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One that’s been at least mildly annoying to me personally is that there’s no way to fly elk the OS that a “removable” drive isn’t. My chained to my desk Mac Stu

by TylerE 3y ago

One that’s been at least mildly annoying to me personally is that there’s no way to fly elk the OS that a “removable” drive isn’t. My chained to my desk Mac Studio has 4TB of external aSSD (some old stuff, Time Machine, but also where I tore big stuff like AI models since I only have the base Studio with 512G Constant pop up’s every time a new app wants to look at those files… so get a n admin populists that just be felt with. It’s not a huge deal for a single instance, but when it’s coming up 4 or 5 times a day… Ill I want is a per-volume checkbox “treat as internal”.

Cockbrand 3y ago
Is “to fly elk” a slang phrase I’ve never heard or just some weird autocorrect? [Edit] Either way, I’m gonna use it from now as a synonym for “tell [someone]”. Thank you for the inspiration!
- coldtea 3y ago
  Was going to ask that. I took it to mean "Gaslight" (in this case, gaslight the OS to believe that a removable disk is not removable).
  - TylerE 3y ago
    "tell", if you can believe it. HN uses such tiny fonts on mobile it's basically impossible for me to proofread on mobile.
highwaylights 3y ago
This sounds like a bad pattern (I posted about this above). “Mark as internal” seems like a really crude fudge when the real problem is you can’t give access to single directories rather than a whole drive. Also a “don’t remind me again” option on the external drive pop-up.
- phero_cnstrcts 3y ago
  In Linux you can Mount a folder as a drive so maybe it’s possible on Mac too? Although it’s an annoying workaround.
  - kayodelycaon 3y ago
    I think it is possible if you create an /etc/fstab file. I'm using fstab to mount an SD card readonly and prevent automatic mounting of a specific external drive.
  - highwaylights 3y ago
    I mean, you can do a lot of things (osx-fuse etc.) - but it really feels like it should be supported by the Operating System as a standard feature. The permission system just makes very little sense being as broad as it is. The other thing is that on Linux that would probably work consistently once it's done whereas on macOS you'd always be waiting for it to break, or it would need to be set up again after every update etc. Sadly, on macOS it always feels like you're fighting against Apple to use your machine how you want - a certain amount of the bad experience feels like dark patterns because you didn't pay Apple's through-the-roof storage prices in the first place. The same is true of how Mac's limit external displays in software but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
    - Someone 3y ago
      > because you didn't pay Apple's through-the-roof storage prices in the first place Are Apple’s prices “through the roof”? They seem comparable/equal to Google’s And what dark patterns exist if you only use the free plan?
      - Cockbrand 3y ago
        GP apparently refers to storage in the computer, not in the Cloud. The prices are indeed outrageous, but then customers pay them, so in the end it works out for Apple.

by TylerE 3y ago

Cockbrand 3y ago

Is “to fly elk” a slang phrase I’ve never heard or just some weird autocorrect? [Edit] Either way, I’m gonna use it from now as a synonym for “tell [someone]”. Thank you for the inspiration!

coldtea 3y ago
Was going to ask that. I took it to mean "Gaslight" (in this case, gaslight the OS to believe that a removable disk is not removable).
- TylerE 3y ago
  "tell", if you can believe it. HN uses such tiny fonts on mobile it's basically impossible for me to proofread on mobile.

highwaylights 3y ago

This sounds like a bad pattern (I posted about this above). “Mark as internal” seems like a really crude fudge when the real problem is you can’t give access to single directories rather than a whole drive. Also a “don’t remind me again” option on the external drive pop-up.

phero_cnstrcts 3y ago
In Linux you can Mount a folder as a drive so maybe it’s possible on Mac too? Although it’s an annoying workaround.
- kayodelycaon 3y ago
  I think it is possible if you create an /etc/fstab file. I'm using fstab to mount an SD card readonly and prevent automatic mounting of a specific external drive.
- highwaylights 3y ago
  I mean, you can do a lot of things (osx-fuse etc.) - but it really feels like it should be supported by the Operating System as a standard feature. The permission system just makes very little sense being as broad as it is. The other thing is that on Linux that would probably work consistently once it's done whereas on macOS you'd always be waiting for it to break, or it would need to be set up again after every update etc. Sadly, on macOS it always feels like you're fighting against Apple to use your machine how you want - a certain amount of the bad experience feels like dark patterns because you didn't pay Apple's through-the-roof storage prices in the first place. The same is true of how Mac's limit external displays in software but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
  - Someone 3y ago
    > because you didn't pay Apple's through-the-roof storage prices in the first place Are Apple’s prices “through the roof”? They seem comparable/equal to Google’s And what dark patterns exist if you only use the free plan?
    - Cockbrand 3y ago
      GP apparently refers to storage in the computer, not in the Cloud. The prices are indeed outrageous, but then customers pay them, so in the end it works out for Apple.