Harware Growler: Do you miss feature which shows your flash drive or external was successfully ejected?
That has never been a big question for me and since I installed Ejector that is neither a question nor an issue. Ejector tells me when it has successfully dismounted a drive.
But Recovery and this Mac@snapp things. I have to see all time, and you are saying basically no way turn that stuff off?
The Recovery Drive has been a key part of MacOS for a few years now and snapshots are an integral part of APFS. The mounting/dismounting of snapshots is understandable as they are created and deleted periodically and I can theoretically see how that could be related to the mounting/unmounting of the Recovery Drive. In any case neither is likely to go away any time soon. The only solution I could envision would be a new feature in Hardware Growler that would allow snapshots and the Recovery Drive to be ignored.
And this it type of nuisance which made you bail on hardware growler?
I had turned Growl and Hardware Growler before because it provided so much information that it made it too easy to miss a real problem and in fact other than revealing the
interesting(?) factoids about snapshots and the Recovery drive it has not really contributed anything of dramatic significance
to me. That is not to say it isn't informative in specific circumstances and certainly individual users might find all the data useful/interesting.
And if I bail how turn it off? you don't have to uninstall it?
As to turning it off vs. uninstalling it is your choice. I got both from the App Store so both are rigorously
sandboxed which means they don't install lots of detritus throughout the system. Simply deactivating startup at launch and then quitting both should have no untoward effect other than leaving unused code taking up disk space and the remote possibility of creating unexpected issues at some point in the future.
Reinstalling was simply a matter of clicking the download icon in the App Store and because I had previously purchased the products there was no charge. I did have to reconfigure my settings however, but that was not particularly onerous a task.
Do you agree so sad... people just control what their apps do?
I am entirely sure what you mean by that. As our systems become more powerful and we rely on them for more critical tasks the level of complexity increases non-linearly. Add to that the all too human tendency to get something for nothing by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in our systems and all too soon we exceed the ability of even the most sophisticated user to provide adequate protection much less the ability of the average user who is often unsure of even what a computer is. Apple has so far done a good job of protecting the user but that inevitably comes at the expense of some loss of control — especially at the GUI level. It is tempting to say none of this would be necessary were it not for human nature, but I am not sanguine about even that.