2026-10-01 06:37 UTC
I still use a Macbook because I am used to macOS and - most of all - because the battery life on Apple chips is just outstanding.
But with the new macOS 27 ("Golden Gate") Apple is baking surveillance and data synthetisers ("AI") even deeper into it's OS which - to me - reaches the point where I can no longer sufficiently trust the machine. I still run macOS 15 ("Sequoia") but when I am forced to update eventually this will probably be the end of using a Mac.
This sucks.
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@DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz 2026-10-01 07:08
@malteengeler@legal.social I feel you. Also, beside all the obvious telemetry and AI crapola, MacOS and mac software have been steadily declining for the past two decades, to the point that it's now basically a slicker version of Windows. The amount of shit that gets between you and diong the simplest things is breathtaking. MacBooks are nice, yes, but I'd switch to a Macintosh running System7 in a nanosecond.