You mean iCloud limits you to 50 gb?
Seriously??
Yeesh, and for that I get harassed, every time I do a decimal-point upgrade, to please c’mon enter your freaking Apple ID and password?
I know nothing about it, that’s why i asked. But i based the 50gb comment on:
No. You get 50gb for USD 0.99 a month; you can pay more to get more space, as with any such service. For free you get IIRC 5gb.
Not seeing the connection between upgrades (I assume you mean of MacOS) and any extra need to enter your Apple credentials. The most I have to do when applying an upgrade is give my Mac PW on my iMac, and my PIN on my iPad and iPhone.
The cloud can be great if used appropriately. It is definitely just somebody else’s computer, but that computer is really many computers setup in a fault tolerant cluster in a variety of datacenters around the world, which are secured, climate controlled, and have redundant power. That is almost definitely safer than a second hand tower in your basement.
The trouble is that cloud is not magic. If somebody doesn’t understand where their files are, then keeping them in the cloud is not going to help.
However, there are many upsides that can come with proper use. Having easy access to the same file from multiple devices is a massive time saver. Even though I use Linux for all of my desktop needs, storing stuff on the corporate OneDrive has been great. The number of times per day I have to run rsync has plummeted.
I just put things in the folder that is synced with OneDrive, and it automatically is on both my home and work computers, with the added bonus of being easily available from my phone or tablet.
Cloud doesn’t solve all problems, but it does make great progress on solving some.
My Monterey VM was at 12.6.1 and my Big Sur VM was at 11.7.1; each of them had a decimal-point upgrade available (to 12.6.2 and 11.7.2, respectively) yesterday.
Software Update runs, VM reboots, progress bar gets to a certain point, and then: “Hello, excuse me, please enter your Apple ID and password”. There’s a button, I think in some situations it says “Not Now” and in others it just says “Cancel”. Either way, I don’t enter it because I don’t remember what it is without looking it up, because I don’t buy software from the Apple Store very often (I have reasons) and I don’t use iCloud and so on.
One of them then went onto complain that “An error occurred – could not connect”. Umm, I didn’t ask you to.
I understand that after a fresh new installation of a MacOS, of course I’ll be prompted to enter my Apple ID (if I so choose). But it should not be prompting me subsequently on a decimal-point upgrade, yeesh!
I don’t get why backup is still limited on most plans when Backblaze has successfully pulled off having unlimited backups on a per device basis. It’s $7 a month for them to keep backups for a month, or $9 to keep them for a year.
I’m impressed that you are able to get AppleID to work in a VM. I’ve not been able to do so, and would have have helped me with testing something, What VM software do you use?
Perhaps your MacOS is setup to use your Apple ID to log into MacOS, which is something they defaulted to several major MacOS versions ago, I forget when. They don’t do that any more, so you can undo that and just have a user ID on the Mac with any PW you like.
I don’t know about getting AppleID to work in a VM. They keep asking me for it; I keep hitting “Not Now” or “Cancel” because I can’t be arsed to go look the damn thing up. Hmm, I actually do think I had my own reason to log in from a VM once, to download some piece of software the VM needed that was only available on the Apple Store. Won’t swear to it. I’m using Parallels. ETA: Parallels Desktop, not Pro.
No, nothing like that. Most of my VMs date back to earlier OS versions that were then updated. And they’re all set up to work without me being online, so I can use them when I’m on a train or whatever.