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by lostlogin 1064 days ago
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...
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rollcat 1064 days ago
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?
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lostlogin 1064 days ago
Removing apps you don’t want and will never use seems like something you should be able to do on your machine.
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rollcat 1064 days ago
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.

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dylan604 1064 days ago
Are we still talking about macOS? If so, sudo rm -f does not work on a file with the restricted flag set. Based on that, I don’t see how modifying it with a child would work either. SIP is powerful
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dylan604 1064 days ago
stupid autocorrect, s/child/chmod/
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rcxdude 1064 days ago
because people resent the system being hardened against them, basically.
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