I’ve been an Apple user since the 80s, I used to be penpals with their CFO Ellen Hancock. Would get care packages from their PR team full of promo items. Exchanged emails with Wozniak and Jobs. I was deeply obsessed.
Obviously things have drifted away from the core “underdog” vibe that Apple exemplified for so long, as their popularity and device adoption surged, they’ve been less of the Apple I knew.
But Cook’s behavior this year has me realizing I’ve bought my last Apple device. Bring on Linux in every form.
I know I don’t matter at all, but it would have taken epic amounts of bullshit to make me sour on them, and here we are.
Your individual change is a drop in the ocean but everyone making that change is a tidal wave. I have very recently moved to linux after almost 30 years using windows. It is an incredible set of OSs with brilliant support from a fantastic community and it keeps getting better.
We need to make the change and encourage others too.
You’re not alone. Used to be the biggest Apple fan, worked there for nearly ten years until 2023.
Last year I made the cut, the new PC I bought was custom built and is running Linux. My MacBook Air is running Asahi Fedora Remix primarily and the iPhone was sold on. Disconnecting from iCloud was a pain, getting pictures off of their system took me three months but it was worth it. Self hosting my stuff now and 2026 is the year to switch my family and friends over as well.
I used Apple with an Apple 2, then once bought an Apple laptop just before they switched to intel cpus as an experiment. For reference I had already been running Linux for years at the time, so that was a test. It lasted three or four months before I ran back to Kde, couldn’t stand how rigid, awkward and closed the interface was. As an aside, it was pretty much impossible to extract my data from their “photos” app. They renamed everything and dumed it in a maze of illegible directories.
That was my last contact with Apple.Even Microsoft felt more user friendly to me.
I recently saw a video about what changed and it’s very clear that it is almost entirely Tim Cook’s fault. He’s a rotten snake who no one ever seemed to really like and who was constantly wrong about nearly everything and yet was left in charge and, with zero surprise whatsoever, immediately and consistently fucked it all up.
He was handed a roadmap to making money without sacrificing quality or much integrity(corporations seem hell-bent on making sure they always suck a little bit at the very least) and he threw it away to be a little bitch instead.
Yep, sounds like Tim Apple. XD Could you send a link to the video? Sounds interesting.
I’ve completely lost the video, sorry.
It talked about how he has always been far more obssessed with shareholder value than quality and affordability for the customer.
Apple used to make products that got cheaper over time but under Cook they’ve been sky-rocketing in price.
It also talked about how he was so concerned with pennies that he sought to put a stranglehold on the design team, the people who came up with the entire aesthetic that is Apple a huge reason why they’ve sold so well.
I’ve no clue why he was chosen to lead the company because he’s just a massive idiot who was handed an easy win, hell he was handed something that had already won and has done so much to break what he was given.
And this is also why we NEED mainstream Linux mobile (phone) devices. Google is actively locking down their ecosystem. Both Apple and Google see customers as walking wallets
Just finishing off setting up ElementaryOS on my wife’s early 2015 MacBook Air. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, but with a custom theme to make it macOS-esque. Seems pretty good so far, but time will tell if she enjoys using it.
Edit: Everything but the webcam just worked out of the box. The webcam was a motherfuck though. Took the better part of 3hrs trawling forums to find the full instructions for installing the kernel module to get it running…
Because, it’s NEVER been about protecting kids, or other vulnerable people. The filthy rich don’t give one flying fuck about vulnerable people.
They pulled Tumblr over cartoon porn, but using AI to sexually abuse actual women and children is all good, apparently.
It’s because they fear what Musk might do.
Twitter should be banned for making CSAM.
Post deepfake porn of them and their wives or husbands on X.
That’s…actually a pretty good idea.
More views, more ads. Go ahead make them richer.
Time to find out if they are into sph.
I mean Grok is literally being used to make CSAM so it should not only be taken down but the law should get involved in any reasonable country.
how many times do we have to say it
the law is optional for corporations and the rich
the law is for oppressing the poor and justifying it
It’s just crazy dude. Give pedos an opportunity, and they WILL take advantage of it. You could be making an image hosting app for frickin octogenarians and they’ll somehow discover it and use it as their spank bank. I hate that shit.
The thing is though… is it actually CSM according to the law if there is no real child involved along the way? At least some countries might need a law change first before tackling this.
Edit: I checked the local law where I’m located and it’s “images or videos depicting a minor during a sexual act”. I’d argue these AI generated images aren’t of minors because they don’t exist. We probably need new laws first unless it’s provable that the images represent a specific real life minor.
The thing is though… is it actually CSM according to the law if there is no real child involved along the way?
Legally, yes. The law in the UK also includes images of children that are drawn or computer generated.
I had kind of assumed this was the case in a lot of countries with one of the more prominent exception being Japan (we have a lot of fucked up manga/anime).
Japan had legal Child Porn until disconcertingly recently.
Good. I also read a bit more into it and while I’m not located in the UK apparently there is a specific extension to the law that also includes drawings and “collage” type edits. It doesn’t mention AI yet but surely this should count.
RIP my search history. But I’m glad we don’t need to wait for the law to catch up (in some places). Now all we have to do is scream from the rooftops that the laws need to be applied. Or even better: sue someone.
Because money. And the laws are useless against them.
And the blackmail in daily life
It appears to demonstrate that it’s very much profit over principles and values.
Because they are indeed cowards.
“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are too scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.
Time to spread vids of Cook and Pichai 69ing
this was as close as I could get without burning too many rainforests–maybe people with better AI skillz can get an actual image of them fucking
Everyone watched as Tim Apple bowed and kissed the ring. ‘Coward’ was already his namesake.
More proof that rules and guidelines only apply to those without power or privilege.
Because billionaires like to stick together because they think that they’re better than all of us combined.
They are not cowards, they don’t give a single shit about it. There isn’t enough backlash to effect Google so Google doesn’t care. That is how corporations deal with every subject. They don’t treat child porn differently becuase it’s one of the more henious offenses; it’s simply another rule broken and it is delt woth the same way as anyother broken law or rule: ignore it or throw money at it and admit no wrong doing.
It’s the opposite. They are cowards. Any move to do the right thing makes you a target for oh dear leader (who is also a pedophile). So they ignore it because it’s more profitable to avoid falling out with the administration. The only value a corporation has is greed.
Fuck Tim Apple and Sundar Google.
hopefully more leftists/progressives will wake up about how trusting these companies with “censorship” and having closed source proprietary tech/platforms so entangled in our lives is a bad thing. Most in my experience just complain about how we need to tax them without really thinking about how we can disentangle them from our lives. The past 20 years have been this weird bubble where the largest creators of capital (silicon valley) were not explicitly sided with the auth right wing. People have gotten too use to this especially with personal data and just expecting the state to save them.
I like to think this will cause open source solutions and federated ecosystems to become more popular. Maybe i’m a doomer but we will just get more tiktoks about trump is bad and “late stage capitalism”. People I think just will never sacrifice convenience in life, its why authoritarianism seems to always win.
