Hey all a sleep deprived 33 year old geek here!

When it comes to electronics I started young,like 8 years old young. Tearing apart VCRs and such and by 10 I could find my way around windows and defrag the HD and restore the computer.

Found my way here because I too have an activation locked MacBook M1 pretty new (2020) was left behind when a less than desirable person got kicked out of the apartment building and the neighbor brought it to me to try and set up for her. So far no luck with the PW and I’m considering just getting a bootable USB for it because the neighbor...