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Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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Mac users:

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duckCityComplex@lemmy.world
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This is also 99% of Windows users

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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Where does a Hackintosh fall in?

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GladiusB@lemmy.world
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The hardest one at all. You have to afford a new computer every 2 years.

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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I don’t think you know what a Hackintosh is.

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unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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At the top because you risk going to jail for violating the Apple terms of service/end user license agreement.

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communism@lemmy.ml
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You do not risk going to jail, come on lol. People are so dramatic about doing the most minor unenforced crimes I swear

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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lol. They only ever pursed anyone for selling Mac clones or hardware for doing it. And the hardware was just a preconfigured usb drive with a motherboard connector on it. I think there were actual Apple devs moonlighting as hackintosh contributors.

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Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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Well Mac users do too… Well they don’t… but someone does.

I was that someone for some family members. I felt icky the whole time.

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Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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I once upgraded a girl’s parents’ computer to System 8 and didn’t realize it wasn’t supported. Fucked up the BIOS (or whatever Macs used back then) and they had to ship it back to Apple to get fixed. I did not hear from her again.

But I haven’t actually installed Mac OS since about Puma. New operating systems just come down in the normal software update. But I still cherish my OS X Beta DVD.

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Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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A couple months ago my sister bricked her mac somehow… it wouldn’t boot past the stupid white screen with a ? on it.

Had to edit random shit on the built in installer to get it to talk to apple correctly and pull the correct OS image to fix itself. It was a full OS install/recovery.

Easy enough because I understand linux/unix and underneath that’s all it is… but mac users are just stupidly lost… And to get to some of those tools, because they’re so buried underneath the “MAC experience”… it’s a pain in the ass too.

I can’t be bothered to remember what version it was… I hate touching macs. I only did that one cause it was my sister.

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