The new ASIF disk image type is now 18 months old. How well does it perform? Is it as good as claimed? It all depends on whether you want to use encryption.
macOS 26
After an unfortunate incident three years ago, RSRs were put on pause. Now they’ve been rebadged as BSIs, what is wrong with their current implementation? The list is long.
What is a BSI? Is it the same as an RSR? How does it patch vulnerabilities, and how is it installed and activated? What problems does it have, and what are its limitations?
An important update for those expecting to update Apple silicon Macs to 26.4, as older versions may crash, and are expected to report firmware version errors.
Apple has released an update to macOS Tahoe bringing it to version 26.3.1. This adds support for its […]
If you are testing beta-releases of macOS 26.4 Tahoe on Apple silicon Macs, please use this new build of SilentKnight, version 2.12 build 61, as it shouldn’t crash.
Safe mode is claimed to do 3 things: block 3rd party extensions, clear caches, and check your startup disk. But what disk checks does it really make, and how are they different?
How macOS 26.2 updated to 26.3, variation in download sizes, how macOS works out free space requirements to proceed with the update, and its sequence of stages run by a finite state machine.
Why should an app start crashing on launch in macOS 26.4 beta 2? Why does its firmware version number make no sense? And how did it take 6 months to fix six typos?
Last September, Tahoe replaced Apple Diagnostics with a new and improved suite of tests for Apple silicon Macs. No one seems to have noticed, least of all Apple.
The Eclectic Light Company 