I'm a huge disbeliever in proprietary software, and yet whenever I use #macOS I find myself astonished by some way it manages to limbo under my low expectations. The most recent example: apparently it'll let you set the hint for a user account's pass to just, like, literally the entire pass verbatim.
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in reply to feld • • •@feld Heh yeah I mean in the interfaces I use I don't even ever see anything for a passphrase hint, though I do often install stuff like libpam-pwquality at work to stop users from making their passwords stuff like just their username again but maybe with a 1 after it.
This just seems especially galling from an OS that pops up a bazillion "you sure?" popups when trying to install anything and keeps all services in such an immutable system image you can't even really disable them, which is salient to why I'm on this cursèd system right now. A friend's 2017 iMac has become prone to hangs and outright OS crashes; as far as I can tell, it's just that somewhat-contemporary #MacOS is just too heavy for the mostly-HDD fusion drive in it, but there seems to be no way to calm down the OS enough to ameliorate that.
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