MrLLM

I’ve been rocking my hackintosh for almost 4 years now. It’s still holding together, but battery life and performance (with battery) are not great, also intel support will be gone soon.

I have to say that I’m not big fan of Liquid Glass redesign, so if I’m getting a new Mac, it’ll be an M4 15” MBA with 512GB and will keep it on Sequoia.

My other option is to move over to Linux (probably Debian), but I’m not confident I’ll be able to find something compelling for a reasonable price with great performance and battery life (mostly because RAM and storage shortage)

Any thoughts on that? On one hand, it’s probably a bad idea to buy a new Mac just to keep it forever on sequoia but I also feel like my laptop will hold me back any time soon.

For a little bit more context: I’m a computer engineering college student, I do programming in different languages, I make heavy use of virtual machines and I like Apple iWork for office related workloads. I have an M1 Mac mini, but I still need a mobile computer.

That’s at today’s keynote mark 01:10:08

Must be a mistake, right? I was lurking around in r/iPhone but nobody seems to be talking about it.

Not even last year’s phones have that trade in value

Hi, I’d like to ask for some advice about my iPad.

I have an iPad mini 5 that I bought in mid-2020. It still holds charge for about three days with my usual usage (doomscrolling, playing music, reading, etc.), though I used to get about five days on a single charge back in 2020.

I connected it to my Mac and checked the battery health with Coconut Battery; it reports 83% health with 614 cycles.

I started checking my options but I’m not really sure if it’s worth it:

1. Apple won’t give me a price for the replacement (I suspect they might not have parts; the page lists 118 USD).
2. 3rd Party says that battery repair is about 200 USD, which I find excessive for an iPad this old.
3. iFixit: Pricing for parts is about 53 USD, but shipping is 89 USD, and it doesn’t include everything I need due to shipping restrictions.
4. Getting iFixit tools and the battery through Amazon is about 70 USD, which I find acceptable, except the battery doesn’t have reviews at all (capacity 5173mAh seems about right).

What should I do? Keep using it as is? Try to replace the battery myself with Amazon stuff? Has anyone had experience with DIY battery replacements (I don’t mind much warning messages)?

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Found this old DVD driver in the garage that looks like it was from a laptop. I’d like to use it, but I don’t know what port is that.

I thought it was SATA, but it’s a little bit more taller and narrow, maybe an old revision? Or is it HP proprietary?

Any help is appreciated!

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/5034248

Squares [3840x2160]

Hello there!

I’ve made those with Apple Keynote, so I felt like sharing them here. If you’d like me to export in another resolution, please feel free to ask :)

Uploaded:

• 3840x2160 (4k) Light (post) Dark

• 1920x1080 (1080p) Light Dark

• 1290x2796 (iPhone 15 Plus) Light Dark

I took this wallpaper as base (I couldn’t find the original author tho)

Hello there!

I’ve made those with Apple Keynote, so I felt like sharing them here. If you’d like me to export it in another resolution, please feel free to ask :)

I took this wallpaper as base (I couldn’t find the original author tho)