My macbook only has about 3GB of spare disk space currently, so I guess this isn't for me
You should try and free some up. If you're using swap you're rapidly killing your SSD as it'll struggle to do wear-levelling.
macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
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#142Will this 15gb model that gets download by default hinder an old m1 air?
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been. Most expensive it's been for a handful of years. 1TB of spinny disk cost a million dollars as recently as 1994, and half a billion dollars in 1980. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
Yeah, and a pound of sugar cost 8oz of gold a few thousand years ago, so inflation isn't real and food insecurity is a myth. If you want a fair comparison you should look at the price of storage at the capacity required for typical contemporaneous workloads. Don't quote numbers in the billions when that amount of storage didn't exist on the entire planet at the time.
No one claimed those things you’re arguing against. The claim is simply that storage has never been more expensive.
A Macintosh 128K with a FLOPPY DRIVE cost $7,500 in inflation adjusted dollars.
Can we please take a view of today that’s in a context of more than a few years? It would really help perspective sometimes.
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#144how to disable gen ai features https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366 it used to be one toggle
Having to enable and use Screen Time to disable Siri AI is the level of passive-aggressiveness you almost have to admire.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a tool in a tool box. If a technician avoided a tool outright, I would (and do) question their biases.
Some tools should be avoided outright, because they're bad tools. You can hammer nails in with a rock, making it a tool, but I wouldn't question the biases of a craftsman who avoided using rocks in their work. I use LLMs for work, but your statement here doesn't hold water at all.
Big Hammer wants to replace all your tools with Hammers and OP is right along with them
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#146"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet." This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive i…
Maybe macOS 26 was lot bigger... but I went straight from Sequoia to Golden Gate and freed up like 30 GBs. I didn't have enough disk space to download the update prior, so the extra 30 GB wasn't that... but could've been caches I guess. I assumed it was dropping Intel?
How does battery life compare to Sequoia? I heard there is a huge drop
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#147When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release? Me? Snow Leopard. When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.
>OS excitement Debian+KDE here. It's what I use to get away from OS excitement. I miss the 90's when nobody ever updated anything, and if they did it was on purpose and not something that happened behind your back. For example, the other day Google "updated" the clock/alarm/timer app on Android with pointless and annoying changes. A clock app does not need an update, ever. "But..." No! /usr/share/zoneinfo handles tha…
Yeah, Debian makes things agreeably dull.
Major version upgrades every couple of years will usually bring a new wallpaper and make a few tweaks to the default apps. Annual Firefox ESR updates will bring a handful of improvements to the browser. And, of course, security and critical bugfixes chug away in the background without making any fuss.
Nothing breaks unexpectedly. Behaviour never changes without your knowledge and permission. Bliss.
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#148how to disable gen ai features https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366 it used to be one toggle
> Repeat for each app in the list, there should be at least 70 of them. Just do it 70 times, no sweat.
can someone figure out the right invocation of defaults write to script it? I think it would be pretty ironic if that same person used an LLM to achieve it :)
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#149When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release? Me? Snow Leopard. When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.
At the beginning of the century, I used to live from October to September looking forward to the next OS release to fix the bugs I would encounter. Maybe because I was not aware that it would eventually choke my low tier machine. Now, I dread the day I will upgrade the OS
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#150Will I get prompted to give Chrome permissions to the Local Network on every update? This is literally the one feature I'd like from Apple because I'm happy with everything else. The update looks cool, but nothing I actually want/need.
Same problem with Brave. Really frustrating.
It happens with any Chromium based browser, like Edge. Apple and Chromium keeps pointing fingers at each other, but the reality is that this only happens on Apple machines. Windows and Linux have no such problem.