Time to toss Apple products

Apple follows the spirit of current times

Decades ago Microsoft started to do internationalisation of it's

products in a bad way - one of the reasons I don't like MS Windows.

This went over the top in many places (besides some really bad translations)

for example in Excel where you can't use a file containing formulas in an

Excel instance using a different language. As a side note - Excel

still produces CSV files that it can't read again.

Back to the file system: an existing path /Users/XXX becomes

/Benutzer/XXX in a system set to German. This works as long as you don't

use some shell or configuration files which store a path. Plain stupid.

I always set my systems to English because of that and I did this also

for my Macs for years. Until recently I was not aware that Apple does

the same bad thing - I saw it on a friend's Mac which was set to German.

But Apple even went further. They used "gender" language. This whole

gender thing is something I could ignore - in English it doesn't do

much harm to the language, I think.

But: In German it in fact destroys the language.

So the home directory of a user on a Mac set to German now becomes:

/Benutzer:innen/XXX instead of /Users/XXX.

In Germany more than 70% of the population are against this phenomenon.

It is imposed on the majority by a fanatic minority and by the

government media (which claim to be independent).

Now Apple is also in line.

I already abandoned iPhone use after Apple announced "client side scanning

for child porn" and after establishing their massive geo-tracking of users

even if they don't want it. Time to abandon the use of their computers also.

The Apple snitch network

About Apple's image scanning

About EU message scanning regulation