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Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by coldpie »

jghn wrote: post #37
tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

I found if you turn off transparency effects and turn on high contrast in the accessibility settings, it's actually a pretty nice looking UI. Still has some dumb quirks like inconsistent corner radiuses and text appearing under UI elements (because they're assumed to be transparent, but aren't). But all software is trash in 2026 so be thankful it isn't even worse, I guess.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by shepherdjerred »

jghn wrote: post #37
tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

27 is a lot better. You can make the UI opaque again (they provide a transparency slider)

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by [deleted] »

classified wrote: post #92
noname120 wrote: post #88

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macOS 17 is decisively faster on my MacBook Air M1 16 GB than macOS 26/27 is on my MacBook Pro M2 Max 32 GB. And I don’t mean just the animations themselves but lag/sluggishness/responsiveness in general.

There is no macOS 17.

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Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by MBCook »

mholm wrote: post #105
MBCook wrote: post #70

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I know they use it, they host it too? That would be a very Apple thing to do.

Yes, they host it on their own infrastructure.

Makes sense. I’m sure they have no interest in every Claude prompt going to Anthropic to keep eyes on what Apple is up to.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by MBCook »

alwillis wrote: post #112
ajmurmann wrote: post #62

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Didn't he live Apple a very long time ago?

He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022. He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of Apple employees going to OpenAI. Ive isn’t responsible for all of them obviously, but the articles about lawsuits says there are 400 former Apple employees at OpenAI.

A lot more than several. Sounded like it ended up being a large chunk of his team.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by etempleton »

lapcat wrote: post #52
etempleton wrote: post #50

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Also on the beta. Agreed. Definite visual and UX improvement over 26, fixing the most egregious issues with 26 implementation of Liquid Glass, but maybe not quite as good as 25 overall.

> not quite as good as 25 overall Nothing will ever be as good as 25. Because macOS 25 does not exist. ;-)

Ahhh, my mistake. macOS 15 not to be confused with macOS 10.15

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by normie3000 »

drnick1 wrote: post #119
reddalo wrote: post #81

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That's the sad thing: Apple decided to leave all Intel macs on broken macOS 26. Very bad on Apple's part.

Fortunately, those can run Linux. I recently installed Arch on an Intel T2. The only issue is that it does not have a TPM module, so the LUKS password needs to be manually entered at boot.

What's the alternative to typing in a LUKS password?

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by Melatonic »

flohofwoe wrote: post #53
trollbridge wrote: post #49

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You can almost turn it off on the 27 beta, and 27 seems to perform a lot better too.

You can already turn off most glass effects in 26 via "System Settings => Accessibility => Display => Reduce Transparency". I had that turned off years ago (for reasons I don't remember), and was wondering what all the fuzz was about when 26 came out because I didn't see much of a difference ;) IMHO the actual important visual changes in the 27 beta is that rolls back the bizarre oversized corner radius in Finder win…

I think that is just iOS no? Or does that work on MacOS too

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by Melatonic »

coldpie wrote: post #121
jghn wrote: post #37

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> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

I found if you turn off transparency effects and turn on high contrast in the accessibility settings, it's actually a pretty nice looking UI. Still has some dumb quirks like inconsistent corner radiuses and text appearing under UI elements (because they're assumed to be transparent, but aren't). But all software is trash in 2026 so be thankful it isn't even worse, I guess.

Been doing that for years now already (performance boost). You can also do high contrast mode per app (if were talking about iOS). Must have for iMessage I think personally as it makes hard to read Green Bubbles a nice dark green that is very pleasant.
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