Send it to Tim Cook email. It worked for me fixing DisplayPort DSC bug. After Catalina, later MacOSes lost ability to drive monitors at higher than 60Hz refresh.
Apple support tortured me with all kinds of diagnostics, with WontFix few weeks later. Wrote email and it got fixed in Sonoma :)
I don't expect emails to get through to busy CEOs of huge companies like Apple unless you're really lucky and they make it through some automation, but I have dropped him an email just in case. I guess you never know.
This was maybe 20 years ago. I was looking for a job as a recruiter and just called him. He referred me to an HR rep and I did get an interview from it. Didn’t get the job, but hey, I got a shot!
Tim rarely reads the emails. There's an executive team that reads them and handles them.
I got nowhere with Apple Support and emailed "Tim" and had a very helpful executive team member reach out and arrange to get things fixed and see it through to resolution.
I think you'd want to offer morethan a problem statement when taking CEO time. Yes it's broken because shareholders demand M$ products have AI feature so that the share price has the 'AI' multiple.
It's pretty hard to justify the stock price, even with the current, high earling from the cloud so they are looking for hte next golden goose
I did it once, I'm pretty much sure Tim did not read the email, why would he, someone in his team did. I had an awful experience with AASP, no computer, no fix, no timelines (and money was tight), tried to escalate as much as I could and failed. Wrote to Tim Cook, explaining my situation and attaching all references... Got a call from Apple within like 2h, got a brand new Mac in a day. Those emails do work.
I once had a terrible experience dealing with my local Apple Store and then a hostile call with an Apple Retail manager after I left critical feedback.
I emailed Cook, mostly just to shout into the void. Within a week I got a call from Apple Corporate, they gave me an appointment the next day and my hardware issue was suddenly solved over-night.
Fucking with DP 1.4 was how they managed to drive the ProDisplay XDR.
If your monitor could downgrade to DP 1.2 you got better refresh rates than 1.4 (mine could do 95Hz SDR, 60Hz HDR, but if my monitor said it could only do 1.2, that went to 120/95 on Big Sur and above, when they could do 144Hz HDR with Catalina).
I would be absolutely unsurprised if their fix was to lie to the monitor in negotiation if it was non-Apple and say that the GPU only supported 1.2, and further, I would be also unsurprised to learn that this is related to the current issue.
Ahh, true, I now have 120Hz top, but it's fine, why I said fixed :) I now recall in Catalina I had full 144Hz and VRR options! Monitor is Dell G3223Q via Caldigit TS4 DP.
I was using 2 27" LG 27GM950-Bs (IIRC), that could do up to 165Hz and VRR on a 2019 cheesegrater Mac Pro, wasn't the cables, or the monitors, or the card.
People at the time were trying to figure out the math of "How did Apple manage to make 6K HDR work over that bandwidth?" and the answer was simply "by completely fucking the DP 1.4 DSC spec" (it was broken in Big Sur, which was released at the same time). The ProDisplay XDR worked great (for added irony, I ended up with one about a year later), but at the cost of Apple saying "we don't care how much money you've spent on your display hardware if you didn't spend it with us" (which tracks perfectly with, I think, Craig Federighi spending so much time and effort shooting down iMessage on Android and RCS for a long time saying, quote, "It would remove obstacles towards iPhone families being able to give their kids Android phones").
Thanks for the recommendation. I didn’t know about forgejo.org.
The main convenience of Github for me is the ability to send preprepared prompts to Claude through its web interface or the mobile app and have it write or revise a batch of dictionary entries in the repository. I can then confirm the results on the built website, which is hosted on Github Pages, and request changes or reverts to Claude when necessary. Each prompt takes ten to thirty minutes to carry out and I run a dozen or more a day, and it is very convenient to be able to do that prompting and checking wherever I am.
When I have Claude make changes to the codebase, I find that I need to pay closer attention to the process. I can’t do that while sitting in restaurant or taking a walk like I do with the prompting for dictionary-entry writing. The next time I start a mostly (vibe) coding project, I’ll look into Forgejo.
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Full Disk Access just gives an application the same filesystem powers that your user account has. For most users that means it has administrator level access, which is the 3rd highest tier.
There are two levels above an administrator-level account: 1) the root user can access files that an administrator can't (e.g. the files of
other users and certain system configuration files), and 2) the kernel and system processes can access "system" files that even root cannot - this is enforced by SIP.
Apple is quite liberal in what they hide away with SIP. It's possible for disk space to leak whereby the OS has decided to store some file that it doesn't need and there is no way to even list such files without following the above instructions - the only indication will be a mysteriously large amount of space taken up by the system.
It goes without saying that if you're going to delete system files you should make sure you know what you're doing.
Apple support tortured me with all kinds of diagnostics, with WontFix few weeks later. Wrote email and it got fixed in Sonoma :)
https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/4k144hz-no-longer-available...
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