Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jama211 on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:31PM
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You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percentage who’d want that.
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Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jasonvorhe on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:53PM
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You had full root for more than a decade on any macOS machine.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by zapzupnz on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:09PM
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And then you didn't. What's the purpose of saying this?
All consumer-operating systems also used to be single user with administrative access by default. Shall we return to that, too?
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by explodes on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:59AM
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The point of saying this is to let you realize that the last ten years weren't a disaster.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jama211 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:06PM
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We also used to use wep encryption on wifi networks
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by duped on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:45PM
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How is allowing the user the power to disable software on the device they own "disastrous" for anyone
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by fizwidget on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:29PM
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It opens the door to tech-illiterate users being tricked into disabling security features, doesn’t it? Not saying I agree with it but I imagine that’s the motivation.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by clickety_clack on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:29PM
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That's like saying houses shouldn't have doors in case the unwary are tricked into letting thieves into their homes.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jama211 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:03PM
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No, it’s not.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by ben_w on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:52PM
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In general or in this case?
I'm also curious about this specific case.
In general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jama211 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:05PM
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Same reason we don’t let people set their banking password to “password”.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by wpm on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:48PM
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What is the attack chain enabled by letting me disable the com.apple.mediaanalysisd job?
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
by jama211 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:07PM
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Show me where I said there was one? You’re raising this in bad faith.