diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 37f40a9..94db4b1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -22,19 +22,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup
         uses: eddelbuettel/github-actions/r-ci@master
 
-      # macos-latest moved to arm64 and r-ci's macOS bootstrap stopped
-      # leaving `remotes` behind. run.sh install_deps calls it directly,
-      # so the dependency step died before any package code was parsed --
-      # and with fail-fast on, it cancelled the Linux leg too, which is
-      # the leg that actually gates these packages.
-      #
-      # Guarded on absence: a no-op on Linux, and it deletes itself the
-      # day upstream ships the fix rather than pinning us to an old image.
-      - name: Bootstrap remotes
-        run: >-
-          Rscript -e 'if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE))
-          install.packages("remotes", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
-
       - name: Dependencies
         run: ./run.sh install_deps