hello everyone, I’m one of the maintainers, mostly involved with osx and the settings. just joined the community with a fresh account.

I will try to be active so that we can get this community going, it would be nice to be present on a federated service such as lemmy. it seems like the creator is not around anymore so that might become a pain at some point, but we’ll see.

  • fishonthenetOPM
    2·
    3 years ago

    If they want privacy then why are they using OSX?

    a number of reasons:

    • one might not have access to other hardware.
    • one might not have the money to replace old hardware.
    • one might need high performance hardware and apple is the cheapest available (believe it or not this is true in some parts of europe, by far).
    • one might be forced to use osx for work or studies.
    • one might use different machines with different OSes for different use cases, and he wants to protect from online tracking.

    if your OS is spying you, that tool is useless, right?

    I don’t think osx is “spying” on you: it’s not ideal, but it isn’t a keylogger or even win10 level of bad, at least imo. you can also use osx without an apple account.

    even assuming one is using an os which is very bad for privacy, it still depends on what you are trying to defend from in that specific setup. one might be comfortable with the data collection in win10 but he might want to use LibreWolf to prevent online tracking, and that’s a totally fine use case.

      • fishonthenetOPM
        1·
        3 years ago

        If you live in a island isolated from tech world you don’t need to care about privacy

        you can still be tracked around the internet.

        apple is always more expensive and harder or impossible to repair

        I swear to you every other high performance and lightweight laptop is more expensive in my country and I just couldn’t afford it at the time. I know it sounds crazy, I wish I could go for something else at that time, I just couldn’t (many others are in the same spot). impossible to repair is unfortunately very much true, but environmentally speaking I want to be conscious so I won’t throw it away as long as it works.

        why are they there in first place?

        think of video editors, ios devs, students who need software for exams that only works on proprietary OSes. it sucks I know, but it can happen.

        f you are looking for privacy, keep away from Apple and Microsoft

        I agree, but still. also even if you don’t use an open source OS you might want to protect from online tracking, why not?

        this is still safer than Apple

        I disagree with this. I can block outgoing stuff with a firewall and I can use my laptop without an account even without pirating the license (which is illegal btw). also, by default osx doesn’t collect as much data, especially if you don’t have an apple id.