Why I Think #Macs Are A Pain in 2025: A Rantlet

• Leveraging network shared storage (#AFP, #NFS, #CIFS, doesn't matter) is a raging hemorrhoid PAIN.
• They have secured these machines into near un-usability. Getting an older USB-A/B external hard drive hooked up is a nightmare, and when the "Allow external device to connect?" dialog somehow goes missing? FUUUUUU
• Ports. This is better on the newest high end MBPs but - usb-c only SUCKS. Just don't do it. EVER. At least ethernet and HDMI FFS.
• I can't get any Mac (work issued MBP M3 or my wife's m2 Macbook) to connect to video through a USB-C adapter without juddering the screen into unusability

In short: Apple has optimized the Mac for people who sit in coffee shops drinking soy lattes, never connect their computers to external devices, never try to utilize network shared storage....

They seem tomake them for people who don't REALLY need to use their computers beyond what came in the box.

And if that's all YOU need, good on you, but as a long time Mac user and former lover, I'm getting a bit frustrated!