#macos

[netscapenavigator-official]

Installing apps on…

macOS: I’m just a single isolated package! Just drag and drop me to your “Applications” folder to install me. Don’t want me anymore? Right click my icon and put me in the trash. All gone!

Linux: Want me installed? Ask the package manager. Want me uninstalled? Package manager. Got an AppImage? Just click it to run, then trash it to uninstall. Easy peasy.

Windows: I am going to infect your file directories and registry like the roots of a bamboo tree. You will never fully remove me. Go ahead and try the “uninstall” button in settings. I fucking dare you. You can remove the executable, but you will never fully remove me. I am infinite, and I will outlive Microsoft Inc. ten fold. Fuck you.

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[frutigerdollie]

💿 My nostalgic jewelry collection is getting larger 💿

[psychedelicvv]

CALL YOUR REPS!!!

[kde-plasma-official]

hey, privacy concerned folks,

DON'T USE BALENA ETCHER TO USB YOUR ISOs

As @tailsos-official stated in their blog post, it displays ads which is weird for a simple disk imaging tool and more important:

It shares your IP address, the file name of the image the model of the USB stick and a bunch of other things with the Balena company and third parties.

On Windows, use Rufus instead. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, use the Raspberry Pi Imager. It does its job. Or if you don't mind the terminal, use dd. It's built-in.

On Linux you can use dd, or whatever comes with your DE. Or whatever else you prefer. We got options.

You can also use Ventoy and just chuck all your ISOs on it. No need to reformat your usb drives again just for a new boot stick. One USB to rule them all.

sources under the cut

Investigate the outgoing network connections of Etcher (#16381) · Issues · tails / tails · GitLab

balenaEtcher exfiltrates very sensitive information about its users to the Balena company and probably to more third-parties. For example:

Privacy Statement - balena

[kawaoneechan]

In Windows 1.01, no joke, you had the option to change a bunch of individual colors.

This feature was retained and even expanded on all the way through Windows 9x, until XP introduced its new theming system. The old way was still available if you wanted, as full-featured as ever, but only if you chose to disable the fancy themes.

And then they took away the ability to disable themes.

Now, in Windows 10 (11? I don't have it) you get to pick light or dark, and one accent color that you can then choose to also apply to the task bar and window borders/title bars.

In MacOS 7, you could pick an accent color (very subtly applied by replacing one shade of gray) and a highlight color (not as subtle).

What MacOS lists as the highlight color is still technically there in Windows but you don't get to change it without special tools or knowledge.

This is the latest MacOS, Sequoia:

Technically, MacOS has Windows beat.

How could this happen.

[clamerock]

Pharrell