Wow. These are bad. I really liked Mac back in Tiger days. Expose was insanely fast. But it just kept getting worse every release. The last straw for me was fighting to attach a gdb debugger to a very simple c program and just getting ever frustrated with the security settings and ipad’ication.
Damn OS X was such a beast! It was like the OS was almost nagging you for being so efficient, almost never having enough to do… until you’d get a beachball at weird moments, but still
On one hand I appreciate the security work they’re doing. On the other, I haven’t the fucking foggiest idea what part of the computer to look at to figure out why I can’t do a thing. I never know if it’s something in the OS or if something is broken. I used a Mac from Tiger through Mountain Lion, and I think I got reasonably competent with the OS but what they’re shipping now is completely different.
Like by default you need to go into security settings to allow browser access to the local network. Whacky.
I get a prompt to allow this when I set up a new app. I don’t have to dive into control panel settings, and I’m glad they give me the option to allow or deny a specific app local network privileges. This is a good thing.
Wow. These are bad. I really liked Mac back in Tiger days. Expose was insanely fast. But it just kept getting worse every release. The last straw for me was fighting to attach a gdb debugger to a very simple c program and just getting ever frustrated with the security settings and ipad’ication.
Yeah, I miss those days too…
Damn OS X was such a beast! It was like the OS was almost nagging you for being so efficient, almost never having enough to do… until you’d get a beachball at weird moments, but still
On one hand I appreciate the security work they’re doing. On the other, I haven’t the fucking foggiest idea what part of the computer to look at to figure out why I can’t do a thing. I never know if it’s something in the OS or if something is broken. I used a Mac from Tiger through Mountain Lion, and I think I got reasonably competent with the OS but what they’re shipping now is completely different.
Like by default you need to go into security settings to allow browser access to the local network. Whacky.
Huh? I never have needed to do this.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchla4f49138/mac
I use Firefox.
I get a prompt to allow this when I set up a new app. I don’t have to dive into control panel settings, and I’m glad they give me the option to allow or deny a specific app local network privileges. This is a good thing.