A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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My friend recently sold his Mac as he’s very accustomed to tinkering and MacOS either didn’t listen or broke. The ouf of the box experience is real but once you are ouf of this box (aka you need more customisation and configuration) it’s not enough. But of course very Linux approach to MacOS.
Same experience here… Luckily we have brew ^^ Gives some freedom to customize !
But things like .plst… What a hellish dumb experience ! Nowadays I use my Mac as testing ground before they go into my main server…
But what a surprise when I found out that bash on Mac doesn’t work the same as on Linux…
Yeaaah Macs are good for a set/forget/pay workflow… But tinkering?? Naaaah.
Brew is the only thing that saves it somehow however that’s only package manager with formulas.
MacOS is perfect for people that just want to install the software and use it (still out of the box).
But for even system configuration MacOS falls behind in many ways - I mean even in the settings. I use Ubuntu at my work and more people with Mac have DNS / Wireguard (VPN) problems than me.
pkgsrc also works well with MacOS