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Comment by alexanderchr

4 years ago

My MacBook is basically unusable right now. This appears to be the reason. Is there any way to fix it without installing little snitch?

Edit: working as usual now, moments after i wrote this. But seriously Apple, how can you allow this to happen? Your services hanging should _never_ prevent my device from running things locally. This is seriously making me reconsider my next computer purchase.

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pwinnski  4 years ago

Apparently you can set ocsp.apple.com to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts

This is really terrible, but at least the workaround is simple.

randmeerkat  4 years ago

System76 is pretty great and they have amazing customer support. Plus between ProtonDB / Lutris you can run pretty much anything you want that needed Windows before.

https://system76.com/laptops

  • wheybags  4 years ago

    I use and love Linux, but come on man, that kind of statement does not help. Even with proton and friends, wine is not perfect. There will most likely be problems, and it's not a one to one transition. However, in my opinion, it is worth it, but there's no sense pretending there is no cost.

    • bkallus  4 years ago

      It's certainly not perfect, but it's good. If Windows-specific stuff is what's keeping someone from Linux, I'd encourage them to at least see if it works in Wine.

    • kdtsh  4 years ago

      If you're willing to use Windows, honestly one of the better solutions today is to just run Windows 10 in a VM. It's even feasible to do this for video games with VFIO.

  • thekyle  4 years ago

    Given that they're using a MacBook they probably aren't using very much Windows specific software if any, so I don't know that Wine would be much of a factor.

FanaHOVA  4 years ago

Turn off your internet, open the app, turn it back on.