The name option is misunderstood. You have options. Sometimes you just have to pick one.
Try going to the ice cream shop and ask for an ice cream but refuse to give them the size, flavour or the type of dip. Tell them it's optional and you shouldn't need to provide this information on order to get ice cream.
Chances are you're suddenly getting a new set of options. A. Kicked out. B. No ice cream. C. Gigantic truck size vanilla icecream with garlic dip and tuna flavour. That'll be $79.99.
You have options but sometimes you have to pick a few.
If you argue for positional arguments, try ordering ice cream: large chocolate strawberry.
A self-hosted macOS runner will be more economical in the long-run, if you have a spot you can hook it up at; or, if you're fine doing things less than legally, you can use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX.
I'm sure legality depends on jurisdiction, too. If you acquired the software legally and you need to keep it running in a VM, I'm sure it's legal at least in some places.
But yeah, just drive-by-downloading MacOS to your Windows box it is probably not quite on the up and up.
Highly recommend everyone check out the self-hosted runners. GitHub has made it crazy easy to set up and all your actions are free and can have local cache. And you get all the benefits of the Actions ecosystem. Throw a used Mac mini or old PC or whatever at it.
I truly don't understand why this isn't more widely discussed (I've seen several "GH Actions Gotchas" articles where this isn't mentioned). Many of the community actions also seem to be designed to run as short jobs to paper around missing features (for ex: https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter ), that end up eating up an enormous amount of your minutes budget.
There's a web version, and if they do follow through on their Activity Pub integration (which they have already demonstrated in a very limited capacity) then you'll be able to use whatever client you want to follow Threads users.
When I tried to join, there was nothing on the threads.net website except the word "Threads" in front of some spiral particles and a QR code to get the app[0].
More recently it seems they've added a login dialog to the site, but attempting to log in still just immediately prompts you to download the app[1].
Presumably once you've used the app to create and set up an account you can now use it to browse online, but that's not really "fully functional on web" and, relevant for the accusation of data-harvesting, still requires you to download the app.
> Then it has not launched in your region, probably. For me in EU it shows option to login with instagram or browse without a profile.
Threads itself is launched in my region. Could you screenshot the front threads.net page you see (when logged out)?
> No app needed
Do you mean you're able to create an account without the app, or do you just mean that there's no app needed for browsing in your region (with no account, or after the account is set up through the app)?
Option to browse without a profile does seem to be specific to the EU[0], and apparently has some limited functionality (can't search for individual posts).
The second screenshot is a form I can get to, but immediately after logging in it'll prompt to download the app to set up your profile.
The name option is misunderstood. You have options. Sometimes you just have to pick one.
Try going to the ice cream shop and ask for an ice cream but refuse to give them the size, flavour or the type of dip. Tell them it's optional and you shouldn't need to provide this information on order to get ice cream.
Chances are you're suddenly getting a new set of options. A. Kicked out. B. No ice cream. C. Gigantic truck size vanilla icecream with garlic dip and tuna flavour. That'll be $79.99.
You have options but sometimes you have to pick a few.
If you argue for positional arguments, try ordering ice cream: large chocolate strawberry.
Does that mean chocolate flavour or dip?