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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by ruszki on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:45AM (#48715291)
Even that is a lie. It allows other OSs, but they know quite well, that without drivers, it’s an empty promise. I can’t run anything else on my Mini for example.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by Rohansi on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:06AM (#48715421)
I'm expecting them to lock down future devices because of this. Asahi can't keep up so the feature is basically unused.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by marysol5 on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:27AM (#48716898)
This is the same Apple that sued people making "Hackintosh" machines...
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by jtbayly on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:28AM (#48717863)
Which is completely the opposite—running Apple software on non-Apple hardware—so they make no money whatsoever off such users.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by nozzlegear on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:32AM (#48719085)
> Even that is a lie.

> It allows other OSs

So it's not a lie?

Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by ruszki on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:43AM (#48719212)
If I allow you to cross my main door, but I'm 100% kill you immediately after that, do I really allow you into my home, or not? Your legalese only works in court, and Apple and fanboys spread this nonsense only because of legal reasons.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by nozzlegear on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:23AM (#48720481)
You're really twisting yourself into a pretzel to make it seem like Apple has made it impossible to install Asahi or something. Introducing these weird analogies about doors and killing people just dilutes whatever point you think you're making, and only invites people to fork the conversation with their own "well akshually it's like inviting you into my kitchen but not giving you a cookbook" retorts. Be direct, make the point you're going to make, not a sophist's allegory.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by ruszki on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:03PM (#48721022)
I’m happy to tell you, that If you don’t understand, then you don’t want to understand, and that this poor trial of protection of self esteem doesn’t worth anybody’s time.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by jitl on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:04PM (#48741564)
better point than i made by getting down into the analogy mud, well put
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by ruszki on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @08:59AM (#48745995)
You are the first in my life who said to a cognitive dissonance that it’s well put. People always amaze me.
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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by ruszki on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:21AM (#48746312)
Except of course they did something. They created a new language from scratch when they knew this whole situation beforehand.

My analogy is perfect, because it’s easy to filter people out who cannot add anything to the discussion. They immediately start to divert the discussion to orthogonal topics, which has nothing to do with the core topic. It’s a bait for stupid people. It makes obvious when the commenter really has well thought thoughts, or just parroting something.