#! is not a curse word
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1. Allow sideloading and alternate stores. No fees, no buts. Worldwide.
2. Keep their cut at 15%/30%. Make it the best store possible. Courage.
3. Offer a discount not for a crippled store but for apps that pass a high bar of user experience: State saving, proper notification management, full use of platform features (windowing, focus APIs, etc), perfect adherence to the HIG, and no dark patterns. Make being in Apple's store mean something. "The power to be your best" as Apple once said.
This week's issue of the MacAdmins.news summary has further insights into dealing with the 26.0 beta cycle of the Apple platforms, great tutorials and links to relevant videos and podcast for Apple administrators.
This week's MacAdmins.news summary has some first solutions, and scripts from the community reacting to WWDC news, along with the usual tutorials, links, and security
I'm a bit late but finally I published a first draft of Tahoe-Compatibility-Checker to use in your Jamf Pro as an extension attribute.
As for previous years, feel free to comment.
Also, remember, if you are already running macOS 26 Tahoe, it will report as false as the initial goal is to give you devices that are ready to get the OS. If you want to change that behavior, see the comment in the Readme.
Enjoy!
https://github.com/laurentpertois/Tahoe-Compatibility-Checker
Am I the only Mac Admin that gets annoyed with Applications requiring to run an App to install said app? Why can't you just use a PKG?!?
Nahost-Liveblog: ++ Chamenei wirft Israel "riesigen Fehler" vor ++
Irans oberster Fßhrer Chamenei hat die israelischen Angriffe auf sein Land als "riesigen Fehler" verurteilt und abermals Vergeltung angekßndigt. US-amerikanische Militärflugzeuge sind auf Zypern angekommen.
iCloud web apps don't get the love they deserve. google docs can get bent.
keynote is the king of presentation apps and that includes running it in chrome on linux.
Now do volume subscriptions for companies and schools â it would unlock a huge range of revenue opportunities, and wouldnât require any app changes.
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114694938454565201
I made it a real thing
https://github.com/bartreardon/GlassBar
Showing solidarity with our American Friends at the #nokings demo in Paris. Fittingly at the Place de la BastilleâŚ
Suspicious Package 4.5 is basically unusable on the first macOS 26 Tahoe beta. Selecting any file or folder on the All Files tab will cause it to crash.
It's obviously early days for Tahoe, but if you're trying to live on it, (a) you have my sympathies, and (b) you might be interested in this preview version of Suspicious Package 4.5.1, which ought to fix the crash:
https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/preview.html
Delightful observation I keep making (exponentially more often?) in the last years:
Copy-pasting and adapting from my own (hand-written, if you will) software corpus is a _huge, reciprocal productivity boost_.
[x] I constantly build on and expand my own repertoire
[x] I understand (or at least once understood :)) everything I reuse
[x] Re-used code can have issues but I have full trust that it was written with best intent, to the best of my ability
[x] Reused code is improved/refined with each iteration
[x] Improved code goes around to be re-integrated with the source eventually
[x] I learn tremendously in the process
[x] I don't need to pay anyone for this
[x] No new datacenters need to be built for this
[x] This gets better every year
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In this week's issue of MacAdmins.news, we look, not surprisingly at the news for Apple admins from WWDC. There's a lot that is relevant to managing your Apple device fleet!
Flashcast 15: WWDC 25 https://podcast.macadmins.org/2025/06/10/flashcast-15-wwdc-25/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The "can I replace my Mac with an iPad" slider has moved a few notches closer to 'yes'. Those notches might do it for your workflow, but there is still quite a ways to go
via platform state of the unionâmacOS Tahoe will be the last macOS to support Intel Macs. #macadmins
WWDC25 Starts in 90 minutes! This week we'll get new DDM and MDM tools to manage Apple devices. Here's a quick reminder on how these become features within the tools we use:
http://tombridge.com/2025/06/09/how-new-mdm-features-ship-to-mdm-customers/
Remember Bill Atkinson https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/3172.html
