Dude, they disabled a capability of the hardware it shipped with, with a firmware update in the OD update. I have one of the affected Minis. I bought a computer that shipped with gigabit Ethernet and they removed that feature. I don't care if I could buy an external adapter. Would you think it was ok of Nvidia retroactively capped you 120fps GPU at 12fps because you can just buy another GPU?

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a 2012 Mac Mini. It runs gigabit just fine. Might be a firmware bug that they never patched?

Edit: And no, I would not take that from Nvidia. But, I don’t think this is intentional, or else my mini would also be affected.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely glad for you and the other poster here who got by unscathed. Maybe we have slightly different chipsets. Mine is bcm57766/b57nd60a.

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t have the actual mini on hand right now, its serving as a home server and I am on vacation. I’ll check when I get back. Btw, what version of OSX/macOS are you running on? I had no problem with Catalina and even Ventura (OpenCore).

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I said goodbye to MacOS after PTP stopped working for Android phones (Photos, Image Capture, Lightroom), and the Android File Transfer (MTP) app broke around the same Mac OS upgrade. I would assume they eventually fixed some of that, but I just don't have any trust left in Apple after all that. My mini is running Windows 10 now, with the bootcamp drivers.

edit: I think Catalina was the last release I had used on it before wiping it for Windows. I definitely went up to Mojave, but pretty sure I tried Catalina too.

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, alright. Does gigabit work for you in windows? If it doesn’t, you can try installing Catalina and updating the Bootcamp drivers.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Does gigabit work for you in windows?

Unfortunately no, hence why I suspect it was a firmware update, not just a driver bug.

If it doesn’t, you can try installing Catalina and updating the Bootcamp drivers.

maybe. but I wouldn't want to deal with messing with bootloaders again if it breaks my Windows install.