If I end up on try that jury, not guilty.

You say you’re listening but all you’re hearing is how what is being said affects you.

You appear to see yourself as a victim. This makes you more dangerous than a bear.

The bear won’t take a women’s fear of it personally. It will want to avoid confrontation.

You will definitely take it personal. You appear willing to confront them for their fear. You will demand they not be afraid of you, because you are innocent. The scenario is one of a thousand reasons they choose the bear.

Satanic iconography

A tablet is not a luxury device.

The poster also does not say that poor people buy the high end tablets but rather that when they do buy devices they opt for insurance.

Rich people see a tablet as a disposable item that they can afford to replace.

Poor people see a tablet as an investment that must be protected.

I argue this isn’t an observation on one’s monetary wealth but rather their self worth.

The topic of the post isn’t about how to act rich but rather how the rich act in ways that differ from those without that status. Anyone can have a high self worth.

Claiming that people who are poor earn it by having lesser self worth is a way to blame the poor for being poor.

It is a dangerous line of reasoning that I felt worth pointing out.

I bet they have microwaves too!

Care to elaborate on what those services are?

He’s claiming to know others minds. That’s not experience.

What you’re describing has nothing to do with poor vs rich.

Your belief in social and economic mobility indicates this is your cooping mechanism.

You are finding a way to blame poor people for their inequality. That’s a much better example of the difference between poor and rich thinking.

Those old POTS phone lines did carry a few volts.

This, plus giving extraneous information that may lead to incorrect presumptions.

Piss in the sink. Wash hands. Problem solved!

No, I’m good. I’m not here to make friends. I’m not even expecting to challenge anyone’s techno-religion. At best I would say this is devil advocacy but it’s not quite that since it’s not about what I believe or do not believe. But it’s about what others believe and the display of fervent belief in others intrigue me, especially where it exists in the face of clear unambiguous reality.

For example, Trump supporters fascinate me in this same way. People say being nice is a better approach there as well, but i am not trying to deal with them or change their minds either. In that situation I refer to it as stick poking.

Again, it’s the belief that intrigues me. The sociology behind it is understudied.

Yes. Free to think it because it’s true. Apple doesn’t sell their users out, they get their money up front on the hardware…the thing people like you call the Apple Tax.

Except it’s not. It’s great that you understand most companies are positioned this way but Apple is not. I don’t expect anyone in a technology forum that cannot understand the nuances.

Paranoia is good but if you choose Google because you falsely believe you have no choice because everyone else is doing it too, then cool.

I am no pied piper and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I abhor groupthink and while I will never refrain from pointing out the obvious cases of it, I couldn’t care less if anyone listened. People far smarter than I have written on the folly of arguing in these instances.

Click bait

Click bait

Hardware flaw

None of this is spyware. Not a single piece.

If I cared I could have guessed these were some of the examples you added to your “Apple is bad head cannon” but these still aren’t what is being alleged by the original poster, spyware.

At best you can claim Apple is using terms and conditions to add wiggle room but again, not spyware.

I asked if you know what spyware is but I get that it doesn’t matter. Your head cannon is unbeatable and it’s easier to dismiss me as a no nothing asshole. The crowd has spoke, this technology forum is more interested in groupthink than technology.

There are a lot of smart people making sure Apple hardware supports Linux. There is a limited number of variations, the hardware itself has high built quality and Apple pushes support into the Linux community so the hardware can more easily run Linux.

The same cannot be said about any random windows laptop.

As others have noted, if you want a Linux first laptop, there are options.

However this idea that Apple spies on its users has no merit. It’s a claim I have only witnessed being made by the witless.

I’ve been in the internet long enough to know not to expect fools to accept they are fools.

Unlike the morons of the internet, I am always ready to be proven wrong. However, it doesn’t look like that’s about to happen here.

You keep making that claim about spying without attempting to back it up.

Apple spyware means exactly what to you? You can’t just make shit up because you hate Apple. Then on top of that expect someone who is more knowledgeable to accept your ignorance.

When people ask for advice and reject the most common paths that professional take because they cannot get over their own ignorance, they aren’t actually asking for advice. They are playing victim and looking for their fellow ignorants to ditto them.

That wasn’t the accusation.

There are many who use Apple laptops as Linux laptops.