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> .... and if SIP is turned off? You lose Touch ID & Apple Pay

• saagarjha 3y ago
  Touch ID works when SIP is disabled
• macNchz 3y ago
  Ugh, it has been a few years since I did any software development directly within MacOS, but when I did I found it really annoying to have SIP fully enabled. At the time, though, disabling it didn’t take away core features of the computer. The most frustrating thing with SIP was that I’d always butt up against it at the most inopportune moments: deep in a rabbithole of diagnosing some unusual issue, I’d finally have everything running and set up just right to reproduce it, realize I needed to trace a specific process or something, only to have the system tell me I wasn’t allowed to. Perfect timing to have to restart the computer and wait while it slowly boots into recovery, then remember where I left off and recreate my environment. The continuing iOS-ification of MacOS really drove me away from using it as my main computer, despite having been a lifelong Mac user. I still have a Macbook Air, but for any real work it’s just a thin client to my Linux desktop.
  • JoBrad 3y ago
    I’ve slowly moved towards pushing any serious modifications of my system to a container or vm. The cost of messing something up, in terms of lost productivity alone, just isn’t worth it.