God Dammit. I still have my desktop on Sonoma because I'm afraid that Sequoia has too much of that crap in there. But my laptop (which i hardly use and has nothing i consider sensitive on it -- it's mostly hosting ollama for me) is on Sequoia. I've been putting off the latest update and now this makes me want to put it off forever.

so pissed at apple for all the invasive shit and updates defaulting me to opt in to new stuff that sends my bits to them behind the scenes. I've been using apple hardware for my workstation since literally 1984. I manage linux servers for $ and I've run linux desktops before but macOS is just so much better. But all this AI bullshit and unkillable background processes scanning my photos is making me seriously think about getting rid of all the apple hardware and starting over again with a linux desktop.

Fuck you Tim Apple.