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I've found in general over the years, it's pretty difficult to find what you're looking for in System Preferences. Anytime I go to look for "Security and Privac

by calmoo 4y ago

I've found in general over the years, it's pretty difficult to find what you're looking for in System Preferences. Anytime I go to look for "Security and Privacy", it takes me a good few seconds. The icon isn't exactly recognizable. Maybe something as simple as alphabetizing the categories would help. I feel like this has gotten worse over the years but I can't say how.

viraptor 4y ago
We got more settings. A lot of categories did not exist before, so we had to cram more options in or chose what's less used and hide it. For an extreme case think of today vs XP. No bluetooth. No privacy. No location. No login or users. No speech recognition. Sharing was there but hidden. There was no colour tuning, font smoothing was hidden, and half the other graphics options didn't exist.
- sharikous 4y ago
  I wouldn't know. Even Snow Leopard had more thorough options in a lot of areas, see http://morrick.me/archives/9220 http://morrick.me/archives/9220 . In today's era people don't dare to change from the default configuration if they don't have to. We all know that if some settings feel like Apple doesn't want it, it will be hell (incompatibility with other settings, subtle hints that things won't work because of that, the option will get back to default magically in some occasions, and so on). Heck lots of people don't even change their Desktop picture anymore. I just tried to firewall out Apple's app notarization, using Apple's provided IP addresses, macOS's included firewall (pf), configured from macOS's System Settings plus a configuration file in /etc. Not only my configuration file will be burned down at each update (and rapid security response will probably make it even more deceptive), not only I cannot receive even the courtesy of having my conf file in some "Relocated Items" directory as macOS used to do, but also I notice clearly that app notarization still works in apparently random moments
  - ploxiln 4y ago
    You're not supposed to configure routing or dns for your operating system anymore, apps don't like it when you do that. Thus the rise of DoH and: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/apples_apps_bypass_firewalls_like_littlesnitch/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/apples_apps_b...
deergomoo 4y ago
You can alphabetise them (at least up to Monterey, haven’t tried the new one yet). It’s in the View menu iirc
- mikkergp 4y ago
  I just tried that, it works, but weirdest thing to me was always that it doesn't alphabetize within the two groupings, but i guess the top and bottom are just seperations, not really groupings? Can you make the categories more explicit?. The first four I guess are related to UI (General, Desktop & Screen Saver, Dock * Menu Bar, Siri) but then why not make that it's own category? Siri and Spotlight I guess are both 'Search' but same question again, these were all in the first grouping. There's a "Customize" but I guess that just lets you hide stuff.

by calmoo 4y ago

viraptor 4y ago

We got more settings. A lot of categories did not exist before, so we had to cram more options in or chose what's less used and hide it. For an extreme case think of today vs XP. No bluetooth. No privacy. No location. No login or users. No speech recognition. Sharing was there but hidden. There was no colour tuning, font smoothing was hidden, and half the other graphics options didn't exist.

sharikous 4y ago
I wouldn't know. Even Snow Leopard had more thorough options in a lot of areas, see http://morrick.me/archives/9220 http://morrick.me/archives/9220 . In today's era people don't dare to change from the default configuration if they don't have to. We all know that if some settings feel like Apple doesn't want it, it will be hell (incompatibility with other settings, subtle hints that things won't work because of that, the option will get back to default magically in some occasions, and so on). Heck lots of people don't even change their Desktop picture anymore. I just tried to firewall out Apple's app notarization, using Apple's provided IP addresses, macOS's included firewall (pf), configured from macOS's System Settings plus a configuration file in /etc. Not only my configuration file will be burned down at each update (and rapid security response will probably make it even more deceptive), not only I cannot receive even the courtesy of having my conf file in some "Relocated Items" directory as macOS used to do, but also I notice clearly that app notarization still works in apparently random moments
- ploxiln 4y ago
  You're not supposed to configure routing or dns for your operating system anymore, apps don't like it when you do that. Thus the rise of DoH and: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/apples_apps_bypass_firewalls_like_littlesnitch/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/apples_apps_b...

deergomoo 4y ago

You can alphabetise them (at least up to Monterey, haven’t tried the new one yet). It’s in the View menu iirc

mikkergp 4y ago
I just tried that, it works, but weirdest thing to me was always that it doesn't alphabetize within the two groupings, but i guess the top and bottom are just seperations, not really groupings? Can you make the categories more explicit?. The first four I guess are related to UI (General, Desktop & Screen Saver, Dock * Menu Bar, Siri) but then why not make that it's own category? Siri and Spotlight I guess are both 'Search' but same question again, these were all in the first grouping. There's a "Customize" but I guess that just lets you hide stuff.