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by vmware513 2047 days ago
Never update. Always wipe and clean install from USB sticky. Trigger nvram and smc reset after install. Your machine will be perfect.
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The problem is, it's not just Apple, the entire software industry has taken a turn for the worse. Everything has automatic updates these days: my phone, my watch, my computer, my TV, my car, and every single app I use on these platforms, and they are constantly breaking stuff, undoing functionality, loosing data and occasionally ruining devices permanently. I've been on the other side of these things too, with panicked-laden all night coding sessions trying to fix a bad update that went out. I've been in the software industry for almost 25 years now, I'm not sure what the answer is but the direction things have gone is unacceptable.
This is God's own truth and it has been this way since Windows 3.1 which had the ability to upgrade to Windows 95.

Just don't.