• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Guess the 75-80% of other folks I work with are stupid noobs for using a Mac and never did anything because it was so locked down.

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      12 hours ago

      Well, you either care for freedom and privacy, or you don’t. MacOS might have its benefits (and surely beats Microsoft), but the price is too high. And I don’t mean the financial one.

      Personally, I’ve yet to see someone that really KNOWS computers but prefers Apple. Those, that just want a device that works without magic, are usually the ones going for it. To a very special kind of people it’s even a brand-thing.

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          12 hours ago

          Well, then others made that decision for you. If you like Mac or not stopped mattering then 😉

          Luckily in these few times I tried working, I had the choice. Would’ve quit if there were privacy - concerns, though I might be a bit picky with my data…

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            12 hours ago

            I will ad that lately people working on Limux Machines has become much more common. However, they still make me do the demos because every screen sharing app works on my Mac, no matter what the client is using.

            (Plus I’m good at demos.)

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              Well of course they work on Mac. It’s a closed system, a walled garden of compability. Its main selling-point for the technically challenged.

              I would not really see that a a benefit though, as it’s merely a symptom of an illness, even if inherently not bad by itself. If one doesn’t care, then there’s no problem at all and mac wins. Same as windows and android. Then it comes down to taste in UI or favourite tools. Or even “the brand” for the intellectually challenged.

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                  As said, it all depends on the foundation if you value your data/freedom or not. If not, then fine, everything ia great. But many of us do to one extent or another. And then it’s pretty obvious.

                  It’s not the working that is the illness, but the reason it does. I like when shit just works, I juggle 20 machines at home 😁

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        19 hours ago

        all the same stuff? it’s bsd under the hood. it literally functions just like linux. I run cachy on my desktop and while kde plasma is great, mac is fantastic as well. about the only thing better on linux is that I can game.

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        21 hours ago

        I’ve done everything from Java test fixtures to Golang app development to building POC architectures in Docker. Right now I’m testing database failover scenarios in Kubernetes.