JWcph, Radicalized By Decency on Nostr: Remember how I was pissy about my new old Macbook Pro 2019 having insufficient ...
Remember how I was pissy about my new old Macbook Pro 2019 having insufficient resources to run its own screensavers without blasting the fans & overloading the power supply?
Well, get this: Turns out MBP's from around this time onwards also don't have enough juice to handle audio playback. Just, you know, ordinary sound like alerts, nothing fancy.
If there's a few too many tabs open in your browser, sound starts glitching. Known core issue, no fix.
#enshittification #apple #tech #ux
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