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Is #apple purposely breaking older laptops?

I have a 2018 Macbook Air that I factory reset through the internet recovery. It formatted the drive and installed MacOS 10.15 and rebooted.

On reboot, setting up the account let me log into my Apple account, but then I could not accept the TOS, no matter what I did.

It seems this is a common issue where there is a "communication issue" with apple's servers.

Seems that Apple is purposely adding friction to use "older" machines.

What do you think?

A.B. Murrow · 9w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe2p79z2nl0xkd2n0qy52wwvej2y3j8ps28nl4utfsw0apsnc586sn2sftd My guess is yes, whether intentionally or not. The server that handles that TOS is probably either dead or confused at why it's receiving a API call today. But my experience is mainly ...

Marcos Dione · 9w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe2p79z2nl0xkd2n0qy52wwvej2y3j8ps28nl4utfsw0apsnc586sn2sftd one thing I could think of is if Apple's sites use a certificate CA that has recently renewed their root, which means your old OS does not contain it, so it can't trus some apple sites o...

furicle · 9w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe2p79z2nl0xkd2n0qy52wwvej2y3j8ps28nl4utfsw0apsnc586sn2sftd I think it's an ssl cert issue. There's a work around I saw some where about changing the URL it tries to access. Let me know if you can't find it and I'll dig some. (Jeff Geerling v...