Mastodawn

Amazing, macOS 26 really is like Windows. My Mac Mini rebooted overnight to install an update, without asking, and despite the fact I left Xcode in the middle of a debugging session last night. There's a proud notification about "background security improvement". IT'S NOT A BACKGROUND IMPROVEMENT IF IT THROWS OUT MY WORK-IN-PROGRESS AND REBOOTS THE COMPUTER.
(Automatic updates were disabled, but I had left the "download security updates" option enabled. So I guess I have to disable that too.)

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Franklin Delano Stallone 1d ago

@pmdj to be fair the rapid security responses have been part of macOS for awhile now. I think it just happens it’s never been used until now. It’s unfortunate but if it’s used for genuinely important security patches and is rare, I don’t think that’s the worst scenario

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Phil Dennis-Jordan 1d ago

@fds Unless it's literally fixing a bug that would otherwise cause the computer to catch fire and burn down the house, I don't see what could possibly be so important that I get no say in the matter.
I know this kind of overstepping boundaries and ignoring lack of consent is totally hip with all the big tech and startup companies at the moment. That doesn't mean I have to accept it.

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Nick Ludlam 23h ago

@pmdj @fds Agreed, there’s a lowering of the assumed audience skill ceiling, which is a shame since that’s why many of us switched in the first place. I’m experimenting with Pop!_OS and like it so far, warts and all.

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Phil Dennis-Jordan

@nick @fds In this specific case, I'm not even considering it a skill thing. It's just RUDE. If I go to Tim Cook's office, find that he's out, locate everything on his desk that he's clearly been working on or that needs his attention, chuck it in a bag and throw it in a bin out the back, that would rightly be considered ridiculous. But that's what this amounts to.