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stefan_ on Nov 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive ...

Or, in case of failure, just enable loading the fricking EFI bios from an alternative source. It's amazing the kind of nonsense people write because it's an Apple thing - machines have been able to boot diskless for very obvious reasons and requirements ever since the 8 MiB memory chip, but in 2021 we should go without that?

xxs on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

The amount of justifications for horrid design and engineering choices always touches the extremes when it's about Apple products.

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