Posted on 04/26/2015 10:43:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Yeah, we all drive - but driving is irrelevant, at best, to FReeping. Consumer digital tech is sine qua non for FReeping. Which is why it is relevant to me when Swordmaker provides technical information regarding Macs.
>IF< he stayed with tech updates. But, there is an endless stream of new product and sales announcements that amount to advertising. Regardless, why do Apple users need all these tech announcements? No one else seems to need them.
Oh yeah, thanks for a reasoned reply, pleasant change from what I usually get when questioning things on this topic.
APPLE promo alert.
Frankly, because of FUD.When I was a Windows user, I suckered for a phishing attack. Why did I sucker for it? Because I wasnt using antivirus - which I found to be burdensome back in those days because it was cantankerous and hard to use, and because I didnt have broadband - and consequently I was paranoid about virus contamination. The phishing attack practiced on my fears, and caused me to do something I shouldnt have done. So when Apple came out with OS X based on Unix, I took refuge in the greater robustness of Unix and got a Mac, figuring that I didnt need to nearly so concerned with virus attacks on a system which was designed to continue running even if a program crashed.
And so it has proved, with the exception of the FUD. Chiefly, Macsweeper ads which try to promote the idea that a Mac needs antivirus. And if it needs antivirus, it follows that even if you do have antivirus, someone gets hit by the virus before the new virus is detected and categorized. So if I am credulous of Macsweeper, I am right back where I started with Windows. Insecure, and vulnerable to the phishing attack practicing on that insecurity.
Enter Swordmaker and his ping list. I trust him, what he says has the ring of truth, and I am a happier computer user because of his pings. So if its all the same to you, I prefer to have access to Swordmakers pings. Even if they get to be more numerous than usual. Which I admit is the case at present, for reasons I have gone over before.
I am certain that it can. . . and that someone will come up with an Apple Watch that will do exactly that.
Originally used Norton, got sick of the bloat, used free stuff for years now, no problems on my or wife's machines.
Dunno why you are so paranoid. Just never open attachments from odd sources or at all. I run free Avast and do a scan every so often along with real time protection. No infections, no drama.
Which is why I wanted a frickin' laser on a watch before getting one. That would be awesome, aim and press the button and fry an attacker. I'll have to build my own.
never open attachments from odd sources or at all. I run free Avast and do a scan every so often along with real time protection. No infections, no drama.
Dunno why you are so paranoid.
See, thats the point. I run OS X without all of that rigamarole you have just been doing. When I click on a link I dont worry about attachments from odd sources - if anything tries to run that I didnt ask for, OS X will straitly warn me about it. I dont go looking for odd source free stuff, of course. And I dont run as a admin privileged user unless Im loading software intentionally.You talk about the things you just do that I am trusting that I dont have to do under Unix/OS X - and then you call me paranoid.But to do all that trusting I have to see through the FUD which everyone who actually is functionally paranoid (including you) has a motive to throw at Unix users out of, basically, jealousy.
And to help me see thru that FUD I trust Swordmaker. A lot. Thats why it is well worth my while to be on his ping list. At least one reason . . .
Thanks for that trust, CIC, I appreciate it. I try to provide the unvarnished truth, not the FUD, and explain why it is the truth.
Computers are scary, got it.
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