What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?

I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.

  • BJW@lemmus.orgEnglish
    521·
    2 months ago

    I bought a MacBook Pro for iOS development. It was alright until Apple decided to exclude it from future OS updates, preventing me from using it for it’s sole purpose, and forcing me to either buy a new one or stop developing iOS apps. Guess which one I chose. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, it’s still got a 2TB SSD, 16GB of RAM and 16-core CPU but apparently Apple thought they could make more money off of me by intentionally barring it from updates to force me to buy a new one, rather than simply allowing me to install MacOS updates. They were wrong.

    Edit: 8 physical cores, 16 logical

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      There is a patch to update macOS when it’s not compatible. One I have used before is from dosdude1.

      You can also put Linux on it, or dual boot. Older Intel Macs I remember being really wasy, the T2 Mac’s need special drivers but it’s not too hard, and the new Mac’s have ashai Linux.

      • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        It’s Opencore Legacy Patcher these days. A remarkable tool really.

        I used it to run up to Sequoia on a couple of old Macs, which I’ve ended up just putting Linux on instead. But if you’re an iOS dev, then OCLP is a decent shout.

        That said, we’re only a year or two away from macOS dropping Intel support entirely, and that’ll be the end for OCLP.

      • BJW@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I was told doing so ran the risk of getting your published iOS application blacklisted if Apple detected you were circumventing their greed, so it wasn’t worth the risk.