• Alavi@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    I remember I told one of the asahi devs (lina?) How shitty apple is and how they try to make it as hard as possible for them to make a linux that runs on apple computers. they got triggered, told me this is not the case and apple is very cooperative, then blocked me on mastodon.

    guess they like the arrangement.

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      10 hours ago

      Only people who like apple (I was going to say fanboys here but I restrained myself) would contribute to posting Linux to Mac, so it logically follows that they wouldn’t like their preferred platform to be criticised.

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      13 hours ago

      I used to work for an apple reseller.

      Apple devs were fairly normal people and were totally honest with us during developer training. I would happily have a beer with them

      Some Apple sales managers were absolute cocks though. One of them treated me like an idiot one week in front of customers when I defended windows on Mac, and the next week, he was talking like he was a genius and repeated every argument I made the week before.

      Apple talks lots of s*** about Linux. Absolutely don’t buy an Apple if you want a Linux system. The Asahi devs deserve a lot of respect though

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      14 hours ago

      This sounds like you were harassing a volunteer dev that had an actual direct interaction with a corporation based on hearsay and they rightfully blocked a troll that wasn’t contributing anything meaningful or constructive to the project.

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        11 hours ago

        Social media is for socializing. They posted something in the lines of “we can’t get graphics to work properly” and I sympathized with them about how hard it must be dealing with apples’ dick moves.

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          I was just saying that your own description of events made you sound like a troll. I don’t know the truth of the matter and frankly it’s irrelevant. If they are working closely with Apple, those kinds of comments on what I assume was their own public forum are an unhelpful distraction at best and potentially detrimental to their corporate relationship with Apple. You could be %100 correct about Apple and the devs could %100 agree with your sentiment, but that doesn’t mean that the social media forum they host is an appropriate place for that kind of discussion. It’s not helpful for them and only has the potential to make their situation worse. They blocked you and moved on so they could focus on the project instead of the noise. Even if your intentions were good (and I do actually believe you meant well) I understand why they did what they did.