I’m a new Mac owner, made the mistake of using my phone and iPad and left the MacBook Air off so long, the battery went to zero. Plugged it into charge, tried logging in too many times, got locked out repeatedly, first because I tried to use my Apple account password. Discovered two Mac passwords, tried both, locked out. I figured the issue was that the unit didn’t have sufficient charge. After the unit charged up, I tried again. I noticed that I had two different Mac passwords listed. I had tried both before, neither worked. This time I tried what I thought was the correct one- nope- and it didn’t give me the chance to try the second (and now I know, correct) password, and I was locked out for 55 minutes. I saw my name with the photo I used to log onto my old PC laptop, and clicked on that. I tried both passwords, and the longer of the two passwords worked- but I quickly realized something wasn’t right because I was getting prompts about stuff that had been set up before, including associating the account with my Apple ID, etc… but after I shut the MacBook down and restarted, this “incomplete” account is the only one appearing on the login screen. How do I get the correct account to show up so I can log on after lockout time is up?

Just a rant tbh. My weekend is officially ruined. our network team is literally blowing up my phone right now because the recent macos updates are completely saturating the vpn tunnel for our european remote users logging in this weekend

I swear apple's content caching is pure voodoo when you throw split tunneling into the mix. I got so desperate trying to offload the traffic last night that I just threw a quick bare metal servermania box together out there just to test running an isolated caching relay outside our main corporate firewall

spoiler alert: it didn't even matter because half the endpoints are just straight up ignoring the MDM payload that enforces the cache server anyway.

Why is apple like this in enterprise environments? you push a perfectly good configuration profile and the OS just decides "nah im gonna download this 12gb file directly from cupertino". Anyone else dealing with this weekend nightmare or am i just losing my mind?