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  • 10+ year Mac user here. It’s a bit sad but better for system stability. A lot of weird hardware and software used to just inject kexts instead of doing stuff in userspace. This can cause weird issues like battery drain, crashes etc. which are hell to debug as a “average user”. I don’t really miss running “Entre Check” to figure out weird issues :D



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    9 months ago

    You can change brakes, suspension, lights, pretty much everything without software locks. Only drive train is locked, which rarely fails and it does so progressively.

    Also you can enter service mode now and tell it to reflash the whole car. Need a new steering rack or camera for example? Swap the part, hit reflash and the car flashes the correct vin, coding and software into the part and offers calibration afterwards.
    Also built in scantool to read fault codes and do basic diag. More advanced diag needs Tesla Toolbox. Costs $165 for a day of access/$500 per month, but is possible with an ethernet cable and doesn’t need a $1800 SAE J2534 box.















  • Hi there,
    I’ve used an older Mac for quite a long time and have a clue what this might be.
    Your computer most likely thinks either it’s overheating like crazy or thinks the battery can’t handle the power draw from the battery and tries to do anything it can to prevent a crash.

    It has two strategies to do so: 1) Hardware wise it clock the CPU and GPU down as far as it can, depending on CPU model it might disable all but one core.
    2) Software wise it will spawn those processes, back in the day I think it was thermald?, might have changed since powerd and configd sounds about right to do “nothing” in a loop with the highest priority. Therefore cooling the cpu down because it doesn’t have free time to do actual meaningful work.

    You could verify this by running MacsFanControl or iStat Menus and check if a temp sensor or current sensor or voltage sensor goes crazy and reports weird values.

    But as the computer actually crashes it’s probably the knockoff battery cant keep up with your computer and needs replacement again. I’d recommend an iFixit battery, or try contacting rossmann repair and see if they can offer a more compelling option.

    Good luck!