> Prior to the Internet/Web any sort of pause in software was anathema
We should really go back to the blazing speed of cassette tapes, floppy disks, and optical media.
> Now AppleOS spins for 20 or 30 seconds on file security checks.
Trying to recreate the experience of loading a program from floppy or optical drives.
I feel your pain though: syspolicyd is my sworn enemy. Not only does it cause apps to hang on startup (ugh) while it tries to phone home (no thanks), it also periodically decides it needs to rescan all huge files it can find (like game updates that I've downloaded over the years) in case they might have suddenly turned into known malware. Whenever my laptop heats up for no obvious reason, it's usually some infernal combination of evil macOS demons (not a typo), (syspolicyd, mdworker, photoanalysisd).
It's a shame that in the current malware environment syspolicyd seems to serve enough of a useful purpose (for some subset of Mac users) to be turned on by default.
We should really go back to the blazing speed of cassette tapes, floppy disks, and optical media.
> Now AppleOS spins for 20 or 30 seconds on file security checks.
Trying to recreate the experience of loading a program from floppy or optical drives.
I feel your pain though: syspolicyd is my sworn enemy. Not only does it cause apps to hang on startup (ugh) while it tries to phone home (no thanks), it also periodically decides it needs to rescan all huge files it can find (like game updates that I've downloaded over the years) in case they might have suddenly turned into known malware. Whenever my laptop heats up for no obvious reason, it's usually some infernal combination of evil macOS demons (not a typo), (syspolicyd, mdworker, photoanalysisd).
It's a shame that in the current malware environment syspolicyd seems to serve enough of a useful purpose (for some subset of Mac users) to be turned on by default.