So basically apple just went back to the things they tried to fix that weren't broken and then messed up the aesthetics by making it a design from 2010 and added a notch. Why do they do this. Does the design team not understand how to design macbook pros ?
> So basically apple just went back to the things they tried to fix that weren't broken and then messed up the aesthetics by making it a design from 2010 and added a notch.
"Apple corrected nearly everything about their laptop design that people complain about, used a design this is considered by some to be the best MBP design ever [1], and put a small intrusion on the screen in the least-used-possible spot in order to provide more overall screen real estate. Why does Apple hate us?"
If it disturbs you, there will sure be a software that moves the menu bar below and makes the top black. This is a Mac and not an iOS device after all.
I’ll take the extra pixels.
No i meant they were right to just put back what wasnt broken. I guess I have worded it wrong. I am just complaining about the design team putting the notch.
Tech can always an option. I mean we are entering WFH being the normal so office spaces aren't exactly what is required but once you start building Tech everything comes along with it (schools, stores,tech law firms etc) that supports Tech and in general people move where the money is.
Apple is getting into VPN now and if I was to guess they would integrate it with some kind of hardware block in their silicon to make it seamless and transparent. I wonder if Wireguard is at the point where silicon makers can actually consider a hardware block such that the VPN is completely transparent to the cores. Personally I find it better to have individual devices do the VPN than at the central network of my home as I find that these mobile devices are significantly more powerful and efficient to do it.
Its funny how Windows and Android, the two most widely used operating systems, are a privacy nightmare and basically spyware at this point. Remember you can install tools and ROMs that are privacy focussed but also realise only a minor percentage of the users bother or are aware of these.
I wonder what the sales pitch would be to sell privacy focussed products to the average Joe.
Both of these are the cheaper option in their respective market. iOS and macOS are expensive because the hardware is expensive (as in, the hardware in part pays for the development of the software), and Linux is expensive in that it's almost always more time-consuming to set up since it doesn't have Windows' first-class driver, hardware, and software support.
> since it doesn't have Windows' first-class driver, hardware, and software support.
Ironically, Linux sometimes has better driver and software support for specialized things like Thunderbolt ethernet adapters, or software if it was written for MacOS but later adapted to Linux because of their similarity within the scope of POSIX. And, because Windows can't run 16-bit software on 64-bit CPUs at all, Linux has the total advantage here because WINE works with 16-bit as well.
Agreed! Just wanted to pile on, the driver thing is a bit hit/miss.
Broadcom/Realtek (sometimes)? Good luck. Intel/AMD/Aquantia? Probably good to go.
There are vendors that give Linux first-class support; buy them.
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Realtek is a little hard to pinpoint, they tend to have drivers... but fairly buggy.
I have to replace the r8169 module or something similar with r8125 for my (onboard) networking to work under stress. If I push too much bandwidth, it'll just drop.
come on. i use an old dell latitude e7440 which i run kde neon on. takes 15 minutes to get installed and i can get surfing in 16. No nonsense, no nothing.
i assume newer devices would be better but "time consuming to set up" is something i have not seen in the last 3-5 years of my using 100% exclusively linux devices.
Not sure why macOS (M1) is expensive here. For the hardware/performance/software you get it’s not really expensive if you compare the alternatives like surface or any of the intel based laptops. Sure, you can get a cheap laptop for under 500$ but that won’t last long either.
I don't think it is funny, nor coincidence. A lot of people are poor and have to sell themselves out with privacy. They cannot afford a premium brand like Apple.
Seconding this. LineageOS with microG has been great, combined with Aurora Store's anonymous Play Store for the singular app I require that doesn't have an FOSS alternative.
The “closed source ecosystem” is not nearly as restrictive as people make it out to be and is something that you willingly sign up for when buying apple products.
Not sure where you got the idea of “icloud syncing your every move” but literally every icloud implementation can be disabled at your discretion.
I for one only have my reminders, wallet, calendar and drive synced.
Even with that said, none of this implies a lack of privacy in any way.
"the researchers' iPhone transmitted more kinds of data, including device location, the device's local Internet Protocol (IP) address and the Wi-Fi network identifiers — the MAC addresses — of other devices on the local network, including home Wi-Fi routers."
I think it means ‘user-friendly’ cheap which is different than cheap. I don’t see gnome to be user friendly much and don’t even get me started on windows on mobile. iPadOS on the other hand is something 2 year olds or someone who has never used a computer can get used to in hours.
The most fascinating physics nobel prize for me in recent times was for gravitational wave detection using LIGO. I spent days learning and watching videos of the three of them. The ingenuity of the detector is fascinating and the fact that every year they simply got closer but ‘not there yet’ and the fact that it took more than two decades says that the goal was probably secondary but they enjoyed the journey far more. Of course they would have hoped to see the waves be detected in their lifetime but for Kip Thorne it was 50 years from the start. Most of the stories behind Nobel prize winners are mind boggling.
I really hate the path Apple is taking. They make excellent products, really the average Joe simply loves Apple products. But they need to stop acting anti-consumer and anti-developer to “protect” their IP. At this point they could release the schematics of iPhone 13 and still people will buy Apple’s iPhone than someone who copied them. Rant over.
So here is how I see it for these big tech companies(I know it’s terrible but I believe that’s just how it is sadly).
Medical professionals have malpractice insurance / budget where if a doctor was to make a mistake and was sued for it then it is used to settle. Similarly companies like Apple seem to feel like they keep doing what is right for their own personal interests and profits while at the same time set aside money to settle such cases and see it as collateral damage. Even if you were to get a tough judge in a case like this you’d still as Apple at best get a slap on the wrist with a few hundred thousand or a million in fines to some individual developer. The only difference between medical professionals and big tech is that once a medical professionals licence is pulled he can’t practice medicine again. I wonder what similar punishment big tech should get for pulling such stunts.
If intel doesn't consider ARM for its client devices (like Laptops) then their market is going to further erode by QC/Nuvia as selling a 300-500$ CPU is going to be a great market for QC to enter. Intel has already lost a considerable share to AMD and they might lose that further to QC because I just don't see an intel laptop offering ridiculous battery life and TDP like the M1 which QC can achieve in a couple of years hopefully. At this point I feel like intel is just being adamant which is not good for both business and customers because in the linux and Open-source space people would much rather prefer an Intel/AMD platform than QC.
