Ooh that takes me back. Got it from Napster, along with likely a million viruses.

Wish I’d never watched that video

But once you make the wrong noises about something, plenty of people show up ready to prove just how mean and horrible they can actually be.

This is true. Linux isn’t my platform of choice, and the “passion” of the responses that provokes is remarkable.

I’ve not come across this but I’ll check it out. Is that App Store apps only?

I think probably 90% of the apps I’ve installed have been through the homebrew package manager which probably means they don’t do any phoning home, but I’ll check out the pre-installed stuff and see if I can replicate.

With respect to OP’s post, they say “you can’t even tell the computers we are on are 15x faster…”, and I reckon that quick resume etc, is an example of “you absolutely can tell that we now have extremely fast hardware” when compared to what came before, irrespective of the quality of the software.

I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just picking apart the blanket “computers feel the same as they did a decade ago”. Some computers might feel the same, and a lot of software might be unoptimised, but there’s a good selection of examples where that’s not the case.

What apps out of interest? I’m a new Mac owner, so limited experience, but everything seems insanely quick so far. Even something like Xcode is a one-bounce on this M4 Air.

I guess the counter argument for games is load times have dramatically improved, though that’s less about software development than hardware improvements.

If we put consoles in the same bracket as computers, the literally instant quick-resume feature on an Xbox (for example) feels like sci-fi.

I feel like this is Windows specific. Linux is rapid on PCs and my MacBook is absurdly quick.

If you’ve got a VPN, just install that on your Apple TV. Google doesn’t show ads in certain countries (the list is Googleable). That was an absolute game changer for me.

I use an Apple TV, but I assume it’s the same as any other streaming box or appropriate smart TV.

The absolute piece-of-piss way to block all YouTube ads on it is to install a VPN like Proton, choose a relevant country (easily googleable), and there will be no ads whatsoever in YouTube.

Google doesn’t serve ads on YouTube in a handful of countries.