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Apple provides a man page for every system daemon. I suppose this doesn't answer too many questions though: NAME liquiddetectiond – Liquid Detection
by rgovostes 2y ago
Apple provides a man page for every system daemon. I suppose this doesn't answer too many questions though:
NAME
liquiddetectiond – Liquid Detection and Corrosion Mitigation Daemon
DESCRIPTION
liquiddetectiond runs in the background and collects liquid detection
analytics from each USB-C port on the system.
- userbinator 2y agocollects liquid detection analytics For a company that is very careful in phrasing its public communications, that description definitely raises some red flags. If it was something more like "detects moisture and warns the user to avoid damage caused by damp USB port use" it would be perceived much better.
- stephen_g 2y agoThat's not what the daemon doing though... Firmware would be responsible for avoiding damage, this daemon is actually just collecting information about when such events happen.
- valleyer 2y agoThe manpages of system daemons are definitely not being carefully curated in the way you are implying. They're written, often poorly and imprecisely, by engineers.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoOf all the folks in denial I've come across, this one ranks highly.
- valleyer 2y agoI'm not sure what you're implying. But I worked at Apple and wrote manpages for various stuff I worked on. Not once did I work with someone to "carefully phrase" them as "public communications". The idea of doing that would be silly. The people at Apple that do that careful phrasing stuff (marketing, etc.) don't even know what a manpage is.