MacOS = BLOATWARE Years ago we could select what got installed (apps, fonts, languages). Really wish Apple would bring that back.
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Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.4
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So I take it your not one of the billion + teenage iPhone users around the world who only communicate with emojis.
14.4 broke MAC address changing.
I filed Feedback.
Tools such as https://github.com/shilch/macchanger now give errors such as:
"WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.
ERROR: This device / interface has no MAC address to set."
Worse, even attempting to use ifconfig to change the MAC address is broken.
e.g.
"% sudo ifconfig en0 ether de:ad:be:ef:de:ad
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address"
It is dumbfounding to me that iOS randomizes MAC addresses by default, and that Apple broke such functionality in macOS. There is precisely nothing in any of the release notes which makes mention of this either.
Just ran
% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer "Title: macOS Sonoma, Version: 14.3.1, Size: 13073278KiB, Build: 23D60, Deferred: NO"
So that I can grab a 14.3.1 installer and create a bootable USB drive, since apparently 14.4 decided to also overwrite the local Recovery partition with a 14.4 installer too?!
Between all that, and the USB hub bugs others are reporting, this does not seem as if it was a very well done OS release.
Update, maybe the actual command to run is:
% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 14.3.1
?
smdh. The softwareupdate manpage is dated "September 11, 2012" and still lists OS X, instead of macOS.
It's as if Apple lost all of its CLI and UNIX wizards when jkh (Jordan Hubbard was "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple where he worked for a dozen years starting in 2001 and one of the co-founders of FreeBSD prior to that, also one of the co-founders of DarwinPorts/MacPorts) left Apple and became CTO at iXSystems in 2013. Last I heard he was at NVidia.
I filed Feedback.
Tools such as https://github.com/shilch/macchanger now give errors such as:
"WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.
ERROR: This device / interface has no MAC address to set."
Worse, even attempting to use ifconfig to change the MAC address is broken.
e.g.
"% sudo ifconfig en0 ether de:ad:be:ef:de:ad
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address"
It is dumbfounding to me that iOS randomizes MAC addresses by default, and that Apple broke such functionality in macOS. There is precisely nothing in any of the release notes which makes mention of this either.
Just ran
% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer "Title: macOS Sonoma, Version: 14.3.1, Size: 13073278KiB, Build: 23D60, Deferred: NO"
So that I can grab a 14.3.1 installer and create a bootable USB drive, since apparently 14.4 decided to also overwrite the local Recovery partition with a 14.4 installer too?!
Between all that, and the USB hub bugs others are reporting, this does not seem as if it was a very well done OS release.
Update, maybe the actual command to run is:
% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 14.3.1
?
smdh. The softwareupdate manpage is dated "September 11, 2012" and still lists OS X, instead of macOS.
It's as if Apple lost all of its CLI and UNIX wizards when jkh (Jordan Hubbard was "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple where he worked for a dozen years starting in 2001 and one of the co-founders of FreeBSD prior to that, also one of the co-founders of DarwinPorts/MacPorts) left Apple and became CTO at iXSystems in 2013. Last I heard he was at NVidia.
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Emojis are a standardized icon character set, and once or twice a year it’s been extended, Apple is simply updating their emoji set to be “compliant” with the latest standard, and they do that on all their platforms.
We no longer have the big Mac client but intermobility was usually the big issues. Problems with server file access, problems with breaking Exchange/o365 multiple times. Strangely the big apps Adobe apps people love to run on Mac have way more problems than windows users. Adobe's "fix" is to keep files locally on each machine... Always hit or miss, some work great, some don't and its not always the same users.