Isn’t the point of an API to have two computers talk to each other? As in “if I want safeguards for humans, it would be my responsability to put them BEFORE calling that API”?
I think this is very dangerous perspective. A lot of attacks on infra are automated, just try to expose a Windows XP machine to the internet for a day and see with how much malware you end up with. If you leave your security unchecked, you will end up attacked; not by someone targeting you specifically, but having all your data encrypted for ransom might still create a problem for you (even if the attacker doesn’t care about YOUR data specifically).
More like buying a 99$ “12 to 15 hour recording” pack. Also created real tangible waste, I’m failing to see how recycling a bunch (what are they expecting to sell, hundreds-of-thousands order of magnitude?) of 99$ rings after two years will be worth it (how much material, and for what worth, can they really exctract?).
I would argue that it is, but then we are in a typical « he said, she said » territory.
I also believe that some of the burden is on the customer when considering a purchase. Nobody ever bought a tractor and then complained it didn’t do 150 mph on the highway.
I had never heard about the Librem and PureOS, interesting.
Microsoft also famously makes tablets that run a desktop OS. I guess my point is that Apple makes it pretty clear from their marketing material that you are getting a tailor made OS for your iPad (hell, they even renamed it to « iPadOS » a few years back), and 30 seconds of research would make it very clear that it is indeed « restricted » in its usage.
If the goal of the author was to have full-fledged desktop experience Apple device, a MacBook Air would have been even less expensive than a tabled with a fancy $350 detachable keyboard. If the goal was a tablet with a full fledged desktop OS experience, there are a lot of options in both Windows and Linux ecosystems.
This mis-purchase just felt like a springboard to complain about a myriad of tangentially related Apple gripes.
Author buys a tablet, complains it’s too expensive, too powerful, and not a laptop. This makes author angry and complain about a whole other range of tangentially related issues. Author should have done their research and bought a laptop instead. MacBooks are pretty good devices, although they can be a little expensive and too powerful too.