Color me shocked. From my experience with apples focuses, the first 3-5y were garbage. Only recently has it gotten better but it’s still not great enough to use reliably. If I feel anxious and turn on the “intelligent breakthrough,” I get every notification but normally blocked ones are shown with a priority banner. No option (that I’ve seen) to give feedback of “no/not important.” Honestly, though, given how little “AI” is in iOS, I’m kinda scared to imagine how Googles Android is with all the force feeding they do with their features

Looks like a magic trackpad

It’s a great phrase for things like this lol

Yeah I haven’t seen my Mac Pro 6,1 do this in the 2y it’s been living in my rack running boinc jobs. Nor my M1 mini at work that goes untouched for months at a time bc I don’t need to go there.

I’ve encountered this before, on a Mac Pro 5,1. Same thing used to happen to my old Linux machine and I’ve seen it happen to Win2k waaaaaay back in the day. I recall the whole up-too-long-cant-network thing being quite common at one point. This article feels like a nothing burger.

Not at all! I upgraded the heavy lifters case fans to all noctuas, there’s still fan noise but it’s very easily drowned out. Actually the most noise came from my HAL model. Partly sunny days would trigger its sensor and it’d randomly start spewing lines.

Manjaro had such a strong start on the pbps, but maaaaaan did it feel like it just went to trash towards the end. That’s why I switched to fedora on mine.

About the display out, I actually found that there was something about the port (iirc) where the display out only worked in one way. You could plug in a usbc cable, not get video out, unplug and flip it, plug it in, and you’ve got video out. Of course many distros broke it altogether somewhere during the kernel v5.xx.

I will say that during the times I ran Manjaro or Arch on it, I was pleasantly surprised how many things from the AUR I could get to build/run on just by asking yay to try!

I agree though, support and the device are not polished enough to immediately recommend for daily driving. But I also saw last night that there’s more distros advertising images for it. I may have to grab an SD and give them a whirl, see if things have improved. Regardless, it was a poc that definitely showed ARM could be a viable alternative to x64 in laptops

It is. Iirc when the m.2/pcie board for the pbp was released a lot of people did use for alternate wifi chips. I opted for a 2260 SSD. I may revisit the laptop and see if it’s hammered out now though

I get that, one of my pis is in that boat. I’ve been putting off making a boot disk for the distro and chrooting in to reinstall the system.

on the bright side, barring physical damage or an spi issue, you should be able to get it booting again. If it might’ve been an install issue, you could force SD boot, reinitialize the emmc, and reinstall. Those things were really good about not being able to fully brick easily.

My pinebook Pro has been rocking it with fedora as its primary OS. The most issues it seems to have is with the wifi drivers after release updates. I’ve had good experiences with Debian/Armbian on SBCs too.

My only advice on getting an ARM device to run Linux is to check the wireless used in your desired device has good existing support. It’s a bit of a pain having to dig around for a no-fail dongle just to update drivers for the internal hardware.

it won’t boot from SD? Or was it a bad spi flash?

i got the same issue earlier

lol well at least they can pass the low bar of cleaning their bathrooms I guess

My condolences on your new “neighbor” I’d say maybe one day we’ll understand, but no. I don’t want to lol

I’ll never understand what’s so damn fascinating about an oversized gas station.

Sorry, clean bathrooms and food aren’t enough to convince me the fandom is warranted. But to the people that like it: you do you.

The table (dm) might finally make the switch from roll20 to foundry for a campaign!

But they are real! And work!

Source: had appropriate drive/disks in the beforetime

Looks 🤖-y

Cat.

I ran into a similar issue when visiting some family. Even though I was connected to home via VPN, my devices wouldn’t pull servers by their IPs. Our networks were setup too similarly. I was able to fix it by editing my conf for the WG connection and added my static servers as allowed IPs. While still having to self host a server for accounting at work, we did a similar split setup so they would be able to use RDP to their desktops but all other traffic was ignored and handled locally. This forum post has pretty good, short explanation with some example config scenarios https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/wireguard-allowed-ips-unofficial-wireguard-documentation/156426