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		keremimo 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs MDM is the absolute deal breaker. No way in hell will I ever make my Macbook into an unsellable brick if they so decide to lock my computer with MDM. Even moreso, not for pennies/month

p2detar 17 days ago | [–]

They can never have supervised permissions on your device unless your mac was wiped and registered in Apple Business Manager. As a BYOD, it cannot be locked.

Whether it makes sense to enroll a mac as a BYOD is another question.

ezfe 18 days ago | [–]

The MDM profile doesn’t grant that

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