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I was able to start doing my long daily walks every single day of the week again, after way too many weeks (months) being stuck at home with a wounded foot.

My bank offers both an app and a website which is nice, but the app is mandatory for doing any kind of operation involving money (which is not that uncommon when logged-in in your bank accounts ;) even when connecting through their website, as the app is used for some ID-ing process.

Then, there are a few not-mandatory but such-an-effing-pain-to-not-use apps, say to ID oneself with some (public) services.

I use a dumbed down iPhone (like, really: no social, no games, no whatever not even email is configured on it) just so I can access those few apps.

Thx for that tip, I will check that as soon as I can, as well as Tinkertool. This may help & it doesn't matter (to me at least) the few issues that may or may not arise by doing that, as long as it makes things more readable to my old eyes ;)

but as a project it feels more undead than really alive

:)

and it’s closed source too.

Then it's a no go for me. I mean, since it's closed source I'd rather keep using my iPhone which works great and let me access every single one of the few ads I do need.

I think this current Macbook is probably going to be my last Apple machine.

We're in the same boat. I can't say I'm happy with that but I know I also like using Linux or I should say the GNU/Linux system as I'm also more and more appreciative of the philosophical part that GNU promotes.

The low-friction you mention is probably one the thing most non-Apple users don't get as, when it works (which is not always the case but often is), a Mac is like butter smooth and help so much getting things done. Linux is not there yet but when I started considered and testing it I was was surprised how usable it was already and, at least, in exchange of that tad more of frictions we do get back that control we have lost to Apple. And that's a compromise I willing to live with — and so are my older eyes that can't read ant-sized texts anymore ;)

Even the accessibility situation is deteriorating,

It never was great, imho. For some time, I even considered using Windows in place of macOS (since it worked better to make text larger), I even invested in one of Microsoft laptop but I ended up giving it away as I just could not stand all the incoherence within Windows itself (it is such a sad state of affair). Also, I'm not a fan of their telemetry.

The one issue I have not decided on so far, in regard to a full switch, is the phone. I can't stand Google, therefore it doesn't matter how open it is, and I'd rather use harder for as many years as I can (trying to generate as little e-waste as I can) so android looks like a no go for me. I imagine I will probably keep using a dumbed down iPhone, like I have been doing for the last few years, in order to access the very few apps I have to use, IDs, banks and stuff like that...

The reasoning is that too many developers and execs don’t give a flying fuck about accessibility features

A bit late to the party but 100% this.

One of the reasons why I've slowly started switching toward Linux, after 35 years being an Apple customer myself, is that I find Linux much more comfortable to use: being 50+ and not having the best eyesight I appreciate being allowed to make the text as big as I need it to be so I can f*cking read it, no matter what some constipated designer decided in their office somewhere at Cupertino.

I like Apple, I won't deny it and I would probably never have even considered using Linux instead of Apple products if it was not for the way they made their design so user-unfriendly. That, and the lack of repairability/upgradability, aka the lack of ownership on our hardware.

• Walking in the city (one of the + side of living in Paris, there are many nice spots where one can walk).
• Sketching and painting.
• Reading.
• Spend some quality time with my spouse (we probably will be cooking together tomorrow, it's often a lot of fun ;).
• Watching some vids on YT. I'm not a gamer but I enjoy watching a selected few, am I the only one?

Can't answer your question on a philosophical level but on an emotional/psychological level I would say that it's the same computer as long as it feels like the same computer to me, say by using the same desktop environment on the screen, and the same case, keyboard and mouse and if all parts have slowly been upgraded along the years not all at the same time as I would think that would create a kind of interruption in my relation to this PC.

To make a comparison, I bought my first SSD many, many years ago (to give you an idea, it was back when PATA still ruled). This SSD was tiny, it cost me an arm and a leg, and was not even that fast but even though I used it in the exact same computer I used with a classic HDD, the upgraded machine felt so incredibly much more responsive and so snappy that for me it was a new computer, and also a whole new experience.

Since that day, I've owned a few other machines, all SSD-based obviously, but never felt such a radical rupture while upgrading or even replacing a machine, no matter the CPU, ram or whatever else was new or better in it.

Je ne connais pas. Cela dit, quelle que soit la chanson/musique d'ambiance diffusée c'est une des principales raisons qui fera que je ne remettrai plus les pieds dans cette boutique.

Quand je veux faire du shopping, ce n'est pas écouter de la musique qu'elle soit de Beethoven ou d'ascenseur. Et quand je souhaite écouter de la musique, je préfère écouter celle que j'aime, et que j'ai dans mon appareil, et je préfère le faire dans mes écouteurs pour ne pas embêter tout le monde autour de moi avec ma toute dernière compilation des meilleures musiques d'ascenseur ;)

Simplified and with a lot of user power and user freedom abdicated to a few companies, or to a few groups of developers working together, in order to make things much simpler and much more optimised for the average user.

I mean, suffice to see how often people can be completely lost when they're asked to decide between clicking either the OK or the Cancel button, or use a simple drop down menu, or decide if they should even be bothered with their privacy at all when using any app as long as it is free and shiny... As it is, Linux stands no-chance against that with its many quirks, workarounds, with its sudo pacman -s or sudo apt install, and with its focus on freedom and privacy. No matter how excellent those tools can be, and no matter how important freedom and privacy should be.

Beside my daily long walks, I have been sketching, painting, writing and journaling. I have fixed an old headset too (need to desolder a wire). Also I've been wasting too much time on YT.

Regarding YT, am I the only one that, even though I don't play those games myself (I know about them I have even tested a couple of them but I simply don't play them), I enjoy watching some gamers on YT just because I appreciate their sense of humour and the ambiance?

OK, there aren't that much gamers I like to watch but I don't know, isn't it a bit odd?

As a non-US user myself, beside the lack of participation on Lemmy, I think the kind of replies and the instant escalation to this comment, in this very thread is a great example of why Lemmy can suck, hard.

The world, exactly like the Internet, does not end at the US borders.

And yep, even though many US citizens seem to be on the verge of slicing each other throats, it doesn't mean the rest of the world should behave the same. Lemmy users should still be able to discuss freely even between people of varying opinions, or even of completely opposite opinions.