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Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com)
Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers? That surely made a lot of people furious. Today, Apple told The Loop that it will also begin automatic download of its latest desktop operating system update, macOS Sierra on Macs that are compatible with the new software -- provided, automatic downloads are switched on and the Mac has enough storage space. From the report: t's important to note that this is not an automatic installer -- this process will only download the update in the background, and then alert you that it is available to install. You can choose to install it when its convenient. You can also choose to ignore the update. [...] Of course, you can manually delete the download if you don't wish to upgrade, and you can choose to manually download the update from the App Store at any time.
You can COMPLETELY disable that behavior by simply loading the App Store preferences, and unchecking:
"Automatically check for updates".
Bango, presto, shazam - NO MORE AUTOMATIC UPDATES.
Jesus christ, are you really this thick?
An announcement on the front page of GPGTools.org: "IMPORTANT: GPGMail, our plugin for securing emails using GPG in Mail.app is not yet compatible with macOS Sierra. If you rely on GPGMail, please refrain from updating to macOS Sierra for the time being!" This is kind of important to me, so...
Yes, it disables all automatic application updates and alerting, because that is what the OP was bitching about.
If you want to customize it more, then you enable "automatically check for updates," and select any combination of the four options provided:
1) Download newly available updates in the background (You will be notified when updates are ready to install);
2) Install app updates;
3) Install OS X updates;
4) Install system data files and security updates;
You can turn on automatic checks, and disable all FOUR of those things, meaning you'll just receive alerts, and can pick and choose what to install; OR, you can opt to enable any combination of those features as you prefer.
So no, you're not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, unless you choose to. Enabling the alerts is required - which seems sensible, given that you're asking the computer to automatically check for updates, and it's hard to know there's anything to do without enabling alerts. Beyond that, you don't have to download or install ANYTHING you don't want to.
I remember how astonished a friend of mine was when he ordered his brand new 2009 iMac and it had absolutely no adware whatsoever. He was blown away that there weren't 150 demo and trial softwares along with all the nag banners and bullshit you get with your typical windows box. He recently installed an SSD drive because the original HD was starting to make the death click noise and he says it's like he got a brand new computer. It seems faster than his wife's new windows laptop he says.
So everytime you copy something, it's uploaded to iCloud?
No, it's only shared locally with devices that are on the same LAN, and logged in to the same user account. Also, it's encrypted before transmission.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Make sure you don't need it before you update.
Yes, yes - PPTP needs to go into the trash bin - but there are devices that do not yet support L2TP or IPSEC (I'm looking at you Ubiquiti).