diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 0c8dc2813..03e9e886f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -39,10 +39,16 @@ jobs:
         if: startsWith(runner.os, 'mac')
         with:
           xcode-version: '13.1.0'
-
+      # This is gonna be hacky.
+      # Github made us upgrade xcode, which would force an upgrade of electron-builder to fix mac.
+      # But there were bugs with copyfiles / extraFiles that kept seeing duplicates erroring on ln.
+      # A flag USE_HARD_LINKS=false in electron-builder.json was suggested in comments, but that broke windows builds.
+      # So for now we'll install python2 on mac and make sure it can find it.
+      # Remove this after successfully upgrading electron-builder.
+      # HACK part 1
       - uses: Homebrew/actions/setup-homebrew@master
         if: startsWith(runner.os, 'mac')
-
+      # HACK part 2
       - name: Install Python2
         if: startsWith(runner.os, 'mac')
         run: |