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Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by noob1234 »

submeta wrote: post #116
qz2 wrote: post #13

This whole release cycle is just one gigantic facepalm after another. I am feeling pretty heavily smug that I got rid of my Apple kit earlier this year because I wasn't happy with the direction of the platform.

I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DEVONthink for managing my thousands of documents (actually I just keep my files in DEVONthink and use the search feature, could end up using just file system), ScanSnap Manager (a d…

What did you replace Things and iA Writer with?

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by rubatuga »

pjmlp wrote: post #120
keyle wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why _should_ you have to disable this feature? Sigh. My point: opting out should be much, much easier.

When OS X was introduced, asking on Apple forums how to run as root was almost a daily question. Most consumers don't care about security, making it easy to disable just opens the floodgates of their systems.

Yeah but as a counterpoint, most Hacker News users have used Linux at one point, which lets you run commands like `rm -rf /` as root. I think it's fair to allow power users to easily disable these protections.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by vladvasiliu »

submeta wrote: post #116
qz2 wrote: post #13

This whole release cycle is just one gigantic facepalm after another. I am feeling pretty heavily smug that I got rid of my Apple kit earlier this year because I wasn't happy with the direction of the platform.

I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DEVONthink for managing my thousands of documents (actually I just keep my files in DEVONthink and use the search feature, could end up using just file system), ScanSnap Manager (a d…

> I guess I need to get a Thinkpad running Linux for slowly finding replacments for my tools, and migrate not within weeks, but spreading my migration process over months.

Well, if you actually like to tinker from time to time just for tinkering's sake, this is a great approach I inadvertently took.

My daily driver for 7 years had been a late 2013 mbp, which still works and is plenty powerful for most of what I do. Then during the shelter in place period I installed a Arch on my desktop (which normally runs Windows for Photoshop, etc) just to experiment a little with ZFS on Linux, etc. Then I started using it more and more and now I rarely use my mac again. (note that I'm not new to linux, had been using it both on the desktop and the server for a very long time and my work laptop runs linux).

However, unlike you, I don't use many Apple-only tools mostly just Things and Bear. I haven't found replacements for those, but as they never were a critical part of what I do, it wasn't that big of a deal to just drop them.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by hyakosm »

mschuster91 wrote: post #24
DoctorNick wrote: post #10

Well, this basically confirms my decision to not purchase a macbook for my next laptop.

Why? As long as you're not getting the ARM ones, you can stick on 10.15 - which is something many will do anyway for at least a year until Apple irons out the worst bugs of BS. Only thing I'm still pissed about 10.15 is that Wine still can't run 32-bit apps.

You can run 32 bits apps with Crossover.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by submeta »

noob1234 wrote: post #121
submeta wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have gotten rid of almost any Apple only tools (OmniGraffle to Figma; OmniFocus, Things3, iA Writer, Ulysses, Alfred App to Emacs+Org, and some more), but there is only only a few left that I can‘t find a replacement for in Linux-land: DEVONthink for managing my thousands of documents (actually I just keep my files in DEVONthink and use the search feature, could end up using just file system), ScanSnap Manager (a d…

What did you replace Things and iA Writer with?

Emacs + Org-mode (once mastered) are excellent for both writing structured text (in org-mode‘s markup instead of markdown), and for managing tasks and projects.

With org-mode I have dozens of files for managing my projects and tasks. And I can mix notes with tasks. This is a feature that makes it exceptional. When I was using Things3 I liked the tiny section beneath the task description where I could type some notes about the task. With orgmode I can write a full outline beneath the task description.

Emacs is extremely flexible as it can be extended with packages written in Lisp. There are packages that allow me to navigate to any outline node in my ~ 200 org files within a second (ivy + counsel + ripgrep-integration, also org-ql which allows me to query my org files).

Also, I write large amounts of text with org-mode (it’s an excellent outliner too; been previously using OmniOutline) and convert to markdown or any other format via pandoc.

Emacs, once mastered is an application framework that allows me automate any workflow for which I previously used AppleScript, DEVONthink, Python, Bash.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by spijdar »

systemvoltage wrote: post #97
mmastrac wrote: post #64

I could really use a "special edition" of MacOS - sort of like what happened with XP in the later days. Strip out all the Apple stuff, privacy failures, and excessive gatekeeping [$] and just leave the raw OS. [$] for me

UNIX was a proprietary OS but literally everyone used it in the 80’s - without a license. Campuses to labs around the US. We need to nuke the Apple bullshit from MacOS Catalina and convert it into people’s operating system. Ethics be damned.

What UNIX are you thinking of? Even the Berkeley distribution appeared to require a license from AT&T to use, for V7 UNIX. Anything with AT&T's code was litigiously protected, culminating in a law suit in the 90s against 4.4BSD Lite, which was the first to claim to be rid of all AT&T code. Are you saying most installations were just unlicensed copies?

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by mikro2nd »

ekianjo wrote: post #115
chefandy wrote: post #92

Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…

> and that's just not an option for a pro. get 2 machines then. Who says you need to have a single machine for everything? Get a Mac for your design work, treat it like an appliance, and use Linux for everything else on another machine. Problem solved.

While I like your solution in principle, I can imagine it complicating life awfully...

People email you assets/images for use in your production work: are you going to get that on your 'designer' machine or on your Linux box? Most likely the latter, now you have to transfer it over to the 'work' box. Not technically difficult, but a definite speed-bump in your workflow. Awkward.

Your online document-sharing/demos (say Dropbox, whatever): is that from the work box? the utility box? both? Again, not technically a train-smash, but... awkward. A discontinuity that you'll have to deal with multiple times a day, a detour in your flow.

I can see why many would consider it too much of a hassle.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by tjoff »

keyle wrote: post #48
rubatuga wrote: post #7

How to disable this feature: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.... And a humorous guide on disabling protections like code signing and notarization: https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/11/13/forbidden-commands-to-li...

Why _should_ you have to disable this feature? Sigh. My point: opting out should be much, much easier.

And will you even be able to do it tomorrow?

Fighting the OS you are running is an uphill battle that gets tiresome real quick.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by another_kel »

chefandy wrote: post #92

Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…

At least you’re stuck on a Mac. I do motion design and I’m stuck on windows because of stupid Apple vs nvidia beef and apple only allowing you to have a good gpu if you pay for Mac Pro with Xeon you don’t need and expensive memory you don’t need.

Re: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

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Post by tgv »

Aeolun wrote: post #5

Sweet. It is almost as if nobody could see this coming from a mile away. I wonder why they still thought it was a great idea to go ahead.

TBH, I didn't expect this. I've been wary of the iOSification of the mac for a while now (and following that, splitting Apple, effectively killing the mac), but I hadn't expected them to do something so dumb with the network routing. What benefit does it bring them?
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