Im surely not the only one who thinks this article is ai generated? it spams the exact same structure and has the typical smells
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“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.
I’ll care about climate change the day they do.
But every time I need to throw away perfectly good electronics makes me resentful of the idea that climate change is our fault any further than the fact these fucking people breathe air in Minecraft.
They have been since the beginning.
That's literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid.
I said to myself "I can have a full computer in my pocket!"
I went to the Verizon store to buy an iPhone when the droid first launched, the rep said "you don't want that phone, check this one out" and showed me the droid. So glad I didn't get roped into that ecosystem.
I still miss CyanogenMod dearly...
Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.
The whole point of the article is that the new MacBooks are running on iPhone hardware. And that therefore there's no reason for you not being able to install MacOS on your iPhone. Even your old droid was locked down and you were not able to install a real OS which would have given you the freedom to run what you want without restrictions
It wasn't locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS's, it even ran Linux.
I understand the point of the article. I'm saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software 'they' want you to run.
A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.
This. But Marketing has been very good at saying "this: phone, that: computer. not same thing". So many times I heard "Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?". It's not a phone. It has never been a phone.
I had an Atrix 4G back in the day.
For me, it was around 2013 an iPad nano, thinking how awesome having an iPhone with unlimited internet would be, because I could listen anything on demand on the go
Then I got my 4s as first self bought iPhone.
I realised, how macOS like it is, as I had jailbroken it.
You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
I mean, a .tar would have made sense as example here; unzip is also a tool ("app"). And not merely for convenience, the format is not simple. Unlike tar, which you could dd to unpack.
I will risk dying of laughter if THIS is what finally pisses off the Apple cult.
We have been complaining about this shit for YEARS.
And yet... you still... never mind. Not worth it.
I’m annoyed at the state of Apple’s app ecosystem. MacOS is worse this year than it’s been in a long time and I’m not updating on Macs that I control.
But have you used a windows pc recently? It’s like banging rocks together. Somehow, they keep finding ways to make it worse every year. Or month. So yeah, I’m using a Mac because it’s the less terrible option.
(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)
yeah, it's useless... we just need to sit by the river at that point.
Makes me think of either the Fairphone or the Nothing Phone that originally advertised that it could be used as a desktop computer thanks to USB-C ports and I thought that was a brilliant notion. I really don't see why Apple couldn't just do the same. I mean, I can see why (DAT MONAY!) but it would be awesome for folks to have such flexibility with their devices.
Been doing that with a Librem 5 for many years.
Librem! That's the phone I was thinking of, not the others
I think the fairphone is also a Linux phone, so that would work the same. Nothing however is yet another android-but-private-this-tiime
No duh.
This model is absolutely short-circuiting the brains of the Apple haters. It upends everything they’ve been complaining about for a decade; all the same arguments that had merit 10 years ago but were mostly resolved 5 years ago (meanwhile, little said about the things Apple currently is terrible about.)
This laptop is:
- inexpensive, but not 'cheap'
- repairable
- runs a full os; no os compromises
It is not:
- upgradable, but what laptop is these days?
Seriously, it address three of the biggest complaints against Apple historically, and we’re supposed to be mad the phone doesn’t runs a desktop OS? Who was under the impression the phone didn’t run a full OS because of technical limitations?
The Apple that Apple haters think exists (not wholly without reason) would’ve launched a $599 laptop that ran iPadOS, but they didn’t and yet there’s still complaints.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years
The laptop is built on an A18 Pro, a mobile chip first seen in the iPhone 16 Pro, which limits the machine to 8 GB of RAM. Storage comes in 256 or 512 GB, and whichever one you buy is the one you keep.
https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/search?s=sodim&filter%5BmemoryType_uFilter%5D=DDR5%2CDDR4&order=product.price.asc
They could have easily made the RAM and Storage user serviceable/upgradeable, and from what I can find, they don't provide a way for the enduser to expand storage with a secondary SSD/HDD either, so you're either forced to carry around an external hard drive for a product that is meant to be portable, or use cloud storage where you might not always have reliable access to the internet/data caps.
Anecdotal, but the only component that has ever failed on me is a hard drive, if that happened to me on the new mac book, it would be e-waste.
Not allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It uses the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.
All it takes is putting a SODIM socket into the device instead of soldering in the RAM, making it possible to salvage the device if the RAM begins to fail. It's a basic laptop, meant for browsing/writing documents, I can't really see anyone swapping in 16 gb of ram to a device like this, and seeing any performance uplift.
All it takes…
That is perhaps the silliest thing I can think of regarding these chips. Can you name even a single phone whose RAM is not soldered? Heck, most laptops these days don't have upgradable RAM.
upgradable, but what laptop is these days?
Oh, you sweet fanboy child...
Fair enough, enthusiast laptops do. I can’t think of a sub $1,000 mainstream consumer laptop that is.