You could also just put it on the old MacBook…
Based fox.
I may be cute, but my compulsion to read every line really hampers my ability to complete basic tasks.
Look at the alt text on the original post.
NGL I bought a new MacBook (m1) as that arm processor is just killer. Still mis Linux on that machine though.
(I know about Asahi, but I haven’t heard about it’s current state in the last few years since it’s initial debut)
Asahi’s pretty decent now, so far as I’m concerned. They’ve still not cracked having more than one display, but otherwise I can’t think of anything I’ve not been able to do with it.
Hot?
I can do indie grade game development on an M1 MacBook air. It’s wild how tech has progressed.
But I do my day job work on a Linux mint laptop and have a windows gaming pc until such time as I can fuck that useless piece of shit software into the fucking ether where it belongs.
What game keeps you on windows?
Right now none specifically, but I haven’t really done an audit. I understand it’s pretty good nowadays with proton.
What I don’t want is to accidentally play an unsupported game and get vac banned or something.
If stellaris, total war and a handful of others worked I could probably convince myself to look into dual booting to try it out. I imagine OBS is fine. Streamdeck works on Mac so might be ok.
Basically every game runs fine on Linux, just not those games with strict anti cheat.
Can confirm at least Stellaris works
Stellaris has a native linux build 🥰 Edit: all paradox games have native linux builds
FFXI for me. It’s a lot better post Steam Deck, but last time I set it up on Linux (maybe a year ago) a lot of the visual mods that are registry-based weren’t working properly, the font rendering was awful, and certain addons and plugins just didn’t work (guildwork in particular since it launches a background exe, others related to showing/hiding certain UI elements.) It runs, but it’s far from comfortable. Might be good enough in a VM and I’ll probably try again next time I resubscribe.
I hate Apple with passion, but my GF has a 2013 Macbook, that is still getting security updates and is totally usable.
I replaced the spinning hard drive a while ago with a fast SSD, while using Clonezilla to copy the content and partitions of the drive.
And you know what? It started like a rocket. It has an Intel CPU, but I don’t think installing Linux would have made it much better, especially UX wise.
MacOS is more than half the reason most people buy a Mac and not a cheap laptop.
Still nice meme tho. It’s way more relatable than I want to admit it.
That 2013 won’t be getting security updates anymore. Apple only tends to provide security updates for 10 years. I’d be cautious with that honestly.
Linux would provide you with security updates for a significantly longer time
Just imagine the concept of software updates that don’t care about the hardware.
There were no 2013 MacBooks with spinning disks, last year for that was 2012
Whoops! Then it is even older, you’re correct.
Then it’s a 2012 model.One of the best they ever made imo
2013 Macbook, that is still getting security updates and is totally usable
How? My 2015 MBA doesn’t get any updates afaik
but it’s not on latest supportwd OS so I’m not sure
Why does it have to be furries all the time…
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/
This is one of my favorite blogposts of all time. It is an extremely well written, in depth writeup of several security vulnerabilties of a popular app.
It also opens with:
Please keep in mind that this website is a furry blog, first and foremost, that sometimes happens to cover security and cryptography topics.
Because the Venn diagram is a circle.
I never knew I was one myself. Any good sites to make my own fursona?
I’m using a new M3 MBP at work and it literally brought my compile time from 20+ minutes on a pretty beefy Windows machine down to about 6 minutes. Based on that alone, it’s hard to imagine using anything else for serious dev work at this point.
Having said that, there’s a lot of goofy Apple fuckery going on too. Multi-monitor support is limited to two displays, so if you want more than that you’re stuck with an expensive third-party dock and DisplayLink drivers, which cause color artifacting in high motion like you’d expect from a heavily compressed video, which leads to eye strain. Mouse support is terrible without a third party app to fix the goofy scroll wheel acceleration curve they’ve built in, and even buying first-party peripherals doesn’t solve it. I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset… So many little dumb things to deal with.
I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset
I have Macs for 10+ years and I never had them open iTunes when connecting a bluetooth headset.
Christ, this image is like a 50-post long thread on Mastodon, etc: the worst possible choice of format/platform for that type of content.
“I have an essay to share, and I’m going to send it in snippets of a few hundred characters!” Why?
(Looking at you, Doctorow… 👀)
What ?
Author-activist Cory Doctorow does a daily thread on Mastodon but because each post doesn’t have much text the threads get long. He also posts it on his blog, but I think Brewchin finds the thread annoying. His account: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic
Aww I see what you did there
They don’t think it be like that, but it do.
I’ve read Xenia’s rant and agree with it 100%.The only thing missing is something about media servers and self-hosting.
You cannot fix me, for I am not broken.
noooo why is the text in the background i wanted to read that
I read the part where it called me cute :)
You can read all of it as alt text on the original post.
Xenia should have been our official mascot. C’mon, Linus, make it happen. The penguin is boring.
Sex sells, Linus.
It’s not even that. The character is a transgender furry. It pretty much represents what Linux is. You have the freedom to modify it and customize it to make it whatever you want it to be and make it yours.
