MacOS Ventura bloatware removal?

I build Mac machines for high security WORK, not playing games or taking pictures. How can I get rid of the ever increasing amount of bloatware (Chess, Clock, Font Book, Freeform (?), Home, News, Photo Booth, Podcasts, Shortcuts, Siri (an irritant and superfluous waste of space for my application), Stocks, TV (really? on a work machine?), Voice Memos? All of this fluff requires space and resources. At one time I could remove this extra baggage. Is there anyway to remove this nonsense? Come on Apple, some of the people who use your machines and OS aren't interested in this extraneous "stuff".

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 7:47 AM

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kgf3076 Author

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Dec 12, 2022 12:11 PM in response to Mal-S

Thanks I'll try that (slaps forehead and mutters, "why didn't I think of that?")

MrHoffman

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Dec 12, 2022 12:27 PM in response to kgf3076

I like some of the recent changes to NIST 800. Been using that to drag some of the more outdated password implementations forward, for instance. As for locking down, see the Ventura checklist above.

kgf3076 Author

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Dec 12, 2022 12:35 PM in response to MrHoffman

Grabbed the checklist, now to find time to gather the info and read it. (Sleep is highly overrated anyway). BTW, (and you don't really have to answer) does Eisenhower Ave mean anything to you?

kgf3076 Author

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Dec 12, 2022 1:28 PM in response to MrHoffman

Gotta love those TS/SCI's. ;-)

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MacOS Ventura bloatware removal?