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This also happened to me. Except I got lucky and noticed it was happening due to sudden inexplicable increase in local network traffic (thank you blinkenlights) and managed to stop it in time.

Here’s my story: https://merveilles.town/@cancel/111746895947244237

I only use my Mac for music production and compatibility testing, but honestly, between this and the overall shoddy and janky state of macOS, I’m reconsidering my future use of Macs at all.

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Yeah I am having to downgrade to Ventura. There is a nasty external monitor bug where I can’t use HDMI to my TV anymore over a USB-C adapter. Ventura it works just fine though. But, I upgraded to fix a preview bug in Ventura where Preview will make edited PDFs password protected randomly.

Ugh, maybe I will give Asahi a try one of these days. Love Apple hardware but software, which used to be rock solid, is definitely janky these days.

> I’m reconsidering my future use of Macs

Just FYI, this is a valid reason to switch to Linux, but absolutely not a valid reason to switch to Windows.

Yeah. I have a special installation of Windows that I keep locked down and prevent automatic upgrades. I don't recommend it unless you really need Windows. I also boot Linux and prefer it overall, but some things are not good experiences there (game graphics development)

I've used all 3 OSs since the 90s.

> I have a special installation of Windows that I keep locked down and prevent automatic upgrades.

Could you share more? I have an old MacBook with Windows that I use for games and I’d like to have it as locked down as possible with as little effort as possible.

There are a bunch of ways to do it. If you have a standard version of Windows like Home or Pro, there are scripts and config files on GitHub repos, with directions.

I know there are a lot of ways to do it and used one of them myself. But it hasn’t stopped nagging for updates and at one point didn’t even allow shutting off without an update.

I already trudged through a bunch of them, each with their own specific set of features. What I was looking for was a specific recommendation to compare to what I already know.

I'm sure it is possible, but I have spent so much time with it already without a consistent success, that I gave up.

I have come to terms with Windows doing this and I will keep complaining any time the topic comes up.

Because your MacBook does not support TPM, you never have to worry about it upgrading to Windows 11.

But it still upgrades to different versions of Windows 10, and as far as I know those tend to turn on things you turned off, such as different kinds of telemetry.

> Just FYI, this is a valid reason to switch to Linux, but absolutely not a valid reason to switch to Windows.

I have been bitten by bad Linux upgrades many, many times.

OpenBSD has been the most consistent OS I have used upgrade-wise, but might not support all the tools the original comment needs for music production.

> this is a valid reason to switch to Linux

Not if it's a flavour that uses snaps.

Damn... if that's really the case then Apple should offer a written apology to those affected.

Either due to the very serious bug they somehow pushed out, and/or the existence of some seriously corrupt folks within their software team.

>> s it possible you accidentally authorized it when you thought you were authorizing something else?

You can see in the logs screenshot what the request for EULA and the 'acceptance' has the same timestamp. Marvelous.

Mac is just a tiny $30B/yr unit, probably didn't even get space in the spaceship. Thought of dressing up as a beggar on Tantau with a trashcan pro change can labeled "Will fix MacOS bugs for money".

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