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I'm surprised... what encouraged you to update MacOS? I'm on the first M1 Macbook from 2020 and have not allowed a single OS update. The first thing I do with a
by noduerme 1y ago
I'm surprised... what encouraged you to update MacOS? I'm on the first M1 Macbook from 2020 and have not allowed a single OS update. The first thing I do with a mac is use Little Snitch to block all apple IP addresses, and delete all their built in apps. I still have an Air from 2015 and one from 2009, a Titanium from 2004 and a chunky old Powerbook 3400 from the 1990s that all run fine. One or two a decade.
But I never update the OS because I don't want to deal with anything that might break my environment.
- omnimus 1y agoWhat might break your envinroment is malware instead.
- noduerme 1y agonot if you don't download anything you don't trust, and know about every inbound and outbound connection.
- sanswork 1y agoI'm impressed at the way you've managed to extend the life of your hardware by the simple trick of not using it.
- noduerme 1y agoFunny. But is it somehow impossible to use a computer without downloading untrusted files?
- sanswork 1y agoEverything you didn't create is untrusted. It seems an overly limiting way to interact with a device and you're giving up a lot of the benefits of a general computing device for some artificial but inconsistent rules. To each their own though.
- noduerme 1y agoI pretty much only use computers to create. If I want to consume, I use a phone or something. I don't consume much. So, like, if I boot up my Air from 2009, it's to write AS3 code and make a demo or something. If I boot up the one from 2015, it's probably because I want to use the Eclipse dev environment I was using then for a specific task. Both those things will simply not run if I upgrade the OS. And not everything you didn't create is untrusted. I trust certain devs and ensure that if I install something, it is safe. But it's much more valuable to me to have a snapshot in time of my own dev environments than it would be to have a piece of old hardware running a newer system. The hardware is barely worth anything. The state of the machine as it was, with all the software that was running perfectly on it at the time, is priceless.
- newsclues 1y agoAssuming all updates break everything is just as dumb as assuming all updates never break anything
- noduerme 1y agoYeah, but why would I want to spend any of my time fixing anything on a machine from 2009, when the whole point is that it's a perfectly good system that does what I need when I need it?