On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 02:11:26AM +0000, John Newman wrote: > > > On August 3, 2019 4:18:59 PM UTC, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > >Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies > >https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-card-not-allowp
Walled gardens such as Crapple and FaceSlut shall always be walled, censored, backdoored, monitored, rights-destroying freedom graveyards. Nothing new there... > Surprise, surprise heh ;) > > The shitty thing, for me, is macOS is actually a pretty > decent UNIX laptop & workstation OS. It sure as fuck is not > all FOSS, but large portions of it are. Which is absolutely insufficient and rights destroying. But you know that. > I don't know why they > invented APFS instead of using ZFS, Ignorance is bliss as they say. Here's an eye opener for ya: ZFS is a filesystem and as such is not designed with walled garden freedom destroying primitives in its API. That might sound surprising, but Apple is a profit pursuing corporation - they are no Red Hat, that's for sure. > and I don't like the > tight iCloud integration (which is at least optional), > and lots of other technical quibbles, but basically it's been > a good desktop UNIX over the years. Perhaps you mean "apple's tight integration/control over hardware and drivers means I've had a relatively seamless, pain free desktop experience for a number of years using Crapple"? > (I don't like iPhones > at all, have always preferred Android device with a custom > ROM - or a cheap burner phone). Your preferences are irrelevant. What's relevant is where freedom can be found. FLOSS and FLOSS alone, followed on its heels by OpenHW and free/open (or at least auditable) fabs, are our necessary foundations. > However, I'm finally switching to Linux for the laptop > (main desktop switched back to Linux a while ago, and > have used FreeBSD on personal servers for many years). > Most of my time is spent inside of a shell in tmux > anyway! Give yourself a +1 sticker. And the day you get staunch and eliminate all proprietary from your life, you may give yourself a +10 sticker.
