[54bg45b45b]

So nice of them to give more privacy features when closing the laptop.

Here is a fun thing that happens if you keep your laptop on to play some music or maybe run a light server with the lid closed.

The backlight of the LCD turns off, but the LCD does not turn off.

This causes screen burn in. There is no way to turn the screen off when you shut certain model mac laptops.

So on one hand, we have a company offering neat privacy gimmicks and on the other, deploying anti-consumer practices at every corner of their product.

Privacy is the bait that will trap you into their money sucking ecosystem. Manage it yourself or companies will always find a way to use it to exploit you. Even when they are not busy actively violating your privacy.

[7v3x3n3sem9vv]

im gonna disagree with this take. I've seen thousands of MacBooks come and go from early 2016 all the way through current models and screen burn in is just not something I've ever seen. hardware/firmware bugs, bloated batteries, keyboard keys rubbed onto the screen, etc sure, but display defects from normal usage? not once.

[54bg45b45b]

I may not have been clear and you may have misunderstood. If you use the laptop as apple intends, there is no issue usually. But the problem is what apple intends is very rigid and there is no room for edge cases at all.

So, to replicate you only need to ensure the laptop stays on while the lid is closed. In my case I was using the laptop as a white noise machine for months.

A few weeks in I opened the lid and noticed burn in. I tried to find ways to manually turn the LCD off but I could find no verifiable way to do this. The only solution I ended up with was running that screen saver with the wavy colors.

The LCD screen does NOT turn off when the lid is closed. Only the backlight, which will NOT prevent burn in.

I am positive all mac laptops are suicidal.

[kaba0]

They are not good at being suicidal given that they have a blooming second/third-market and many people happily use them for years-on-end.