Today i tried pic related for the very First time. >when i

fuck off to your own blog website. don't even link it here.

>>56116058
i dont really need it so i dont bother. maybe one day ill try it in a vm until then fuck off you cock sucking faggot

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Last usable OSX was 10.6 - After this it became a crippled cellphone OS.
This is when I jumped ship and realized that I actually value freedom, personal sovereignty, and privacy.
What's more, upon removing all the nonfree shitware from my life, using a computer went from being an impossible burden best avoided, to a wonderful enjoyable playground of learning where everything was fun and just worked how I wanted it to.

I'm disgusted to know that you have a /diy/ tab open.
Consider suicide.

>>56116144
>Last usable OSX was 10.6 - After this it became a crippled cellphone OS.
Nice meme

>>56116144
OP here.
I am considering it, thanks.
Anyway
>Where everything was fun and just worked howi wanted it to
Nope. Not linux.
Every single distro i tried i have never achieved the ability of having everything working how i wanted to.
I had always something broken.
You know, it's funny to learn things and it's mindblowing understanding errors and fixing it, but not when you have actual work to do

Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html

Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.) This page explains how the software in Apple's computer products are malware.

Malware and nonfree software are two different issues. The difference between free software and nonfree software is in whether the users have control of the program or vice versa. It's not directly a question of what the program does when it runs. However, in practice nonfree software is often malware, because the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix any malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.

Apple Back Doors

Mac OS X had an intentional local back door for 4 years, which could be exploited by attackers to gain root privileges.
https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-api-to-root-privileges-in-apple-os-x/

The iPhone has a back door that allows Apple to remotely delete apps which Apple considers “inappropriate”. Jobs said it's OK for Apple to have this power because of course we can trust Apple.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358134/Apples-Jobs-confirms-iPhone-kill-switch.html

The iPhone has a back door for remote wipe. It's not always enabled, but users are led into enabling it without understanding.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131511381/wipeout-when-your-company-kills-your-iphone

Apple Censorship

Apple censors games, banning some games from the cr…app store because of which political points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered acceptable.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game

Apple banned a program from the App Store because its developers committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.
http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/

Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another. After the fifth rejection, Apple admitted it was censoring the app based on the subject matter.

As of 2015, Apple systematically bans apps that endorse abortion rights or would help women find abortions.
http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/

This particular political slant affects other Apple services.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions

Apple Insecurity

A vulnerability in Apple's Image I/O API allowed an attacker to execute malacious code from any application which uses this API to render a certain kind of image file.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/22/stagefright-flaw-ios-iphone-imessage-apple

A bug in the iThings Messages app allowed a malicious web site to extract all the user's messaging history.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/12/apple-bug-exposed-chat-history-with-a-single-click/

Apple Interference

Various proprietary programs often mess up the user's system. They are like sabotage, but they are not grave enough to qualify for the word “sabotage”. Nonetheless, they are nasty and wrong. This section describes examples of Apple committing interference.

Apple forced millions of iThings to download a system upgrade without asking the users. Apple did not forcibly install the upgrade but the downloading alone caused lots of trouble.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7256669?tstart0=

Apple Pressuring

Proprietary companies can take advantage of their customers by imposing arbitrary limits to their use of the software. This section reports examples of hard sell and other unjust commercial tactics by Apple.

Apple Siri refuses to give you information about music charts if you're not an Apple Music subscriber.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/apple-music-subscribers-siri-questions

Apple Sabotage

The wrongs in this section are not precisely malware, since they do not involve making the program that runs in a way that hurts the user. But they are a lot like malware, since they are technical Apple actions that harm to the users of specific Apple software.

The Apple Music client program scans the user's file system for music files, copies them to an Apple server, and deletes them.
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

Apple stops users from fixing the security bugs in Quicktime for Windows, while refusing to fix them itself.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160608183145/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/uninstall_quicktime_for_windows/

iOS version 9 for iThings sabotages them irreparably if they were repaired by someone other than Apple. Apple eventually backed off from this policy under criticism from the users. However, it has not acknowledged that this was wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

An Apple firmware “upgrade” bricked iPhones that had been unlocked. The “upgrade” also deactivated applications not approved by Apple censorship. All this was apparently intentional.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2541250/apple-mac/update--apple-plays-hardball--upgrade--bricks--unlocked-iphones.html

Apple deleted from iPods the music that users had got from internet music stores that competed with iTunes.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/04/apple-deleted-music-ipods-rivals-steve-jobs

Apple Surveillance

Users cannot make an Apple ID (necessary to install even gratis apps) without giving a valid email address and receiving the verification code Apple sends to it.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/49951/how-can-i-download-free-apps-without-registering-an-apple-idcool

iThings automatically upload to Apple's servers all the photos and videos they make.
https://www.apple.com/icloud/photos/

iCloud Photo Library stores every photo and video you take, and keeps them up to date on all your devices. Any edits you make are automatically updated everywhere. [...]
(From Apple's iCloud information as accessed on 24 Sep 2015.)
The iCloud feature is activated by the startup of iOS. The term “cloud” means “please don't ask where.”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202033

There is a way to deactivate iCloud, but it's active by default so it still counts as a surveillance functionality.

Unknown people apparently took advantage of this to get nude photos of many celebrities. They needed to break Apple's security to get at them, but NSA can access any of them through PRISM.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/01/naked-celebrity-hack-icloud-backup-jennifer-lawrence
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html#digitalcash

The iBeacon lets stores determine exactly where the iThing is, and get other info too.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/privacy-advocates-worry-over-new-apple-iphone-tracking-feature-161836223.html

Apple can, and regularly does, remotely extract some data from iPhones for the state.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/05/new-guidelines-outline-what-iphone-data-apple-can-give-to-police/

This may have improved with iOS 8 security improvements; but not as much as Apple claims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/17/2612af58-3ed2-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/22/apple-data/

Apple DRM

Apple uses DRM software to prevent people from charging an iThing with a generic USB cable.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/switzerland-wants-a-single-universal-phone-charger-by-2017

DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in MacOS. This article focuses on the fact that a new model of Macbook introduced a requirement for monitors to have malicious hardware, but DRM software in MacOS is involved in activating the hardware. The software for accessing iTunes is also responsible.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/apple-downgrades-macbook-video-drm

DRM that caters to Bluray disks. (The article focused on Windows and said that MacOS would do the same thing subsequently.)
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/

Apple Jails

iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is a jail for users. That means it imposes censorship of application programs.
http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html

Apple has used this power to censor all bitcoin apps for the iThings.
http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html

Apple, in the iThings, pioneered the practice of general purpose computers that are jails, and the term comes from iThing users, who referred to escaping from the censorship as “jailbreaking.”

Here is an article about the code signing that the iThings use to jail the user.
http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/

Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the walls of the the iThing jail: users can now install apps built from source code, provided the source code is written in Swift. Users cannot do this freely because they are required to identify themselves. Here are details.

While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not big enough to mean that the iThings are no longer jails.

More examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans

Apple Tyrants

Apple arbitrarily blocks users from installing old versions of iOS.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/

The iThings are tyrant devices: they do not permit installing a different or modified operating system. There is a port of Android to the iThings, but installing it requires finding a bug or “exploit” to make it possible to install a different system.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150721065208/http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status

>>56116058
I use it on my main PC but I'm heavily considering going back to Win7 or Arch. It feels like a Facebook OS rather than a *nix I can get shit done on. Very different from 10.6

>>56116477
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>>56116524
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>>56116589
All this effort and noone will ever lay an eye on it.

>>56116500
>>56116477
>>56116524
>>56116543
>>56116567
>>56116589
Did not even read them but here's your precious (you)

i love os x, i don't mind linux but it doesn't really hold up to os x. i wish i could buy the OS separately and not have to jump through hoops to run it on other machines but my macbook pro is great anyway.

>>56116058
>MFW lolwut?
how about you leave, you sack of shit?

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>>56116823
>>56116845
>mactoddler can't defend his malware botnet OS
>i-i-i d-don't care if da gubmint spy on me anymore!!!111

wew lad

>>56116477

> in practice nonfree software is often malware

Does Stallman have any clue how stupid this sounds?

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>>56117115
He's likely autistic so probably not

>>56117115
It's not stupid at all.
Nothing said on that or any of his pages is wrong or even hyperbole in any way.

>>56117300
nah the level of freedom Stallman pushes out requires a significant amount of contribution most normies are just not cut out for when it comes to computers. To him, the QoS concessions that most users rely on are just as harmful as legitimate bad actors; it's both ridiculous and absurd.

>>56117425
Freedom is more important than capability, comfort, or convenience.
`Most users' are simply manipulated idiots (we have people on /g/ unironically arguing in favor of advertising for gnu"s sake) - Anything they think they care about, desire, or think can and should be ignored.

>>56116144
>Last usable OSX was 10.6 - After this it became a crippled cellphone OS
Keep telling yourself that.

>>56116477
>>56116500
>>56116524
>>56116543
>>56116567
>>56116589
Autism

>>56116058
Ignorance is bliss

kek I love these threads, just look at the virgins going crazy because of
>muh OS

>>56117471
>Freedom is more important than capability,

So, as long as it's free, it's okay if it's shit?

That's just stupid. Getting stuff done is kind of the point of using software, unless you're an autistic hippie.

>>56116058
faggot piece of shit, gtfo

>>56117486
how much do you make as a shill?

>>56117588
>he disagrees with me so he's a shill
Nice meme

>>56117471
'most users' just want to be able to quickly send out a professional looking email at the end of the day so they can finish work at a reasonable hour and get home to relax.

Free software has its place, but it's like the self appointed "enlightened" FOSS evangelists scoff at anyone who doesn't agree that it's some panacea.

>>56116058
been using apple for years

target disk mode was olev

>>56116646
it's literally unix. PEBKAC

>>56117557
I appreciate stallmanism but it hasn't worked that well in practice. The profit motive is definitely useful for making functional software. Freedom is mostly good for half-assed forks.

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>>56117557
No, that isn't the implication.
Just because something is free software doesn't mean is should be used.
But if you care about your humanity, nothing that isn't free software should ever be used.
Unfortunately, the very real benefits of a world of free software can't be actualized while proprietary shitware is allowed to exist - They simply can't coexist.
And while short term monetary profits are the goal, proprietary shitware will always win.
I am proud to be an autistic hippie.
Your `getting work done' maym is falling flat btw and you should consider stopping spewing it - No one believes for a second that your actually going to be doing anything of value using OSX.

>>56117640
No cert will ever turn your FacebookOS code into UNIX code no matter how hard you shill it mactoddler.

>>56117640
Target disk mode is tits

>>56117706
OS X is both a Unix descendant and a UNIX certified OS.

>>56117694
You've imbibed too much kool aid.

>>56117694
This is why the GNU userspace is shit, and there will never be a year of the Linux desktop.

:(

>>56117743
>mactoddlerOS
>unix

Poo in the fucking loo Rajeesh.

>>56117850
>>56117706
move to an obamacare state so you can get on your meds, cleetus

>>56117833
It's really not shit though.
Getting rid of proprietary software made computers fun and actually usable for me.
I didn't have to learn crazy dumb workarounds anymore to do basic shit.
I could just install things and it was all taken care of.
Everything literally just works and is great.
If this isn't your experience with GNU, I'm left to conclude that your mind has been warped beyond repair by harmful paradigms, or you're simply retarded and prolly shouldn't be allowed near a computer at all anyway.

>>56118106
>I didn't have to learn crazy dumb workarounds anymore to do basic shit.

LOL
O
L

>>56116163
>>56117588
(you)
>Nice meme
Nice pre-programmed response, shill

>>56118106
> If your experience isn't mine, then you have mental problems

GNU is good for learning, and there are a lot of good features, but if you can't see the difference in the GNU product and many alternatives on Windows and MacOS, perhaps your theory applies to yourself ... your mind has been warped beyond repair by harmful paradigms, or you're simply retarded and prolly shouldn't be allowed near a computer at all anyway.

>>56118374
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Alternative

The difference is that freedom is human, and what you're shilling isn't.

>>56118455
yes, we get it, the GNU license is crazy

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>>56118503
>behaving humanely towards others and working to procure basic freedom is crazy
I literally have no idea how to react or think about you people that think this.

>>56118836
> 2016
> Being this out of touch.

>>56116058

How do I get my system temperature?

Hell, even getting OSX on my laptop was a nightmare. They don't provide ISOs. You have to have an already existing install and download it through the Mac App Store(tm) white requires an apple ID(tm)
And to copy that to USB, run some long terminal command (I thought this was supposed to be user friendly?)

And even copying the install to USB was dumb. No progress bar. Had to let it sit for half an hour hoping it was working.