I flaired this as software but i'm not completely sure. If there are more specs i can provide let me know! As far as i can tell there was no inciting incident to this, i didn't drop it or spill anything on it. it was working just fine last night, but when i opened it this afternoon the touch bar was not showing anything, but still adjusting volume and such when i manage to hit the right buttons.
i would even take a work around that shows the touchbar buttons onscreen, but the only one ive found so far completely disables the space bar when in use 🥲.
so far i have tried:
Restarting the computer
Quitting and Force Quitting TouchBarServer via activity monitor
Running 'sudo pkill touchbarserver' and 'kill all ControlStrip'
Checking the touch bar settings
Clearing the touch bar cache files, HOWEVER i could not actually find it. i followed the instructions from a few different websites and it simply did not show up. apple.touchbar.agent.plist does not seem to exist on my computer.
Booting it in Safe mode
Resetting SMC
Resetting NVRAM
Running physical diagnostics (no issue found)
i'm pretty frustrated haha, if anyone has ideas on how to help me out i'd very much appreciate it!