Apple hasn’t yet fulfilled this macOS promise from four years ago
Apple hasn’t yet fulfilled this macOS promise from four years ago
Shortly after the release of macOS Big Sur back in 2020, Apple faced widespread server outages. The outage affected macOS...
Most likely this is a non-issue for the majority of users but for anyone really strict on privacy it’s a different story.
Agreed, though I think privacy strictness that disallows certificate checking might just skip MacOS entirely.
Privacy defaults on Apple systems are generally good — at least most potential risks are opt-in rather than opt-out, which the majority of vendors prefer — but without lockdown engaged MacOS has a lot of I/O that might not pass the strictest audits.
Even without the privacy concerns, I think it removes the sovereignty of your own computer.
I decide what code I run on my computer.
A few years ago I had some peripheral that started
iTunesMusic.app every time I plugged it in. (Bluetooth headphones, I think). As I don't use it, and there was no way to disable it I figured i could just delete it.Nope! Music.app is a system application on a read-only partition shadowed on your root filesystem. Apparently it is possible by booting with the partition in read-write developer mode, but you'll get to do it all over again with every update.
As a parent and someone doing tech support for oldsters the more walled their gardens the less work for me.
And for me that’s all that matters right now.
Try this: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes