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ProllyInfamous • today at 12:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Keep adding to your list, friend:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071310#50078574> [Spotlight's "helpfulness," which cannot be disabled (viaGUI)]

Apple's OS is toxic, at this point.

My two newest Macs are entirely offline (air-gapped) and used primarily for LLM – maybe Apple's secret (all along) has been to get people like me to purchase twice as much hardware (as would be necessary in a privacy-respecting world)?


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kvuj • today at 3:03 PM

> which cannot be disabled (viaGUI)

Are you sure? I've just inspected my macOS 27.2 machine with my firewall and I couldn't find requests to smoot.apple.com while typing in spotlight(show related content and help improve apple search are both disabled).

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Ungh • today at 1:05 PM

Well fuck.

Just dug my old Xeon workstation out of the cupboard and am installing Debian on it.

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