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Re:Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? by wtallis on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:01PM (#37539170)
If you have access to a second Mac, you can restore macOS even after a complete disk wipe, no recovery partition needed:

> Will this break my machine? How safe is it?

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> Apple Silicon machines are almost completely unbrickable: you can boot them in a special burned-in recovery mode and recover them, using another machine connected via a USB cable. For those who don’t have another macOS machine to act as a host, we have open source tools that work on Windows and Linux too.

https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

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Re:Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? by CalChris on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:13PM (#37539771)
Yep, Apple Configurator 2. Been there done that with an unfixable partitioning. Eventually I learned about AC2 and a clean install solved all of my partitioning problems.
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Re:Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? by piperswe on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:10PM (#37540793)
Super handy for resetting other Apple devices in weird states too. I've picked up "bricked" HomePod Minis from eBay, reset them with AC2, and ended up with 100% functional HomePods for a fraction of the price of a new one.
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