Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by rubyfan on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:00AM
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How does one disable this?
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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by rbn3 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:10AM
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you can't
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by verytrivial on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:13AM
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"It's for you own good. It would be harmful to disable it. And you don't understand it so you shouldn't have an opinion. I trust Apple to do this safely, even if I don't want whatever this is."
Is how I'm generally greeted when I ask this sort of question.
Turn of your Mac and use a different operating system. Because it doesn't matter how you disable this feature because it is merely the current implementation of Apple's opinion of its relationship with you. It's a hydra and you are going to lose the fight.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by bel8 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:59AM
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or "grandma needs this to just work, Apple knows better"
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by kibwen on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:15AM
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By using an OS that doesn't view you as cattle to be milked and eventually sent to the slaughterhouse.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by mmooss on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:44AM
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I expected the article to address that. Maybe it's obvious?:
Disable the daemons, delete the directory, lock down permissions to the database files / directory, lock down the daemons' permissions, delete the daemons, ...
I'm not recommending those things - I don't know what the consequence is for the system - but that's where I'd start.