Thread by @fasterthanlime, (cw: Apple products)God I fucking hate macbooks. "Oooh don't charge me from [...]

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God I fucking hate macbooks. "Oooh don't charge me from this side". "Today I think I'll try glitch art". "I'll just need your signature on this GDB". "The F1 key does not exist but it's stuck". "Today I'll make the backlight flicker".

Fuck offfffffff

"Have you tried plugging it off, then on again, then holding four different keys for two seconds until it's done rebooting and made sure that it didn't change a single thing? Yes? Well."

Curiosity got the better of me when onboarding — it seemed like everyone had macbooks so they /had/ to have found a way to make them work well right? Wrong! Everybody just accepts that stuff breaks very often.

Yeah no that's cool. That's definitely how an OS should behave. Outstanding.

You've probably noticed how I haven't complained about macOS in /six entire months/. Well that's because I was running Windows 10 on the beast, and it worked great!

Until the screen started flickering: no, that's not a recording artifact, and no, resetting NVRAM/SMC don't help

All in all this is a pretty minor thing, it's just a $2400 piece of company hardware that turned from a laptop into a desktop (external display works fine).

But that minor thing happening today is pushing me over the edge lmao. I now have enough anger to power a small country.

"Have you tried Big Sur"
"Yes"

Hahahahaaaaaa

Every day we stray further from BSD's light

This thread better be what gets me cancelled, I could use a vacation.

Update: the macbook hath fixed itself, as if by magic.

Presumably, by actual magic. The anger has subsided, but the determination to never buy another one of them, remains.

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