Re:Home Truths about macOS
by Maursault on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:42PM
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> I don't think your words said what you thought you might have meant
> Except the annual release cycle actually started with Mountain Lion, which was 1 year after Lion, and High Sierra was also 1 year after Sierra, but you put them in the "the glory days of OS X stability".
They mean what I said, but I'm certain now that instead, you did this, but let's see if this helps
>>>> Leopard to Mountain Lion were the glory days of OS X stability,
COMMA (NEXT STATEMENT AND NEW THOUGHT)-->
>>>> with Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, and High Sierra standing out as focusing on bug fixes rather than introducing new features (and new bugs).
> I was talking about how macOS annoyingly advertises new major updates, for example in Software Update, and even permanently badging your System Preferences Dock icon until you upgrade.
I don't think your words said what you meant and/or I made a poor assumption by your use of "pushing" in the context of "updates" or upgrades. Apple did start to push out security patches for supported OS versions, but you meant notices, or nags, of available OS upgrades. These can be avoided by disabling push notifications via the gui[1] or more permanently using the Terminal and launchd to disable push notifications:
Outdated, but easily modernized for current macOS, and still my favorite list of disabling things.[2] Here is a nice source of defaults commands,[3] though the script is personalized for the author, I've only copied out what I wanted. Here's a similar script to pick through (blindly run scripts at own extreme risk).[4]
> Except the annual release cycle actually started with Mountain Lion, which was 1 year after Lion, and High Sierra was also 1 year after Sierra, but you put them in the "the glory days of OS X stability".
They mean what I said, but I'm certain now that instead, you did this, but let's see if this helps
>>>> Leopard to Mountain Lion were the glory days of OS X stability,
COMMA (NEXT STATEMENT AND NEW THOUGHT)-->
>>>> with Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, and High Sierra standing out as focusing on bug fixes rather than introducing new features (and new bugs).
> I was talking about how macOS annoyingly advertises new major updates, for example in Software Update, and even permanently badging your System Preferences Dock icon until you upgrade.
I don't think your words said what you meant and/or I made a poor assumption by your use of "pushing" in the context of "updates" or upgrades. Apple did start to push out security patches for supported OS versions, but you meant notices, or nags, of available OS upgrades. These can be avoided by disabling push notifications via the gui[1] or more permanently using the Terminal and launchd to disable push notifications:
or by completely disabling Software Update or less permanently disable automatic software updates with the defaults command (duplicating the gui method) Outdated, but easily modernized for current macOS, and still my favorite list of disabling things.[2] Here is a nice source of defaults commands,[3] though the script is personalized for the author, I've only copied out what I wanted. Here's a similar script to pick through (blindly run scripts at own extreme risk).[4][1] https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/how-to-turn-off-...
[2] http://tech.masterofsql.com/os-x/unload-disable-unwanted-age...
[3] https://gist.github.com/mvanbaak/e98b7b622ea2c8ab626d51cb88e...
[4] https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos