XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.os.linux   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-07-09 20:20, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 09:23:37 -0700, Alan  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-07-08 19:17, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 10:54:12 -0700, Alan  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2024-06-30 09:31, Larry Wolff wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What "vital essential services" would those be?   
   >>>   
   >>> My concerns are not so much "privacy" as working.   
   >>>   
   >>> "Vital essential services" would be things like saving your work,   
   >>   
   >> Which works fine saving to the local drive.   
   >>   
   >>> accessing your data on a laptop when away from home or in any other   
   >>> circumstances where an internet connection is not available.   
   >>   
   >> Which works fine as previously stated.   
   >>   
   >> You CAN make use of cloud services on a Mac if you choose to do so.   
   >>   
   >> Off the top of my head:   
   >   
   > But you have just yourself pointed out that a system with a Mac OS is   
   > an Apple system.   
      
   Indeed.   
      
   >   
   > If it is an Apple system, then in my understabnding of logic, it   
   > cannot be non-Apple system. Check the subject line -- we are talking   
   > here about *non-Apple* systems.   
      
   Because the OP implies that Apple systems won't work well without   
   logging into Apple's servers...   
      
   ...and that's bullshit.   
      
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