seanj

Let’s be honest, most people’s lives are so humdrum that if the government is spying on them then it’s wasting taxpayers money and probably boring it’s operatives to death in the process 

Can you imagine the next Bond movie - M: “gosh Mrs Brown has messaged her husband to buy some more bread on the way home from the office. Third time this month!  Sounds suspicious to me. Get me Bond please Miss Moneypenny!”

(Yes I know Bond is MI6 not MI5)

Eurocrats are the worst on the planet, interfering in what kind of lightbulb you can buy, how powerful your vacuum is, kettles, Internet memes, etc, the list is endless.
The need to justify their expensive existence by constantly passing new regulations...

Thank god the U.K. escaped!

If it wasn’t for the issues with the Music app, this alone would probably tempt me to upgrade from Mojave!! 

But have they fixed the Music app yet so that you can show album artwork in playlists? Something that was always possible in iTunes...

MacPro said:

seanj said:

MicroSoft = Malware

Not these days IMHO.  I would have agreed until Windows 10.   I have five PCs now as well as seven macs and all the PCs run Windows 10 pro with no third party anti whatever crap, MS's built in defenses have proven able to keep all my hardware safe thus far.  99% of the issues with Windows was always crapware and the likes of anti-virus apps as they were malware themselves.  That said, no PC is used for mail or web access.  Just applications or Mysql.

Alas at work I have to use Windows 10 machines - whereas at home I’m purely Mac. We can’t take security lightly so they are still loaded up with 3rd party anti-virus, disabled USB ports, ultra-string drive encryption etc

But that still doesn’t alter the fact Windows is crapware, regularly crashing, with a dysfunctional UI, and horrendous compatibility issues with drivers etc. So yes, I’d stand by “MicroSoft = Malware”, not “mal” as in “malicious” but “mal” as in “bad” (eg malpractice, malfeasance, etc).