1st mistake: purchasing a post 2013 apple product
2nd mistake: installing an update on said product
macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
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Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven’t updated to 15, but I thought they just removed the ability to run unsigned software by right clicking and selecting open. My understanding was you had to manually approve it in the system settings via Gatekeeper? Apple is 100% slowly boiling the frog in respect to locking down macOS to be like iOS. I already switched to Linux on my personal machines. I saw the writing on the wall when notarization was annou…
15.1 completely removed the ability to "open anyway" within the Privacy & Security panel, which was already a shocking way of handling it.
It's still there for me, though the context menu option is not.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
> GIMP (or Glimpse, if you want a more modern UI) or Krita can definitely do pretty much anything Acorn can. I'm fairly certain that anyone who recommends GIMP hasn't really used GIMP.
I have been using gimp for almost a decade now. Granted, I am not a professional in that field, but why would I not recommend it ? It does everything I want to, and more.
> It does everything I want to, and more.
So does ms paint for a large part of computer users. Not sure that's a good enough argument.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or it's the same thing that has been happening for 15 years. People install .0, .1 or .2 release. Complain about bugs. Bugs get fixed. Repeat.
Some might think this is what the beta is for but I guess not. Let’s excuse the multi trillion dollar company for releasing broken software, each release being more broken than the previous one
That Super Duper post didn't indicate whether they filed feedback during the beta or not.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#245> This sucks. We think it sucks. You think it sucks. But we can't fix it: Apple has to do so. And this is why I gave up on macOS several years ago now and moved to Linux. It's not about which OS is better or worse. All software has bugs. It's about the empowerment to _do something_ about the inevitable bugs, rather than wait and hope that a fix comes down from above.
In theory I can make bluetooth and wifi and deep-sleep work with Linux, but am I actually able to fix it? No, and not for a lack of trying. If we're talking about practical ability to fix what goes wrong with my daily driver, then macOS still wins hands down.
> deep-sleep
Didn't Apple kill deep sleep/hibernation when transitioning to ARM ?
It was touted as "Always On Processor" to mimic the iOS and iPadOS management of CPU and never shut it down.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#246No one really complained with 15.1 and macOS completely blocking software that is "untrusted". You know the "move to bin" popup, which you used to unblock in the past by cmd+clicking the binary, or later via the settings menu for privacy & security (insane in its own right!) Since 15.1, you're done and dusted. Unsigned/untrusted binaries simply will not run on macOS, regardless of how much you trust them to be. Thank…
moving to Asahi Linux seems like an option eventually
Yeah I was looking at that. The problem is I write my own mac software and I'd be missing on that.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
15.1 completely removed the ability to "open anyway" within the Privacy & Security panel, which was already a shocking way of handling it.
It's still there for me, though the context menu option is not.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't me trying to convince you to use Linux, but the listed reasons (other than LLM testing) aren't real deterrents (and there are plenty that exist for many people, no use pretending not): > Acorn GIMP (or Glimpse, if you want a more modern UI) or Krita can definitely do pretty much anything Acorn can. > Keyboard Maestro GNOME and KDE have been able to do this out of the box from pretty much the beginning. The…
Keyboard Maestro is a lot more powerful than what you're thinking of. A sequence of shell commands bound to hotkeys is in no way an adequate replacement.
Do you have any examples of use cases Keyboard Maestro is great for?
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#249This is bad. - Just recently I broke my system badly. So I decided to erase my system and re-setup from time machine. After several unsuccessful attemts I realized that my Time Machine backup (1.45 tb) exceeded my ssd capacity (1 tb). I did research, and learned not to prune my Time Machine backups. As that may corrupt it. So after several days and failed attempts to restore from time machine and after some research…
How did you end up with TM backup larger than original source? Sure, total storage consumed on TM drive can be larger than source, but that is because older versions of files are stored as well. But restoring most recent versions of files should be equal to source in size.
Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
#250This is bad. - Just recently I broke my system badly. So I decided to erase my system and re-setup from time machine. After several unsuccessful attemts I realized that my Time Machine backup (1.45 tb) exceeded my ssd capacity (1 tb). I did research, and learned not to prune my Time Machine backups. As that may corrupt it. So after several days and failed attempts to restore from time machine and after some research…
How did you end up with TM backup larger than original source? Sure, total storage consumed on TM drive can be larger than source, but that is because older versions of files are stored as well. But restoring most recent versions of files should be equal to source in size.
I had only 600-700 gb of data on my Mac. Installed OneDrive, did not know that I had configured my NAS to do 800gb of cloud backups to OneDrive. And Time Machine downloaded that data into its backup. Although I had configured OneDrive not to download that folder to my Mac. So time Machine screwed up in the first place.