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How can our eyes be real if mirrors aren't real?

As someone who has professionally done legal reverse engineering. No. No it isn't.

The security you get through vetting your code is invaluable. Closing off things makes it more likely for things to not be caught by good actors, and thus not fixed and taken advantage of by bad actors.

And obscurity does nothing to stop bad actors, if there's money to be had. It will temporarily stop script kiddies though. Until the exploit finds it's easy into their suite of exploits that no one's fixed yet.

I would concur. You can record high quality encoded audio on your iPhone, audio design on your iPad with your other samples, and add the mixed soundscape into your film on iMac.

I literally know someone in the media industry who's whole effortless workflow is what makes him a go-to guy for quick and flexible turnaround for audio mastery for films. He works exclusively on apple devices for this exact reason.

I'm not saying it's impossible another way, but he really likes the ecosystem.

Only partially true. VFX for example uses Linux quite a bit, and a lot of web devs use Linux too, or even Windows with WSL.

But it would be a stretch to say that support is the result of current macOS. The Mac has always been popular with creatives, since way before it was UNIX-based.

I'd argue the popularity with creatives is largely from being marketed to creatives since its earliest days.

The lack of non proprietary art tools is a big reason I didn't go into digital art / graphic design. GIMP just cannot keep pace and I did not want to shell out $500 a year or more in subscriptions just to be able to do a job with no security that pays pennies.

Its also a big part of why I'm "pro" AI art (I'm actually pretty neutral, I'm not liking that they're burning down the Amazon to make shitty ads with). I think it's gonna be a decent tool for artists to automate repetitive tasks like cutting backgrounds out of photos for collages, upscaling / enlarging images, adding background textures to landscapes, touching up acne in portraits, and animating repetitive shots like walking. but right now we're unethically sourcing the training data and shoving it into anything and everything with 0 regard for how many resources it's costing to make content that's shitty anyway.

The other half of my argument "in favor" is that the only thing worse than AI existing is AI only existing in the hands of the bourgeoisie and is plebs not even knowing how it works in addition to them using it to gain an unfair advantage over us. I think we have an opportunity to make sure that the open source tools are decent to begin with instead of letting them have complete control over even more of the creative world.

Writing and game development are creative too

Designer here. This is true, but they are also have a seriously good trackpad and good energy use (finally). They work well for design, video and audio, but they are also really nice to operate. It’s a bit like driving a very nice car (which I can’t afford, but have borrowed from a client). Once you get accustomed to it, every other computer—especially laptops—feel like 1980s GM econoboxes.

MacOS owns the rich space*

And a lot of rich people are art dilletants or are able to afford putting their children through expensive art programs with no need to have it pay off. And of course they all buy the "top of the line" (which of course is obviously the most expensive right?) brands.

Don't get me wrong, Apple plays into it so the cycle is recursive.

As someone in the video and audio production sphere professionally, you are 100% correct. I have a Mac desktop that I use for any work I do, but I run Mint on a notebook for my own purposes.

From the mid to late 1990s, definitely. Not so convinced after that.

The problem is that the hardware is fairly underpowered to effectively use for any kind of demanding visuals.

Like if I were rendering out a big 3d scene, I'd want something with a fairly beefy GPU to crunch through the renders relatively quickly.

Yeah, I have some anecdotal evidence to that as well.

Everyone likes to shit on AAPL for being a walled garden, but it's really hard for some to admit that they are pretty good at what they're doing.

WSL is very workable as a dev environment. I just wish it wasn't so janky with networking.

Have you used windows lately? I swear it's become half-assed as an OS. Might still have the enterprise management features, but it's incredibly painful in a mixed enterprise environment that is not standardized office boxes. (e.g. science equipment). I avoid it like the plague if at all possible due to it's now quirky nature.

I'm dating myself, but at least NT didn't crash all the damn time when you access a share on a NetApp or install a new version of the evil Java... Etc.

And then those "enterprise features" get borked on the next major macOS release.

Oh you wanted to ensure your remote assist tool could be granted the proper permissions to work? Well screw you! We took away the ability to grant Screen Recording permissions through a MDM profile. Suck it!

In case you didn't know the Screen Recording permission is needed to be able to view the display/screen in applications like Zoom when screen sharing or for remote assist through Screen connect.

Apple's "reason" was essentially "... Think of the users! It's for their security".

It's overpriced hardware

Have you seen the M4 benchmarks?

If you're memory bound then sure, you can get way more bang for your buck with Intel/AMD. But for pretty amazing CPU performance I think the "Apple is overpriced" trope isn't really true any more.

I would say thats mostly because of Company policies since devs would use the same tools you would use in a linux box. As an Android Developer and CICD Manager I really hate that I have to use a MacBook Pro when a good ol Thinkpad would be more than sufficient.

OSX Server would like a word.

Would be great if true. My company (a quite big one in the health sector) runs on MacBooks.

Mine was like 2005 for home and 2012 for work. Windows and Mac are a distant memory. Thankfully.

IoT is 80% Linux. Linux owns every space except Game Console and Desktop, at least that I can think of.

Although for both Linux and (especially) BSD, isn't there a "Unix of Theseus" issue here, if you understand my meaning?

Unixi

TempleOS doesnt even have a networking stack.

convoluted set of settings

1. Attempt to open the app
2. Go to Privacy & Security Settings and give it permission
3. Open the app

Note that this is only with unsigned apps. You can download other apps and run them just fine as long as they're signed.

Much confuse. Such convolute. Wow.

Gatekeeper has entered the chat

Nonono, imagine a house. But instead of doors it had no doors.

That's why Windows is so insecure. Since viruses can use the windows as doors.

woosh

windows is the most user friendly

This is entirely dependend on what you're used to I think, because I used to think this too but now I can't do anything with windows anymore.

As for memory management, macOS is the better option due to its fully integrated virtual memory system which is often on and continuously provides addressable space up to 4 per process.

Wow, 4 whole memories per process?!

Linux is the most secure among all OS given that it is an open- source operating system which gives users the ability to customize and implement security patches.

Imagine trusting folks to keep their stuff up-to-date, though. People get very hostile at the mere suggestion that they need to update when "everything works fine right now, why should I?"

I don't think this is of interest, this is an article in a student journal, written by one person which seems to be a student too. The quote is weak and cherry-picked.

A quote from the same paper:

Security measures in Linux are slim to none as it is a free OS to download.

I ran Apache on a box at work, but it was configured by our insanely intelligent sysadmin. Nothing got past her. Never met a sysadmin as brilliant as her. I don't know how they managed to hire and retain her, but she was given a lot of freedom to run things how she liked - she even had a custom firewall between us and head office!

I also had an insanely cheery yellow iMac G3 at the same time - if it made it through the first ten minutes without crashing it would make it through the day. Somehow its stability and resilience improved over time. Not so my windows PC. If you left that on too long, memleak.dll and slowdown.dll would take over and everything would get shakier and shakier. I never quite got used to only having one button though.

Love me some Linux mint.

Especially when it's cold outside.

There's also the WSL, which is pretty unix-y.

Or GUN for short.

but does Win Mac?

But the joke stands on the premise that people would argue over it. We're all in agreeance that closed source is not more secure.