The reason MacOS is seen as a working computer is because if anything breaks about it, it isn't considered a computer anymore by Apple, it is considered e-waste.
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOS
Do you have too much money?
=> Mac
Do you have a decent set of working brains?
=> Linux
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Working computer - >Mac
Should have been:
Do you have more money than brains?->Mac
Or
Fuck this, I'm doing this for shit and giggles. ->Mac
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I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves
I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out
Buy a new one, duh
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Indeed I think the "Yes/No" are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.
Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.
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Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you're told: 🍎
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Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟
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Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧
why RTFM when you can
- Be the manual (own distro)
- forum (Linux mint fr fr epic gaming free robux baby gronk rizzed up livvy dunne sigma) i use this
sorry for the brainrot
where plan 9
In outer space
TempleOS, huh? Better give it a try then.
It's an amazing piece of technology made as a hobby project by the absurdly talented Terry Davis. He gradually lost his world, house and evetually his life to debilitating mental illness, so it makes me sad to see posts like this using "mentally unstable lol" as a punchline.
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Well if your definition of "working" is "can run all the important programs and game" then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.
Honestly. I got a work mac and now I can't run notepad++. I'm stuck with an ide I hate.
Use TextEdit for .txt and .rtf, and get Sublime Text, VS Codium, or any of the other bazillion IDEs out there until you find one you can tolerate. Helix does that for me. (:
Thanks for the suggestions. I cannot fucking stand vscode or vscodium
Which aspects about it do you dislike?
I’m asking since for most everything – except maybe the fact it’s Electron-based – there’s an extension, or the behavior can already be altered in the settings.
Also, IDK how your workplace handles application management, but if you have any freedom as a developer (if that is your role?), make sure to get a package manager, presumably Homebrew or MacPorts.
Brew especially isn’t perfect, but brew install <name> handily beats out any installation method containing the words “App Store” or “Browser download button.”
You have to apply some (from time to time well-hidden) tweaks to macOS until it becomes usable. :P
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