sevon

joined 5 months ago
[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you want to call it a fault. One instance can't cover all, just the slice its users interact with.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Blaze screenshot it at lemmy.ml.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The number shown is how many posts or comments your instance is aware of. If your number is smaller than the real one, it means that there's content that doesn't exist on your instance.

The missing content is either:

  • Old: The account is like 3 or 4 years older tham your instance. Old content doesn't get federated unless someone deliberately asks for it.
  • Posted in communities that no one at your instance has subscribed to them yet. This stuff also doesn't get auto-federated.
[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

?

I censored the url.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I saw that one. Actually kind of a smart idea as many people will surely blindly press the keys as instructed.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a fake website

Figured as much. So it's ad spamming that they're going for.

 

it also kept redirecting to itself like twice a second to not let me go back.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey that looks nice at a glance. Will check it out!

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago

I've been using mega synced folders for most stuff. Works fine.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried to do this before, but it did not work out.

I couldn't make the meta key alone open overview. I also tried to add a dock there, but I can only have a panel when not in overview, which is the opposite of that I wanted. I also liked the notification menu and the quick toggles menu in top right corner.

I have been planning to get into plasma extension development to fix some of these issues.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Initially installing them wasn't a problem anyway, but rather the driver breaking. It feels good to trust the laptop a again.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago

If you're still looking to free your USB port, I have now confirmed that this upgrade works!

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 2 months ago

It would help if you got the model right, and an exact one at that. As the others said, "iMac" isn't a mac laptop, but an AIO desktop.

From the thread I gather you have some model of MacBook Air, that looks like this:

I run linux on one of these. Everything worked out of the box, except for wireless. See my 2-part adventure for how I solved it.

Mac "bios" isn't exactly how you'd expect from PCs. Hold down alt key during startup to enter boot menu, and you're good to go.

If your family member was a mac user before, they might be most comfortable on Gnome, as it has aped many ui features from mac os. It has a similar dock, fluid trackpad-friendly navigation that works the same way, and more.

 

Part 1: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1763180

So I went and did it. Ordered an adapter and an intel ax200. It seems work just fine out of the box in linux. This cost me 25 to 30 euros total.

Pics

Antenna considerations

The laptop was only designed for up to ac. The new card can do ax, which uses a different band. My router doesn't support ax, so I have no clue if that will see significant signal drop with the old antennae. I actually haven't even bothered to look deep enough to know if this even would be an issue, maybe it's okay.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sevon@lemmy.kde.social to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
 

Edit: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1921123

I have this old '13 air. It's outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (🖕 Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can't find any networks anymore.

Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I'd rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?

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