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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by rubyfan on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:00AM (#50403789)
How does one disable this?
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by rbn3 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:10AM (#50403847)
you can't
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by verytrivial on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:13AM (#50403867)
"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 (#50404184)
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 (#50403879)
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 (#50405490)
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.

Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by saagarjha on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:12AM (#50410581)
Have you actually tried doing this?
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by neop1x on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:23AM (#50412659)
By buying a linux computer