regnskog

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sure, but a new battery isn’t that expensive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I thought the problem was the T2 chip and I thought the non touchbar macs had them too, but it’s been a while since I looked into this. I have a machine with a broken touchbar that could plausibly run something that isn’t macOS and was very disappointed when I realised I essentially had to install special distros with some kernel patch or something on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What do the v3 and v4 in the architectures mean?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is a pity because MacBooks pro from ca 2013-2015 are great; cheap second hand because they’re out of support in macOS, good screens, excellent build quality and fast enough for anything you want to do with them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wouldn’t recommend macs in general. Anything with a touch bar (intels from ca 2018-19 and on) are tricky to get to run Linux at all, anything with apple silicon is very experimental, and the older models have Broadcom Wi-Fi that doesn’t ship with drivers on any distribution I know of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t a great metaphor. My dog is a singular individual and another dog isn’t my dog, so you can’t represent it with numbers. A carbon molecule is equivalent to another carbon molecule and can be abstracted.

That said, carbon credits sure seems like making up numbers to make something bad look better, just not in this way.