Use KDE Connect.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

It allows you to send any file wirelessly from any device to any device. Android to iPhone, iPhone to Linux, Windows to Windows, etc...

These are normal in the EU. You end up either asking someone who works there to open the gate or until someone else leaves.
They aren't fun, but aren't new either.

Choice is great and I highly encourage it. But there is no choice here, it's Apple's way or nothing.

Some are ok, most seem though to have lost their meaning though to me.
The Safari icon looks less professional, a little too "flat" and small.
The Image Playground is terrible either way.
Photo Booth now looks like it's for printing images, I would never have guessed it's true usage.
Automator looks like no one knew what it was for, and decided to make it some retro-futuristic 60's TV. At least a full robot kinda made sense.
The Calendar lost it's meaning. I get that it's a calendar but changing it to a list of dots just makes it lose meaning.
Font book now looks like it's the address book app.
Disk Utility now looks like it's supposed to fix the entire system (OS issues, etc...), not just storage space.
Image Capture looks like it's for downloading images from the internet, not from devices.

And so on...

What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

They were being used just for IOS app development. You can't build for IOS without using Macs.

"Wow! You mean experiences vary???? Who the hell would have ever guessed THAT?!?"

You wouldn't have ever guessed that. As you mentioned before:

"However, I've never heard an adult who uses Apple equipment claim it as such."

Here you claimed that no one makes such a claim, aka everyone had the same experience in this matter. And yet this was in response to someone who literally pointed out most but not all do, aka experiences vary.

It's 2025. We've known for a couple of decades that Win32/Win64 and Windows and its main ecosystem only work because various hacks into the kernel to make it all run more smoothly. Even the video driver architecture basically has built in restarts when buffers blow up.

It's a shitty proprietary operating system which somehow, every time they try to clean it up, it gets worse under and on top of the hood. I stopped using Windows for my own personal devices four years ago, and will not go back. Ubuntu, Debian and MacOS offer cleaner UIs, and even if the software libraries are a bit smaller, at least I'm not a prisoner to endless ads.

Christ I had to set up a Win11 laptop yesterday, and between setting up the OS and Edge I had to turn down "offers" and additional tracking functionality around seven or eight times. Actually more, because then I set up a non-privileged user profile, and had to do it all again. And that was Win11 Pro. I can only imagine how much worse the Home editions are.

There's no speculation that increases CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere lead to the more heat being trapped. We've known that since the late 19th century.

It just goes to show you, there's none more gullible than the paranoid.

Might be because iCloud in China isn't the same iCloud everywhere else.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

It's one of those things you have to do to sell in China. You have to give up your users privacy, and Apple was quick to offer that up for the Chinese market.

When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.

Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.

The problem was that you were part of that chain of obligations to, and the guy above you could grab your wife, or in the case of James II of England (James VI of Scotland), he could grab you.

China's population decline, as standards of living increase, will largely take care of the problem. China, like every nation that is now on the other side of the economic growth-population growth curve, will have to figure out how to deal with the next half century. But nothing is going to make factories less automated, and between population decline and foreign tariffs, they are only going to push automation further to fill the gap.