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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Your individual change is a drop in the ocean but everyone making that change is a tidal wave. I have very recently moved to linux after almost 30 years using windows. It is an incredible set of OSs with brilliant support from a fantastic community and it keeps getting better.

We need to make the change and encourage others too.

[–] bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You're not alone. Used to be the biggest Apple fan, worked there for nearly ten years until 2023.

Last year I made the cut, the new PC I bought was custom built and is running Linux. My MacBook Air is running Asahi Fedora Remix primarily and the iPhone was sold on. Disconnecting from iCloud was a pain, getting pictures off of their system took me three months but it was worth it. Self hosting my stuff now and 2026 is the year to switch my family and friends over as well.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I used Apple with an Apple 2, then once bought an Apple laptop just before they switched to intel cpus as an experiment. For reference I had already been running Linux for years at the time, so that was a test. It lasted three or four months before I ran back to Kde, couldn't stand how rigid, awkward and closed the interface was. As an aside, it was pretty much impossible to extract my data from their "photos" app. They renamed everything and dumed it in a maze of illegible directories.
That was my last contact with Apple.

Even Microsoft felt more user friendly to me.