cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18064596

I have two MacBooks that I acquired through two different startups. Both companies no longer exist and I was basically given the laptops. (They have just been sitting in my closet for a few years collecting dust, and it seems like a waste.)

Unfortunately, now that I want to use the laptops as part of a local k8s cluster (or even dedicated music production hardware), I am locked out of wiping the things because they want to connect to MDM servers that no longer exist or have admin passwords that have long since been forgotten.

Since these laptops are essentially "bricked" I have no problems opening them up and attempting hardware hacks to get around this stuff.

Both laptops are in various states of reset or wipe due to previous attempts to reset. (Funny thing, actually. I was personally responsible for locking down one of these laptops at the time they were in corporate use...)

Trash or treasure? I dunno. I am apple-dumb.

Both my M2 Air, and my 6th gen Pro have bent frames, and I am at a loss to explain how that happened

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20732007

What’s going on with Apple Sports? Game is 21-3 at half…they show OU scoring 3 pts in 1st quarter, TX scoring 21 pts in 2nd quarter, and that results in 15-3??

I adopted a new kitten a few weeks ago, and ended up with 4 albums for him. One I think is a person, an actual contact. One I was able to combine with one of the others, and then another album showed up for him with a different picture. So I am back to 4 albums for him.

I tried adding the main album and deleting him from the others and that seems to work on some images but not others.

If I select two or more albums and try to merge it is greyed out. If I try and drag them into one another the other album moves.

Anyone found a solution for this situation?

Kitten tax:

The first time I met him.

After spending about 20 minutes taming him.

Big stretch.

Not sure when iCloud on the web got this good, finally becoming a legit alternative to Google Drive or OneDrive

@apple_enthusiast

@apple_enthusiast It pains me to see all the efforts of Apple in the Apple Vision Pro, whereas what would really have made a significant difference is an Apple printer. Like a printer that actually works in a really, really easy way.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44256463

Source Bloomber article

I’m a web developer but I also do tons of work with large files being transferred across the network, I do some CPU intensive tasks from time to time, run Docker containers, etc. all on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM.

Well it’s 2024 now and the thing still screams. So what I don’t understand is: why are there suddenly so many enraged tech news websites bashing on the 8GB base RAM?

I get it that some people need more than just 8GB, but for the cliche web browsing, email and social media user it’s not adding up to me why anyone is so enraged about this.