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Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by djxfade »

crazygringo wrote: post #37
LeoPanthera wrote: post #15

I (used to) work in academic IT and I hate articles like this. People would assume there is a serious problem, turn off a bunch of services, run a bunch of random-ass shell scripts, and then forget that they'd done all that and at some random point in the future discover that some feature wasn't working, and blame me.

I swear I really wish there were a way to output an entire OS's "diff" from default settings. Every preference pane, every terminal setting, every changed system file. So that you could both discover, in cases like this, what's changed -- but also simply so you could export your settings in a space-efficient way and (selectively) re-import on a new OS install.

This should definetly be possible to write for macOS, since the recovery partiton contains the base OS

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by noasaservice »

dwohnitmok wrote: post #40
crazygringo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear I really wish there were a way to output an entire OS's "diff" from default settings. Every preference pane, every terminal setting, every changed system file. So that you could both discover, in cases like this, what's changed -- but also simply so you could export your settings in a space-efficient way and (selectively) re-import on a new OS install.

This has gotta be some sort of HN meme at this point but... NixOS gives you this (with the tradeoff of course of a really steep learning curve and very opinionated packaging structure)!

The asymptote for NixOS approaches -infinity.

Once it actually is usable, sure, I'll take a look.

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by m3drano »

crazygringo wrote: post #37
LeoPanthera wrote: post #15

I (used to) work in academic IT and I hate articles like this. People would assume there is a serious problem, turn off a bunch of services, run a bunch of random-ass shell scripts, and then forget that they'd done all that and at some random point in the future discover that some feature wasn't working, and blame me.

I swear I really wish there were a way to output an entire OS's "diff" from default settings. Every preference pane, every terminal setting, every changed system file. So that you could both discover, in cases like this, what's changed -- but also simply so you could export your settings in a space-efficient way and (selectively) re-import on a new OS install.

With the sealed system volume modern macOS uses, shouldn't this relatively doable? (It'd be a long long diff of XML plists I guess)

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by fathyb »

m3drano wrote: post #43
crazygringo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear I really wish there were a way to output an entire OS's "diff" from default settings. Every preference pane, every terminal setting, every changed system file. So that you could both discover, in cases like this, what's changed -- but also simply so you could export your settings in a space-efficient way and (selectively) re-import on a new OS install.

With the sealed system volume modern macOS uses, shouldn't this relatively doable? (It'd be a long long diff of XML plists I guess)

Most macOS settings are saved under the current user home directory, which isn't sealed.

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

macshome wrote: post #46

I really don’t like that the page asks users to blindly curl and execute a script that then curl and executes another script all to run a one line `ifconfig` command. Why not just share the command?

I thought we’d gotten over this thing where people thing they appear smart because they copy & paste instead of using curl?

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by xmddmx »

varenc wrote: post #6

Their actual solution for disabling AWDL is running this script in the background: while true; do if ifconfig awdl0 |grep -q " That just checks the awld0 interface every second and turns it off if it's on. Apple really doesn't offer any other way to disable awdl? Note that setting AirDrop to "No One" doesn't fully disable awdl. It's used for other things like screen sharing, AirPlay, bonjour device/service discovery,…

> It's used for other things like screen sharing

Intersting!

Starting a few weeks ago, I was screen sharing from a Monterey macbook to a Ventura Beta MacBook, using drag & drop to copy an app over for testing. Both macs were on WiFi. Worked great (~100MB/second).

But about every 5th time, the file transfer rate would drop from 100MB/S to under 100KB/S and stay there. No idea why.

I finally bought a USBC ethernet dongle and put both machines on Ethernet and the problem went away.

I'm now wondering if this is what I was seeing?

Edit to add: The WiFi is Peplink AP One Mini, in case vendor is relevant.

Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by [deleted] »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #15

I (used to) work in academic IT and I hate articles like this. People would assume there is a serious problem, turn off a bunch of services, run a bunch of random-ass shell scripts, and then forget that they'd done all that and at some random point in the future discover that some feature wasn't working, and blame me.

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Re: Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?

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Post by diebeforei485 »

nighthawk454 wrote: post #22

does this impact iOS wifi as well? My local HomeAssistant detects my phone on wifi for presence detection, and suddenly lately it's been all out of whack. it takes much longer to connect to wifi when I get home. and sometimes while home the presence status 'flickers', turning all the lights on/off. never used to happen

Yes. It impacts iOS / iPadOS as well.
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