4:46 PM - No more macs
I gave up using macOS this year after 21 years of use. I was really into apple computers for a long time. There have been many negative changes to the OS and the products in the last decade since Tim Cook took over. I just finally took the hint I'm not their customer.
Some folks think it's weird with M1 macs.. thing is I went through a CPU transition once with PPC->Intel. I knew what they were going to do to intel users. When no viable macs showed up on the market for me this far into the transition, I just gave up on the whole thing. I don't want a throw away computer that isn't repairable. I like to hand-me-down macs to my mom as she can't afford computers on her own. The way I use a computer, I need to replace the SSD before giving it to her. I just do too much disk IO and hit the wear level on SSDs.
macOS also has some problems. For instance, it's now quite locked down for security purposes which also means it's getting harder and harder to install third party software, compile apps, use macports or similar tools, use X11, etc. Apple killed OpenGL, OpenCL. They killed my game library. They made big sur painfully slow on fusion drives. It was never fixed.
My transition plan was to setup an ubuntu box for day to day stuff. I'm hoping to switch this to a BSD box next year. Working on some missing software and figuring out what i need to virtualize to pull it off. The system also boots MidnightBSD on another SSD for testing. It's so much faster than the mac. It's like going from a 486 to a p4. I mostly blame macOS disk I/O for this and the upgrade to a m.2 drive from a fusion drive. Granted the CPU is faster (i7-10700 vs i5-7600).
I'm finding that without a mac, a lot of the apple ecosystem is no longer appealing though. At this point, it might be easier to go to android for example. There's still no decent replacement for the apple watch though.