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.
It appears to have been a peering issue? I've biked over to a partner's house with a different ISP and now it's going just fine.
I don't think y'all run the public CDNs for Apple, but maybe you know someone who does?
I was trying to format a new Mac I got for work, and I noticed download estimates of over 20 hours. A little bit of digging and I figured out this URL was the problem:
It was being throttled to DSL-like speeds, around 600k/s, on a connection rated for almost 1000x that.
My ISP is TekSavvy ( AS5645 TEKSAVVY)
I know it's a peering issue because I biked over to the house of a friend with Telus fibre (AS852 TELUS Communications), and everything went much faster.
Apparently if you don't log into the machine within like. 15 minutes of first boot, it goes back to its bricked state and you have to re-re-install the OS
