You cannot read the source, nor you have the skills to understand the technological impacts by using the software and yet you are asking for 100% safety. You are investing your hope into unknown people giving you a better feeling when posting here? This becomes more and more ridiculous.
You still not got the message. There is no 100% safety, you have already joined this social network and presumably reddit, too. If you are asking for 100%, YOU are asking for black and white. I tried to explain you would have to accept the grey - even when using the (native) Apple products you trust so much.
Apple is an U.S. based company. Unlike many people living in the land of the free believe trade is not free in the U.S. The U.S. government has to grant the right to export goods and technology , which gives them a great angle on every company. Now you can believe naively in the white Apple refusing all wishes came in through NSA or home land security or other agencies while all other companies are black deliberately harvesting your important data.
On the first post of the thread the main author of OCLP already put a disclaimer:
Apple and all patch developers are not responsible for any potential damage or data loss caused by using pre-release software or unofficial support patches. Please use at your own risk.
You say my messages on this thread are becoming more and more ridiculous, and I say your messages towards me are becoming more and more unrespectful. And I don’t care if you’re part of the development team of this patch, a contributor, or just a tester; the way you’re talking to me, a kind neighbor of this forum who is just
politely asking to people more versed on this subject, is pretty unpleasant. I don’t care if you’re a programmer, a former CPU designer, or the most brilliant person on the planet: Respecting others and being kind to others is the baseline for me.
This will probably be my last message on this thread, but let me tell you that this is not the way to address someone who just, without the proper knowledge, asks about the safety, security, and the possible corruption and glitches it can cause on a TRIMmed SSD etc. Since when someone
asking is subject of this kind of attacks? I can’t believe it. Let me remind you that, at this side of the screen there is another person too. Who might be right or wrong, but that is secondary when you employ that aggressive tone.
And no, I’m not asking more questions, because at this point I’ve discarded installing the patch and will go with the native install of Monterey, Universal Control can wait, but in hopes that other ignorant people -just like myself- asking here get treated with proper respect, I’m writing this message.
Now, to the proper reply.
You cannot read the source, nor you have the skills to understand the technological impacts by using the software and yet you are asking for 100% safety. You are investing your hope into unknown people giving you a better feeling when posting here? This becomes more and more ridiculous.
Yes; It is called asking help to the community. Maybe some forum user doesn’t know if X app (lets say, Fortnite) works well under iOS 15.4.1, and I happen to have it installed and after the update, I can tell him: “go ahead, you can update, Fortnite works well“. That’s the spirit of this great community, helping each other with topics and subjects others don’t know.
And of course, if the official thread on Macrumors, where Dosdude and other users and contributors to the project participate, and can review the code, tell me that “it works this way, or that way, it is safe because this or that”, or “it needs to flash the EFI, so don’t do it if you’re not sure”, or “don‘t worry, to enable Mission Control you just need to patch some kexts, so there are no security implications”, I will believe them, because I trust this community I’ve been on for 10 years.
You still not got the message. There is no 100% safety, you have already joined this social network and presumably reddit, too. If you are asking for 100%, YOU are asking for black and white. I tried to explain you would have to accept the grey - even when using the (native) Apple products you trust so much.
I will give you this one, because yes, when asking for 100% safety, I was going to that extreme, and as me and you said, we need to accept we’re moving on the grey area. So in that case, asking literally for a 100% was my mistake. It’s just that I wanted to emphasize how much I valued the safety on a project like this one. Actually, there were other technical questions but apparently those didn’t get your attention. But doesn’t matter, I’ve already decided to not use it.
Apple is an U.S. based company. Unlike many people living in the land of the free believe trade is not free in the U.S. The U.S. government has to grant the right to export goods and technology , which gives them a great angle on every company. Now you can believe naively in the white Apple refusing all wishes came in through NSA or home land security or other agencies while all other companies are black deliberately harvesting your important data.
And yeah, I’m probably being pretty naive here, but among all the companies, and until Apple proves to be another one to be untrusted, I will keep using their services. It’s not that I disagree with you, mind you, but if I have to choose a company to rely on, I choose the one who has sold me privacy, until I read news that break my trust in Apple.
And going back to the topic, I usually trust open source software. I actually love open source software! But it is not the same a mere app that installs on your system, often times without even asking for system privileges, than a software that (from what I understood) flashes or patches the booting partition of the mac. That’s lower level, if I’m not mistaken (and if I’m mistaken, you’re free to say so, but I’d ask you to be less aggressive).
On the first post of the thread the main author of OCLP already put a disclaimer:
Apple and all patch developers are not responsible for any potential damage or data loss caused by using pre-release software or unofficial support patches. Please use at your own risk.
Totally understandable. That’s why in the first place I came here to merely ask about my doubts (something completely legitimate), and in the second place decided to not install it.
EDIT:
unpleasant instead of
disgusting because I’m not a native speaker and the original word didn’t fit what I intended to say, nor the tone of it.
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