@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
@noiob i mean i do think that part would be complicated, thus nessecitating the firmware
but why the fuck does it need a firmware update, not only that, why did they not smartly design it to unbrick itself if they're gonna make the critical function of updating it not fuck itself up
why did we introduce the power of wifi to monitors, who authorized this
@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 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 :)
@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
@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