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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago

The purpose of a locked boot system is privacy.

No its not

A MacBook is a less secure device, and one that's been rooted and had linux installed is basically open season for any attacker.

Its less secure cos u have the freedom to run the software u want. Trading liberty for security is tyranny.

An iPad trades off the ability to put some other OS, for fairly close to total security. State-level enemies can torture you or run expensive intrusion software… and Apple improves the defenses against the latter every time.

They can torture ur password out of u regardless of what software ur running. Almost all apple devices are vulnerable to state actor hacks. The only operating system that has security that is outpacing the general police level device access tools in grapheneos.

Now it reboots if it hasn't been used in a while, say sitting in an evidence locker.

Grapheme os implemented that 2 years ago. Apple is 2 years behind the known security issues. Grapheme is a custom operating system.

Boot loader aside, you can write code on an iPad.

If u ignore all the killing torture and general awful behaviour of the Nazis they where very industriouse. If u ignore the bad parts u can make anything a positive.

There are plenty of code editors, interpreters, and several of them have compilers. The premiere one is Pythonista, but I'm also fond of LispPad (R7RS Scheme). There are a few "linux in a box" things like ish, which give a full shell in a sandbox where it's safe.

I want to do X. Sorry u can't do X but u can do Y

I want to do X not Y.

Also I get that ur part of the apple cult but if u never try something else you will forever be living trapped inside a metaphorical box unaware of what ur missing. Plato's cave etc etc.