• enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    What? No. Your “payment” to Apple continues as you use OSX.

    You don’t need to pay “Linux” anything (though you can donate to distros and app devs if you’re a sweetie).

    You don’t even need to pay for a computer. You can steal one or find one in the garbage. Apple hates recycling hardware, that’s why they sue 3rd party Apple repair and maintenance shops. I used OSX for a decade. They were cool for a little while, being somewhat novel for adopting a UNIX-like as their backbone, but that goodwill and logic is long dead.

    I hate them as much as I hate Microsoft, perhaps even more, because not only have they abandoned the ideals they marketed in the 00’s, they are draconian in their enforcement of their control. Their planned obsolescence is absolutely criminal. They embezzle tens of billions of dollars overseas to avoid taxation. And Tim Cook now blows Donald Trump for breakfast.

    To hell with Apple and their whole shitty thing.

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      13 hours ago

      What a fascinating hallucination you’ve had.

      Regardless, macOS is free. It’s been free for the last 15 years, and if you want to prove otherwise, show me a receipt where you paid for it.

      Or even the tiniest shred of proof of your claims beyond wild speculation and hatred for Apple.