eatmoreduck’s Blog

It has been more than two years since my previous post Mac Dev Software List. I dug it up, and some things on it are gone now, some got replaced by better options, and a few I still use exactly the same way. This post is not about “I heard this is good.” It is only about what is actually running on my machine right now. Along the way I update the outdated parts of the old list. ...

Why block updates at all After macOS 26 came out, the update nag kept popping up every few days. I kept worrying I’d slip and hit “Update Now”, confirmation or not. It got frequent enough that I wanted a fix that sticks. My reasons, plainly: The red badge drives me crazy Older machines don’t handle the new system well, and I don’t want the slowdown I need a stable work setup, and an upgrade breaking my dev environment is not worth the risk I dislike the liquid glass look in macOS 26, and some apps may not be compatible yet So after upgrading to macOS 15.7.3, I decided to block macOS updates completely and get rid of the badge. ...

download a iso in https://immortalwrt.kyarucloud.moe/releases/23.05.4/targets/x86/64/ add new hard disk image Wait for the image to be imported import a new Virtual Machine set vm params vi /etc/config/network set ipaddr to the address of the same network segment as the router and reboot after reboot , login immortalwrt in web browser by http://192.168.5.100 the default user is root, and the default password is password ...