What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
I bought a MacBook Pro for iOS development. It was alright until Apple decided to exclude it from future OS updates, preventing me from using it for it’s sole purpose, and forcing me to either buy a new one or stop developing iOS apps. Guess which one I chose. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, it’s still got a 2TB SSD, 16GB of RAM and 16-core CPU but apparently Apple thought they could make more money off of me by intentionally barring it from updates to force me to buy a new one, rather than simply allowing me to install MacOS updates. They were wrong.
Edit: 8 physical cores, 16 logical
And unsurprisingly, this is one of the less cunty things Apple does.
should just install Linux and be done with it.
I thought Mac development had to come signed from one of their OSs though? Maybe I’m wrong. Have never owned one.
AS others have said you are correct. We had to buy a mac mini just to develop at one job.
If you dont make programs for mac then its much easier.
You are correct.
Can’t publish to App Store from Linux, can you?
correct, but why develop for a platform that literally told you to fuck off and buy different hardware because they just wanted to.
I think that’s the point that the MacBook Pro buyer was making.
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What even model and year is it? They support the things for a very long time. I’ve got a 2011 that still works great but it’s getting Linux on it cuz they’ll run better in it than any version of Windows or OXS. 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, i7 of some sort. Love it.
I’ve got a 2011 MBP running Debian that is about to be put into service as a backup for my Nextcloud server, which is being hosted on 2014 mini that’s also running Debian. That one is my general purpose home server, running things like Navidrome, Mealie, Grimmory, Jellyfin, etc…
Then I’ve also got a 2011 mini running Mint, which I took to work to use solely for giving presentations for teaching competencies.
Those old Macs are resilient computers.
Nice nice! I just got all 200ish GB of photos of my old 2011MBP, so he’s free now! You reckon Debian is the way to go for him?
I’m no expert in these matters by any means, but given my use-case for my older Macs I don’t care about flashy features, I just want them to be solid. And I don’t know as to whether you can get much more solid than Debian. I’ve tried a bunch of distros over the last couple of years, and seem to have settled on Arch for my Fucking About With PCs, and Debian for my Do Not Fuck About With This PCs.
My server only has 8gb of soldered RAM, but she trucks along just nice. Wasn’t a huge fan of me uploading thousands of photos into Immich, but that more taxing on the CPU than anything.
A 2019 MacBook Pro, and for $3,000+ I was expecting to use it until it died - not until Apple decided I couldn’t use it anymore. I personally don’t consider less than seven years to be “a very long time,” especially when paying over $3,000.
Linux is great, but it won’t allow me to use it for the sole purpose I bought it - publishing iOS apps.
There is a patch to update macOS when it’s not compatible. One I have used before is from dosdude1.
You can also put Linux on it, or dual boot. Older Intel Macs I remember being really wasy, the T2 Mac’s need special drivers but it’s not too hard, and the new Mac’s have ashai Linux.
It’s Opencore Legacy Patcher these days. A remarkable tool really.
I used it to run up to Sequoia on a couple of old Macs, which I’ve ended up just putting Linux on instead. But if you’re an iOS dev, then OCLP is a decent shout.
That said, we’re only a year or two away from macOS dropping Intel support entirely, and that’ll be the end for OCLP.
I was told doing so ran the risk of getting your published iOS application blacklisted if Apple detected you were circumventing their greed, so it wasn’t worth the risk.
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