ok so apparently it's trendy to hate apple and to want them to fail?
i'm not part of that. i just want my tools to work well. all tools suck, in different ways. all tools have trade-offs, and the downsides to those trade-offs must be mitigated no matter what tools you use.
i use apple tools because i'm intimately familiar with the tradeoffs of all major platforms and the upsides minus the time it takes to mitigate the downsides is greater there than other platforms.
crazy to me that wireguard provides direct download links to their windows gui installer from wireguard.com, but for the macOS installer they only link to the mac app store, where you can't download from if you don't identify yourself to apple (even free apps).
if you make free, open source privacy tools, don't force your users into identifying themselves to PRISM partners to get the free software, mmmkay?
i have a scanner radio sitting in my office, on and scanning 24/7. some EMTs were reading someone's full PII over the air unencrypted (id number, name, address, date of birth, et c) and my partner was astounded to hear it.
turns out that most normal people have absolutely no training whatsoever in the protection of PII.
serial numbers and hardware IDs are only sent to apple when using apple network services. don't use apple services (e.g. app store, apple music, et c) and these identifiers are not sent.
you are allowed to use apple hardware/OS without touching apple services, you know. it's even a supported configuration, if a bit uncommon.
does anyone have a cryptocurrency specialist tax consultant that knows all about 1031 and such that they love that doesn't keep all your PII and tax data unencrypted in cloud and 3P services?
i have a great cpa/tax lawyer, but cryptocurrency and defi gets real hairy, real fast, and i need a specialist to augment them.
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