abmacOS 26.4 brings more default app confirmation prompts
https://scriptingosx.com/2026/03/macos-26-4-brings-more-default-app-confirmation-prompts/
dataI started evaluating the MacBook Neo today and will be using it for about a week. I was immediately disappointed. Mouse movement feels slow and laggy, and scrolling is sluggish. It feels like a several-years-old computer. My i3 Skylake Hackintosh (albeit running macOS 15) feels snappier.
I want to find out whether this Mac will suit our most basic users (email, Office, web browsing, etc.). So far, it works fine for those tasks, but it just FEELS slow.
MacAdmins.news 2026-03-20
Scripting OS XThis week's MacAdmins.news covers Background Security Updates and how to manage them, an Enterprise-y look at the MacBook Neo, and the usual collection of updates, automations, articles, and tools!
Pepijn BruienneAfter listening to this week’s @atpfm podcast I’m now patiently waiting for the deluge of #MacAdmins to chime in about @marcoarment’s Mac deployment adventure 😄🍿
MacAdmins.news 2026-03-13
This week's MacAdmins.news has (more) thoughts on the MacBook Neo, 50 years of Apple, my experiences with LLM assisted coding, many great articles from Mac admins, and lots of updates.
William SmithRE: https://mastodon.social/@macadminspodcast/116210668791222826
Just listened to the latest episode. Really appreciate the attention paid to so many different aspects of a horrible situation.
Regarding good things coming out of difficult times, my favorite is the dildo brigade starting off as a joke but becoming a weapon exposing ICE’s fragile toxic masculinity.
Regarding how other countries can help, just pay attention, look for similar signs, and give your all to stop something like this happening there sooner rather than later.
Bart#macadmins No idea if this is of use to anyone else but I've uploaded some middleware I created that interacts with the Apple Business Manager API with a bit of SOFA on top. Once set up you can then fetch device info as needed using simple api requests and not worry about managing client assertion and access token (obviously this sits behind your firewall or something). Releasing this in the spirit of "if one other person on the planet other than me finds this useful then that's a win"
For #macadmins that use Outset, there's a new beta release for v4.3 https://github.com/macadmins/outset/releases/tag/v4.3.0.22014
Fixes some bugs and stuff and brings two new features:
Background script execution https://github.com/macadmins/outset/wiki/BackgroundScripts
Ed25519 script signing https://github.com/macadmins/outset/wiki/ScriptSigning
Interested to see what people think 🙂
