News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by fx1994 on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:11AM (#40168414)
Windows are not bad if you have control over them. But in corp env, you don't and the force updates, AV, FW, extra AV scans and other monitoring shit so even with 32 GB of RAM, fast SSD and latest i7 PC would start to act like it's Win98. That's why I switch to Mac M2, zero corporate shit and total control so it works great.
Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by sofixa on Friday April 26, 2024 @09:54AM (#40169425)
> That's why I switch to Mac M2, zero corporate shit and total control so it works great.

Unless you work at an org that has all this stuff, like pretty much any org at scale that has compliance or security requirements. My work-issued MacBook has an AV that slows opening everything, forces updates and restarts and all that jazz.

Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by slowmovintarget on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:25PM (#40171244)
Same. Our corporate-issue MBPs come with managed policies, AV software, and remote control services (remote wipe, lockout). It's why I'm never tempted to use work equipment for personal use.

I guess our org has chosen better management software, though, because it never results in restarts. The one exception is the requirement to keep the OS patched in order to log in to corporate systems.

The window position thing is really annoying though.

Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by hu3 on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:17AM (#40168472)
About FW and AV scans, doesn't macOS phone home when you execute programs?

I remember some problem with programs hanging and/or slow to start because the phoning home functionality was having issues.

edit: yep, it does https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/391379/does-macos-...

Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by Rinzler89 on Friday April 26, 2024 @09:47AM (#40169347)
It does phone home yes, but people pretend it doesn't and only Windows is evil when it does so. At least it doesn't have ads.
Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by NBJack on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:47AM (#40170021)
Not yet. But rest assured, they are just getting started. I know of one theory that suggests ATT was really just Apple preparing to launch its own Ads network.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/

Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by NBJack on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:44AM (#40169978)
To be fair, that's only in part because Apple doesn't seem to have the level of device management Windows offers.

Many of the solutions I've seen in the corp environment try to make up for this with some frankly janky solutions. Apple seems to be slowly improving that, but give it time.

But at the end of the day, the crappy performance hits I've seen on both kinds kf devices are generally shitty monitoring solutions and restrictions that neither support natively.

Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks by nikau on Saturday April 27, 2024 @11:22PM (#40185738)
This is where 'not corporate endorsed but tolerated' wsl2 is awesome, everything inside the vm is not scanned or slowed down by all the security crap.