Personal Frustrations with macOS Security Restrictions and App Limitations
By
speckx
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Summary
The author shares personal frustrations with Apple's macOS security features and restrictions that hinder everyday computing tasks. The article details specific issues: Discord not launching properly, difficulties installing Python tools due to macOS requiring dev tools, and non-Apple-approved Python installations being blocked from internet access. The author criticizes Apple's notarization requirements for all apps and overall restrictive security measures that make simple tasks unnecessarily complicated, expressing a desire to switch away from Apple products due to these limitations.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledTerminal told us, this would require dev tools (which it doesn't).
non-blessed python could not access the internet because of some MacOS 'security' feature.
Another 'security' feature requires all apps on Apple computers to be notarized
We wanted to download a clip using yt_dlp (a Python program).
Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord on her Apple laptop. It was right there in the applications folder. But MacOS couldn't find it.
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