just once i would like to scroll lemmy for more than 15 minutes without being smashed over the head with an example of why i left

Well sure, Republicans are currently actively trying to strip away trans rights, build a military with the authorization to operate within our borders, black bag people in the streets without charging them with a crime because they don’t like what they have to say, and deploying the goddamn Armed Forces against their own citizens when they have the audacity to peacefully protest about it, and Democrats are voting party line against every single one of those, but they aren’t saying no louder than that, so they’re the same.

No one is better at mental gymnastics than leftists, I swear to god.

can ml go two goddamn seconds without fellating a dictatorship because they saw “communism” on the sign

can i please scroll my lemmy feed for 20 whole minutes without being aggressively reminded of why i stopped using lemmy

“Democrats and republicans are same!!!1!!”

yawn

hytale be like

Return oriented programming is not a…

…you know what, never mind. You keep doing it. Cybercrime is cool anyway

i’m not sure there’s any metric by which the soviet union could be called a success but go off king

Enables reproducible builds years later

If I had a dollar for every flake I’ve pulled from Github that didn’t build because of link rot, and $10 for every nixpkgs package that didn’t build because one of its dependencies had broken and it hadn’t been updated, I could afford to contribute to Nix full time

ah good, lemmy hasn’t changed a bit since i left it 2 months ago

welp see you losers next year

Hi!

Sorry for taking a year to respond, but I figured better late than never.

Do you have a Matrix account? I’d like to chat more.

I don’t think a state should kill anyone for sake of retribution

That’s funny. Just a couple replies ago you were actively advocating for murder. Is it only bad when the state does it?

oh boy the mogais are back

Apologies. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways. Summary execution, I now realize, is never acceptable. If Hitler hadn’t killed himself, he would have deserved life in supermax, not the electric chair. Deliberately ending a life is simply inhumane.

i’ve heard of jokes going over people’s heads but i think you had to duck

Try this one on for size

these are things the vast (and I mean >98% VAST) amount of general computer users are not capable of understanding and should not attempt regardless.

That’s the problem, isn’t it? It’s actually fine that you can’t do this, because the average user is too stupid to be able to do it safely. That’s the Apple ethos. That’s their justification for disallowing sideloading on iOS, however flimsy it may be. I don’t care that my grandma doesn’t know what doing this would mean. I’m not my grandma, dammit. I own the computer, let me do whatever I want with it!

I use Little Snitch, which absolutely can block traffic to Apple’s domains.

That’s another thing I should’ve added to my list: find basic system utilities, like a drive cleaner, firewall, or alternative terminal emulator, that aren’t paid products.

I work at a small, locally owned, computer shop. We order Mac parts and install them all the time. I’m literally doing a MacBook Air screen replacement tomorrow morning, and we’re not AASP. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Has Apple finally pulled their head out of their ass and removed parts pairing? This is great news!

You can do that with plenty of network scanning apps, and you shouldn’t be doing that on device anyway. Not sure how Linux would stop that when you could install a bad package, or run apt update on something that has had a supply chain vulnerability.

If you’re willing to consider supply chain vulnerabilities when considering whether someone is spying on you, who’s to say there’s not a supply chain attack against Wireshark that hides the malicious traffic?

For example you could be running a hackintosh.

Aren’t hackintoshes virtually dead with the latest release of MacOS?

Soon as they force 11, I’m switching back to a Linux desktop, but honestly I’m not looking forward to it.

I don’t know when you last used Linux, but I can virtually guarantee that the new user experience is better than you remember it being. The last time I had a driver issue with anything apart from my graphics card (and that was easily resolved) was roughly ten years ago. As for the new user experience and just getting everything set up without using the terminal, confessedly, I’m an Arch user, so I’m a bit out of touch with the newbie side of the Linux distro world, but from what I’ve heard, Bazzite makes the transition fairly painless.

As of MacOS 15.1 Sequoia, that is no longer possible.

In answer to your question, though, off the top of my head:

• Use a different desktop environment
• Uninstall OS components that I don’t need for a lighter weight system
• Be absolutely certain that Apple isn’t spying on me instead of just stopping Facebook from tracking me and then doing it themselves instead
• Run 32-bit apps after Apple ended support for them
• Play video games (the MacOS version of Steam is a joke and everyone knows it)
• Take my laptop or desktop to a repair service that isn’t sanctioned by Apple, or (horror of horrors!) replace the components inside it myself

My parents loved and cherished me growing up, and still do, which is part of why I was the only kid in sixth grade with a laptop (the other part was I had a disability accommodation with the school that allowed me to type my assignments rather than write them by hand). The fact that they encouraged my programming talent at that age, didn’t get mad when I installed a Fedora dual-boot on that laptop, and bought me the book Python for Kids for my 12th birthday, is why I’m a programmer now.

I’m sorry your parents didn’t show you the love and support you deserved, but that’s not the criterion we should be looking for.