This happened to me as well with a secondary iCloud account, and I still have no idea what triggered the ban. Apple support said they couldn't reverse it. The account was on an old iPhone, and after the ban, it became impossible to log out, rendering the device e-waste overnight. I at least didn't have any valuable data in icloud. But that experience prompted me to stop using Apple products or any other device that requires an online account to function. Fortunately, since recent AMD APUs are quite capable, I sold my MacBook M2 Max and have happily returned to using x86_64 Linux. No more Apple in my life, ever.
Readit Newsneop1x commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
neop1x commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
Switched to the free OnlyOffice a year ago and never looked back: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop
Calligra (KDE Office Suite) is also pretty interesting but currently Linux-only https://calligra.org/
neop1x commented on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news... · Posted by u/simlevesque
First, AI took all the hype.
Now, AI is taking all the RAM.
Soon, AI will be taking all the electricity.
Exactly. It is already wasting enormous amounts of energy for silly inefficient AI nonsense. The price of energy will go up due to high demans and at the same time it also produces a lot of heat. I am not seeing a very optimistic future for mankind...
> I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype.
It's not hype. Here's a comprehensive review of a lot of terminals and Ghostty did very well--"State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions" [1]
[1]: https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2...
Can ghostty finally search in the scrollback? The last time I tried it it didn't support a freaking search. This is #1 feature I need from any terminal.
Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?
Or WezTerm which is much more usable and polished than this. I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype.
neop1x commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne
I miss when I could search youtube for "cats" and I'd get just raw cat footage.
Now I get cat influencers and influencers selling me on them ... while they tell me how to pick a cat. Maybe I find kinda raw cat footage, with a title that is misleading, annoying music, text bubbles popping all over it :(
I just want what I searched for ... youtube doesn't give me that.
It's not that unlike when I open the home page, I've no control and so much of that isn't what I'm looking for...
Sometimes it helps to use intitle:cats and other advanced search operators https://granwehr.com/blog/youtube-search-operators
neop1x commented on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/... · Posted by u/smartmic
As someone who pays for YouTube, I don't understand why I can't disable shorts fully. They already have my money. What more do they want?
As a premium paying user, I am also using Vanced-patched Youtube on android and I have a browser extension for desktop to largely remove this shorts bulls*it. It's just Google being evil, I guess...
neop1x commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
It's not only centralization in the sense your website will be down if they are down but it is also a centralized MITM proxy. If you transfer sensitive data like chats over cloudflare-"protected" endpoints, you also allow CF to transparently read and analyze it in plain-text. It must be very easy for state agencies to spy on the internet nowadays, they woukd just ask CF to redirect traffic to them.
neop1x commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
Your origin servers are protected now as no one can access them. Thanks for choosing CloudFlare's MITM "protection".
neop1x commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want, one/two major actors are down and everything goes with it
Not downplaying the immense work of infra / engineering at this scale but my neighborhood local grocery market shouldn’t be down
We? I am not using it. I never used it and I will not use it. People should learn how to work with firewall, setup a simple ModSecurity WAF and stop using this bullshit. Almost everything goes through cloudflare and cloudflare also does TLS fronting for websites so basically cloudflare is MITM spying proxy but no one seem to care. :/