Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) 331
rh2600 writes: Four days ago, Apple's latest macOS 10.13.4 update broke DisplayLink protocol support (perhaps permanently), turning what may be hundreds of thousands of external monitors connected to MacBook Pros via DisplayLink into paperweights. Some days in, DisplayLink has yet to announce any solution, and most worryingly there are indications that this is a permanent change to macOS moving forward. Mac Rumors is reporting that "users of the popular Mac desktop extension app Duet Display are being advised not to update to macOS 10.13.4, due to 'critical bugs' that prevent the software from communicating with connected iOS devices used as extra displays." Users of other desktop extensions apps like Air Display and iDisplay are also reporting incompatibility with the latest version of macOS.
Rename the app? (Score:5, Funny)
JustWontDuet
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Re:Rename the app? (Score:5, Informative)
JustWontDuet
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
If you stay with the previous release of macOS, YouCanDuet
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Again, it's the users who do things wrong when Apple shits the bed
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Let's Duet [youtube.com]
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Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is the external screen hardware bricked beyond repair or simply unusable until some driver software fixed? Dead sounds like click bait if a simple reinstall or patch rollback gets it working again.
Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:4, Insightful)
If I'm going to pay a premium for a product that "just works".. it better keep working for as long as the hardware holds up. They basically used an obsolete OS version to hold my wife's macbook hostage unless we paid around $100 to update it.
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DisplayLink is not exactly an "older hardware." They are still actively marketed, chips are updated as new USB standards come out, and drivers are updated regularly. The latest driver release is from last month (Windows, Mac, Android, and Ubuntu). Chrome support is baked into the OS so no drivers needed.
So, yeah, it isn't like this is old-fashioned hardware that isn't being updated any more.
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Does Apple offer a comparable product?
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Dongles! We have dongles!
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So you get articles like the one above. So what?
Apple long abandoned the idea that "bad press" could put a dent into their bottom line. Simply because it does not. They could be proven to kill a newborn baby with every iPhone produced and it wouldn't make a difference.
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Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:4, Informative)
Is the external screen hardware bricked beyond repair or simply unusable until some driver software fixed? Dead sounds like click bait if a simple reinstall or patch rollback gets it working again.
The latter. And DisplayLink and Apple are already working on a Driver Update.
Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:5, Informative)
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DisplayLink is not Displayport, which any Thunderbolt-capable USB-C port supports. This is for video over USB with a proprietary (and convoluted) protocol. They originally started as a way to use an idle iPad as a secondary screen for a PC or laptop. I have no idea why they have such a following.
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If you want a 5K display you gotta play these games.
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This is a driver problem, not a hardware design and implementation issue as that was.
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Re: Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't confuse display port which works fine with display link which is a USB custom display and sometimes you monitor.
Display link =/= display port.
Different tech. Display link existed before display port was widespread. (While convient it uses wierd teh to make it barely work
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Note that TFA is talking about DisplayLink, not DisplayPort. Entirely unrelated, aside from both involving Displays.
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Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score:5, Funny)
So, in other words, literally every single dock available for Macbook laptops (because apple do not make their own), and using the _universally_ supported DisplayLink protocol, which is the standard on every single USB 3.0, 3.1, and C dock used in the Windows world, as well. I gotcha. This is all just overblown and no big deal.
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Used to happen by manually setting scan syncs and properties for X display driver settings back in the day. There were warnings about being careful when setting the HorizSync and VertRefresh values.
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Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
One of the commenters in the first link is a perfect example of the blame-everyone-but-Apple mentality:
Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 ->10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.
Dude, I get why you're upset. Your livelihood has just been hit by Apple. However, you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like breaking your drivers in an update and then forcing you to have that particular point release to run an IDE.
You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cult? People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run. No one outside of the SCADA space would tolerate this level of tied-at-the-hip releasing.
Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
One of the commenters in the first link is a perfect example of the blame-everyone-but-Apple mentality:
Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 ->10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.
Dude, I get why you're upset. Your livelihood has just been hit by Apple. However, you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like breaking your drivers in an update and then forcing you to have that particular point release to run an IDE.
You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cult? People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run. No one outside of the SCADA space would tolerate this level of tied-at-the-hip releasing.
It should have been asked by any professional long ago what exactly their intent is to support ANY 3rd party. The latest I/O changes make it VERY clear they want you running running hardware made by Apple, Apple, Apple, or Apple. Between that and removing a headphone jack standard in favor of their proprietary bullshit, I will likely have nothing to do with them going forward. Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability. I'm fucking surprised they haven't been arrogant enough to create their own voltage standard in order to sell iPower transformers to everyone who dares not run at 77V/127hz.
Wake up professionals and stop giving them money. They clearly have little intention of supporting you in the long run.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Funny)
Apple should make their own voltage standard. It would be far superior to the crap we have now.
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Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability.
Wait, what? There are many examples in the software / hardware community of exactly this, why are you complaining about Apple?
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Funny how when Apple fucks up anything, their customers always start pointing fingers at Microsoft. "B..b..b..but Microsoft is INSECURE! And it CRASHES!" Meanwhile ignoring that Apple is overpriced crap.
"Microsoft XBox is an entry-level PC with a Palladium chip."
A Macbook Air is an entry-level laptop with a smartphone chip
"Microsoft software in the Enterprise often has interdependencies with other Microsoft software .[snip].. an example of vendor software l
Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, I'll have to agree with the previous post. Excoriating Apple because their system doesn't work with some external monitor and saying Debian is better but
...now if i could magically find the right kernel options to compile a debian kernel that both boots and supports my video card, i'll be relatively happy. oh yeah, don't use Xfce if you use displayport and want to turn your monitor off and back on; you're welcome.
is rather self-contradictory. So, the problem with Apple is that it doesn't support some external monitors, and therefore Debian is better except it doesn't support some external monitors.
Unless that was intended as irony? It does read like irony. On the internet it is hard to tell.
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no, debian just makes it difficult to get the exact source and build environment used for compiling the stock kernel, which makes it difficult to use up-to-date proprietary nvidia drivers. i don't know why this is, but it can be worked around. i don't particularly enjoy working around it, but i can, slowly. with Apple, i increasing don't have that option.
and i'm currently using ubuntu which, apart from a few hiccups, works... mostly okay. strictly speaking, i can't use nvidia on Apple either (well, at least
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having sound and wifi flake out every time you upgrade the kernel.
but more seriously, having a high-level scripting language which is deeply integrated with the GUI has been handy more than once (despite applescript having the worst syntax since cobol). also tools like mac os' "open" should just be standard, imho.
yes, this can all be replicated, but it'll be a bodgy hack which will break within a year because your distribution moves from one hacked-up framework to another one.
from my experience, some people
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not really. i'm not happy with either option now, thanks a lot. go jam another fat one in your mouth, Cookie.
Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
In other news: People pay $1000 for a monitor.
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If you want more than 1920x1080 (and who doesn't?), things get more expensive quickly. I've got a Dell 27" 2560x1440 that cost $600 last year.
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I just bought a 50" 4K IPS monitor for $600. Sure, you *can* spend $1000+ for a monitor, but why would you want to drive it over a single USB port with an entire dock of peripherals?
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I just want 4K resolution at a 16:10 ratio which doesn't exist. I think even a 4:3 ratio would be cool at that resolution.
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In other news: People pay $1000 for a monitor.
As far as I know Apple discontinued their monitor line. The newest Apple brand displays that are still available sell on Amazon for around $550. The one this Apple user bought was a 27 inch 4k Asus display for around $450. I don't know a single Apple who bought a display at the Apple store any more than I know anybody who bought their Bluetooth earplugs. In all cases you can get better products from 3rd party suppliers.
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a $1000 secondary monitor that can only be used through DisplayLink!
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So will I, soon. Well, as soon as this [samsung.com] got a revision or two.
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Dell currently sells more than a dozen monitors over $1000. Your claim is that only Apple users are buying them? Also, people doing professional video and image work easily pay more than $1000 bucks for a calibrated monitor.
Shitty troll is shitty.
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*Apple users pay $1000 for a monitor.
And one that doesn't even have a DVI/HDMI connector.
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Neither of you.
I dug out my monitor from a trash can. Free.
Go fuck yourselves.
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The release notes in the 'App store' aren't cut-and-pasteable, but they're replicated here: https://support.apple.com/en-g... [apple.com]
No mention of anything to do with DisplayLink (the only 'display' related stuff is the addition of GPU support). Most of the release looks like it's a Safari update (one of the reasons I haven't yet applied it - it doesn't look important as I don't use Safari directly).
A pretty poor show from Apple on this one.
Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Informative)
The reason there’s no mention of DisplayLink is because DisplayLink isn’t part of the system any more than Adobe Flash or other unsupported third-party products are. I suspect that you and many others may be confused and thinking of DisplayPort instead.
DisplayLink is a third-party company that I know as one that produces chips and drivers for use in USB devices that allows those devices (e.g. adapters or hubs) to appear as displays to the computer. I used a USB adapter of theirs to add a third monitor to a computer that only had video outputs for two monitors, and it worked okay for the most part, so long as you didn’t breathe or look at it funny, and so long as you were okay with the advertised 1080p being at about 5-10 Hz, making it suitable for web browsing static pages and not much else. The whole setup was incredibly brittle and seemed as if it was built of top of a pile of hacks, since I had it stop working more than once in the few years that I was using it. Driver updates to my Windows partition would break it. Driver updates to my Mac partition would break it. Driver updates to the device itself wouldn’t always fix it. Occasionally you’d plug it in or just turn everything back on after being off for the night and it just wouldn’t work, even though nothing had changed.
My experience using DisplayLink products years ago was poor enough that I stopped using them as soon as it was practical to do so.
Blaming Apple is a deflection from the real issue: it sounds as if their product is still built on top of a pile of brittle hacks and that their QA is still as poor as it was years ago. I was able to make it work because I was only using it for personal use; I couldn’t imagine anyone trying to use their stuff in a business environment.
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You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cult?
You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cunt? There, fixed that for you.
you donâ(TM)t need the latest OS to use the l (Score:2)
Not sure what the poster is saying, but you donâ(TM)t need the latest os to use the latest Xcode.
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> I will always need to update to the new macOS and xCode on the day of their release.
If this guy was a mouse he would be the first to get his head snapped in a trap too.
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you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like breaking your drivers in an update and then forcing you to have that particular point release to run an IDE
Reminds me of "you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like removing the headphone jack and then forcing you to have that particular adapter to listen to your headphone"
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Apple releases beta and developer software updates WELL ahead of release and it's free. I got this update in mid-January. If your vendor does something very low-level and can't be bothered to fix their shit in 3-4 months, then the problem lies with the vendor, not Apple.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
Why is this a binary choice? A pox on both of their houses.
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Why is this a binary choice? A pox on both of their houses.
Tunnel vision, caused by an abnormally passionate, visceral hatred of Apple. Yeah Apple screwed up, so does everybody, but there is a whole bunch of people here who should wipe the froth off their mouths, go to the doctor for a rabies shot and then get over themselves. I've had Microsoft updates brick computers, corrupt databases, destroy large and important Office documents and I've had Linux updates mess up my file system, irrecoverably screw up several virtual machines , ... the list goes on. It's annoying but it happens, that's why we make sequential backups at frequent intervals..
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People have this innate tendency to choose sides that just drives me nuts. If Stalin and Mao are in a fight, you don't make a choice to help one - you hand them dildos and laugh your ass off as they beat each other with them.
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So I've concocted a scenario where there is a zombie Stalin and Mao fighting, and the part that stands out to you is the implausibility of the dildos? I think this says more about you than me.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Insightful)
that's why we make sequential backups at frequent intervals..
That's why I made 2 separate Time Machine backups prior to doing the upgrade on Monday, even though I never had an issue. Funny how Apple also provides you with the tools to protect yourself.
It wasn't bricked (Score:3)
Does nobody understand this word anymore. No windows didn't "brick" your computer. You booted from some other media and it was functional. Bricked means you connected up a JTAG cable and reloaded firmware. Or in the old days removed the EEPROM and reprogrammed it. If the OS is the only thing not working then it isn't bricked.
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Bricked means you can't even JTAG it. As long as there is a way in with software, there is a way to fix it. Bricking meant at some point overdriving the CRT or over-volting the CPU to the point they burnt out or breaking the fuses in an EPROM. These days most of that is impossible through various safety measures both in firmware and hardware, you could technically still 'brick' a solid state drive by doing weird stuff with it.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Insightful)
Paint it anyway you like it, but driver breakage of this level isn't to be expected on such minor update.
You can call it anti Apple BS, but this incident shows that development at Apple is a bit of a mess.
It may SEEM like a minor Update; but it rolled-out eGPU support for macOS; so OBVIOUSLY there were some fairly "deep" changes to the whole Display Framework; so, breaking a couple of THIRD PARTY display products is pretty much a foreseeable thing.
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Yeah, it's a good thing Windows 10 updates never break anything.
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According to the version number, it IS a minor update. That's why we call that digit the MINOR VERSION.
The fact that Apple (probably unwisely) ignored their versioning policies and chose to roll out a major kernel-level feature in a software update doesn't change the fact that this is a software update, not a version upgrade, and software updates normally do NOT break things — particularly drivers. The whole reason Apple users are so willing to blindly install every software update, but drag their heels on major version upgrades, is that the former are expected not to break things, and the latter often do. When things like this happen, it undermines the perception of Apple as a quality software vendor, and runs the risk of leaving users vulnerable to serious security flaws because they feared installing some minor update that would have fixed it.
On the flip side, I looked into DisplayLink-based hardware a few years ago, and the sheer number of complaints about the drivers being badly broken [displaylink.com] left me so disgusted that I didn't go down that path. And they still haven't fixed those problems after what, four years?
So when I heard that it broke completely in a software update, my response was "must be Tuesday." Then, I realized it was Wednesday, and I was slightly alarmed, but only slightly, and only because today feels like Tuesday for some reason.
Actually, Apple had already announced that eGPU support was "Coming Soon" when they released High Sierra. So this is simply Apple doing a little ":catch-up" Development, rather than roling-out an entirely-new Platform Feature, such as say, AirPlay.
And you WILL notice that only TWO Display Vendors were affected, and one (Duet), was already on top of the situation, telling their Customers to wait on the Upgrade until Duet and Apple work things out. The difference being, the Duet Devs. are REASONABLE, and actu
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Interesting)
Anti Apple is what it should be if they can not BETA Test there OS Better than this they need to Backup and Regroup, Pull The Update till they get it Fixed but I guess they are taking a Page from Microsoft on Updating there OS all USERS are BETA TESTERS!!!!!!!!
So, just HOW many THIRD PARTY display products SHOULD Apple test with?!?
THAT's why they have a Beta Test Program. Sounds like the Beta Testers either didn't report this to Apple, or didn't encounter the failure.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
Sounds like the Beta Testers either didn't report this to Apple, or didn't encounter the failure.
And that nobody at DisplayLink was tasked with bothering to test the pre-release of the OS. This is something that vendors do when OS updates come out - especially with ones known to contain updates specific to their area.
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So, just HOW many THIRD PARTY display products SHOULD Apple test with?!?
More than zero? Displaylink isn't some little rinkydink monitor maker, they are the driver framework that something like 99.9% of all USB monitor vendors use. They should test against Displaylink at the very least. It's only driver technology that has been around for a decode or so...
As for why have one of these monitors? Easy, only having to use one single cable since they are also USB powered. It makes it quite easy and clutter free to have a second monitor on the go.
Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score:4, Interesting)
Much as I hate to agree with TheFakeTimCook, that's pretty much accurate. Even I can't play devil's advocate here. Their Mac drivers have been crap for many years.
It is also relatively unsurprising that Apple didn't test their hardware. USB monitors are quite rare, in large part because USB 2.0 just wasn't fast enough to provide a good experience, and USB 3.0 usually shares a port with Thunderbolt, which can carry DisplayPort data without the need for software-based compression or custom drivers. The only place their technology really makes sense is in products designed for use with tablets and smartphones (which lack DisplayPort/Thunderbolt).
To be blunt, we're rapidly heading towards a future in which the entire concept of tunneling video over USB no longer makes sense, and it already makes no sense when you're talking about computer-based operating systems, making these devices thoroughly legacy hardware. I assume that the chipset manufacturer recognizes this, and won't spend much time or effort trying to improve the quality of the drivers. Thus, we should expect the drivers to degrade more and more until they become completely unsupported/unusable.
IMO, the best thing they can do for their users would be to open source their entire driver and software stack so that people who still care about maintaining compatibility can continue to hack on it in their spare time. In the meantime, they need to find a new niche if the company wants to stay in business long-term, because this niche is rapidly ceasing to have significant value in the marketplace.
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So, just HOW many THIRD PARTY display products SHOULD Apple test with?!?
Every single one for which they collected a license fee. That's the deal. You don't get to say "lazy" or "understaffed" with $800B in the bank.
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you can pick up a 49" UHD TV at Costco or Best Buy for $300.
Do they have the same features? When you purchase a laptop, do you go to a store, see there's one for $200, another for $3k, then buy the $200 one thinking to yourself how you managed to just save $2,800 for a machine that's exactly as good as the other?
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They display 4k. Not sure what more features you want? I have 2x 42" TVs that I got on blackfriday for under $300.
Displays 4k@60Hz. I don't game and that's the realestate of 8 1080p screens for under $600.
4 HDMI in that can easily be switched. CEC to control what computer is displayed
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They display 4k. Not sure what more features you want?
TVs have their color balance usually optimized for highlighting stuff that matters in movies, sports and stuff. Professional displays tend to be optimized for absurdly accurate colors, so that you can visually notice the difference between #A78B15 and #A88C14. They also tend to have a bigger colors range than normal displays have, being literally capable of showing many colors that exist in paper but most displays aren't capable of showing.
For most people those features aren't necessary, so it'd be nonsensi
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The cheap display will most likely support HDMI and DisplayPort. You can drive it via the in-built GPU on your graphics card. With the latest macOS, you can also use eGPU, which means an external GPU connected via PCIe over Thunderbolt, so you get a more powerful GPU in an enclosure that's easier to cool. Or you can get a DisplayLink piece of crap, which uses USB and a weird hodgepodge of software or render-to-texture in the GPU then pulls the data out, compresses it and sends it over a proprietary proto
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I have the most expensive Macbook available when I bought it. I have two offices, and each has a 48-49" UHD TV - one Vizio and the other LG. Both do 4:4:4, and I can plug the HDMI cable straight from my laptop to the display and get full UHD at 30Hz, which is find for programming and youtube videos. The laptop is fully capable of driving full-screen 2180p videos from youtube or vimeo.
Anybody who buys an overpriced computer monitor at this point is clueless. The "televisions" that I use (one of which doe
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To be fair, this is some guy who dropped $1K on a "display", apparently unaware that you can pick up a 49" UHD TV at Costco or Best Buy for $300.
Your Username says it all.
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Also as a developer, I will always need to update to the new macOS and xCode on the day of their release.
I'm so freaking sick of this crap. Fuck "rolling releases". That is the same level of utter stupidity which PLAGUES everything from corporate to OSS. UNIX, nor Linux (yes, even GNU/LInux), was like this. It wasn't until Apple pinheads did it become "normal".
Wrong.
Windows just calls them "Patch Tuesdays", and have been doing the same thing and with NO vast Beta Test Program, and regularly BREAKING things, for DECADES.
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Is it okay if I blame the peripheral manufacturer for deliberately making the peripheral nigh impossible to use without their specific proprietary software? Because DisplayLink is one of many that do. They advertise it as a feature that their devices are hard to use.
No doubt. The only reason this is even an issue is that a lot of the cheapie USB-C docks with video output use their chipsets.
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Aren't most USB-C docks with video output actually Thunderbolt docks in the first place and don't need any special software?
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I can blame the peripheral manufacture for not using the betas that have been out for a while and noticing this issue before it went public then suddenly acting like it was entirely Apples fault.
They should have warned well before the final release of the OS update, they didnt'. I.E. they don't bother testing upgrades, i.e. its definitely at least partly their problem.
People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run.
You don't actually use VisualStudio do you? Its been pretty fucked up in this respect for the last couple years. Its tied to .NET releases which ARE tied to OS releases now days.
Exactly.
Contrast DisplayLink's hand-waving with the similar "Don't Upgrade Yet" notice by the Duet display software publishers, who were obviously already on top of the situation, had already contacted Apple to work with them on a solution, and took a much less breathless "These things happen, we'll get it fixed" mindset.
It just works! (Score:3)
ROFLMAO.
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ROFLMAO.
Sure does. On Monday I upgraded my early 2001 MacBook Pro and haven't had a single issue with the external monitor I have.
And even if I did have an issue I could have rolled back to one of 2 complete backups I made prior to the upgrade (made using the built in Time Machine functionality)
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I mean 2011 .. I hate typos.
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It does!
It just stops working at some point.
Buy Apple.. (Score:3, Funny)
..It Just Works! So simple a grandmother can use it!
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That used to be the truth for Apple.
Apple computers were something that you could buy and hand to your grandma, with little more concern than doing a backup of her stuff from time to time just in case. Not because it was necessary because even if she fucked up, there was nearly no way she could possibly actually cause any damage.
It kinda went downhill when Timmy took over. What you have now is the stability of Windows with the elitist attitude and compatibility of Linux.
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Sure it works. But find me a computer illiterate that wouldn't fuck up fucking up!
eanwhile, somewhere beyond Jupiter (Score:2)
Thousands of white slabs all measuring 1x4x9, have neen spotted floating in orbit
Happy fiftieth to 2001: A Space Odyssey
This is why I run linux on my 2013 MacPro Desktop (Score:2, Interesting)
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Can you create paragraphs on your Linux MacPro desktop? Sure doesn't seem like it.
Give him a break. He bought a Trashcan Mac Pro to run Linux. I am seriously concerned about his/her/it cognitive abilities over that decision alone.
Either that or he's a troll, as the iPhone throttling was a trade off between battery capacity and phone performance.
Courage! (Score:3, Funny)
Only Apple has the courage to break shit for no reason, and their users love it.
Blame for ALL, but ..... (Score:2)
The truth of the matter is, DisplayLink driver support for OS X has always been rather shoddy.
I purchased a $100 or so docking station a while back, from "j5create" (who makes a lot of products that specifically claim Mac compatibility). They rely on rebranded/customized DisplayLink drivers to make their video ports on their docks work. When I installed the latest Mac drivers from them for it, I found out that screen rotation wasn't supported -- so I couldn't use my second display that was rotated to "portr
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DisplayLink is a 3rd party "Video over USB" company. Trying to find out more about them I question their tech more than Apple.
https://www.displaylink.com/ [displaylink.com] Doesn't resolve.
https://displaylink.com/ [displaylink.com] SSL broken.
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They're offering low-level driver downloads that go deep in the kernel of your OS. Yeah, I don't want SSL on that at all!
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