I'm all in favor of more security. But that I have...

I'm all in favor of more security. But that I have to go through special contortions to access files in my Downloads folder with Terminal.app on macOS seems chicanery.

Like 6 February at 18:26 | Open on social.coop

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@J12t have you explored Asahi linux?

6 February at 18:29 | Open on cosocial.ca

Johannes Ernst

@vid why specifically asahi?

6 February at 18:29 | Open on social.coop

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@J12t I gather it's tailour made for Apple hardware, but if other distros are viable I'd use NixOS.
I am very critical of Apple's walled garden and many corporate problems, but I'd consider a Mac running Linux, I just wish they had a pointing stick, a track pad is so primitive.

6 February at 18:35 | Open on cosocial.ca

Johannes Ernst

@vid Oh, I have no intent to replace the OS on my macBook. I have plenty of other Linux boxes all around me.

6 February at 18:39 | Open on social.coop

ShadSterling

@J12t is this a Sonoma thing? I haven’t upgraded yet because I’m waiting for GPGMail; if I had to do any such contortions so far it’s been something I could do once and forget

7 February at 1:48 | Open on mastodon.social

Johannes Ernst

@ShadSterling I think it’s been around for longer. Just usually we grant our apps more and more permissions as the machine gets older and sort of forget about it. Also, there is a “boot into special mode so you can unset the flag” functionality that removes all of this, which i did on my last Mac.

7 February at 3:05 | Open on social.coop

ShadSterling

@J12t oh, yeah, I did have to boot into the special mode a few times before I got those flags right. A completely unnecessary waste of time

7 February at 3:10 | Open on mastodon.social

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