Ventura docs for M2 Macs in this comment: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd?permalink_comment_id=4555340#gistcomment-4555340
Old Monterey docs in this old revision: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd/32c410e3a1de73539c76fa13ea5486569c4e0c5d
Solution for Sonoma: https://gist.github.com/sghiassy/a3927405cf4ffe81242f4ecb01c382ac
I also got scammed on a new m1 macbook 14" I paid £1500 for.
It was working completely fine, I tested just about everything. My final step was to wipe the SSD clean so i could do a fresh install and migration from my old mac.
Right after the OS install it tells me the device is managed by some company and I needed their login and password to continue installation.
I contacted the seller, who had actually legitimately purchased the laptop from the very same company in the installation (and had emails to prove it!). I tried contacting that company and I cannot get a response. I was devastated. Nearly a month's income gone for a useless brick. My wife would kill me.
Thankfully I found this page on github. I managed to get past the initial installation screen.
I was unable to install macos by loading from external USB because halfway through the installation, the installer would stop and tell me that internet is required for installation.
I was able to do it in the end. Here are the combination of steps from different posts I took. I hope it is helpful to future readers:
During the macos monterey setup I did not activate the wifi (this step probably not necessary!)
restored from my time machine backup, signed into icloud, activated firevault, etc
Blocked the following in my hosts file:
Did the "sudo profiles remove -all"
Rebooted
The above should work for 2021 Macs with Monterey, but you will still apparently get some notifications saying that the computer is remotely managed by [company].
Does anyone have any advice for keeping my mac from getting locked out again? What are things to avoid? I would appreciate the advice. (I will continue trying to contact that company)
Thank you,
Tim