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The word "whom" appears 9 times in this article. lol
allegedly
Lemmy:
The website has a TLD from the Caribbean Area, has little to no reference online, barely any trace on social medias, this feels like a sensationalist psy op. Also the website only has 2 articles, this being the second.
Anyone got a version without the llm word diarrhea? This is completely unreadable
This is literally an AI artefact. There's every chance someone reading this understands its contents better than the author. What a joke.
AI-generated website trash. Find a different source.
This is the original source unfortunately it seems
Not surprising. This era of capitalism is built around spying on you in order to find out how to sell you stuff better. We love it.
No, those data centers are for AI - how else will people write articles?
B-b-but Apple cares about privacy. They would never spy on you like the filthy Microsoft. That's why I brought an iPhone.
For all the problems of Steve jobs, he at least kept the company fairly honest in this sense. But the instant he died, Tim cook immediately rush ed to install PRISM backdoors into all their systems while still carrying the image of privacy.
Apples odd in that they are pretty protective of your personal information, as in they won’t sell it or lets 3rd parties come even remotely close to it, but have very little qualms in abusing it themselves.
Not even Google sells any of your data. They collect data and sell advertising spots but not the data itself.
Selling data only works as a business model if you cannot sell ad spots. That is why news websites have cookie banners with 1000 partners but Google, Facebook, Apple, et al. do not.
they won’t sell it or lets 3rd parties come even remotely close to it
If they secretly let the government double dip, I don't think I want to trust any other claims they and their marketing makes.
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data - Ars Technica
What are the odds that Google also claims it doesn't sell your data, it "shares" it.
But would you trust them?
Even Apple is going to listen to the government. They have done things to limit what they can tell them but most people don't use it. And to be fair so has Google it is why location data is now on device instead of on the cloud with Google.
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If you install Linux on it, it fixes it, right?
Linux is the only true "operating system" at this point, insofar as it just being a platform you use to complete tasks, and not one designed to serve the interests of the corporation selling it to you against your will.
That's not true, there are also the BSDs.
Minix?
To answer what other have missed, if you run Linux then that will fix this.
Linux is great for any of the Intel series max, but apple silicone is so new that they've barely cracked the surface of M3 full capabilities with any Linux distro.
I will not post a link to it for privacy reasons, but I wrote an article on this the day before the original M1 was announced warning of this situation. Apples move to their own chipset meant that any attempts at maintaining compatibility would always end up behind the curve.
I am surprised that Apple manage to keep their chips constantly changing as much as they do between generations. Most others seem to be on the 'same but more' path nowadays but Apple is still shifting the baseline almost yearly.
The real issue will come if they lock down the boot loader.
I will say this, I love my M5 Air and it doesn't have An Apple Account. Like, at all. Nor did my last M2. Apple allows me more desktop privacy than Ms or Google will, and I don't have to gut the OS. I'm not motivated to because they make the horsepower available to me.
Every other machine is running some debian/Ubuntu variant today, principally. I got tired of the cat-and-mouse and all of the uosells under the hood of MS, and I just can't trust Google in this era.
Of the big three I would say that Apple is the lesser of three evils.
also PowerPC
You know I thought about that as I was commenting, and also kind of rolled the dice on someone calling it out. And ancient Apple equipment are built like tanks.
But I remember running Minecraft Beta on an ancient iMac G5, and it was too choppy even back in the day. I can't imagine you being pleasant on one in the modern era.
So I think looking back, I would put a hard limit at only putting machines in service that were manufactured at or after 2012 or so. Get a cute Haswell Mac Mini and call it a day.
If you insisted on vintage Apple hardware older than that, I would recommend getting the system and throwing a Raspberry Pi in there instead. I really wish the G4 lamp Macs would make a come back.
If you insisted on vintage Apple hardware older than that, I would recommend getting the system and throwing a Raspberry Pi in there instead. I really wish the G4 lamp Macs would make a come back.
I had a thought before of putting a RPI in there.
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