Religion is not compatible with society.
You need to wake the fuck up.

Not IME. I changed the CPU on this system that I'm using right now back when it still had Windows on it without requiring reactivation. It took changing the motherboard to have to reactivate.

Your response was to go completely into the weeds. On what planet is $250k in equipment a lot anyway? Saddest brag ever.

Hahahhahahahhahahhaha

Never heard of Fox or Sinclair huh?

They're the two most popular "news" networks and both are ever so slightly rapeublican-leaning

Iâ(TM)m old and not worried about giving up MacOS over this. Apple will add a cryptic CLI method for disabling this that normies wonâ(TM)t have a clue how to do themselves. As always, Iâ(TM)ll do whatever I want with my Macs and my kid wonâ(TM)t have a clue how to fuck up hers.

Don't suck a billionaire's dick and tell me it's a lollipop.

I explained what I was thinking in the prior comment.

So it sounds like you know specifically how they identified the user's CPU. What means was actually employed?

It's all been over since we got processors with microcode, which could have something like a TPM in them. I'm not saying all of them do or anything like that, only that any of them could.

If you really want a computer you can trust, you're going to have to get vintage about it.

No. Larry Ellison is a well known piece of shit. If you support him then fuck you too,b because you're also a piece of shit, just like everyone who voted for the orange child rapist.

But they're right - if you assume that a significant fraction of Mac users are going to install some sort of third-party interface with an LLM, it is either significantly extend and harden the security perimeter deeper into the OS or your customers will routinely have everything exfiled as a matter of course, and it would just be cheaper to make iCloud into an anonymous FTP site.

And given Zuckerbook's demonstrated willingness to brazenly, actively subvert OSes, I'm willing to bet they're going to go Russian on their subjects, er, customers, anyway. ("You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push.")

It will probably be what finally pushes me to a Linux laptop, though. I'm old, I spend a lot of time at the shell. I like Macs because they're great unix workstations, still. But I don't see how you can accommodate both people like me and people who need to be protected not only from themselves, but from Zuckerbook and worse.

And they're a much bigger market than people like me. And "AI is the Footure."

IME it mostly works now. It's always slow and stupid and the UI is crap, but most of the features work most of the time

No, most people do not have a motherboard TPM, it's in the CPU.

Spying is a primary use of AI and it makes spying on more people more feasible.

It's the rapeublicans who are raping children. Literally marrying children so they can rape them.

Did not read your defense of child rape