@Iacchus 366167 wrote:
its so funny watching jealous pc owners pretending that macs arent excellent quality products
in niche applications (including art and music) they can be – but a large price premium is paid. (you can do the same with PC hardware, particularly if you stay the fuck away from Windoze and all its flakiness..)
However command and control systems for the blue light services were traditionally custom built and were funded with a endless pot of taxpayers money – its only recently that the UK ones have started using mostly bog-standard Dell workstations and normal Microsoft core infrastructure…
The Dansk Politi and the IT-og-Telestyrelsen (Danish IT/telecoms ministry) aren’t stupid, and Denmark has a lot of smart techie people (they probably use this obscure platform as well to make it very secure)
What I was getting at more isn’t the merits or otherwise of the computer itself, but the dark irony of this machine which is usually marketed at right-on creative types being so effectively used to limit protest, dissent and freedom of speech in a so-called democratic country (and even using a Linux/Unix-like kernel :laugh_at:), when normally its Microsoft being berated for this.
if you are old enough to remember the 1984 Mac adverts its even more ironic!
