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Ever since I was a child, I've hated Apple. I hate their products, their consumers, their "lifestyle" that they portray. I hate the walled garden, the lack of choices and how they think you know better than you. I hated that they pretended their powerPC architecture was superior to x86 back in the day, and that the day they switched to the intel stuff they touted how much it kicked the old IBM's stuff in the pants.


A few years ago something happened. Windows 10 is a nice hot log of poop right on your plate after Windows 7. After the resounding success of satya's bullshit model, they introduce 11 which now has ads in the explorer shell itself.

I bought an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and even an Intel MBP right as the M1's came out. You see I couldn't handle running windows 10 bareback on my hardware anymore because oh I don't know the piece of shit wouldn't go to sleep right and have a dead battery. You know, just problems solved two decades ago. Running Desktop linux at the time was basically a no go as the hell that systemd wrought on the linux space made it somewhat buggy and unstable.

I still have a One+ 9Pro so I'm platform agnostic, but I weep for the tech space. Android is dead, nobody roots and filters ads correctly anymore. Youtube vanced is dead, here's product™ you can pay for to accomplish the same thing. Pixel phones are a joke. Everyone goes samsung but is too scared to root it. Rooting itself isn't even worthwhile because of how every app checks for root, and it's a constant game of cat and mouse. My iPhone suspiciously always gets shittier near a product release of new generation phones.

I hate that I can't customize it to my liking, but it works as what I need it most; a phone to make calls.

I see I am aging into a grumpy old man very well.