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Yes, useful and destructive/fatal configuration should be separated. If you have to remove a load-bearing pillar to install a light-switch, the design is poor,
by digisign 5y ago
Yes, useful and destructive/fatal configuration should be separated.
If you have to remove a load-bearing pillar to install a light-switch, the design is poor, to say the least.
- scarface74 5y agoThere are two separate levels - root access - doesn’t disable SIP - Disabling SIP requires you to go through many contortions. People didn’t need to disable SIP to install Chrome. They were doing it for other reasons.
- digisign 5y agoYes, and those reasons are why I mentioned poor design. This morning I was reminded, my work Mac has a dozen daemons trying to contact things I don't want, such as icloud, itunes, google, etc. A fraction of these are ostensibly useful, but I had to resort to Little Snitch to block them because the OS is read-only, i.e. insanity. Even the user-hostile mess of Windows allows me to turn off the worse services... although even that is dwindling.
- scarface74 5y agoThe OS is not “read only” if you go through contortions. But if you can write anything to the OS, so can anything you run