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Apparently at this company, if you happen to boot up your Macbook before your first day (to say, check it it was damaged in shipping) it's completely borked and you have to wipe it and reinstall macos

#“about 3 hours remaining”#MacOS: it just works

Beta is on cohost dot org @stillinbeta4/3/2023, 5:52 PM

I am trying to reinstall MacOS using their built in network recovery thing. It spends 20 minutes saying three hours remaining and then jumps to 24 hours. The official advice from IT is literally “sometimes it takes 4+ tries, just keep trying.”

And of course there's no way to make a normal recovery disk image, you gotta just hope.

#I hate Mac OS so much yall

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo3/16/2023, 6:06 PM

I had that in my previous job. Mac only, no exceptions. It *sucked*. Only stayed there a year (not for that reason ^^), but having to deal with a Mac was a daily annoyance.

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev3/16/2023, 6:32 PM

I wouldn't mind a Mac if it was a managed device, I just wouldn't choose one if I had to set it up myself

Beta is on cohost dot org @stillinbeta3/16/2023, 11:47 PM

the last time I used one it kernel panicked constantly and eventually crashed so hard I had to re-image the main drive

lydia aka DYKE TYSON @lydia3/16/2023, 6:48 PM

holy shit that's not the company I expected this from lmfao

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jeroknite @jeroknite3/19/2023, 1:50 AM

Whoever's responsible for that should have their torso "unsupported" (remove their spine)

Beta is on cohost dot org @stillinbeta3/19/2023, 2:42 AM

I'm reading that there are some weird third-party drivers you can use to work around it, but it Just Worked on my Lenovo running Ubuntu. Admittedly my Framework only supports one monitor over TB though

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jeroknite @jeroknite4/3/2023, 5:02 PM

WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?

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