Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 7: macsetup (matts application config setup system)

macsetup - matt’s app config setup What do you do when you get a new mac? well, you probably run around and turn off all the garbage like: defaults showing ALL MY PRIVATE DATA in any spotlight search (??????) defaults using the BIGGEST FONTS AND LOWEST RESOLUTION POSSIBLE (????) defaults using slow key presses and slow key repeats (????????) entire computer sleeps when the screen sleeps (???????) intrusive MANDATORY DEFAULT “OS Tips” notifications For maybe 15 years now Apple has been growing their products to be more and more defaulted to a mode where they assume every user is just illiterate with technology and needs every “simplified handholding feature” running by default. Why don’t they just ask you “do you want to setup in ‘expert mode’ or ‘grandparents mode’ as a cleaner defaults gate? Anyway, after you turn off all the low quality highly annoying default features you then get to restore your development environments which include: insatlling xcode installing brew installing…