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My main pain point aside from random OS crashes is Bluetooth / audio.

The sound device will just drop working randomly whether 3.5mm Jack or Bluetooth. Restarting the service sometimes works sometimes not, at first I thought it was MS Teams but didn't seem app specific.

Makes video calls painful knowing either sound or mic could just stop working at any time.




Why does this sound so similar to a Hackintosh? Honestly, I assumed people get a real Mac so they don't have to fiddle around with reboots etc


Bluetooth issues are often associated with endpoint security software such as jamf, crowdstrike and carbon black. If these issues are happening on your work laptop especially, you might have those things installed on them without you realizing it.

Apple's attitude towards endpoint security software is basically, "it's stupid and you shouldn't have them installed, our recommendation is to uninstall them" so that's that.

  "Third party “endpoint security” software may cause slow simulators, system freezes, or prevent debug processes from running in simulators reliably. This sometimes manifests as debugserver disconnections or simulator applications receiving a SIGKILL signal. (55853555)
  Workaround: Uninstall the third party software."
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note...


Note that this also was when Apple released the EndpointSecurity framework specifically made to sandbox these sorts of corporate malware in user space and outside the kernel.


Interesting, I do have jamf but no option to disable it due to corporate policy




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