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USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Literally everyone does this now and it's so fucking frustrating.

Vendor: Here's our latest update, it's mandatory, if you don't implement it within 30 days your license will invalidate.

IT Department: *Does the update* Great well now two core tools we need to do daily work aren't there anymore.

Vendor: Yeah, we removed them for your convenience, well being, user experience, and personal happiness.

IT Department: But we need them otherwise the software is useless to us.

Vendor: Oh in that case, our new product Premium Plus^^tm does those things but isn't bundled with your tier of product so please cut us a check for the $5k a month difference and you'll be good to go!

And if I punched him, I'd be the one to go to jail.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

And if I punched him, l'd be the one to go to jail.

Let me know time and place, I'll witness it was in self defense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

High time to switch to Linux if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Corporate IT never goes for it, unfortunately.

My experience thus far is that the intersection of IT professionals and people who know how to administrate Linux systems well is a really small set of people. Not enough sysadmins these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately the “management” (aka spyware) software is not developed with Linux in mind. I tried pushing it in our environment, it was shut down very quickly once the spyware didn’t support it.