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> do not care to do low level tinkering on my Mac You may not, but many do. Those many may actually be a small minority, but it would really suck for those fol
by cheeze 7y ago
> do not care to do low level tinkering on my Mac
You may not, but many do. Those many may actually be a small minority, but it would really suck for those folks.
At the end of the day, sometimes I need to run random x86/64 executables and there isn't any way around that. I could deal with a performant virtual machine.
- gigatexal 7y agoDrivers are moving to userspace. What more low level access do you need other than that if you can write your own driver for things?
- sieabahlpark 7y agoBoy I can't wait to write my own driver to use a program that I bought.
- gigatexal 7y agoIt was just an example. What applications require hardware support that isn’t baked in? Surely the Mac isn’t being used in an industrial space with niche one off instruments? The point is more things are moving to userpsace and Apple is controlling the kernel as, I think, they should.
- Fnoord 7y agoKernel extensions I use out of my head. USB to ethernet dongle. Little Snitch. Karabiner. Hammerspoon. NTFS read/write driver. I really doubt they will all remain working but the dongle is hardware.
- gigatexal 7y agoAs with all such changes there will be with time either open source or manufacturers who support the new user space / kernel lock down mode. What you’ll likely experience is temporary loss of use as things transition. In any case the benefits outside of your specific use case outweigh the headaches in just security alone.