I'm not using machines from my collection as main computer. Who said so ?
It's just fun to be able to use some modern services on these old PowerBooks, exchanging files, browsing, playing… etc … non-sensitive datas.
What should I be afraid of doing so ? if I get a virus, or a trojan, so what ? The hypothetical hacker would see what ? the small browsing i do on it going to 68kmla with Ten4fox or Classilla … My icons collection… , well, what an exploit. And anyway , if i get hacked, that's my problem.
"If you want my version: Stop using a ten-year-old computer that hasn't gotten security patches for seven years as your main computer. Stop using it as your second computer. Take it off the Internet altogether. "
Wow… I find this a bit radical. You know, it's also part of the fun to be able to go on the www with these machines. If you remove that possibility, you remove a great part of the fun. I'm really happy and glad that there are still peoples doing things like Ten4fox, Classilla and others...
I mean, all this is just for fun. I'm not going to use my credit card to pay things on the bay on these machines.
"To be honest, given the number of people using PPC Macs as their main computers who are so mistrustful of the cloud, I was surprised to see the particular backlash that I did, over on macrumors.
Not to be that guy who does the "Why are you even using a Mac?" thing, but, well. Since that's my schtick, here it goes.
If you don't trust Apple, and you aren't willing to run modern hardware, why would you use a Mac? It's one thing to have such a machine as a hobby computer (heck, I want to pick up a late G4 or a G5 of some kind as a local-only 10.5 box to run some apps I still have from that time period) but I'd say that it's pretty unreasonable to try to use such a machine as your only or main computer. The myth from the late '80s and '90s that Macs had a lower and TCO and a longer lifespan has been proven incorrect over and over again, and it's well known that Apple will happily increase the system requirements for the OS and prevent the use of dozens of models at the drop of a hat."
Sorry… You're an admin of a Macintosh vintage computing forum, right ? Ok… just to be sure
It's just fun to be able to use some modern services on these old PowerBooks, exchanging files, browsing, playing… etc … non-sensitive datas.
What should I be afraid of doing so ? if I get a virus, or a trojan, so what ? The hypothetical hacker would see what ? the small browsing i do on it going to 68kmla with Ten4fox or Classilla … My icons collection… , well, what an exploit. And anyway , if i get hacked, that's my problem.
"If you want my version: Stop using a ten-year-old computer that hasn't gotten security patches for seven years as your main computer. Stop using it as your second computer. Take it off the Internet altogether. "
Wow… I find this a bit radical. You know, it's also part of the fun to be able to go on the www with these machines. If you remove that possibility, you remove a great part of the fun. I'm really happy and glad that there are still peoples doing things like Ten4fox, Classilla and others...
I mean, all this is just for fun. I'm not going to use my credit card to pay things on the bay on these machines.
"To be honest, given the number of people using PPC Macs as their main computers who are so mistrustful of the cloud, I was surprised to see the particular backlash that I did, over on macrumors.
Not to be that guy who does the "Why are you even using a Mac?" thing, but, well. Since that's my schtick, here it goes.
If you don't trust Apple, and you aren't willing to run modern hardware, why would you use a Mac? It's one thing to have such a machine as a hobby computer (heck, I want to pick up a late G4 or a G5 of some kind as a local-only 10.5 box to run some apps I still have from that time period) but I'd say that it's pretty unreasonable to try to use such a machine as your only or main computer. The myth from the late '80s and '90s that Macs had a lower and TCO and a longer lifespan has been proven incorrect over and over again, and it's well known that Apple will happily increase the system requirements for the OS and prevent the use of dozens of models at the drop of a hat."
Sorry… You're an admin of a Macintosh vintage computing forum, right ? Ok… just to be sure