[HN Gopher] Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts
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Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 75 points
Date : 2026-02-28 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| thecopy wrote:
| Im planning on getting the new M5 MBP i expect to be released
| next week. Is it possible to downgrade? I assume it comes with
| Tahoe :(
| mpalmer wrote:
| Almost certainly not :|
| mhurron wrote:
| Typically no, Mac's don't expect to run versions of macOS
| before the one they were released with.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| Why not buy a used M4 Pro/Max?
| layer8 wrote:
| It's not worth it, especially since the M6 MBP is rumored to
| already come out later this year (though likely with a price
| hike): https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/26/two-unique-new-macbook-
| pros-a...
| DavidPiper wrote:
| I accidentally hit the wrong button a few weeks ago and upgraded
| to Tahoe. I didn't think it was that big a deal at the time, I'd
| just been putting it off.
|
| But having used it for a few weeks now I can confirm it is a
| strict downgrade over Sequoia for me. I use none of the new
| features it has introduced, and the changes to existing features
| are just worse.
|
| Some UI animations are slow and jittery - and this is on an M4
| Pro. The Finder has gone from fine to janky once again,
| especially with horizontal scroll. The window corners and mouse
| interactions are indeed annoying (I'd assumed the many complaints
| were at least slight hyperbole). Left-aligned window titles are
| unbalanced and ugly. I've had weird (visual) app duplication
| issues with the Application smart-folder in the Dock. Cross-
| device copy-paste SEEMS to be more flaky than usual. And most
| petty of all I really don't like the new icons - especially the
| Trash icon for some reason.
| Hamuko wrote:
| I have Tahoe on my work laptop and Sequoia on my personal
| desktop, and the thing that keeps me the most rooted on Sequoia
| is the padding. Everything on Tahoe is padded to hell and back.
| And the new tab design sucks so much. iTerm2 tabs look fucking
| terrible in it.
| gib444 wrote:
| > Some UI animations are slow and jittery - and this is on an
| M4 Pro
|
| On an M4 Pro! Pure planned obsecelence. Noticed it regularly
| with major MacOS releases. Nothing will convince me otherwise.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| Yeah they should have bought the M5 Pro /s
| TuxSH wrote:
| Also Apple Music is much worse (harder to bring miniplayer,
| seek bar harder to use) and list of misfeatures goes on and on
| and on
| hhh wrote:
| People really just need to upgrade man. It's fine in almost every
| case.
| slashink wrote:
| I run both, Tahoe on laptop, Sequoia on mac studio. Tahoe is
| strictly worse, the corner radius drag issue is driving me
| crazy on the daily.
| JaggerJo wrote:
| +1 exact same situation.
|
| having Tahoe on my MacBook made me appreciate Sequoia on my
| mac Studio. A real downgrade..
| bombcar wrote:
| There's a command to make the corner bigger.
| defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
| azan_ wrote:
| It's ugly and slow, I see no reason why I would want to
| "upgrade" to that.
| doawoo wrote:
| It actively ruins multimedia software I use in live
| performances- so no I don't just need to upgrade
| pier25 wrote:
| It's much easier to simply use this with whatever date you
| prefer: defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
| MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2030-03-03 12:00:00 +0000"
| egb wrote:
| I've got that in place and still get the Tahoe popups, so
| there's some other mechanism here.
| crazygringo wrote:
| > _Which means I have the joy of seeing things like this
| wonderful notification on a regular basis._
|
| Weird, I haven't seen that once. I wonder what explains the
| difference?
| fidotron wrote:
| Same problem here.
|
| Linux + KDE surpassed Windows many years ago, now I find I also
| prefer it to the Mac laptops, which are otherwise better only for
| portability.
|
| Apple need to get their software act together. Such a shame
| because the hardware is awesome. A near perfect inversion of the
| era of Tiger on the G4.
| tl2do wrote:
| I'm also annoyed by the Tahoe update notifications. I understand
| the concern about installation scripts that fetch from external
| sources -- that can be harmful, even if the repo owner or article
| author is trustworthy. There's always a risk of hijacking.
|
| I analyzed the GitHub repo. The main files are three short shell
| scripts, and I confirmed:
|
| 1. No network calls -- doesn't download anything from external
| sources
|
| 2. No background services -- no LaunchAgents or daemons installed
|
| 3. No data exfiltration -- doesn't send data anywhere
|
| 4. Reversible -- provides an uninstall script
|
| 5. Transparent -- all code is plain bash scripts and XML
|
| 6. Uses official Apple APIs -- only uses the /usr/bin/profiles
| system command
|
| 7. Standard security practices -- includes CI validation,
| shellcheck linting, and SHA256 checksums
|
| Folks who are tired of the update notifications can use this with
| confidence.
| billylo wrote:
| Thank you for your service.
| poly2it wrote:
| Thank you, HN user with 66 karma registered 14 days ago.
| beacon294 wrote:
| I read the old forums carefully:
|
| - simply decline/reject the TOS on install. It will auto
| uninstall the installer and go away.
|
| Life has been good since.
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