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lproven

@lproven@vivaldi.net

Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.

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TFY unwisely agree to Do Something about 70-year-old in-law's laptop, which is 9 years old and running Word 2008 atop a version of macOS unsupported since 2018 …

You have a spare M1 Probook to upgrade him to. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, he's forgotten his login password, never had an AppleID, and his old machine doesn't recognize APFS filesystems for that old-time floppy-style SSD shuffle.

And the cable to the only SSD they have is flaky.

(Now back home, screaming quietly in Mac.)

lproven,
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@cstross OCLP will fix that, if you can be bothered.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/09/opencore_legacy_patcher/

The Now Official Mrs Proven's old MacBook is a 2009 model and it's supported by OCLP. In principle I could get it onto macOS >10 easily. Big Sur is the last one to support pre-Metal GPUs. It's doable.

But it's in the basement in Prague and we can't find it. So I hackintoshed macOS 11 onto my old ex-SUSE Dell, restored the Time Machine backup onto that, then copied the files onto a USB HDD and switched the SSD for one with ChromeOS Flex on it. That does all she needs and it's simpler and quicker than macOS.

(This latter made some folks on Reddit very angry with me.)

lproven,
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@cstross I didn't think Apple ever shipped Celerons?

And as ever, a reminder: these things are relative. Mrs P's MacBook is a Core 2 Duo with 6GB of RAM (I have more but it's too fast for the nVidia GPU) and a 120GB SSD.

It flew along in 10.13 and its ~12-year-old battery was good for ~2 hours of disconnected use.

It was a freebie (dropped; dinged case, dead HDD) so I did it up as an experiment. A very successful experiment. It became a daily driver for another couple of years.

lproven, to random
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"UNIX is the C language runtime"

– PJMLP, Hacker News, 2024-04-05
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941063

popey, to random
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/canonical_snap_store_scams/

lproven,
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@popey @sgd If I had known it mattered to you...

But an uncapitalised proper noun makes my teeth itch.

lproven, to random
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Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/red_hat_hires_mckinsey/

Some staff are worried – can't think why

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to Android phones

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/fairberry_fairphone_hardware_qwerty/

Now updated – v0.3.0 is here, with less soldering

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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The window for great-grandmothers is closing
https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-window-for-great-grandmothers
And it wasn't that long to begin with

<- good point, told briefly and well.

lproven, to random
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Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/hmrc_linux_paye_tools/

It seems to be in Python 2, which has been been dead for four years

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/redis_changes_license/

FOSS developers gotta eat, but users need certainty

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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I was a Hackintosher (blog post, by me)

https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/90591.html

https://twitter.com/lproven/status/257060672825851904

lproven, to random
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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z – @Nature

Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More & better data are urgently needed.

lproven, to random
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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/truenas_abandons_freebsd/

Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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Paul Alexander, who lived in iron lung for more than 70 years, dies at 78 - National | Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/10356211/paul-alexander-iron-lung-polio-death/

lproven, to random
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Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/postmarketos_goes_systemd/

Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.

<- by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/opinions/climate-scientist-scare-doom-anxiety-mcguire – from @CNN

In the words of science writer and author of “The Uninhabitable Earth” David Wallace-Wells, “No matter how well informed you are, you are surely not alarmed enough.”

lproven, to random
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'There's a left-wing bias in academia!'
If, after studying for decades, most experts end up leftists, that says more about the intellectual validity of left vs right than it does about supposed 'biases' - that left wing ideas hold up to rigorous inquiry better than right wing ideas.

aral, (edited ) to random
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Palestinians are not getting killed. They are being murdered. By Israel. In a genocide. With the complicity of the US, UK, Germany and others.

Use the right words.

Blame the right people.

Stop the genocide.

lproven,
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@aral This is terrible. Who started this awful war?

lproven, to random
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This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you

https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/2/28/24085691/atlantic-ocean-warming-climate-change-hurricanes-coral-reefs-bleaching?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter via @voxdotcom

The Atlantic Ocean is unusually warm right now. Here’s why scientists say that’s “deeply troubling.”

lproven, to random
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Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/starting_over_rebooting_the_os/

Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook

<- by me on @theregister – this is my 2021 talk, cut down a bit and turned into an article.

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GNOME 46 beta has more tweaks than a coffee shop

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/gnome_46_beta_released

The future desktop of Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 is nearly ready

← by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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Part 3 of my FOSDEM 2024 talk, in article form: the successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/

A better UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all

← by me on via @theregister

lproven, to random
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Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/freenginx_fork/

Project hails from its original motherland of Russia

← by me on @theregister

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/

The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation

← by me on @theregister

This is part 2 of this year's talk… it will (I hope!) make more sense in context with the rest.

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Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14/damn_small_linux_returns/

DSL 2024 is not as svelte as it used to be – but who is?

← by me on @theregister

lproven, to random
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«
For reasons, I tried to evaluate the distributed Matrix chat and their clients. That did not work out very well.
»

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13/the-matrix-trashfire.html

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