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1. hypfer · 1791146416 · focus · HN ↗

   This is stuff on the level of O&O ShutUp10. Which is a good tool, but also, a Windows tool for very (back in the day) Windows-specific nonsense.

   What's going on at Apple product strategy?

   1. userbinator · 1791147289 · focus · HN ↗

      It's interesting to see more customisation tools appearing for macOS, as just a few years ago I was looking for ways to strip down the OS (CI related), and while such info was widely available in the Windows world, to the point that customised "distros" are available, it was nearly nonexistent for macOS; only the Hackintosh community had some useful articles on how things worked.

      Could the rise of LLMs and vibe-coding have motivated people who otherwise wouldn't bother?

      1. gumby · 1791147901 · focus · HN ↗

         It’s hard to strip it down these days as the OS image and its core, immutable filesystem cannot be edited. Admittedly this helps keep idiots from destroying their filesystem and also blocks many malware attacks on the system, but, for example. I don’t believe you can delete the chess program.

         1. dylan604 · 1791150523 · focus · HN ↗

            This is one of those things where you have to ask yourself "how do you get it so wrong?". I get the idea of protecting from malware/self-harm, but to not allow removal of such a pointless app is just befuddling. At least Microsoft trying to say that Explorer was core to the OS, but a chess app? I never did buy into Explorer being core until the day I accidentally pasted an URL into File Explorer's path and it rendered the webpage. I don't understand why someone thought that was necessary to allow to happen, but there it was, core to the OS.

            1. skydhash · 1791151346 · focus · HN ↗

               I think it’s because all those apps use core technologies so their bundle size is tiny. You hide them and never think about them (like the old windows media player). Most of windows optional features are very much in your face all the time.

               1. dylan604 · 1791156767 · focus · HN ↗

                  please explain how a chess game is core technology

                  1. skydhash · 1791157260 · focus · HN ↗

                     Not that the are core technologies, more like they use whatever default libraries (Frameworks in Apple parlance) that are already there. Just like no one bothered to remove paint or wordpad in the old days (even with only 20gb of hdd)

                     1. userbinator · 1791160128 · focus · HN ↗

                        Just like no one bothered to remove paint or wordpad in the old days (even with only 20gb of hdd)

                        Trivial to remove (just delete the files), but also very little in the way of savings --- less than 1MB each.

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