Re: Apple's nagging moi about Mojave..

I’d say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, particularly if you’re satisfied with current system stability. Myself, I rather like some of the promised features, including the “dark” look, but I’m not disposed to risk the smooth environment I presently enjoy under “High Sierra” (I’m particularly keen not to put at hazard the inexplicably untethered suite of applications in Mudbrick Systems’ “Fetid Fog” family of subscription software, the free access to which has effectively shaved off $700 from the 2017 purchase price of Big Cheese.

Should I ever prove adventurous*, however, I can install the upgrade on “AltBoot,” my secondary emergency SSD, and, should this go sideways, return to High Sierra and restore Altboot to its standby state from an archival clone stored in a nearby file drawer.

cordially,

*Big Cheese is at the ancient end of models that can support Mojave, but its graphics card maybe not so much.

Yes, I can see that you possess the chops actually to wish to use the new features (and love that your ultimate-backup possesses the sanity of a Full [air....gap/] 'twixt that)--and anything clandestinely poisoning via-stealth-Intarweb/Cloud nastiness, er "to boot".

I (quite irRationally, I suppose) react against the stuffing of precious neurons still passing a POST- cksum verification ..with even more-Techno-infinite sources as interfere with the much more pleasurable time-sinks of (well, you know..) authors who, by example: prepare us for an Unknowable futchah in this desert now vastly infected with fugitives from LIlliput; these forever keening over the *means of achieving Orangeness-in-Their-skin tones too/confusing that: with the Whiteness they thought they revered (just a w.a.g., of course.)
* Little-Endian -vs- Big-Endian?

tl;dr ... Techno ever shalt be: an infinite sump; I harbor no new desires towards that endless-end, y'know?
[Exception.. OK were I gifted with a used Bugatti Veyron? I daresay I'd want to have the Owners-Manual-100#-Library so as to marvel at just WHAT pure-Excess is seen to entail--Shirley another mental-fault.]

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