Apple user for over 20 years. I loved my powerbook 4g and loved the first iPhones. Even though they were not the first mobile nix systems (love for the n770 Nokia tablet with Debian and root!).], I felt empowered being able to hack them easily, getting shells running and recording/analyzing sensor data on them.
I feel more and more uncomfortable in the Apple / iOS ecosystem. It’s getting closed down and commodified. Even when there is something cool in terms of tech, they know how to spoil it.
Instead of dealing with Pegasus head on and starting to fix the security culture of iOS/Mac, they make our systems less secure (less open and less hackable).
I find it sad that there are no viable alternatives for non-tech users. I switched last week to a Librem 14 with Arch Linux, KeepassXC and a pixel 5 running grapheneOS, Miiband 6 with GadgetBridge, a System 76 for work. I honestly love it, there are some hiccups, yet it feels exciting, similar like switching from Microsoft to Apple did 20 years ago.
Also moved from programming objective c / swift to rust, elixir and flutter/react. That seems where the innovation happens today for me. As I work in research I have the Privilege to easy switch … we need better alternatives and I feel even stronger about supporting open source and projects and companies that care about it (pine, purism, system76, mozilla, …).
I feel more and more uncomfortable in the Apple / iOS ecosystem. It’s getting closed down and commodified. Even when there is something cool in terms of tech, they know how to spoil it.
Instead of dealing with Pegasus head on and starting to fix the security culture of iOS/Mac, they make our systems less secure (less open and less hackable).
I find it sad that there are no viable alternatives for non-tech users. I switched last week to a Librem 14 with Arch Linux, KeepassXC and a pixel 5 running grapheneOS, Miiband 6 with GadgetBridge, a System 76 for work. I honestly love it, there are some hiccups, yet it feels exciting, similar like switching from Microsoft to Apple did 20 years ago.
Also moved from programming objective c / swift to rust, elixir and flutter/react. That seems where the innovation happens today for me. As I work in research I have the Privilege to easy switch … we need better alternatives and I feel even stronger about supporting open source and projects and companies that care about it (pine, purism, system76, mozilla, …).
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