With a removable hard drive/SSD, you can swap it for a "clean" one while traveling abroad to avoid border guards abusing their authority and (say) stealing sensitive corporate or medical data. Takes five minutes on an older MacBook or (better yet) a Thinkpad.
If the thing is soldered in, your only choice is full backup, zero, reformat, reinstall or carry two computers.
Yes. I'd rather buy a drive once every few years than pay some corepiration a monthly nut indefinitely. HDD and even SSD storage are cheap these days.
Plus, I feel more secure with the device in my hand, not in some data warehouse 3000 miles away. Yadda, yadda, my house could burn down tomorrow. True, but if that happens, I'd likely be dead, so I wouldn't care about my data...
Better yet, run MacOS on commodity hardware. You get the best of both worlds -- Unix with a nice user interface, and hardware that isn't designed to fail unpleasantly. And you're using Apple's software while not giving them a dime, so it's a small f.u. to them.
If the computer has a removable HDD and only the motherboard failed, one can take the computer to a third-party repair shop which will stick the drive in a "sled" and recover the data. (Even if encrypted, as long as the user knows the appropriate passphrases.)
The ideal is NOT to need a specially blessed authorized dealer to work on the damn things.
Apple devices will back up to a regular NAS though, even a USB drive hooked up to a "regular" non-Apple router.
The latest Time Capsules were terrible designs anyway -- it was basically impossible to upgrade the HDD. THEORETICALLY, the hard drives would just slide out after removing the bottom cover. But no. Apple routed critical cables under the drive, with the connectors deep within the unit. Basically impossible to release the cables without breaking the connectors.
This could have been solved with a slightly longer cable, but no -- Apple likes to push planned obsolescence.
That's nice when you're traveling and don't want to carry an external storage device, and either choose not to trust the "cloud" with your data, or don't have the mobile bandwidth for it to work well. Why not give users a CHOICE of removing the internal storage device to recover their data?
Because Apple, that's why? Instead of a $100 SSD upgrade, they want to foist an entire new laptop on their users. Plus they can upsell iCloud space based on the risk of data loss.
Marketeers are arseholes, and Apple are the worst of the worst.
You do a quick food shop every other day or so while coming home from work. A bike basket carries a couple bags of groceries, enough to eat well for a few days. Unless you're a Mormon, no sense in hoarding food.
Nah, put the design on Bittorrent -- you might not make money, but you'll do the world a favor by equalizing governments and insurgents worldwide. What better gift to give to the world than the opportunity for people to destroy surveillance states and render modern weapons impotent?
Best environmental solution -- live in a city where you can walk or bike to the store. Delivery to stores is centralized and generally less environmentally costly than stopping at every suburban house. Walking or biking to pick up your goods is also less environmentally impactful than driving.
(And yes, it's possible to do this with a family -- many people outside the US live that way, and it works well.)
Wowzers! It's the Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451! How long before some government or mercenary firm comes up with the bright idea of arming the fucking things?
For every one of those things produced, there should be 100 cheap EMP cannons produced imported from China as a countermeasure.
When you publish mugshots and names, making it difficult to get a job if you're arrested, let alone convicted, repeat crime will happen. Repeat offenses mean the US is doing a poor job at rehabilitation.
Fuck "society." Fuck what it thinks. The majority of voters are blithering idiots who vote for authoritarian scum because having someone "strong" in charge somehow validates their pathetic lives.
Most "contraband" involves governments denying consenting adults control over their own bodies. Want to use drugs? Want to copulate with someone, for pay, free, or otherwise? As long as you're a consenting adult, the government should butt out of your life.
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With a removable hard drive/SSD, you can swap it for a "clean" one while traveling abroad to avoid border guards abusing their authority and (say) stealing sensitive corporate or medical data. Takes five minutes on an older MacBook or (better yet) a Thinkpad.
If the thing is soldered in, your only choice is full backup, zero, reformat, reinstall or carry two computers.
Yes. I'd rather buy a drive once every few years than pay some corepiration a monthly nut indefinitely. HDD and even SSD storage are cheap these days.
Plus, I feel more secure with the device in my hand, not in some data warehouse 3000 miles away. Yadda, yadda, my house could burn down tomorrow. True, but if that happens, I'd likely be dead, so I wouldn't care about my data...
Better yet, run MacOS on commodity hardware. You get the best of both worlds -- Unix with a nice user interface, and hardware that isn't designed to fail unpleasantly. And you're using Apple's software while not giving them a dime, so it's a small f.u. to them.
Thinkpad X-series will run MacOS/OS X for now...
If the computer has a removable HDD and only the motherboard failed, one can take the computer to a third-party repair shop which will stick the drive in a "sled" and recover the data. (Even if encrypted, as long as the user knows the appropriate passphrases.)
The ideal is NOT to need a specially blessed authorized dealer to work on the damn things.
Apple devices will back up to a regular NAS though, even a USB drive hooked up to a "regular" non-Apple router. The latest Time Capsules were terrible designs anyway -- it was basically impossible to upgrade the HDD. THEORETICALLY, the hard drives would just slide out after removing the bottom cover. But no. Apple routed critical cables under the drive, with the connectors deep within the unit. Basically impossible to release the cables without breaking the connectors. This could have been solved with a slightly longer cable, but no -- Apple likes to push planned obsolescence.
That's nice when you're traveling and don't want to carry an external storage device, and either choose not to trust the "cloud" with your data, or don't have the mobile bandwidth for it to work well. Why not give users a CHOICE of removing the internal storage device to recover their data?
Because Apple, that's why? Instead of a $100 SSD upgrade, they want to foist an entire new laptop on their users. Plus they can upsell iCloud space based on the risk of data loss.
Marketeers are arseholes, and Apple are the worst of the worst.
Safe =/= private.
"Cloud" = someone else's computer. Bugger the "Cloud" and the marketing droids who push it.
Bet that Apple's solution will be "make better backups, we'll sell you 1TB of iCloud for a low, low price." (push, push, nudge, nudge)
Ah well, one more reason not to buy "computers" with everything soldered in and no ports to speak of.
Or plastic bottles of water, at least in places where clean/safe water flows from a tap. The ultimate waste...
You don't hear about people who are relatively happy in Europe or richer Asian countries and aren't clamoring to go to the US.
It's not an either/or choice -- you seem to be framing it as one.
It's known as the "dismal science" for a reason. Most current economics is responsible for slowly wrecking this planet.
You do a quick food shop every other day or so while coming home from work. A bike basket carries a couple bags of groceries, enough to eat well for a few days. Unless you're a Mormon, no sense in hoarding food.
If the economy is based on people purchasing plastic trinkets that they don't need, let it crash and burn.
I just walk to the drugstore a few blocks away -- no guzzolene needed :D
Agreed. I border on a Freegan -- most of my "stuff" except for food is either second-hand or street finds.
Do you think most Prime customers will click that option, or even know that it exists?
Nah, put the design on Bittorrent -- you might not make money, but you'll do the world a favor by equalizing governments and insurgents worldwide. What better gift to give to the world than the opportunity for people to destroy surveillance states and render modern weapons impotent?
Best environmental solution -- live in a city where you can walk or bike to the store. Delivery to stores is centralized and generally less environmentally costly than stopping at every suburban house. Walking or biking to pick up your goods is also less environmentally impactful than driving. (And yes, it's possible to do this with a family -- many people outside the US live that way, and it works well.)
Wowzers! It's the Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451! How long before some government or mercenary firm comes up with the bright idea of arming the fucking things?
For every one of those things produced, there should be 100 cheap EMP cannons produced imported from China as a countermeasure.
The cardless Luddite doesn't need the business of dumb sheep like you...
Or they just end up creating outlaws like the Barker and Karpis gangs of the 1930s. Can't buy food? Steal it.
When you publish mugshots and names, making it difficult to get a job if you're arrested, let alone convicted, repeat crime will happen. Repeat offenses mean the US is doing a poor job at rehabilitation.
Fuck "society." Fuck what it thinks. The majority of voters are blithering idiots who vote for authoritarian scum because having someone "strong" in charge somehow validates their pathetic lives.
Most "contraband" involves governments denying consenting adults control over their own bodies. Want to use drugs? Want to copulate with someone, for pay, free, or otherwise? As long as you're a consenting adult, the government should butt out of your life.