@EeveeEuphoria lmao the newest apple displays have a whole-ass iPhone chip inside them and do next to nothing with it
@noiob you mean to tell me these displays can outpower a pentium 4 PC and yet they're not smart enough to unbrick itself from an update, and can't work as a normal display without that junk
holy shit apple really fucked up lmfao
@EeveeEuphoria I mean the chip does handle the whole one-single-cable thing and do some sort of magic with the webcam I assume
but they could probably also run tvOS without breaking a sweat
@EeveeEuphoria wait what it has wifi? also doing updates but keeping the old install as a fallback is like, a normal thing that devices just have now
@noiob y'know saying apple is apple, maybe they do expect you to update it through a mac product
in which case no fucking wonder there's a bunch of people who've reported borked updates causing the display to fail entirely
@EeveeEuphoria it's connected via usb why wouldn't you be able to push a firmware update through that? that's how you update your mice and stuff
@noiob nothing anywhere seems to discuss how the pissing thing updates itself, i have to assume it is indeed the mac updating the firmware itself
and i can think of so, so many reasons why the firmware update would fail in the middle of it, thus bricking itself because apple doesn't do the common-sense thing of having backup firmware
@EeveeEuphoria I mean you can just take the thing to the nearest Apple store and throw it in the trash because I assume that's all your recovery options
@noiob pretty much yeah, for a "professional grade" monitor, any down time is literally unacceptable, especially for dankpods' workflow where he spent a day futzing around the place he bought the thing just to replace his monitor
a $2,000+ monitor that costs more than everything in my room combined should have the common decency to not have more than a few minutes of downtime
@noiob i mean how the hell else do you update the thing, through the mac they assume you'll plug into it? that just sounds like a horrendous nightmare
and you say that's a normal thing, but apple isn't normal, they're apple :)