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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by fennecfoxen on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:02PM (#24841144)
Docks on the left side, or similar devices which provide both power and send data, seem to be particularly problematic. On advice of my employer's IT department I went from "spinning up new VMs in VirtualBox reliably leads to thermal excess, CPU throttling, and total system shutdown" to a system that actually works -- just by moving the dock connection to the right side.

It's a little funny because the advice used to be you should use the left-side USB-C ports first because they were faster (both for data and charge, IIRC?)

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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by sdoering on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:32PM (#24841458)
What? I have to test this. I have my 4k monitor also providing power. Being a lefty I always plug it into the left side. Need to test this. Thanks for the information.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by dylan604 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:36PM (#24841512)
On one of the older MacBookPros, the left hand USB port was USB3 while the one on the right hand side was USB2
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by jiveturkey on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:46PM (#24843845)
T3 vs USB3, not USB3 vs USB2.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by dylan604 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:24PM (#24850603)
I said OLDER MBPs. This was before TB3 was even a thing
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