Are you not at all interested in upgrading to macOS Tahoe, and getting annoyed at the relentless notification spam from Apple trying to trick you into upgrading?
The secret? Using device management profiles, which let you enforce policies on Macs in your organization, even if that “organization” is one Mac on your desk. One of the available policies is the ability to block activities related to major macOS updates for up to 90 days at a time (the max the policy allows), which seems like exactly what I needed.
Not being anywhere near an expert on device profiles, I went looking to see what I could find, and stumbled on the Stop Tahoe Update project. The eventual goals of this project are quite impressive, but what they’ve done so far is exactly what I needed: A configuration profile that blocks Tahoe update activities for 90 days.
↫ Rob Griffiths
All you need to do is clone a random GitHub repository, set all its scripts to executable, generate two random UUIDs, insert those UUIDs into one of the scripts in the GitHub project folder you just cloned, run said script, open System Settings and go to Privacy & Security > Profiles, install the profile the script created, click install in two different dialogs, and now you have blocked Apple’s update notification spam! Well, for 90 days that is.
I honestly don’t understand how normal people are supposed to use macOS. The amount of weird terminal commands you need just to change basic settings is bewildering. macOS definitely isn’t ready for the desktop if they expect users to use the terminal for so many basic tasks. I’m glad I’m using Linux, where I don’t have to deal with the terminal at all.
macos has totally earned its place among the UNIX giants (and its certification)
Just as convoluted as smit or sam but without attempting to present a nice interface 😉
That’s the best joke I’ve heard in awhile.
Thom, you don’t have to remind us every week how immense your irrational hatred for MacOS is. We get it, and honestly it is becoming a bit tiresome for someone claiming to be running a news site. Letting your personal feelings taint every other article on a subject isn’t very becoming of you.
> macOS definitely isn’t ready for the desktop if they expect users to use the terminal for so many basic tasks.
Turning off notifications for system updates should NEVER be considered a “basic task” and IMHO *should* be hard to shut off. Only power users should do so, hopefully because they know what to do and are security conscious enough to patch their system anyway. But my aging parents and other every septuagenarian (or older) out there should definitely get notifications to update their system.
But:
> I’m glad I’m using Linux, where I don’t have to deal with the terminal at all.
What??? That was the first thing I loved when going to Linux once upon a time, and I am happy that I have a competent terminal in MacOS too.
Being on LInux and afraid to use the terminal? smh