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Correct, they’re closed source and you can’t opt out of analytics

Definitely check out Osaurus for macOS and Windows. Heavily privacy focused with e2ee iOS and iPadOS tethers.

Surely you used several USB Ethernet adapters to rule them out as being the source as well right? Those types of dongles are well known for calling home.

tHaTs BeCaUsE wE dOn’T SeLL wIdE ScReeN DiSpLaYs YeT! -Apple Genius

No no no.. go one better for the Mac. It should be whichever device/s which are next to be made legacy from Apple’s 7 year support window. That way you’re actually catering to the lowest common denominator.

Is there a single Apple SoC where they’ve provided removable ram? Not that I can recall.

96gb on baseline model m3 ultra with a max of 512gb! Looks like they’re leaning in hard with the AI crowd.

A fellow HN Kiwi. Nice work on this Mike. Keen to see how it develops!

Right? Dude, please provide some additional context around your web browser stack because something you’re using is triggering their system. That or you’re click house neighbours are using your wifi.

Also it appears the new v2 licensing approach does not support Family Purchases, which is a step backward in my view.

While he may not of penned it himself, he is certainly funding 50% of the rather generous severance and that should count for something by comparison.

Correction: They /attempted/ to add an /optional/ feature for your /children's/ account(s).

Do you have kids? Daughters? Would you like better control over what they're exposed to? Being given the tools to track screen time, purchases and control where possible exposure to objectionable content for immature minds isn't a bad thing.. provided it is opt-in. Which the feature always was before the news cycle chose their own narrative.

Are you sure you meant to use “FUD” in this sentence? It doesn’t make sense. “Elon and his sales team (“they”) are selling this fear uncertainty and doubt”.

EVE Online has highly sophisticated user fingerprinting to prevent fraud and real money trading. So even if you got through with that email address it wouldn't be long before an issue was raised for your account.

With EVE, fraud comes in many ways and most would presume credit card fraud but because you can earn ISK in-game, which can be converted/sold for PLEX (their game-time subscription currency, worth real $) many items (Capital Ships, High Experience Characters, Corporations) are bought and sold for real money outside of the platform - which in some cases, is revenue that EVE would/could benefit from if PLEX was purchased from them directly and used legitimately instead.

So aside from basic things like blocking utility email addresses, they have sophisticated algorithms that monitor user accounts for unusual activity. The definition of unusual is constantly growing/changing and it is monitored and managed by a dedicated "security" team.

Source: Friend of friend works in that security team.