MrTHXcertified

joined 2 years ago
[–] MrTHXcertified 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Ooh, I just did this! Mid 2010 white MacBook, Core 2 Duo P8600, 2GB, spinning rust HDD.

*Strongly recommend switching to SSD. I also added an 8GB stick (so 9GB total, hah) but my hunch is that even the SSD alone would have made this machine much more enjoyable.

I ultimately decided on MX Linux, although with systemd as init so that logind could handle lid and power button events. The default power manager (XFCE?) would result in a black screen upon resuming otherwise. MX Linux also worked the best for me in terms of optimizing for battery life.

PeppermintOS was my second place but also had the black-screen on resume.

I also tried various flavors of Mint but felt that Peppermint and MX were ever-so-slightly leaner in terms of features I actually use and battery life.

Avoid Void Linux. On my system the trackpad only worked in one direction.

I was not able to get the nVidia card to work with proprietary drivers. It's so old that it requires legacy drivers (340) and I just ran out of patience. Nouveau or bust.

I am currently using it for casual web browsing and YouTube. It handles YouTube pretty well although I'm still searching for a native frontend that allows me to login to my YouTube account so I get all my subscriptions and stuff.

[–] MrTHXcertified 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Treat teachers like shit then prevent them from striking.

#JustAmericanThings

[–] MrTHXcertified 4 points 2 years ago

Looks delicious!

[–] MrTHXcertified 9 points 2 years ago

Devil’s advocate: if a delayed message is put far up the conversation history, it may not be seen when it finally goes through? Although notifications could mitigate that to some extent.

[–] MrTHXcertified 19 points 2 years ago

Amazon won’t care because nobody will hold Amazon accountable.

[–] MrTHXcertified 2 points 2 years ago

US, mid 30s, and nope. (I learned on a friend's car but didn't spend enough time for the muscle memory to build in, even way back then)

[–] MrTHXcertified 1 points 2 years ago

They definitely have more patience than me! I started with the SNES FFs and briefly tried the FF3 3D remaster. Not sure I could go back to 1 and 2!

[–] MrTHXcertified 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Posting this from a 2010 MacBook given a second chance at life with an SSD, 8GB of RAM, and Linux. Spent $70 bucks on the upgrades.

Original battery still gets 4 hours of battery life, too.

[–] MrTHXcertified 2 points 2 years ago

This should help ease the drought the entire state is facing.

[–] MrTHXcertified 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. More of the restrictions of Apple but with less of the QA.

[–] MrTHXcertified 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Such low, sad tactics. I've just converted an old MacBook to Linux. It'll be good to not have to deal with these shenanigans.

[–] MrTHXcertified 3 points 2 years ago

I’m waiting for the MagSafe variant myself.

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