Corporations are not people.

I dunno how many times I need to say it before anyone hears this, but…

Nobody gives a shit about the shareholders.

Yes, if you leverage the powers of root and you know what you are doing, you can endlessly modify MacOS to your heart’s delight.

I find most people don’t have that ability. They stick to the Apple app store and color inside of the lines that Apple has put down.

It’s no small feat to overcome some of the “safeguards” they have put in your way with modifying the device.

If you use an iPhone and you don’t like the Apple way of doing everything, your options are basically: 1. Tough shit, deal with it, or 2. Don’t use an iPhone.

Android has a lot of the same protections, but you can still, from the user interface, bypass a lot of it, by design. It’s “not recommended”, but you can do it.

Microsoft is trying to move towards what Apple is doing. The TPM requirement allows Microsoft to basically hold the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. What they’re aiming for is a root of trust (which is naturally, Microsoft), that allows all other things on your PC to run without warnings or dialogs, if they have been blessed by Microsoft’s certificate authority for code signing (which is a requirement for drivers, but not nearly as strict of a requirement for applications).

This is the foundation of the “trusted computing” thing that they’re pushing forward. The problem I have with “trusted computing” is who is issuing the trust? So far it seems like Microsoft is… Which is not great IMO.

However, since Windows is only requiring that level of trusted signature on code for drivers, we’re not to the same dystopia that MacOS has been “enjoying” for years.

This is what I see whenever I see an apple device. There’s very little control that the user can exert that Apple hasn’t blessed to be something within your control.

All computers are general purpose logic machines and they’re intentionally making them not do things that they absolutely could otherwise do, just because.

Not saying iPhones are bad, or that Mac’s are bad… I’ve just noticed that if you do things in a way that is compatible with how Apple thinks you should do them, then Apple works very well for you. If you have foolish notions to do things differently (or, “think different”… If you will), then you’re going to have a bad time.

I’m still not ready for round one. Can we go back?

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The nickname is new, the behaviour isn’t.

At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.

My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she’s hitting the speed dial for my partner’s phone. At this point she’s kind of in a mindset of “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”. If she can’t get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.

Luckily, she hasn’t been inundated with AI chat bots yet.

I’m certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun… Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn’t get.

She’s a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can’t get an instant response from someone on what to do. There’s plenty of people that do not.

I’m almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)… They don’t try to fix their computer because that’s not their job. Even if they know how, they won’t. That’s not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.

Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don’t care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that “black and white”.

It never went away.

Sincerely, someone who works in IT support.

They seem to give a shit now, so… Progress?

I’m disappointed in the reaction-based interest. They finally have a personal reason to dislike the guy, and now, in retaliation, they actually notice all of the sketchy/terrible shit that he’s been involved in, or party to…

Despite my disappointment, I’m just glad things are being seen finally. It’s probably way too little, and way too late, since he’s currently a sitting president in his second, and hopefully last term, but it’s something.