• WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    20 days ago

    I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 days ago

      macOS is Unix. Everything can be logged and reported through the terminal if you want more debugging information. There are also power tools you can download that give you better GUI-based control over a myriad of things.

      Though it’s worse now than it was ten years ago. Apple’s software has been suffering under Tim Cook and it’s probably not going to get better until he’s gone.

    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      20 days ago

      Indeed I think the “Yes/No” are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.

      Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        3·
        19 days ago

        “After smoking a bowl in the break room thorough investigation, we have determined that you need to buy a new one.”

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    The reason MacOS is seen as a working computer is because if anything breaks about it, it isn’t considered a computer anymore by Apple, it is considered e-waste.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      20 days ago

      This was a problem when they were selling Apple IIs

      MUGs came into being because Apple provided zero support and overcharged for proprietary hardware. So the only recourse was to find a hobbyist, and they were glad to help.

    • credo@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 days ago

      I guess I don’t get this attitude about macs. I switched to mac when I was traveling a lot in 2007 and saw how portable they could be compared to other laptops. It’s almost 2025 and I just bought my third one last year. My kids are still using my 13 year old MBA for homework, and the hardware is absolutely solid.

      Edit: Lol, downvote reality. My favorite pastime.

        • credo@lemmy.world
          2·
          19 days ago

          They put out the best commodity hw on the market IMO. The rest is subjective, and everyone is entitled to their preferences.

          Also no mention that macos actually flows from the last Berkeley release of BSD and still has significant interoperability/portability with other variants. Oh well.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        Did you have anything break on them? Because that was my point.

        Repairing Macs costs a fortune, because Apple rather you buy something new than repair them.

        I still have a Windows 98 machine that fully functions. It is just slow.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        01·
        19 days ago

        You don’t get this attitude about Macs? Are you willfully blind?

        Plug a 1080p monitor into a Windows or Linux machine and notice how text is crisp and readable, because they use sub-pixel text rendering, a technique in use for decades to make text readable on lower resolution monitors.

        Now plug that monitor into a MacOS computer and notice the text looks like trash because Apple ripped out their sub-pixel text rendering system to force users to buy their fancy high res monitors.

        • superkret@feddit.org
          1·
          19 days ago

          Font rendering on Linux is still hit and miss. Recently had to troubleshoot an issue where only the titles of Wikipedia articles in Flatpak Firefox on OpenSUSE looked like ass, with other text, or all text in other browsers and another distro rendering OK.

        • credo@lemmy.world
          1·
          19 days ago

          I don’t actually own a 1080p monitor (nor an apple one), and that’s a pretty specific reason to hate macs of high resolution is your desire. I’m sure there are no similar issues with other platforms that someone could find as a reason to [presumably] turn their PCs into ewaste- which is the actual topic of this thread.

          Hyperbolic much?

          From another thread on this topic:

          Even Microsoft themselves are moving away from it. They just left it on Windows as is for those who use old, standard-res LCD. Their subpixel antialiasing (ClearType) has been disabled by default on Microsoft Office (and many of their productivity products) for years.

          The reason why they are moving away from subpixel antialiasing is because, the sole reason for it exist is for the shortcoming of standard LCD, where it has a big “pixel” that consist of row of RGB “subpixel”. Say if you want to draw a line of 1.5px, obviously you can’t divide that pixel in half. What people did was by using some of the “subpixel” to made up that 0.5px (e.g. it’ll only light up the blue subpixel if the 0.5px is to the left, or conversely the red subpixel if it’s tho the right). Here is an example. By using subpixel rendering on standard LCD, you can “fool” the user by adding that extra colour on the side, which when viewed on standard LCD, it will look smooth rather than those jagged colour.

          Now, obviously this “illusion” will only work on display with big pixel consist of (in order) red, green, and blue subpixel. Now, since many people are moving away toward high resolution display (Apple’s main reason) and there are many other display type with different subpixel arrangements (Microsoft’s main reason, and also Apple’s with their OLED products), there is no reason to use subpixel rendering anymore (in fact, using it on any display other than LCD will look worse).

          • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            I don’t actually own a 1080p monitor (nor an apple one), and that’s a pretty specific reason to hate macs of high resolution is your desire.

            No it is one example amongst hundreds of Apple not prioritizing backwards compatibility or even just third party compatibility, because it would be a little extra effort for a couple software engineers, and as a result we get piles and piles of physical e-waste.

            As a company Apple takes no responsibility for their role in compatibility and ensuring that our (society’s) broad ecosystem of products keeps functioning, they only put effort into making sure that their products, that they profit off of, work and keep working.

            • credo@lemmy.world
              1·
              19 days ago

              A little extra effort times “hundreds” of examples is a lot of extra effort…

              Okay then. Thanks for your viewpoint.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    What kind of Bizzaro world reverse order is this nonsense? Mac is worse than Windows is worse than Linux.

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
    1·
    19 days ago

    Working computer? Apple? Tell that to my dad. He destroys a Mac in about two years. Bought his house 7 years ago, and three dead macs in the basement.

    Could you imagine if he used a PC?

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    1·
    19 days ago

    Don’t worry everyone, it’s like the Sorting Hat, it takes your preference into account. Just say “not TempleOS” and you’ll get into Linux.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
    1·
    19 days ago

    cope and seethe. Haven’t had an issue with either my debian desktop nor my debian laptop in the 5 years I’ve been running it on them. Sounds like you’re just mad your OS constantly advertises paid services to you, and mine doesn’t.

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        1·
        19 days ago

        Not unless they want me to be their bull

        Listen, it’s a funny hyperbolic way of saying “stay mad”; don’t let sex-negative reactionaries have all the fun phrases

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    20 days ago

    • Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you’re told: 🍎

    • Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟

    • Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      19 days ago

      If you think that’s bad, look at the LinuxSucks community and how bad they’re being ratio’d.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    0·
    20 days ago

    Well if your definition of “working” is “can run all the important programs and game” then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.

      • stetech@lemmy.world
        0·
        20 days ago

        Use TextEdit for .txt and .rtf, and get Sublime Text, VS Codium, or any of the other bazillion IDEs out there until you find one you can tolerate. Helix does that for me. (:

          • stetech@lemmy.world
            0·
            20 days ago

            Which aspects about it do you dislike?

            I’m asking since for most everything – except maybe the fact it’s Electron-based – there’s an extension, or the behavior can already be altered in the settings.

            Also, IDK how your workplace handles application management, but if you have any freedom as a developer (if that is your role?), make sure to get a package manager, presumably Homebrew or MacPorts.
            Brew especially isn’t perfect, but brew install <name> handily beats out any installation method containing the words “App Store” or “Browser download button.”

            You have to apply some (from time to time well-hidden) tweaks to macOS until it becomes usable. :P

  • Abnorc@lemm.ee
    0·
    19 days ago

    Where is BSD? I feel like there are still steps before you reach TempleOS.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 days ago

      The Wikipedia page is your best friend here. In short was an operating system written from the ground up by a brilliant, bipolar and occasionally psychotic man who was named named Terry Davis. It is important to mention when talking about Terry Davis to note he stalked several women and he probably took his own life.

      It was Terry’s belief that a way to speak to God was through computers. So he built an operating system from the ground up to act as God’s temple. It’s actually a pretty nifty achievement truth be told and an interesting view into the mind of someone suffering from psychosis. It is not suitable for every day use, but people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.