If it's really a Hole Hawg, you run as root, or at least passwordless sudo.

I thought they were calling the residential drill a hole hawg.

To your point though, not everything in Mac can be solved via root user privilege. SIP is annoying to toggle, the main issue being discussed also demonstrates why Mac OS is not the proverbial Hole Hawg as well.

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throw0101a 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> SIP is annoying to toggle, the main issue being discussed also demonstrates why Mac OS is not the proverbial Hole Hawg as well.

macOS in its default configuration may not be the HH, but if SIP removes those limitations it is still available.

As someone who (a) does some tech support for family, but also (b) uses a MacBook for sysadmining Linux servers, but kind of happy with the current balance. I don't think I've run into SIP limitations, so perhaps I'm not an 'advanced' enough user of macOS (MacPorts generally works for the 'extras' I need on top of base macOS).

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natpalmer1776 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well shit, I went to verify my litany of QoL complaints that couldn’t be resolved via disabling SIP and turns out there has since been a solution for for the main one (Gatekeeper) and the remaining issues boil down to personal particularities.

So I rescind “needing” a hole hawg and correct it to “strongly prefer or desire” a hole hawg. Mainly because I shouldn’t have to rip apart a magic keyboard to embed a touch ID module into a 3D printed case for a standalone fingerprint reader module.

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someonebaggy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What's stopping you from reverse engineering that module?

	▲	natpalmer1776 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Same thing that’s stopping me from building my own computer chips using a home lithography setup and clean room.