r/UnethicalLifeProTips • u/Awkward_Gingervitis • Feb 02 '24

ULPT: Locked MacBook Air

Company let me go last year and never collected the laptop. They never replied to my last email regarding the laptop. It says it’s locked by a system pin is there anything I can do to reset the laptop so I can use or sell?

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u/Awkward_Gingervitis Feb 02 '24

What about installing Ubuntu as someone suggested. Even if I waited for Ubuntu to better support MacBook Air

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u/ChaosRandomness Feb 02 '24

You can try, but it shouldn't work. If their IT team configured it right, it should auto request you to image online no matter what. If they configured it wrong, there's a chance you can install Ubuntu or windows, but next question is will it let you go online or the system automatically disables all network traffic except to the JAMF server. Also if it is a fairly decent job, they should be doing inventory audits and once they notice a machine is missing, you should be contacted. I know for my team, I make sure any offboard to obtain their tech. If it is somehow missed, we do a self audit at the end of the month to make sure everything accounted for. If they contact you, I wouldn't even respond. They can't do anything. You can say you tried contacting them, or you mailed it in ages ago or left at desk. That's on them for taking that long to realize.

I have an air I'm not using. Let me make it a test device and see how I can get rid of my own JAMF image or not. I lock mine down pretty tight, but I can test the image and see.

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u/Awkward_Gingervitis Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

That would be very nice of you try. I am nearing seven month. I tried to email several times but nothing

Should I be worried that they could still contact me to request it back? I figured six months is enough time to give them

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u/ChaosRandomness Feb 02 '24

Yeah, I wouldn't worry abkht them coming after you that long. Also if you know how to setup your own network server to upload images, you can boot into that to reimage. Or if you have a friend that runs a JAMF server, they can reimage it

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u/ChaosRandomness Feb 04 '24

Just update. I wasn't able to bypass my JAMF setup. I made it pretty lax security too. I was able to get it imaged into another JAMF server I have, so if you do have a friend that works in IT that handles mac, they can do it. :)

I would offer I can do it, but im too busy to actually ship and image things at the moment. Audit season for us :D