[uniqueuid]

It's interesting how the sentiment around Apple has turned, for the first time in what feels like 20 years.

The true reason is, as the recent norwegian report quipped: We love our tech, but it betrays us - that's an abusive relationship.

Consent prompts are a band-aid for users being exploited: They are not fixing the root but covering it with legal painkillers.

But the only true remedy is actually feeling in control of and empowered by your device - a vision that Apple once at least promised, but now has less and less legitimacy of heralding.

[taurath]

> feeling in control of and empowered by your device - a vision that Apple once at least promised

Legitimately, when? I got started on an Apple II, I used the puck mouse without right click, I watched people buy the insanely costly hardware that was always integrated and you couldn’t service yourself. Windows was always more open than Mac - people just didn’t use Linux because it required you to know how things worked under the hood.

Just like the rest of large technology companies, and the economy as a whole, we are all being squeezed for every drop. Eventually the well will run dry, there’s already practically no more data to pull, and the apps will get shittier as revenues need to keep going up, and all the pillars of tech will fall over like a tree hollowed out by pests.

[retired]

> people just didn’t use Linux because it required you to know how things worked under the hood.

This is how Windows feels to me now. The very first interaction with Windows when I buy a new computer is to do Shift+F10 and type away some magical terminal commands to get it working.

That I have to use the terminal to get Windows operational after unboxing my new device is insanity.

From my notes:

> net.exe user 'username' 'password' /add

> net.exe localgroup Administrators 'username' /add

> cd oobe

> msoobe.exe && shutdown.exe -r