And my IT team pushed this release as a required update, immediately, as soon as it dropped. And now they’ve learned a lesson. Wait a week or two on major point releases.
From what I understand, 14.4 was also a HUGE security release for active exploits in the wild. It might have been better overall to deal with temporary broken usb functionality than risk a severe vulnerability remaining on their network.
My company paused the rollout once all these bugs started appearing. They pushed it live before knowing how the GM was being received at scale.
If you have enough people to call them an IT team and they DON’T know this, then they aren’t an IT team, just a bunch of people who think they know computers good.
Source: Delayed updates have been policy everywhere I have ever worked since the 90s.
I’ve been in tech for decades, so I know what they’re supposed to do, but my several thousand person company’s IT has decided to roll Mac updates out immediately for some weird reason
That said, we’re in an industry where there is likely legal risk if office machines are not running OS’ with all the latest security patches. But by pushing patches immediately, they also expose the company to technical problems or security vulnerabilities that accidentally appear in the occasional new release.
You would think… but they new before that it was a bad idea. Someone above them said “I don’t care, just do it”. They also probably said something about metrics.
That’s why it is wiser to update when .01 .02 release launches.
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Buy a brother LaserJet and never worry again.
Brother gang, rise up
Our Brother sewing machine is fantastic. It doesn’t print though
You know, we also have a very sturdily built Brother sewing machine and I never noticed that they’re the same company that made our printer.
Maybe it’s a sibling company ?
What are you doing, step-printer!?
Back before bubblejets existed, it was a fucktonne less frequent.
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…30 years ago?
30 years ago meaning the late 60s early 70s right?
My library was using dot matrix clear until 1998 when they finally got enough funding to be modernized. Wauwatosa public library in Milwaukee county mind you. Not a small dollar donor supported space.
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I have no way of responding to this that can’t be interpreted as an insult so I’m just blocking you.
This update causes my Jetbrains IDE to randomly crash several times a day, it’s great. Also my USB hubs wouldn’t work this morning until I power cycled everything a few times. What fun!
Definitely skipping that update then. Thanks for the warning
Looks like there are two separate issues addressed in the articles. 1. You have to approve USB devices that are plugged into your Mac. I believe the fix is to unplug USB devices and plug them back in. 2. Microsoft Defender is crashing CUPS unless you manually give it full disk access. Either give it full disk access or remove Microsoft Defender from your Mac.
ETA: I just checked and I’m ok 14.4. No problems printing but it did ask me to confirm that I trusted every new USB device that I plug in.
But there are more emojis and now it integrates with icloud toilet to store your bowel movement stats in the Health app.
Who the removed even needs usb hubs?
On a macbook? You can’t plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there’s no USB-A port
You already have one keyboard, don’t need another one. What? The butterfly keys are broken? Shouldn’t have broken them I guess 🤷♂️
Might be intentional, recently Apple went the direction of silently dropping features in updates.
Literally everyone does this now and it’s so fucking frustrating.
Vendor: Here’s our latest update, it’s mandatory, if you don’t implement it within 30 days your license will invalidate.
IT Department: *Does the update* Great well now two core tools we need to do daily work aren’t there anymore.
Vendor: Yeah, we removed them for your convenience, well being, user experience, and personal happiness.
IT Department: But we need them otherwise the software is useless to us.
Vendor: Oh in that case, our new product Premium Plus^^tm does those things but isn’t bundled with your tier of product so please cut us a check for the $5k a month difference and you’ll be good to go!
And if I punched him, I’d be the one to go to jail.
High time to switch to Linux if you ask me
Corporate IT never goes for it, unfortunately.
My experience thus far is that the intersection of IT professionals and people who know how to administrate Linux systems well is a really small set of people. Not enough sysadmins these days.
Unfortunately the “management” (aka spyware) software is not developed with Linux in mind. I tried pushing it in our environment, it was shut down very quickly once the spyware didn’t support it.
I say this from the bottom of my crusty heart: removed linux.
And this is why I’m still on Monterey… Being in audio production, it’s rare that updating your OS (barring security updates) improves your stability.
I’m still on macos 12 because every major update seems to break something in my dev flow
