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People wearing AirPods are NPCs under mind-control, voluntarily frying their brains with harmful non-natural electromagnetic frequencies. I do not interact with such people until they take the suckers out.<\/p>\n

This request annoys many, as AirPods are purposefully designed to stay in the body for as long as possible: one has to fumble when putting them into the case, while water resistance and Adaptive Transparency—control over how much external sound is heard—incentivise just keeping them in.<\/p>\n

These devices are a pathway into the soulless, transhumanist, artificial “augmented” reality in which a person loses awareness of his surroundings.<\/p>\n

The World Economic Forum has recently announced that mind-reading earbuds are coming later this year.<\/p>\n", "summary": "People wearing AirPods are NPCs under mind-control, voluntarily frying their brains with harmful nnEMF", "date_published": "2023-02-02T10:11:47+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-01-16T11:58:13+02:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "health", "life", "tech", "things" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:11:47 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "803", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "766", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/2017-mbp-linux-no-audio\/", "title": "No audio on 2017 MacBook Pro running Linux", "content_html": "

Set on avoiding Apple telemetry<\/a>, I wiped my 2017 Touch-Bar-free 13″ MacBook Pro and installed Artix Linux on it.<\/p>\n

The notebook performed well on macOS, yet Linux managed to give it a boost: it never heated up and thus its fans never ran, while the battery lasted longer and charged faster.<\/p>\n

However, there was a catch: no audio. I spent weeks scouring for a solution and applying found patches, all to no avail. I then began to program a solution myself, only to realise that it was not a worthwhile task.<\/p>\n

macOS returns, for now.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Set on avoiding Apple telemetry, I installed Linux on my MacBook Pro", "date_published": "2022-12-17T22:48:11+02:00", "date_modified": "2024-09-23T11:59:37+02:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "privacy", "software" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:48:11 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "766", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "682", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/unhappy-with-apple\/", "title": "Unhappy with Apple", "content_html": "

Over the past two years I’ve grown quite unhappy with Apple. The beauty and iconicity of its products are not enough for me to continue supporting the company.<\/p>\n

Apple is often applauded for its humane interface design and attention to detail. It often does deserve this praise: one-touch headphone setup and Live Text really are fantastic features that just work<\/i>. But Apple designs its products this well only when it is financially beneficial. The MacBook’s power brick is deliberately unrepairable: not only does it have no screws, but it is also tied to its power controller by serial number, forcing people to buy a new one if it breaks. The devices that do have screws require uncommon drivers. The charging cable, meanwhile, is meant to last one year and to then biodegrade, “to protect the environment”. What a clown world: a biodegradable cable that only lasts a year cannot be better for the environment than a non-biodegradable one that lasts a lifetime. I will not believe anything that Apple says about the environment until it makes its devices repair-friendly.<\/p>\n

Apple products are also almost completely closed-source, which makes it significantly harder to find vulnerabilities and preïnstalled spyware.<\/p>\n

Privacy? That’s not iPhone. Apple respects privacy only marginally more<\/a> than Facebook and Google do. It collects metadata in the background, creates a social graph, communicates with cell networks even in airplane mode, makes a plot of surrounding Wi-Fi networks, offers no easily removable battery, and requires signing up to download software on iOS. The latter is a problem that goes beyond privacy, as Apple can ban individuals<\/a> from downloading and updating apps.<\/p>\n

As a cherry on top, Apple devices are manufactured by slaves in China. Oh, and it also wants us to believe<\/a> that men can become pregnant.<\/p>\n

I will continue using my iPhone XR and MacBook Pro until they break or stop receiving vital software updates — this way I am not harming the environment nor supporting the company. I will, however, soon delete my Apple ID completely, as I have already done with my accounts at Google and other privacy-invading and humanity-disrespecting companies.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Over the past two years I’ve grown quite unhappy with Apple. The beauty and iconicity of its products is not enough for me to continue supporting the company", "date_published": "2022-01-31T23:36:48+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-08-27T14:44:34+02:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "design", "environment", "privacy", "software", "tech" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:36:48 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "682", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "653", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/2021-to-2022\/", "title": "2021 → 2022", "content_html": "

It’s about to be 2022. Whatever. We should not change our actions just because of an arbitrary new beginning.<\/p>\n

The changing of years is, however, a great time to look back and reflect.<\/p>\n

I did not expect<\/a> freedoms to erode so much in 2021.<\/p>\n

In January 2021, Big Tech deplatformed<\/a> the sitting President of the United States. In December 2021, it is deplatforming anyone who questions the mainstream narrative on the coronavirus and injection safety<\/a>, including an inventor of mRNA technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Italian state of emergency has been extended three times just in 2021, with it now being prolonged until April 2022. This is madness since there is no emergency, while the disease is very much treatable<\/a>. If a government gains extra powers during a state of emergency, it will extend the state of emergency indefinitely.<\/p>\n

To enter Italy, a regular Italian citizen like me needs to take a Covid test, fill a form, call the local health service, spend ten days in quarantine and take another Covid test. To enter a museum, one needs to also wear a mask and have a Soylent Green pass<\/a>. Wealthy non-citizens like Elon Musk are exempt from this tyrannical palaver.<\/p>\n

Within just a year, the democratic Italian Republic became less free than the authoritarian state of Russia.<\/p>\n

Analysing this nonsense led me to an awakening, the Great Awakening:<\/p>\n