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by userbinator 2046 days ago
That's just Apple deciding for the users, like it has always been doing. It's funny to see the setting for it is so hidden; my PC motherboard has a "POST beep" setting in the BIOS setup, which doesn't require a terminal in a working OS to get to, and whose presence is helpfully reminded each time I turn it on ("press DEL to enter SETUP").
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Tsiklon 2044 days ago
It doesn't necessarily require a working OS - you can of course use either of the two recovery systems (On Disk, or Internet Recovery), a bootable time machine drive(IIRC) or an OS X installation USB Drive to do so.

I do agree however that the low level system tunables are unfortunately very hidden.

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saagarjha 2045 days ago
On new hardware, this setting has been moved to System Preferences.
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