[scarecrowbob]

I am writing this comment from a 2019 i9. I have to charge it from the right hand ports. I think that is dumb, but it did solve the issue. I have no idea how I came to that conclusion (i almost certainly read about it somewhere), but there were certainly a couple of weeks where it was driving me crazy.

A dumb thing for sure. I still like macos better than windows and I'm heavily invested in a production workflow with logic. Moving to linux would be my next move, but after making that dumb change it's quite a functional machine.

[auscompgeek]

It was definitely a relatively well known problem with the 2019 MBP on the internet at some point. I found a Reddit thread linking to a news article about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/vi3grj/you_should_char...

It was so much of a problem that at work we added a check that you were charging from the right ports to our internal doctor script (think like `brew doctor`).

[Klonoar]

I help out with an emulation community. Any time anyone with a 2019 MBP comes in with issues, I stop them from giving any more details and just have them check this first.

99% of the time it works 100% of the time.

[tombert]

FWIW, I replaced that MacBook with a Thinkpad (AMD Edition) about a year, and i have been extremely with it. Not only was it one of the easiest Linux installs I have ever had, but the hardware feels solid, the keyboard (while not one of the legendary classic Thinkpad keyboards) is nice to type on, the 4K screen looks nice, and everything just feels well built and snappy.

Outside of the terrible speakers, it is a nearly perfect computer. I don’t really mind a crappy speaker on a laptop since it usually lives on mute and when I need decent-enough quality audio I will plug in headphones or Bluetooth to a speaker, but YMMV.

Still, if this computer ever breaks then I will likely buy another thinkpad.

[thatwasunusual]

> I am writing this comment from a 2019 i9.

Same here, but...

> I have to charge it from the right hand ports. I think that is dumb, but it did solve the issue.

I _had to_ do this for a while (around 2023, I think, not that it matters), but I no longer have to. I don't know what has changed, unfortunately; I haven't reinstalled anything, and I can't say I have uninstalled anything either. It's really weird...

[j45]

You were not alone.

The epic takedown post of the issue on stackexchange which proved it is below, I ended up at it from somewhere on social I think.

[tmpz22]

My old 2015 MBP would lose internet if I had a display and charger plugged in at the same time.

Took awhile to diagnose that one.