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MacBook Air owner? (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 5 months ago by be4foss@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

MacBook Air owner?

2018/2019 models are losing #Apple support.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-case-for-and-against-macos-15-sequoia-being-the-final-release-for-intel-macs/

#OptGreen with #GNU/#Linux to keep your device in use! These machines will run beautifully for many years to come.

Not only wallet friendly, #upcycling keeps CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. Ca. 75% of Apple's emissions comes from production alone (details in alt text).

Sustainable, independent #FreeSoftware: Better for users, best for the #environment.

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#KDE #KDEEco #FOSS #OpenSource #MacBook

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[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah this same conversation happens every time one of these headlines comes up and gets misinterpreted. The conclusion is usually that apple has longer than average hardware support across the board

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's worthless when you can't upgrade a damn thing, it's frankly unacceptable to produce a laptop with soldered RAM and a soldered SSD (with no expansion options)

Apple claims it's for speed and performance, which is technically true, but you're not going to notice that 10% difference between a good quality NVMe and some speedy DDR5 RAM

But you will notice when you try to save some money on base RAM and base storage and then realize, you can't upgrade shit a year or 2 later and your only option is to drop another couple grand for a whole new device

Fuck Apple.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

and your only option is to drop another couple grand for a whole new device

...and send another whole system into the waste stream. It's incredibly irresponsible.

[-] rImITywR@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

"Not as shit as you could be" is not something we should be praising. A handful of years is still too short, just because it is marginally better than their competitors doesn't mean we should give Apple a pass. It just means that the industry is full of shitty companies that profit off of producing e-waste, and know that consumers have no real choice but to put up with it.

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