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		mjg59 on Oct 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS Sonoma Boot Failures "Fade to black, turn off screen, turn on screen, fade to image" is just slower flicker.

kelnos on Nov 1, 2023 [–]

True, but that does look nicer than normal-speed flicker?

mjg59 on Nov 1, 2023 | [–]

And slows boot down by a couple of seconds. As long as the firmware sets a native mode, modern OSes can just inherit that rather than performing a modeset and we just ignore the entire problem anyway.

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