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Comment by hobofan | Hacker News Reader

Notifications that can't be dismissed or are recurring without a way to turn them off are one of the most annoying things about current operating systems, and Apple is one of the worst offenders.

On my Macbook, I currently get:

- A request to log in to Facetime every time I restart it (I've never used Facetime, and don't intend to, and have lost access to my AppleId)

- A daily recurring notification to update my OS, which again I can't do without my AppleId

- A notification that comes every ~10mins reminding me that I'm low on disk space (like I don't know it)

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Seriously, running an Apple OS without an Apple ID doesn't make any sense.

I haven't had any of those problems before Mojave. No Facetime bugging me, updates were no problem, and there was an easy terminal command to turn off the disk space notification.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/254485/silencing-y...

Literally 12 seconds worth of Google.

FaceTime issue: FaceTime menu > Turn FaceTime Off

Software update without Apple ID:

https://www.macworld.com/article/3269337/how-to-install-maco...

It feels that people just love to complain about and hate on Apple. I get it, it’s trendy. But a good portion of the complaints are either disingenuous or an acute case of FTFM.

> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/254485/silencing-y....

If you read the comments there, you will see that this doesn't work for Mojave. I've run those commands on High Sierra (or what the previous version was), but Mojave made them unusable. All related and linked answers also don't work for Mojave.

> FaceTime issue: FaceTime menu > Turn FaceTime Off

Funnily that option is greyed out if you are not logged in, and I guess doesn't do what you think it does.

> Software update without Apple ID

My main problem there is that I don't want to update (because how the fuck do I know that Apple won't brick other features I'm used to), and can't silence the notification for forever.

If you had made the same statement but replaced Apple with Google or Microsoft, your comment would have been downvoted to death already.

You shouldn't need an online ID to use a laptop. It makes perfect sense to use it without any sort of manufacturer provided profile.

Are you interpreting that comment as supportive of Apple? I'm not...

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