 The original post was implying that "Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind", which is obviously not true. I did not mean to make this a hardware pissing contest, actually.

(For measurement: I own a MacBook Pro and not one single OpenBSD desktop right now.)

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sneak  

@tux0r @joeo10 i'm just saying that the worst apple laptop is 2x+ as good as any PC laptop, something a lot of hacker types like to ignore. this is why i funded the development that resulted in both OpenBSD and Linux being able to boot on it.

i could be running gpu-accelerated asahi on this box right now but it doesn't support a lot of important stuff yet (like multiple monitors IIRC).

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Joe Ortiz  

@tux0r @sneak I'm sure there will be a day sooner than later where Apple announces that having a Apple ID is needed to use a Mac.

It's why I said that.

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sneak  

@joeo10 @tux0r i'll take that bet. define sooner and a dollar amount. macs will remain usable without an apple id for a long time.

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sneak  

@tux0r @joeo10 oh it also has really really really good speakers, like 3x better than any other laptop speakers ever. it's really hard to find any fault whatsoever with this piece of hardware.

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