Of course, Apple takes very seriously our privacy… Allow me to laugh! Remember: “Of course Yahoo! takes very seriously the privacy of its users” now, see what happens again.- Lulu : user friendly and easy to use firewall Or, if you are too accustomed to pressing buttons and touching/tapping frenetically your screens, go to the colorful Ubuntu… Anyway, time to fly away from all these companies stealing our privacy. ![]() For those who can tweak and are not afraid with configuring an OS in the eighty’s-like way, than move on to a BSD-like OS, Debian Gnu/kFreeBSD or Debian. After all, as a matter of precaution (think Yahoo!), I’m now taking steps to fly away from Apple. Combining FreeBSD with a lightweight window management will help too! No longer need all of these fancy top cool features Apple offers for hyper-compulsive connected people. Logical choice for me is FreeBSD even though I know that I will have “great fun” in configuring it and that I will need to mirror my current config as close as possible to the new OS environment. Having realised more and more that Apple can remotely controlled my computer and does whatever it likes with our machines or knowing that OS X regularly “phones home” is scary enough for me to transition to another OS. Of course if you already did install macOS Sierra, then the update will not re-download itself, but future software updates to Sierra will. On the other hand, many users have turned on these features if they like the download and automatic install features. In fact, if you visit your Mac App Store settings and discover the options are already off, you may have toggled the settings before to stop Mac software update nagging or to stop automatic downloads to conserve bandwidth, and many systems administrators turn these features off to manage workstations as well. The Automatic Downloads feature has been around for years now. When did Apple start automatically downloading Mac OS updates? Yes, you can always re-download the “Install MacOS Sierra” update application from the Mac App Store, even if you delete it from the Mac. This file takes up about 5GB of space so if you have no intention on using it to update to Sierra or to create a USB Sierra boot installer drive, there is little reason to keep it around on the Mac. If you find the installer file and don’t want it, delete it. Next, you might want to visit the /Applications folder to see if the “Install macOS Sierra.app” updater has downloaded to the Mac already. When satisfied with your choice, exit out of App Store Either option will prevent the automatic download of Sierra to a Mac.This is a better choice for many users, since they will be notified of a software update but they can make the decision themselves about whether or not to download and install it Uncheck “Download newly available updates in the background” – this will allow the Mac to check for software updates, but they will not automatically download to the computer.This is generally not recommended unless you manually stay on top of updates yourself since it broadly ends all software update checks Uncheck “Automatically check for updates” – this prevents the Mac from checking for any software update to the OS, apps, or security updates.You have two different options to prevent macOS Sierra automatically downloading, pick one of the following depending on your situation:. ![]() ![]()
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