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0 pointssdflhasjd3y ago0 comments

Vent? I recently had an issue where my Internet connection went down, I was left with my phone and a tiny data cap.

The work I was doing required an Internet connection, but when I tethered my mac, it kept trying to download gigabytes of updates.

It ended in a stalemate with seeming no way to pause, cancel or cap the download.

Both windows and Linux will set you set download cap, flag connections as metered, pause downloads or kill update processes.

I find that a lot of other Apple stuff grating too, not limited to:

- iOS development hoops with certs, provisioning profiles, beta reviews. It doesn't help that AppStoreConnect is bad.

- Apple Developer account 2FA - which is either "trusted device" or SMS. SMS is unreliable and insecure, trusted device ties me to a laptop I don't want to always have with me.

- I had to sign into the AppStore on my mac to get XCode, and now it insists on me using iCloud and iMessage.

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ppetty3y ago

You can cancel a download, but if you've enabled automatic updates macOS might not be aware that you have data limits. And that's terrible. Maybe file a bug or support ticket with Apple.

But the rest of your post is puzzling. The original post was about buying a MacBook & how awful that might be. You're describing developing Apple apps for Apple's platform (and 2FA for a dev account). How would you do those things without an Apple device? And why? If you don't like the forced Apple way, why develop for their platform? But also how does that relate to the choice between the 3 devices in the original post?

sdflhasjdOP3y ago

Okay, that little rant about iOS may have been a little off target, but the picture I was trying to paint about the "Apple way" is that is desires absolute commitment to their ecosystem, anything less and you find yourself with shoddy compromise.

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