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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Rules for thee, but not for me

    You started it -

    I don’t know how you’ve managed to get on Lemmy

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    because you feel “personally attacked” because I pointed out, with links to Apples anti-consumer behavior

    Nope.

    None of them are squeaky clean. No company is anywhere.

    That my friend is the sound of you conceding. Well done.

    But I can go into say Microcenter,

    I did this for years. It’s one of the reasons I got a MBP. But you carry on ranting at me, it’s all my fault apparently.

    Then you need a Chromebook. Or could use Linux.

    Chromebook and Linux are not for me. In fact they are considerably worse.

    everyone you connect to with on a browser, absolutely knows where it came from

    Good. That’s useful, I’ll keep doing it. Thanks.

    The slave labor being used in Apple is fine because… Windows… Ok.

    Not what I said. But you’ve conceded so whatever.

    Nope. I re-read my post, unsure where you go that from.

    Because you said -

    Take your pick as to why people both on Reddit and Lemmy aren’t super stoked about Apple products.

    I provided sources

    For no good reason it turns out.

    And you think your on the moral/ethical high ground here, especially after you clearly are unbothered by the slave labor.

    More inaccurate conclusions. You aren’t very good at this.

    Who exactly do I need to ensure I have a “good look” for?

    I’ll let you work that one out.

    Have a nice Xmas!


  • You’re sailing very close to the wind my friend, personal attacks are not a good look, however veiled.

    But I’ll let that go, I don’t find cheap shots worthwhile.

    You find me a big tech manufacturer that’s squeaky clean and I’ll give you that one.

    As for software, I don’t really use anything that’s not also available on at least some of the other platforms you mention. I’m not signed into my Apple ID on it, I only use Chrome on it to get the software I use.

    I’m well aware of the issues but you thinking I’m somehow worse than anyone using a PC with Windows or whatever is just naive.

    And to top it all, you think I made some kind of attack on those who don’t like Apple. Again, it’s not looking good for you and you’re doing the heavy lifting for me.

    Try again chump.


  • Overall that’s fair. I’m not a heavy user and it’s not my living. The warranty is probably for one swap but it’s lapsed now. If it was going to break it would have by now but I have other options and they run to about 5 years.

    I used windows for years for audio and it was always a pain. Having said I would never buy Apple anything, I finally got to try it and the difference is night and day.

    That’s just my experience but if I was doing this professionally as my main source of income, any hardware issues would be fully covered. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise. I’d use the best tools for the job and for me that’s Apple.

    I do think it’s worth considering the points you’ve made if you’re in that position. My points were not aimed at those people, just at those in a similar position to mine. The discussion though, is always useful for the observers, so I think we’ve done ok there.

    Happy Xmas!





  • Sure, if I had paid a jacked up price, if there were any other options that don’t have questionable ethical practices, and lastly as it’s not really clear, anti-consumer crap.

    What does that mean, exactly? Because consumers are the income for a company that sells stuff, so I don’t really know what you’re getting at.

    But, if I concede that you mean things like having huge price differences between base RAM and useful RAM, because that’s the main contention here generally, I haven’t given Apple anything in that regard either.

    Overall, it’s weird how people use the voting system. It was weird on Reddit but I thought there would be less weird voting here. I mean, I don’t give a shit, but it is weird.

    I usually only mention this once on a sub/community if at all, because it doesn’t matter. I just find it weird enough to sometimes say so.

    But, I digress. I bought a used MBP and got an amazing deal while Apple got nothing. It’s been almost two years, I use it to make music for fun and it handles everything I throw at it. It gets hot as it’s Intel but I use a pad thing with fans in. The noise doesn’t bother me, for detailed listening I use good headphones.

    If I were relying on it to make a living, maybe things would be different. But not necessarily. These are the people my first comment was clearly aimed at. Why anyone would question that is, frankly, weird.

    But people here hate Apple and me using Apple is enough to spread the hate, regardless of my not giving anything to Apple.

    Rant over, I guess.












  • if you went Out in public and paparazzi started haunting everyone out on the street, all the time, even though you are no-one famous.

    While this is true, it’s important to understand that you have already given that right by just being out in public. If you can be viewed by the eyes of people, in a public place, then they can photograph you.

    The difference is that if you can be obviously identified in the image and it is used commercially, you should be asked for a release or permission generally.

    It’s a grey area in the context of scraping for AI, not because permission hasn’t been given, but because the technology is new and the laws haven’t been written yet.

    The changes will happen but it takes time, particularly with a complex issue like this.


  • As always, these are brilliant but need to be affordable. In the UK they are not. New builds are starting to get them, just, but home building is an absolute shit show here.

    Additionally, I’m coming round to the idea of solar for my property. It’s not clear if it can work for me financially though, and my roof type prohibits it until at least the end of next year at best.

    If only our government would do the right things with renewables. Or anything else for that matter.

    Ho hum.