The Finder on macOS Ventura can't be used to flash firmware onto a Raspberry Pi Pico anymore. The ecosystem is fine. > If you pass the -X flag to the cp comman

The Finder on macOS Ventura can't be used to flash firmware onto a Raspberry Pi Pico anymore. The ecosystem is fine. > If you pass the -X flag to the cp command you can successfully copy a UF2 onto your board > Alternatively, if the errors bother you, you can use the rsync command rsync blink.uf2 /Volumes/RPI-RP2/ which will also copy your UF2 to the board. > we offer something called picotool (...) it can be used to load binaries onto your Raspberry Pi Pico I was expecting some integral part of the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem to be dependent on the current version of macOS because that's what the title implies. We regularly read stories about crazy dependencies here. "macOS Ventura is incompatible with the Raspberry Pi Pico" would not imply the crazy dependency I expected. But then after reading the submission I think "Oh no, the Raspberry Pi Pico can't currently be used with macOS - will they have to patch the bootloader? Do mac users need to use special programmers now? Will they sell a new version that's compatible again?" Nope, wrong again. It looks like the Finder on macOS can't be used for flashing firmware anymore. The workaround is almost trivial. Sure, it's a bit annoying and should somehow be fixed, but it's not the end of the world at all. The ecosystem hasn't been broken.