XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-07-02 01:45, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   But that is no more and no less "tethered" than any other personal   
   computer using any operating system.   
      
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