Yup I kept Win7 around (last good windows) as long as I could mainly to PC game but I finally broke down and got a macbook after years of dicking with Linux and BSDs on laptops and went back to console (and played less games) I am sure to use Little Snitch (block trustd !!!) and am still on Mojave. The build quality on macbooks is slipping and I'll be putting together another Linux-based laptop soon.
As in, building your own from separate components? I would be hugely interested in how you do that. Can you share any good resources for a relative beginner? (Only put together Windows gaming PCs up to now, no idea about Linux.)
Desktops will be the same for Windows and Linux, so if you have built one there you are set. It sometimes pays to do a bit of background research as the driver situation can be more painful for some hardware, but these days darn near everything in desktop land "just works".
If you do want to find a modular laptop, look at a company called Clevo. They are an OEM for Sager and a few other high end gaming laptop brands. They are the closet thing to a modular laptop chassis in existence -- though from a cost/performance perspective you will almost certainly be better served by some mass produced consumer laptop. Modularity in portable machines just isn't very economically competitive.
I don't trust apple at all. Like not even a little bit. Never owned an apple anything. Not gonna lie though those M1 arm chips look pretty cool with the 20 hr battery life but not if I have to run mac os on it.
I'd agree with this. Out of Apple/Google/Microsoft, Apple is the one that makes most of it's money selling you hardware, vs selling your data.
I wouldn't trust any of them, but from a security standpoint OSX and iOS seem to be the best locked down under the hood.
Linux is probably the option with the most potential for security, but it's also possible to setup a system that is NOT secure. Something like a Pinebook or Pinephone is extremely interesting from a security perspective, but that is one hell of a rabbit hole to go down if you aren't already steeped in that world.
IMO Apple is the most trustworthy option in terms of privacy
LOL no.
Apple is a telemetry/privacy nightmare. The words "Apple" and "privacy" don't belong in the same sentence. They "refused" to help the FBI while reminding them -- behind closed doors -- that Apple (and Google) intentionally leave CVEs unpatched to provide alphabet agencies an attack surface. What you saw was a PR stunt.
I think that entire thing was bullshit propaganda. I think snowden or the cia leaks pretty much suggested they can break into 100% of Apple products 100% of the time. They all use the same hardware. Android has to be built by the manufactures to run on that specific android the phone maker made on Android to run on that specific device resulting in many different setups for each phone. I think that whole thing was a movie script for normies to buy the only operating system they could break into 100% of the time. I could be wrong I don't have any insider knowledge it just didn't feel like a legit face off between corporate america and the government since they're essentially on the same team.
Yup I kept Win7 around (last good windows) as long as I could mainly to PC game but I finally broke down and got a macbook after years of dicking with Linux and BSDs on laptops and went back to console (and played less games) I am sure to use Little Snitch (block trustd !!!) and am still on Mojave. The build quality on macbooks is slipping and I'll be putting together another Linux-based laptop soon.
As in, building your own from separate components? I would be hugely interested in how you do that. Can you share any good resources for a relative beginner? (Only put together Windows gaming PCs up to now, no idea about Linux.)
Nah, not that hardcore. I keep an old Thinkpad I got used, running OpenBSD that has all the networking disabled for secure stuff.
I was thinking more Viking or System76.
Desktops will be the same for Windows and Linux, so if you have built one there you are set. It sometimes pays to do a bit of background research as the driver situation can be more painful for some hardware, but these days darn near everything in desktop land "just works".
If you do want to find a modular laptop, look at a company called Clevo. They are an OEM for Sager and a few other high end gaming laptop brands. They are the closet thing to a modular laptop chassis in existence -- though from a cost/performance perspective you will almost certainly be better served by some mass produced consumer laptop. Modularity in portable machines just isn't very economically competitive.
I don't trust apple at all. Like not even a little bit. Never owned an apple anything. Not gonna lie though those M1 arm chips look pretty cool with the 20 hr battery life but not if I have to run mac os on it.
IMO Apple is the most trustworthy option in terms of privacy. Tell me who else has done something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
They refused to help the FBI get into the San Bernardino shooters recovered phone. Fucking glowies had to outsource the job to some Israeli hacker.
I'd agree with this. Out of Apple/Google/Microsoft, Apple is the one that makes most of it's money selling you hardware, vs selling your data.
I wouldn't trust any of them, but from a security standpoint OSX and iOS seem to be the best locked down under the hood.
Linux is probably the option with the most potential for security, but it's also possible to setup a system that is NOT secure. Something like a Pinebook or Pinephone is extremely interesting from a security perspective, but that is one hell of a rabbit hole to go down if you aren't already steeped in that world.
LOL no.
Apple is a telemetry/privacy nightmare. The words "Apple" and "privacy" don't belong in the same sentence. They "refused" to help the FBI while reminding them -- behind closed doors -- that Apple (and Google) intentionally leave CVEs unpatched to provide alphabet agencies an attack surface. What you saw was a PR stunt.
OK. That must be why jailbreaks take longer and longer to come out, or why there's a minor version release of iOS within days of each one.
I think that entire thing was bullshit propaganda. I think snowden or the cia leaks pretty much suggested they can break into 100% of Apple products 100% of the time. They all use the same hardware. Android has to be built by the manufactures to run on that specific android the phone maker made on Android to run on that specific device resulting in many different setups for each phone. I think that whole thing was a movie script for normies to buy the only operating system they could break into 100% of the time. I could be wrong I don't have any insider knowledge it just didn't feel like a legit face off between corporate america and the government since they're essentially on the same team.