• CucumberFetish@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Yup. Yesterday my mac turned my external display pink. The monitor was connected directly to the HDMI socket on the M1.

      Tell me a more iconic duo than external devices and a panicking mac.

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        9 months ago

        This used to happen to me regularly with a Dell panel. It would turn anything white pink. I found creating a custom colour profile and playing around with it until the whites were white again solved it. Then occasionally it would decide to revert to the default colour profile for no reason.

        Stupidly frustrating but I’m passing on the tip incase it helps.

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          9 months ago

          What I meant by “turned pink” is that the display showed only bright pink color and the mac display had a single corrupted line of pixels on it.

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      9 months ago

      As someone using android/windows in private life and MacOS for work, I can confirm. As long as its Apple, it works. But as soon as you use any third party software or hardware, its completly bugged.

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        9 months ago

        I cannot even agree to that. Like I get that the settings takes minutes to reload after a reboot. And I need to get in there because it always resets my mouse speed to the slowest possible. But I cannot change it because there are no settings for the mouse directly after a fresh boot! It is so absurd.

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        Using a mac daily for work, no it doesn’t. Some built in software features keep fucking up, external device or not. Like the “pause music” button, which stopped working entirely on my mac no matter if you press it on the builtin or external keyboard, the multi desktop which keep fucking up and putting apps on top of other apps that are fullscreen, making them barely usable…

        We agree on the external device part though, it can decide to stop working with stuff you used for months for no good reason

        All this on an M2 pro that came out a year ago

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      9 months ago

      I still think my 2012 Macbook Pro with the Highres screen was peak Apple. It’s been downhill ever since, but the current releases of macOS and iOS are a an extra special kind of crap. The worst part: it’s still miles ahead of Windows.

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        9 months ago

        Windows tends to work with ever you throw at it though. Plug it in and somehow it will find a way to work.