Macintosh guys

[RiverDave]

So I bought this giant macintosh awhile back and it is literally soul crushing trying to figure this thing out and has set me back about a year on rdp.. but aside from that..

mid it goes into sleep mode for 10-20-30 minutes no problem.. hour or two no problem.. but if I let it sleep for four or five hours? The screen is black and it won’t wake up. So I have to hold the power button and kill it.. then turn it back on.

when it turns back on I get the “your computer shut down because of a problem” notices.. if I click report it shows me this which I can scroll down a little bit with a bunch of coding.

I have tried software updates (which it is doing one now).. but that doesn’t fix it..

How do I fix this?

 

[Racey]

Take it out to the curb and buy a PC

 

[BHC Vic]

I use the space bar to wake mine up after sleeping at night. I use a mouse instead of the track pad sometimes, and moving the mouse will wake it up too. If you’re going to l take it to the curb let me know. I’d love to buy it for pennies on the dollar

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Never turn mine off, just tap the mouse pad in the morning and it fires up. Something isn’t right.

 

[HCP3]

Damn. I haven't heard them being referred to as "Macintosh" for at least 15 years. Brought back some nostalgia.

 

[Chili Palmer]

I've got a Mac and hate that thing, nothing mates up to it and it takes forever to get the printer to recognize a signal has been sent to it. I upgraded to the latest OS and lost all my Microsoft Office software, it was still there, but wouldn't work. I checked and that software is non-compatible with the latest OS, so now I need to now pay for Microsoft Office on a yearly basis to keep it current. The only thing I like about the Mac is that it's all self contained, no separate cabinet for the CPU and hard drive, at the time PC's weren't like this, now HP makes models just like the Macs - there's no reason to get a Mac anymore.

 

[River Runnin]

Hit the apple, click System Preferences / power saver .... screen saver ... there be a lot of stuff to set it there!

 

[WhatExit?]

Hey Dave, have you checked your System Preferences --> Battery, Power Adapter, and Schedule, to see what the settings are there? Your Mac may be shutting down because it's been told to

I've had PCs and Macs since they were sold. I prefer PCs always. This will be my last Mac and I'm counting the days until I can buy Elon Musk's smart phone so I can end my "relationship" with Apple completely

 

[bonesfab]

I killed my Imac from leaving it on all the time. Won't even power up. It was a 27" and I have the extra 27" screen for it. Any mac guys want it for a song?

 

[dspracing]

My grandma has a Mac and when I need to wake it up I just give it a quick push of the power button on the lower right rear corner.

 

[FreeBird236]

Damn. I haven't heard them being referred to as "Macintosh" for at least 15 years. Brought back some nostalgia.

I thought he bought an old amp.

 

[BajaMike]

I turn off the “sleep” function all my laptops and Macs, I hate it.

 

[Javajoe]

Didn’t Macintosh almost start a Global Thermonuclear War???

 

[outboard_256]

sounds like its shutting the screen off and it comes back on but if it goes into hibernation then the screen doesn't want to come back on. Configure it so it doesn't go into hibernation and only shuts off the screen.

 

[Dana757]

I thought he bought an old amp.

He should have

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

I thought this thread was going to be about weird guys in Macintosh's exposing themselves... I was like "Damn, LHC got that problem too?"

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

So I bought this giant macintosh awhile back and it is literally soul crushing trying to figure this thing out and has set me back about a year on rdp.. but aside from that..

mid it goes into sleep mode for 10-20-30 minutes no problem.. hour or two no problem.. but if I let it sleep for four or five hours? The screen is black and it won’t wake up. So I have to hold the power button and kill it.. then turn it back on.

when it turns back on I get the “your computer shut down because of a problem” notices.. if I click report it shows me this which I can scroll down a little bit with a bunch of coding.

I have tried software updates (which it is doing one now).. but that doesn’t fix it..

How do I fix this?

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Typically Kernel Panics are down to something hardware related, like a bad RAM stick or something. Where did you get this from and do they support it?

All those addresses in the middle look like RAM page addresses.

 

[River Runnin]

Well! ... At least it wasn't a VIC 20 or Commodore 64!

 

[BingerFang]

Mac’s are the best. I have a 2007 iMac I use everyday for work and a 2011 laptop I take on the go. Both are flawless, something is wrong for sure. If the update doesn’t work back it up and restore it.

 

[rivermobster]

Didn’t Macintosh almost start a Global Thermonuclear War???

Shall we play a game?

Take it out to the curb and buy a PC

X1000

 

[C-2]

The good news is Google still works.
Doesn't sound like a power issue/hibernation issue.
Kernel level stuff is usually frightening because at the core of any computer, unix/mac or windows, is the Kernel, which like a Colonel in real life, directs all the processes on your computer and if your Kernel goes down/is corrupted, just like in real life, you've got serious problems.

Google says you got a bad app on there and Catalina sucks. Not a death knell, but you're not fixing it on your own and things will only get worse as the system continues to try and repair itself, and I would guess it chokes out the memory.

Have a Mac geek come out and fix it, if you watch any porn, I would not leave the computer with anybody (everybody's a hero these days).

 

[C-2]

Shall we play a game?



X1000

I should reach DefCon 1 in 28 hours and release my missiles...

 

[MooreMoney]

I bought the big apple laptop a year ago. Took me awhile to feel comfortable with it. Now that I am ill never go back to desktop. Mine turns on in 1 second every time. Tap the mouse and bam it’s on.

Heat kills computers. Are you keeping it In your garage? @RiverDave

 

[rivermobster]

I should reach DefCon 1 in 28 hours and release my missiles...

I just watched a clip on YouTube, and Just realized that was Ferris Bueller! LoL

 

[rivermobster]

I bought the big apple laptop a year ago. Took me awhile to feel comfortable with it. Now that I am ill never go back to desktop. Mine turns on in 1 second every time. Tap the mouse and bam it’s on.

Heat kills computers. Are you keeping it In your garage? @RiverDave

My laptop does the same thing and it's three or four years old. Glad to hear you people finally caught up!

 

[Spot]

If you call Apple Tech service they can remote into your computer and fix it. It’s kinda spooky but it works.

 

[RiverDave]

Typically Kernel Panics are down to something hardware related, like a bad RAM stick or something. Where did you get this from and do they support it?

All those addresses in the middle look like RAM page addresses.

I bought it new from apple about a year ago?

 

[RiverDave]

The good news is Google still works.
Doesn't sound like a power issue/hibernation issue.
Kernel level stuff is usually frightening because at the core of any computer, unix/mac or windows, is the Kernel, which like a Colonel in real life, directs all the processes on your computer and if your Kernel goes down/is corrupted, just like in real life, you've got serious problems.

Google says you got a bad app on there and Catalina sucks. Not a death knell, but you're not fixing it on your own and things will only get worse as the system continues to try and repair itself, and I would guess it chokes out the memory.

Have a Mac geek come out and fix it, if you watch any porn, I would not leave the computer with anybody (everybody's a hero these days).

The whole fucking point of a macintosh is you can goto porn hub etc without getting viruses.. . Well that and video editing.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

I bought it new from apple about a year ago?

Then it should be under the warranty period? Did you get the AppleCare (extended warranty)? Wouldn't hurt to follow up with Apple directly if its still covered.

You can go here: https://checkcoverage.apple.com/ and put in your serial number.

 

[rivermobster]

The whole fucking point of a macintosh is you can goto porn hub etc without getting viruses.. . Well that and video editing.

I just wanted to quote this. For posterity and shit, yano?

 

[WYRD]

The whole fucking point of a macintosh is you can goto porn hub etc without getting viruses.. . Well that and video editing.

Why are you going to PornHub we have an 18+ lounge here

 

[Terminal Velocity]

Why are you going to PornHub we have an 18+ lounge here

Because Porn Hub is free.

 

[RiverDave]

Why are you going to PornHub we have an 18+ lounge here

The purpose of that section isn’t just 18+ as you will find out at some point.. lol. I really should rename it

 

[TPC]

The purpose of that section isn’t just 18+ as you will find out at some point.. lol. I really should rename it

Yeah, change it back to the fuck page.

 

[TPC]

Grandma Axehandle got a new Mac and has been mad at the world since.
She actually hired a Apple Tutor and is gradually getting the hang of it.

When Apple first hit the scene it’s biggest selling point was user friendly, or was suppose to be.

 

[Dan Lorenze]

When I bought my Mac back in 2012, I suddenly had no need for my "Computer guy" anymore. Then thing just works, all the time. No spam, Malware, viruses, pop ups. etc.. Just turn it on and it's ready to go.

 

[rivrrts429]

I have both PC & Mac. I have no idea how people struggle with either, especially the Mac.
My Mac is about five years old and has easily been the most dependable. It’s flawless.

 

[Uncle Dave]

Dave can stop it from sleeping but thats a bandaid.

Dave, what applications are/ is it running when it goes to sleep?
(My guess is safari logged into V bulletin)

You'll find when working on or in 3rd party shells the browser you use to get there has a lot of difference in the stability - for example squarespace works better through Chrome and crashes when accessed through Safari.

Download malware bytes (free version and see if it finds anything) I think they still offer a free scan and fix.

You dont get zero malware, or viruses just 99% less.

 

[rivermobster]

When I bought my Mac back in 2012, I suddenly had no need for my "Computer guy" anymore. Then thing just works, all the time. No spam, Malware, viruses, pop ups. etc.. Just turn it on and it's ready to go.

That's cause you don't hang out on porn sites, and you keep yourself safe. Apple has just as many people trying to hack it as anyone else, and the list keep growing and growing. I'd post more, but should be enough got give you an idea of what goes on in the real world....

Apple M1-native malware has already begun to appear

Security researcher Patrick Wardle discovered M1-native malware targeting macOS.

arstechnica.com

Once a user has installed whatever shiny Trojan the Pirrit variant in question came wrapped in—which might be a fake video player, PDF reader, or apparently benign Safari extension—the user's default search engine is changed to something nasty and unhelpful, their Web browser usage is tracked, and their visited webpages are infested with unwanted ads.

This is all bad enough on its own; but Pirrit also uses the full stable of malware tricks to stay installed, avoid detection, and make life generally difficult for anyone trying to "interfere" with it. Pirrit seeks out and removes applications and browser extensions that could interfere with it, hides from attempts to find it by staying out of the Applications directory, gains root access to the Macs it's installed on, and heavily obfuscates its code in the attempt to make it more difficult to both detect and analyze.

New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears

ThiefQuest or EvilQuest can grab passwords and credit card numbers.

arstechnica.com

In addition to ransomware, ThiefQuest has a whole other set of spyware capabilities that allow it to exfiltrate files from an infected computer, search the system for passwords and cryptocurrency wallet data, and run a robust keylogger to grab passwords, credit card numbers, or other financial information as a user types it in. The spyware component also lurks persistently as a backdoor on infected devices, meaning it sticks around even after a computer reboots, and could be used as a launchpad for additional, or "second stage," attacks. Given that ransomware is so rare on Macs to begin with, this one-two punch is especially noteworthy.

 

[copterzach]

When Dave says Macintosh, this is what I picture.

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[C-2]

The whole fucking point of a macintosh is you can goto porn hub etc without getting viruses.. . Well that and video editing.

That's a myth, MAC's get malware but since fewer people use them, criminals focus on the abundant attack target - Windows machines.

I've preached on here for years about using a "sandbox" if you surf porn sites. A sandbox, like Shade Sandbox, runs in temporary memory (RAM) and prevents changes being made to your system. If you get an infection while in the sandbox, you turn the computer off, and since the sandbox was only running in RAM, any changes made to your system by the malware are discarded. Put a Chrome browser in the sandbox and you're good.

On every Windows machine I own all I run is Windows Defender - it's Microsoft's free AV/malware app - zero issues and my machines are not bogged down by the resource hogging AV suites. Our State machines only use MS Defender, too.

I think you're right on the video editing, MAC is great, but it's when you need to integrate with Windows programs that the issues start. Maybe call under the warranty, see if they cover it, I suspect they will say it's a maintenance or 3rd-party app issue.

Lastly, windows WORKSTATIONS and MAC use the same parts. A Windows workstation is not an average computer - they are built to run in a business environment 24/7. Think of a regular laptop as a car motor, and a workstation as a marine motor. They also don't come loaded with bloatware and other useless crap. You can find off lease workstation that once sold for thousands, for only hundreds of dollars. And now workstations with HUNDREDS of gigabytes of RAM are affordable. The single best thing you can do for computer performance (any) is to put in as much RAM as the motherboard allows.

 

[RiverDave]

I guess I’ll find some computer kid to fix it..

on a side note we just got this thing for video editing and it’s a bad mofo!!

 

[RiverDave]

That's a myth, MAC's get malware but since fewer people use them, criminals focus on the abundant attack target - Windows machines.

I've preached on here for years about using a "sandbox" if you surf porn sites. A sandbox, like Shade Sandbox, runs in temporary memory (RAM) and prevents changes being made to your system. If you get an infection while in the sandbox, you turn the computer off, and since the sandbox was only running in RAM, any changes made to your system by the malware are discarded. Put a Chrome browser in the sandbox and you're good.

On every Windows machine I own all I run is Windows Defender - it's Microsoft's free AV/malware app - zero issues and my machines are not bogged down by the resource hogging AV suites. Our State machines only use MS Defender, too.

I think you're right on the video editing, MAC is great, but it's when you need to integrate with Windows programs that the issues start. Maybe call under the warranty, see if they cover it, I suspect they will say it's a maintenance or 3rd-party app issue.

Lastly, windows WORKSTATIONS and MAC use the same parts. A Windows workstation is not an average computer - they are built to run in a business environment 24/7. Think of a regular laptop as a car motor, and a workstation as a marine motor. They also don't come loaded with bloatware and other useless crap. You can find off lease workstation that once sold for thousands, for only hundreds of dollars. And now workstations with HUNDREDS of gigabytes of RAM are affordable. The single best thing you can do for computer performance (any) is to put in as much RAM as the motherboard allows.

well when you say sandbox guys like me think of something like this..

 

[hallett21]

This is a new Mac or new to you?


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[boatdoc55]

well when you say sandbox guys like me think of something like this..

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I don't know why I even read this whole thread, I didn't understand a word in it!!

 

[rivermobster]

I guess I’ll find some computer kid to fix it..

on a side note we just got this thing for video editing and it’s a bad mofo!!

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This is what you need to edit video Dave. Dual 34" 4K monitors. And then a video card to run em, gobs of memory and an SSD drive helps too. Works for me anyways...

 

[hallett21]

Reason I asked was why not take it to an apple store and let them deal with it


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[rivermobster]

Reason I asked was why not take it to an apple store and let them deal with it


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Sir, it appears you have some type of porn virus on your computer...

That will be 500.00 to remove it, on top of our standard 200.00 service charge. Did you want us to install a anti virus program for you as well? It's only 400.00 installed, and an additional 100.00 per year upgrade fee.

Will there be anything else for you today sir?

We should be able to have all the work completed in just 2 weeks!

 

[hallett21]

Sir, it appears you have some type of porn virus on your computer...

That will be 500.00 to remove it, on top of our standard 200.00 service charge. Did you want us to install a anti virus program for you as well? It's only 400.00 installed, and an additional 100.00 per year upgrade fee.

Will there be anything else for you today sir?

We should be able to have all the work completed in just 2 weeks!

Hey I get apple care lol


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[rivermobster]

Hey I get apple care lol


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Excellent sir! Then it will just be your 500.00 deductible. Will that be cash or check?