T_T As I swim against the opinionated shite-current that macOS is, I can't help but rant.

What if you could make macOS work like you want it to, rather than it 'just working'.

The obsession with frictionlessness creates more friction, especially for anyone who doesn't belong to the browsing and webdev segment of users (which I guess is the intended demographic).

Very competitive hardware. Marred by a dysfunctional OS :(

Zukünftige #Smartphones von #Apple könnten komplett auf Anschlüsse verzichten. Berichten zufolge hatte man schon beim #iPhone17Air ernsthaft darüber nachgedacht, den USB-C-#Anschluss ersatzlos zu streichen. https://winfuture.de/news,149610.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Geheimerlass: Datenschützer klagen gegen britischen Überwachungsbefehl an Apple

Bürgerrechtler haben Beschwerde gegen die von Großbritannien geforderte iCloud-Hintertür bei dem Gericht eingelegt, das über die Sicherheitsbehörden wacht.

https://www.heise.de/news/Geheimerlass-Datenschuetzer-klagen-gegen-britischen-Ueberwachungsbefehl-an-Apple-10317201.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Foxconn: Trumps Zölle bereiten Tech-Giganten "große Kopfschmerzen"

Die Zollankündigungen der US-Regierung führten zu großen Problemen für Big-Tech-Konzerne wie Apple und Amazon, erklärt ihr taiwanesischer Zulieferer Foxconn.

https://www.heise.de/news/Foxconn-Trumps-Zoelle-bereiten-Tech-Giganten-grosse-Kopfschmerzen-10317185.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376033

So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!

Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.

Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.

Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.

(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)

The latest updates to iOS and iPadOS both turned back on Apple “Intelligence” on my iPhone and iPad. *Again!*

Absolutely scummy behavior from Apple by not respecting their user’s wishes to NOT turn on AI.

@gruber

‘Absurd’

When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out

Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.

It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/apple-encryption-government-press-appeal-tribunal-snoopers-charter/