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Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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I did experience a very strange slowdown earlier today, and other odd behavior - first, a massive slowdown and then on a reboot, the keyboard wasn't found. After some tinkering, it's all better now - though I don't know that the tinkering actually did anything.

> a massive slowdown and then on a reboot, the keyboard wasn't found.

That seems to happen on MacBook Pros when the computer boots or wakes from sleep with the WiFi turned on, but the WiFi router can't connect to the Internet for whatever reason.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

#104

Update to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/michaelvillar/status/1327004693361549312... > A better fix to this is: > - Turn off Wifi (to be usable) > - Add "0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com " to `/etc/hosts` > - Turn on Wifi > This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow.

Is there a reason I shouldn't leave this address in a blackhole?

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

#105

I did experience a very strange slowdown earlier today, and other odd behavior - first, a massive slowdown and then on a reboot, the keyboard wasn't found. After some tinkering, it's all better now - though I don't know that the tinkering actually did anything.

Apparently Apple runs the same check on startup even to connect the internal keyboard/mouse.

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ypu have to send a hash of every program you run. Unix workflows like to call hundreds of small programs. If Apple doesn't respond in time, your system halts.

That is a little surprising to me and I'm now glad I held off on buying one of the new macs.

This is unrelated to the new macs, which are not scheduled to arrive until next Tuesday.

I think this is about MacOS Big Sur, aka MacOS 11, which released today?

Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

#110

Update to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/michaelvillar/status/1327004693361549312... > A better fix to this is: > - Turn off Wifi (to be usable) > - Add "0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com " to `/etc/hosts` > - Turn on Wifi > This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow.

> This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow.

or maybe don't depend on apple to allow you to run programs on your OWN computer. that hosts rule should stay in place...

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