Thanks for reaching out! I can confirm that all new hires receive Mac laptops, we are unable to provide a Linux laptop.
Plugged in a housemates macbook to my thunderbolt dock and absolutely nothing happened because it's “unsupported”
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
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.
so I pulled up the install log, found the package it is downloading. curld it on my linux machine. Observe:
$ curl -i https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/07/41/032-63749-A_38MYH58MVP/0ynlao7ghdixj9sgw8im15vwf4hox0hnzc/InstallAssistant.pkg -O
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 11.5G 0 115M 0 0 703k 0 4:47:12 0:02:47 4:44:25 609k
my internet connection, for the record, can do about 500mbit/s down. but somehow I'm being throttled to DSL speeds.
