Now do one for a Windows PC and get back to us… lol
Welcome to modern telemetry. All this proves is MacOS is no different. Linux is the only safe haven, and even then - only if the user is careful about the programs they install.
Reject modern operating systems, return to punch tape
+ templeos (you have no internet)
The fuck is gafam? It was faang before? Right?
Yes, but faang meant Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google
Should be FMAGA
If they added yandex they can be GAYFAM.
This is mostly likely iCloud and nothing to get worked up about. The “article” doesn’t even mention if they logged out or not.
It is while logged in to icloud for sure because it’s trying to find the private relay server.
apple stans keep telling me apple is much more private. but apple stans are annoying anyway.
This is why I can’t stand Mac fans. All their claims are either outright false or outdated:
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Macs don’t get malware? Yes they do.
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Macs are more private? More than Windows maybe, but that’s like saying the restaurant that gives you explosive diarrhea is better than the one that gives you brain parasites. Apple being “not as bad” as the worst offender is not praiseworthy and still means they’re in no way private.
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Macs “just work?” Unless Apple decides it shouldn’t. They can prevent you from installing paid apps you already own because the latest version arbitrarily doesn’t support your older device anymore. Want to install an older version? Fuck you, stop being poor and buy a new Mac.
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Macs have better support than Windows computers? Yeah maybe when the Apple logo was still rainbow coloured and they had CRTs built in. Now a battery replacement costs nearly as much as a new device and they go out of their way to make sure you can’t do it yourself.
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Macs don’t come with bloatware? Then what do you call that bullshit AI they’re pushing to compete with Copilot? What do you call Safari? What do you call Photo Booth? Has anyone ever opened Photo Booth once the novelty of their first time using a Mac wears off?
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Macs are intuitive? Look, maybe I’m just a tech illiterate idiot, but I had more problems figuring out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook than I had tinkering with the Linux kernel and systemd.
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Macs are good for developers? Yeah they’re so good they’ve recently had to cave and introduce a WSL-like system so you can run Linux containers.
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Macs are innovative? Yeah they’re so innovative they don’t even support snapping windows to half or a quarter of the screen when Linux desktop environments and even Windows have had it for ages. Gotta either leave all the windows floating, or full screen them all and swipe between them, or manually resize the windows to the layout you want.
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Macs are convenient? Yeah I just love carrying an HDMI or USB A to C adapter forever because they couldn’t be bothered to give you one on a laptop sized device that can clearly fit it. Also fuck Apple for giving other laptop companies the idea that everyone wants only USB-C on their devices. No, we want ports we can use today, not in 10 years when all the peripherals switch to USB-C. I’ll buy a computer with only USB-C when everything else I own actually uses USB-C.
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Macs are more secure? How do you know? Do you control the disk encryption keys? No, Apple does.
Just to prevent you from falling to your own outdated claim, here’s a correction or two:
Window snapping and arranging windows in the corners is a thing now (and with hotkeys too, a million years late- I had to look this up since I’ve been using Rectangle for a long time)
Some mac laptops have HDMI ports. If you get a mac without an HDMI port, it’s in apple’s “paperweight class” of machines and shouldn’t be bought. Macbook Airs are just expensive mac flavored chromebooks.
The repairability sucks, but I still use my 2014 macbook pro daily because it still works really well (though those old intel chips make the fans go wild even after repasting everything and cleaning the fans). I was able to buy a cheapo replacement battery off ebay and it’s working great after a fairly tedious process of using IPA and dental floss to release the old battery. It is no longer supported by apple through software, though I use OpenCore legacy patcher to update to the newest system so I don’t have to worry about an old system without security updates connecting to the internet. I’ve tried installing various Linux distros on it and none of them are very happy with the process. Most of the time it’s the stupid broadcom wifi chip and other times only a single speaker works and I’m too much of a dunce to troubleshoot things like that. Tails OS becomes nearly useless on an old macbook because of the broadcom issue. But also, I’m not about to go buy a thinkpad just so linux will work properly- I don’t need more devices in my house, I’ll just use what I already have.
“Paperweight”/“chromebooks” yet can run davinci, Lightroom, PS, and IntelliJ at the same time? I mean complaining about the cost sure, but MacBook Air with the Mx chips are just as powerful as the old Intel MBPs, if not much more powerful.
Sure you can… until you run out of memory and it throttles because there is no fan. Then it uses swap memory until it chews away at the 256Gb drive. It’s possible to run these things just long enough to say “look, I told you so”, but I would never try using it professionally, especially if you’re running Adobe bloatware. Power isn’t the issue.
I’d almost always recommend the base Mac mini instead of a MacBook Air specifically because you can actually upgrade the internal storage after you buy it and it has fans. I still wouldn’t load up on a bunch of huge programs at the same time because memory will eventually be the bottleneck like it is with the MBA, but it’s far more reasonable to use for work for about the same price. The value proposition for the MacBook Air just isn’t that great generally speaking as well as when compared to other options Apple has.
Thanks for the corrections! I edited my post to reflect them.
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Adguard on my router has apple services at 7% of all blocked domains in the last 24 hours (545 times). Adobe is 14% in that same window (1135 times). I hate it here.
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Do you have a Roku? Mine is losing its mind that it can’t phone home, and all those ad settings are off.
Theres probably some Roku specific blocklists out there, but I got tired of playing whack a mole with all the new connections every week when I had my Roku. My partner also just wanted to watch tv without me fiddling with filters constantly, so I swapped to an Apple TV. It’s been nearly perfect with adguard (it even stops all ads on Hulu).
I have zero things Apple. Does it need Apple stuff to work? And is Jellyfin available?
I don’t think it requires iCloud or anything else apple. I’m not sure how “casting” works if you have a non-Apple mobile device, but that’s the only issue I can think of. Jellyfin works (I think it is called swiftfin) as well as Infuse. I also use Tailscale to watch things on my Apple TV from my NAS.
FAGMAN
Not sure where you take the N from. Plus it’s needlessly derogatory. How about FMAGA instead? Because F MAGA!
and BTW the N is Netflix
Most of it is functional things like iCloud, notifications, share my location, etc. Apple has very few domains for telemetry alone.
