I think this current Macbook is probably going to be my last Apple machine. I’ve been using both Macs and various Linux and BSD setups for the past ~25 years and I’ve appreciated having a low-friction, low-hassle UNIX OS with great UX. I’ve been exclusively running macOS for a few years now, and with each successive macOS version I just feel more and more that not only does the quality go down (even the fucking main development language, Swift, is buggy and poorly planned), but I also have less and less control over what’s actually running on my machine. For example, even if you toggle Siri off it’ll still do something with your data (fuck knows what) and actually disabling it requires first disabling SIP, and there’s also seemingly no way to opt out of Apple’s frankly creepy “trial” system which nobody really knows much about in the first place – they’re apparently running some sort of ML-related experiments on users via triald, but good fucking luck finding out much more than that.

Even the accessibility situation is deteriorating, especially for accessibility clients (so things like screen readers etc) – the API is ancient, extremely poorly documented, and a huge pain in the ass to actually use from Swift. And don’t get me started on the terrible state of Apple’s developer documentation in general…