@tekphloyd @ente
Yeah, that looks like an excellent option. Certainly worth looking into and perhaps trying out. Let us know how it goes if you try them out. AGPL License too so that's good. #FreeSoftware#Apple#AppleAlternative
@tekphloyd Yeah, that's a pickle! I suppose it depends on how she's using it as an everything database. But search in Photos is fantastic. And if it's must be accessible from mobile devices it's even trickier.
I reverted to my pre-cloud photo process. Everything is on a hard drive and I use digiKam which is free/libre software. It's an excellent app but does not provide anything close to Photos search.
#ThrowingBigTechToTheCurb
#ResistBigTech
#Apple#Google#Microsoft#Amazon#Fascism
@dennyhenke Thank you for this inspiration! You got me taking some next steps today and I managed to finally delete the #Microsoft and #Google accounts I still had lingering around.
@bryan That's fantastic. Keep sharing your progress. I think the more we talk about it and share our steps taken the more we can help one another. Just as they "gameify" their shit to keep is using it, we should gameify our progress in getting off out of their nightmarish profit machines.
#ThrowingBigTechToTheCurb
#Resist
#ResistBigTech
#Apple#Google#Microsoft#Amazon#Fascism
#RefuseToObey
jbz
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🤢 Apple CEO Tim Cook presents special gold gift to Donald Trump • Macworld
｢ The gift is an inscribed piece of glass with an Apple logo hollowed out in the center. The glass, which came “off the Corning line,” according to Cook, features Tim Cook’s signature and sits in a base that Cook said is “24-karat gold.” ｣
Antanicus
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Tim Cook ha vinto il premio Viscidume 2025
https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
Tim Cook ha vinto il premio Viscidume 2025
https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
Not only did I exit Apple in February (My first computer in 1993 and all since were Apple made) I've started a program at my local library to help others exit big tech, save money and continue using older hardware. Computing without #Apple, #Google, #Microsoft is entirely possible. Using #GNU#Linux#FreeSoftware has been a better #computing experience.
We can help one another do this. We do actually have a choice. They do not get to control everything. Make the effort.
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-16.html
So what are everyone’s excuses for Tim Cook’s behavior this time?
Wake up. He’s an overt Trump supporter, and has been the entire time.
@marcoarment I'd been using Apple hardware since 1993 and made the decision to exit the Apple ecosystem back in February and I'm glad I did. Anyone can do it. Same for Google and Amazon. Didn't use Microsoft.
Computing is entirely possible without them. It takes a bit of effort to detangle from iCloud, etc but it's well worth it.
GNU/Linux is much better than I'd previously thought. It's actually been fantastic.
@tekphloyd No, that would be wasteful. But we can absolutely, 100%, talk about Apple more realistically as a capitalist enterprise that is all about profit.
Get real about it. And begin a real migration away from their products. It's totally doable. I started in February and Apple went from my only hardware/OS to my back-up. Paid iCloud is now free base iCloud. All data local. The others are no better.
WE/YOU can take real control of your computing.
@tekphloyd I've written a series on the process of migrating from Apple to GNU/Linux. Apple users seem to have a very out-of-date perspective of the quality of the Free Software ecosystem. I know I did.
Not only is it doable but in the end users not only save a lot of money but have far more control over their data and their computing life. Honestly, it feels fantastic to be free of their shit.
@tekphloyd No, that would be wasteful. But we can absolutely, 100%, talk about Apple more realistically as a capitalist enterprise that is all about profit.
Get real about it. And begin a real migration away from their products. It's totally doable. I started in February and Apple went from my only hardware/OS to my back-up. Paid iCloud is now free base iCloud. All data local. The others are no better.
WE/YOU can take real control of your computing.
🤢 Apple CEO Tim Cook presents special gold gift to Donald Trump • Macworld
｢ The gift is an inscribed piece of glass with an Apple logo hollowed out in the center. The glass, which came “off the Corning line,” according to Cook, features Tim Cook’s signature and sits in a base that Cook said is “24-karat gold.” ｣
While I understand most of the harsh words spoken about Tim Cook's latest round of orange ass kissing, which I hope will be something that sours his legacy permanently, I also don't see any viable alternatives under the current regime, which seems to be hell-bent on running things into the ground while utterly impervious to things we used to agree on, like facts.
Like ... what would you do if the only chess you can play right now is Orange Pigeon Chess? Not only does a majority think the Orange Pigeon is right, they think chess is for coastal elites, and, if Orange Pigeon slaps a 100% tariff on their next iPhone, they will think you are ripping them off, and will cheer him on as ICE starts rounding up random people from your offices, stores, suppliers, and so forth, betrayed by some of their own colleagues?
There is no winning move, here, and you cannot refuse to play.
Also, y'all have already shown you'll keep buying anyway, just like you keep flying 🤷🏻♀️
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will impose a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports, though companies moving production back to the United States will be exempted. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/07/tech/trump-chips-tariff-apple/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #timcook #semiconductors #apple #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs
alcinnz
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hey tooters:
Recommendation for best HDDs for Time Machine backups?
need 2TB drive
hey tooters:
Recommendation for best HDDs for Time Machine backups?
need 2TB drive
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Hey Apple! Remember when macOS used to be fun? We sure do! We spent years creating hard drive icons people love to use. Let us help give Tahoe a little love too—we’re ready! 🫶
Marco Arment
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What's so pathetic about this redesign of the #macOS drive icons from #Apple isn't that it ditches #Skeuomorphism, it's that it hangs on to skeuomorphism by trying to show a non-euclidian geometry vision of the face of a desktop drive.
Apple lacks the #Courage to go full geometric primitive and make icons that are pure metaphor. Given they're cargo-culting their own graphical history in so many decorative ways, they could have made uncompomised high-fidelity takes on the pre-Aqua icons.
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I’ve got to praise #Apple: My Mac has been at 100% CPU the entire day, converting video files from a non-hardware-accelerated format into H.265, and I barely noticed.
I just used it normally, and even ran emulated Windows 11 for a while, converting DVDs into MKV files (legally!). And it still just worked. No rainbow-wheel-of-doom, no stuttering, the fans were always barely audible.
16" MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 16GB memory.
I’ve got to praise #Apple: My Mac has been at 100% CPU the entire day, converting video files from a non-hardware-accelerated format into H.265, and I barely noticed.
I just used it normally, and even ran emulated Windows 11 for a while, converting DVDs into MKV files (legally!). And it still just worked. No rainbow-wheel-of-doom, no stuttering, the fans were always barely audible.
16" MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 16GB memory.