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I’m curious and not attacking. Do you follow all security-related announcements for Mac OS and do your own back ports and fixes? How did you decide 10.9 is th

• KirillPanov 6y ago
  It might not be a matter of risk balance. MacOS 10.9 was pretty much when Apple jumped the shark. That was the last version I ran before switching back to Linux, and I ran it pretty damn long in the tooth as well -- until ~2018ish. I still have a few VM images with MacOS 10.9 that I spin up from time to time in order to run commercial software like Adobe Acrobat.
  • dcow 6y ago
    Just curious, what did Apple do (or not do) in 10.10 to earn the “jumped the shark” description?
• Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  I use 10.9 because out of all the OS's I've ever used, I like 10.9 the most by far, and I consider that worth the security risks. I browse the web in an up-to-date version of Chromium[0], I keep my computer behind an up-to-date router, and I trust my local software. An experienced hacker who wants to spend a few days getting into my computer will succeed, but they'd probably succeed anyway, and that's why I take measures like keeping backups in cold storage. This was the first time I've actually backported a security fix. Apple Mail is easily where I'm most vulnerable, because it's not merely an outdated app which opens untrusted content—it opens untrusted content which anyone can push to me! 0: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy