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> So the M1 has turned me off of Apple products because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend (more) of my time fixing shit a trillion dollar company broke and doesn't care to fix.

What is broken about the M1?

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M1 Macs are basically iPads, with the same iOS-style locked-down boot process. They even have the same DFU mode as iOS devices.

In my case "my" M1 bricked itself, because Apple servers have refused to permit changes to NVRAM in the machine, and it can't boot a reinstalled OS without Apple's approval.

No, M1 isn't locked down at all. You can disable secure boot and there are efforts to port Linux to it. You can block *.apple.com and everything will still work.

Puppies aren't messy at all. You can shave all their hair off and there are efforts to deal with the slobbering. You can put a diaper on the back end of it and everything will still work.

I've used macs since the 90s and the first thing I always do is delete all the Apple apps, install little snitch, and set up the hosts file to block apple, adobe and anything else that's trying to call home. That's not misunderstanding or misusing the device, it's just standard configuration as far as I'm concerned. I don't have an M1 yet, and I'm a little worried about apps sidestepping little snitch, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

That no production server on the planet runs Apple Silicon, so I'm building on, and supporting, a platform I won't ever run my software on. After quite literally fixing an architectural issue in OTP/BEAM caused by Apple Silicon, it dawned on me, it's literally nothing but increasing costs all the way down. If ARM gets widely adopted on Desktops I'll change my tune, but for now, it's pretty garbage in the real world. I spend time fixing bugs and dealing with bullshit on platform I'll make zero money from. This is compounded by the fact, I've quite successfully and happily moved to Linux for my workstation. Like there's nothing in MacOS I miss, not a fucking thing... because Linux in 2021 is all the good things of an x86-64 Mac with the ability to play nearly (any) game.

In MacOS, I've never been able to to play games (relax) and be productive on the same machine. Now, I am on the daily, and it's literally fucking free.

If I hadn't spent a few weeks slogging out a fix for an arch issues on Apple Silicon, followed by a successful move to Linux there's no way I'd have this perspective... but some-fucking-how... I did and so I do.

All the non-Apple software that people needed to spend months fixing. There's a variety of posts on HN about being "M1 ready".

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