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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by slowmovintarget on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:40PM (#20826210)
The Touchbar and the kernel panics in BridgeOS that go with it. That's the hardest thing to swallow.

Mine does this when I use video conferencing.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2018-macbook-pros-crash...

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by thelittleone on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:59PM (#20826301)
I found the touch bar a hindrance on my 2017 MBP. Then I read a HN comment [1] recommending Better Touch Tool [2] with GoldenChaos config [3]. I've found it quite useful since.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229123

[2] https://folivora.ai/

[3] https://goldenchaos.net/goldenchaos-btt.html

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by slowmovintarget on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:12AM (#20826620)
Do these fix the kernel panic "BAD MAGIC" error that causes the machine to crash and restart? These are kernel panics caused by the BridgeOS, a mini-operating system that drives the TouchBar.

My problem isn't with the usability or usefulness of the TouchBar. My problem is that the mere presence of the TouchBar has created a point of failure that crashes the machine... when I'm not even using that feature!

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by thelittleone on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:14AM (#20827100)
No it does not my mistake, I replied to the wrong parent comment.
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