Unfortunately there are a lot of right-wing political commentators who are absolutely creaming their pants over it.

Yep.

How pro-life of them

As of MacOS 15.1 Sequoia, that is no longer possible.

Did you read the page you linked to? You can still run unsigned code. You have to review it in the system settings, but you’re not blocked from doing it. I’m doing it right now on the latest version of Sequoia…

• Use a different desktop environment
• Uninstall OS components that I don’t need for a lighter weight system

Valid, but these are things the vast (and I mean >98% VAST) amount of general computer users are not capable of understanding and should not attempt regardless.

• Be absolutely certain that Apple isn’t spying on me instead of just stopping Facebook from tracking me and then doing it themselves instead

If you care about privacy on any OS, you should be using a local firewall—something you can do on macOS. I use Little Snitch, which absolutely can block traffic to Apple’s domains.

• Run 32-bit apps after Apple ended support for them

This is the single most annoying thing about macOS. I’ll give you that. However, that being said, I haven’t actually run into an issue with it in the last two years.

• Play video games (the MacOS version of Steam is a joke and everyone knows it)

Similar to others have said, I daily drive my MacBook for basically everything except playing games. I do still play Minecraft, or any (usually smaller) games that I can install on my MacBook natively, but I play most games on my desktop PC—in fact that’s about all I use it for these days. Funny enough, that hasn’t changed since years ago when I used Linux Mint on my laptop and Windows on my PC.

• Take my laptop or desktop to a repair service that isn’t sanctioned by Apple, or (horror of horrors!) replace the components inside it myself

I work at a small, locally owned, computer shop. We order Mac parts and install them all the time. I’m literally doing a MacBook Air screen replacement tomorrow morning, and we’re not AASP. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Jesus Christ, America is a nightmare

And yet ten will crumble the conservative narrative.

Wait, so the patents Nintendo is suing them for breaching were only filed… months after Palworld was already wildly successful?

Unfortunately, that’s accurate. My wife’s a 5’4" 110lb EA and even she’s had to either restrain or get away from violent kids.

If the hashes match the files from the Fedora or OpenSUSE releases, then does this really matter?

Not to mention the bandwidth costs… yeesh

Don’t bother with ABP. Use AdGuard, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger.

I do think the 30% commission is high. But the problem I see now is, even if the gov’t gets involved and mandates their rev share be lower, game publishers will absolutely not lower their prices to coincide with that. Corps know people are already used to paying pretty exorbitant prices, so they’d happily have the government mandate they make more profit while valve makes less without having to do any work whatsoever.

Micro-film

https://piql.com

I’m going to say that watching sports counts, so we’re in for some Hockey Helldivers

They’ve moved the repo over to Gitlab, seems they’re just leaving the GitHub one up as a public archive and they’re anticipating it getting taken down

No platform pays nearly as well as YouTube does on average. If they upload to other platforms, and you watch the content on those other platforms, they’re going to make significantly less money than if you watch on YouTube. Even if there’s increased reach from uploading to multiple platforms, the creator will almost certainly make less—so there’s less than no incentive for them to upload elsewhere.

I hope none of the stock exchanges have captchas, otherwise they might have trouble selling…

Maybe this means we can have a Slayer playlist /s

Whelp, way to make me feel old

To be clear, it does sound odd that you were originally banned from the forum for talking about freight forwarding… but beyond that, YTA.

You deserved everything for being a total dick to the first person who helped you, and then going on a tirade against the mods.