Yeah you try that. Your trial isn’t going to take 4 years.

I have a few 2015 laptops, the last time the apple logo lights up like it damn well should, (and their operating systems are still getting updates almost a decade later) ipods and an iphone 6 I’ve fixed, apple TV because it was cheap enough. all told I’m in it for less than the cost of a new macbook and apple hasn’t got a cent yet. I have an imac from 2008 I found on the side of the road that actually needs linux but a computer of that vintage in 2008 would be a paperweight at best, the fact it’s still useful as a computer at all is astonishing to me.

I recently got into the apple ecosystem and am loving it.

I know this is a linux community and apple is literally the devil but I haven’t had a bad experience with it yet.

I think I destroyed a USB stick back in the day doing this shit. be careful they don’t lock the stick and if they do make sure you use the program to wipe the stick ASAP before you forget what program you used to make it.

I have a ventoy stick for this exact reason, just copy iso to stick, no need to burn a new one every time.

my main PC hosts nothing, everything else is always on

sometimes I remember I’m self hosting things

pane

FTFY

that will happen when you send your best drunks and cricketers half way across the world on boats

my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

was?

I use Wayland instead

if you’re running a single instance of a game it’s already there. (I multibox so fuck me I guess)

if you’re waiting for native support it’s a chicken and egg scenario, your best bet is to switch asap and show developers there’s a market.

they don’t bother me

probably because they would have to back down of pretending they require specific hardware I’m not going to buy.

so I can read full colour comics on an e-ink e-reader then?

I’m happy to give Black Magic Design my money.

I literally wouldn’t piss on Adobe if it was on fire.

the day will eventually come that I need to replace my kindle and I assume e-ink will be full HD by then.

Honestly if an e-reader doesn’t last you decades you’re doing something wrong.

I got my first mac a few years back off the side of the road, a 2009 imac that didn’t work. I went to a lot of trouble to find and install the most up to date mac os I could get on it for the challenge and because I’d never used a intel mac before.

Believe me, they absolutely did just flick a switch. everything about steam worked fine until the day it didn’t even load up. removing support is one thing, actively bricking your product is a total scum fuck move that is just common practice in gaming now.

This is why my machine straight boots into linux and if I want windows I need to use the BIOS boot selector

you haven’t seen the state of my server have you