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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2026 12:33:38 JST Glyph

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117389906323212713

   as with any such tool your mileage may vary, deleting system components like this can cause annoying peripheral damage in ways that are hard to predict, but _at least_ let's give them some github stars to show our colletive displeasure

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2026 12:33:37 JST Rich Felker

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     • Misty

     @misty @glyph Yeah. Sadly when I first saw it I assumed iOS where the savings would be huge, but no..

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2026 12:33:38 JST Misty

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     @glyph My understanding is it leaves SIP enabled and installs a management profile to get the OS to remove the model on its own. This appears to be an officially supported configuration from Apple that’s mainly aimed at large organizations with device management.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2026 07:05:00 JST Glyph

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     • Rich Felker
     • Misty

     @misty @dalias one of my favorite things about going to the Apple Store these days is they have a "how do you use AI" survey and "how much do you trust Apple's AI" and I get to vote 1/5 1/5 on both every time

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2026 07:05:01 JST Misty

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @glyph tbh 12-30GB is still pretty significant savings even on desktop! Especially for those poor souls with 256GB machines.

     Rich Felker repeated this.