[rollcat]

Every time I want to launch Photos.app or Photo Booth.app through Spotlight, it keeps flicking between one and the other almost with every key press... then when I think it's done, and am about to press enter, it updates the top result a millisecond before I hit enter.

[katbyte]

I replaced spotlight with alphred and found it to be more consistent (and accurate) with suggestions

[lostlogin]

You could rename Photo Booth, or even better, delete it.

[rollcat]

Nope. System Integrity Protection.

[dylan604]

Last week, I helped a friend update their new to them older mac book air. I used my machine to download the most recent OS compatible with their model. Now that's completed, I tried removing the installer from my machine, only part of it will not delete because it has the restricted flag set. According to the internet, I can only delete this file by rebooting into special mode disabling SIP, delete the file, then reboot into normal mode. WTF is that bullshit? This isn't a critical installed file that's a crucial part of the OS. It's just an external file used to install an OS. Totally baffling

[lostlogin]

That’s hilarious. It used to be hard to track down specific versions of macOS, but if you can’t ever delete them I guess that’s solved.

[dylan604]

Sure, it’s hilarious as long as it’s not you. Otherwise, it’s beyond frustrating.

Not sure about the hard to track down issue. If you have a Mac and the App Store, they’re there for the downloading. Trying to download to run in a VM on windows or Linux violating license agreement then it is not mine nor Apple’s issue

[lostlogin]

For VMs, usually on Macs but also on licence violating machines.

Whatever the need, it’s of no consequence to Apple that it was a struggle. Having it download as an app is irritating too as it adds steps with the conversion.

[lostlogin]

Argh. And bypassing that is a finicky 10+ step process. And software update will restore the apps.

https://nektony.com/how-to/uninstall-default-apple-apps-on-m...

[rollcat]

Why would I want to bypass that? Someone's been putting crazy amount of work to make the system foolproof, only for me to play the fool?

[lostlogin]

Removing apps you don’t want and will never use seems like something you should be able to do on your machine.

[rollcat]

There are people who will run their graphical session as root, and throw in a "chmod -R 777 /" for good measure; and there are people who will go through convoluted steps to disable runtime kernel module loading, mount / read-only, and run their web browser in a container. Now I'm definitely not on the latter extreme, but if I can have a decently-hardened system out of the box, why would I throw that away just to remove a builtin app?

Everything is a compromise, by the way.

[gymbeaux]

Windows 11 search too