lol, is this serious? The final straw with Mac for me was when I accidentally hit “No” when asked if I wanted to give my terminal access to the file system. All of a sudden I was starting my work day without a working terminal. Obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it.
> Obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it
It's hard to take this seriously. It's the most obvious setting possible. Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access > tick the apps you want to have it.
What's even the complaint here? That Mac has solid app permissions, but you can't be bothered to open the settings?
I said it was likely an easy solution. Glad to see my intuition was correct!
I also said it was the “final straw”. No worries at all if you’re not familiar with that expression. It means that there were lots of similar slights previously, and that the event I mentioned, while minor, was the one that finally pushed me to make the decision I made.
> I also said it was the “final straw”. No worries at all if you’re not familiar with that expression. It means that there were lots of similar slights previously, and that the event I mentioned, while minor, was the one that finally pushed me to make the decision I made.
This sort of patronizing assholery is childish and unbecoming. Your comment would've been better without it.
> This kind of crap ticks me off and makes me respond in kind. I should be better, sure, but sometimes I'm not.
I think we're all struggling to identify any other possible interpretation of, and I quote, "obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it". Your words are not ambiguous - you knew this would be an easy issue to solve, and you did not bother trying to solve it. And you say this as though it's someone else's fault.
Should Tim Apple come to your desk personally every morning and ask which MacOS defaults it would suit you to remove? Are we to understand that the obvious security benefits of sandboxing filesystem access pale in comparison to any inconvenience for you, even if that inconvenience is you merely having to bother to open the settings?
You're being totally unreasonable, and you're acting mean when your unreasonableness is picked up on. Learn to take a note, particularly when you're in the wrong, rather than becoming an irrationally defensive ball of spittle and venom. It'll serve you better in the long run.
