XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Alan wrote on 2/7/24 3:00 pm:   
   > On 2024-07-01 20:36, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:31:18 -0400, Larry Wolff   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 6/30/2024 8:49 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> You must be out of your mind to concern yourself with this   
   >>>>> kind of thing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Bill, you must be out of your mind to quote all 245 lines of   
   >>>> Andrew's article to just add your 2 cents.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's a worthwhile privacy concern to think about which operating   
   >>> systems are designed to require logging into the maker's servers   
   >>> for most of the vital essential services that comprise the core   
   >>> of the operating system.   
   >>   
   >> It's not just a privacy concern.   
   >>   
   >> The point about laptop computers is that they are *portable*. You   
   >> can take them to meetings at remote locations where there is no   
   >> internet access. You can take them to libraries and archives to do   
   >> research. You can use them (for a while) if the mains electricity   
   >> goes off.   
   >>   
   >> Being tethered to the mothership means that portable computers   
   >> cease to be portable and are forced to be, well, tethered.   
   >   
   > Ummmm...   
   >   
   > I've had Mac laptops for more than 30 years.   
   >   
   > I've never been tethered.   
   >   
   .... except by the Wi-Fi or USB Dongle that you use to get your signal   
   out of your Mac laptops to where ever they are distend.   
      
   Otherwise the signal would NEVER have left your Mac laptop.   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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