Looking to get a new laptop, the major deciding factor for me would be privacy.
With the recent events of windows 10 spying and apple vs fbi which would be the better option? Is apple still the last frontier for privacy?
Dont suggest linux, im not autistic enough
>>53884245
Inbongo it's like an apal 8.1 but Jamaican and privacy
Install TempleOS
>>53884245
I'll give you an honest answer, even though you're on /g/ - shitposting central.
Windows 10 is 100% certified botnet privacy invading shithole.
OS X is MAYBE% certified botnet privacy invading shithole.
OS X might be compromised, less likely if you turn Filevault on. Windows is definitely compromised, without a doubt.
If your major focus is privacy, get a RMBP or MBA. Both of those can run (mostly) free software if you ever decide against OS X, and both are actually breddy gud machines. Although I'd wait a few months for WWDC, neither lines have gotten an actual update since 2012.
Sounds like you don't know shit.
If you want privacy, go for an ARM processor. Apple is no frontier for privacy. It's not much less of a "botnet" than Windows 10 would be.
If you're really worried about privacy on your computer there's only one thing you can do, and that is not to access internet. That's the only option you have if you hold not-so-legal content.
>>53884333
Do you think changing hosts files/disabling telemetry has any effect?
>>53884419
hahahah no
under OS X, Linux, and *BSD, changing the HOSTS file is pretty much a guarantee that the OS will obey it. Under Windows, it's a meek suggestion. Windows 10 still does whatever it wants, custom HOSTS file or not. The only use for a custom HOSTS file in Windows is ad blocking in Edge.
Disabling telemetry is pretty much a purely visual effect. Even if it's not, Windows shills, it's still significantly less secure than OS X.
>>53884464
Well, how to make OSX so secure? I'm fairly sure by default it isn't. It even has spotlight suggestions enabled by default
>>53884597
Turn off spotlight suggestions. Get MVPS HOSTS file, move it to /etc. Enable Filevault. Enable the built in firewall, set it to `no response' mode or whatever it's called.
If you're ultra paranoid, turn on spotlight suggestions and check using another computer running Wireshark to see where the packets are going; add those destinations to the HOSTS file.
Use homebrew for installing applications, don't touch the shitty app store. Anything that isn't installed using homebrew, verify the MD5sums.
Another suggestion is to use Alfred, or Quicksilver, or any of the other FOSS app launchers on OS X instead of Spotlight.
>>53884670
Almost forgot, keep bluetooth disabled any time you're not going to be explicitly using it (especially out in public). Half the local area malicious exploits are through bluetooth.
>>53884245
KEK
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>>53885091
did you not read the thread at all
fuck off, shitposter
>>53884333
>appleshit
>privacy
>secure
Bait.
>>53885237
lol
I bet you use Windows, fag
>SCROLLBARS IN THE KERNEL
>>53885519
>my toddler OS is total shit
>i bet you use this other shit OS
>this is the best defense you have for using a total shit OS
Keep posting from your from your swiss cheese toddlerOS from your toddlerbook.
>>53885589
>implying I use OS X
guess again, fag
the OP specifically said Windows or OS X
his criteria are security and privacy
I was answering his question
OS X is objectively better in those 2 aspects
now, if we're comparing OS X to ANY OS? Yeah, there's better alternatives. Either way, fuck off, shill.
>>53885091
Literally cucks. iDiots will defend this.
>i-it's ok if apel spies on everythin i do and then cucks me by helping ms spy on me too
>>53885237
i still dont get why that is posted as proof that macs are insecure
apple responded appropriately and patched it up after 2 updates
how is that a failure on osxs part?
>Everything is insecure
>Everything is botnet
>Everything is out to get you.
>And you have to point it all out
/g/ in a nutshell
>>53885692
>optional feature which is confirmably safe when disabled
>'spying' in the same way ubango spies
>'everything' meaning 1 text input field most often used for basic calculation and app launching
>FOSS alternatives *on osx* which fix literally all the problems you have with this
seriously nigger
>>53885775
it's ok to be reasonably suspicious of proprietary software, but not when it's provably safe, or provably safer than the other proprietary alternative (which is what OP ASKED FOR)
>>53884245
If you care about privacy you should install GNU/Linux.
I only fire up my VM when I need some wangblows specific shitwares. They can be ran with WINE so I am going to delete the VM soon
