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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.

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Why don’t you like Apple? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by Betawhat@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Except a 12 year old Mac isn't supported by Apple anymore and will likely be riddled with vulnerabilities. You could just load Linux on it since it's probably an Intel based chipset.

[–] audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the chipset. The big changes in chipset have been the big barriers for Mac upgradability. My father ran a 10 year old MacBook that was still running the latest MacOS until he found that his 4GB of RAM wasn’t going to be enough and bought a new one (without talking to me first). I had a PPC MacBook that ran on the latest MacOS for about 6 years after Apple switched to Intel.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Also the hardware support is not great, for example the webcam. I installed Linux on my old MBP but it was a hassle to get the webcam working involving some dubious command line entries with sudo

[–] bushvin@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

As long as the OS was supported, updates were available.

But yes, I loaded a nice Fedora on it… 😉