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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

  • oce 🐆
    15·
    9 months ago

    I don’t understand your initial point. He’s talking about what you get when you buy a new PC. If you buy an Apple PC, you’ll get Apple spyware. It doesn’t imply anything about some Apple buyers putting Linux on their PCs

    • Clent@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Apple spyware means exactly what to you? You can’t just make shit up because you hate Apple. Then on top of that expect someone who is more knowledgeable to accept your ignorance.

      When people ask for advice and reject the most common paths that professional take because they cannot get over their own ignorance, they aren’t actually asking for advice. They are playing victim and looking for their fellow ignorants to ditto them.

      • cuerdo@lemmy.world
        16·
        9 months ago

        I 100% guarantee you that any Apple product is collecting your data and squeezing as much profit as possible out of it. Why? well, Why not!

        • Clent@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          Except it’s not. It’s great that you understand most companies are positioned this way but Apple is not. I don’t expect anyone in a technology forum that cannot understand the nuances.

          Paranoia is good but if you choose Google because you falsely believe you have no choice because everyone else is doing it too, then cool.

          I am no pied piper and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I abhor groupthink and while I will never refrain from pointing out the obvious cases of it, I couldn’t care less if anyone listened. People far smarter than I have written on the folly of arguing in these instances.

          • cuerdo@lemmy.world
            6·
            9 months ago

            The source is common sense, same way I know that they turn off the lights at night.

            They can do it, they have the incentive to do it, there is nobody to tell them not to do it

              • cuerdo@lemmy.world
                3·
                9 months ago

                I don’t think so, this is not a cultural war, evil will try to penetrate every system.

                Of course it will be more difficult in a transparent system