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by chiggsy 1097 days ago
There was a man who never existed named Thomas Covenant, created by Stephen R Donaldson. Decades ago this character said something that has stayed and will stay with me my entire life:

"The best way to hurt somebody who's lost everything is to give him back something that is broken."

For us, this thing is MacOS. I miss dtrace every damn day.

DTrace allowed you to ask the damn os what it was doing, since the man pages are random and do not match the command line help, new daemons constantly appear with docs like this:

NAME rapportd – Rapport Daemon.

SYNOPSIS Daemon that enables Phone Call Handoff and other communication features between Apple devices.

     Use '/usr/libexec/rapportd -V' to get the version.
Dogshit.
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OS X was the last chance the industry had to make a "commercial unix workstation", and Apple came >< close. Stallman was right.