This is a collection of provisioning scripts I cobbled together for my Early 2015 13" Retina Macbook Pro, which, after having faithfully served me for more than I expected as my daily driver, has now taken on a new assignment as a home server.

The scripts deal with little annoying things, like not being able to keep the machine awake with the lid closed by default, or they install things like Thunderbolt drivers so one can use the Gigabit Ethernet adapter properly.

The scripts were written on, and were only tested for the model mentioned above, the MacbookPro 12,1 / A1502 model. I don't expect there should be any difficulty in getting it to work on any other models; as long as devices names like LID0 and intel_backlight remained the same. If not, these should be really easy to adjust.

Run these in the following order for sanity's sake. Scripts marked with 🥪 should be run with root privileges (like, sudo).

1. 🥪 disable_lid_sleep.sh to disable lid sleep function
2. create_aliases.sh to create some fun aliases
3. 🥪 setup_brightness.sh to create the scripts that will turn the monitor on and off and enable turnscreen alias
4. 🥪 setup_lid_monitor.sh to create the service to turn off screen brightness when the lid is closed

That's it.

Some scripts should be generated in ~/.mbp-scripts that enable the following.

• Your laptop will not switch off when you close the lid through tweaks to /etc/systemd/logind.conf
• You will be able to issue turnscreen on or turnscreen off commands through an alias created in .bashrc for ~/.mbp-scripts/turnscreen.sh
• You will be able to remain polite to your computer and say please for sudo through adding an alias to your .bashrc file
• The screen backlight will be switched on/off whenever you open/shut the laptop lid through installing "~/.mbp-scripts/lid_monitor.sh" as lid_monitor.service