I run Linux on a 2012 MBP, and the WiFi has got more and more problematic the last few years.
Buying a TP-Link USB WiFi adapter and just using that made my Linux life so much more straightforward.
I don’t think the Broadcom card was capable of supporting WPA3 anyway.
Slowdive - always sound great, always a truly live experience, never stagnant and only about the past, and most importantly the music has always been amazing
I’ve got this Mac with Linux on it, and yes, you 100% want to disable Nvidia for sure.
Agreed.
Spore was horrendously disappointing after what I’d read about it.
I bought into the hype and pre-ordered it, and then regretted it.
I’d been given the impression by previews you’d get to play it as a singular session or experience, which I guess they never could have pulled off, but finding it to be segmented as it was was disappointing.
And then the way it portrayed “evolution” seemed deeply flawed to me. Choices you made had almost no consequences - rather than gradually going down different paths and committing to things playing out in different ways, you could just completely change your mind or go back on things, your choices didn’t really matter.
Deadwood.
The movie to complete it is passable, but seasons 1-3 are 10/10.
Sonic CD.
For years and years it was a mythical sonic game, a rare golden-era game hardly anyone had got to play. And I’d slightly mis-remembered it appearing way more advanced and fluid than a mega drive game.
After being obsessed with Sonic in my youth, after finally getting to play it, it just felt like a less enjoyable Sonic 1.
I’ve never even bothered to finish it.
Sex Pistols:
“God save the Queen, The fascist regime, Who made you a moron, And touched your wife’s bum!”
I 100% genuinely thought “Lose yourself to dance” was “You just suck the dicks” when I first heard it on the radio.
I was wondering who it was by and why it wasn’t censored being played at lunchtime.
Dr Feelgood was a band where this happened
I’d say Kraftwerk was Ralf und Florian initially, but I’d suggest Karl became an essential member from The Man Machine onwards.
Ralf and Florian weren’t ones to give any credit unless credit is due, and Karl’s name is all over many of their best songs and composed many of their most famous melodies.
I find Kraftwerk post-Karl way too sterile and Karl post-Kraftwerk too unrefined. I think Ralf and Karl really complemented each other in terms of composition and production.
Because politics encompasses almost everything, to be truly politically neutral would mean having no strong views on anything in life.
It’s possible to be neutral on certain topics, but to be fully neutral you’d have to have no real opinions on economics, immigration, the military, the role of religion, equality, education…
So the quote is saying you can’t truly be neutral on everything, what specific things are you actually neutral on.
Sounds ideal!
To be honest I’ve been half-looking at audio players for 2-3 years but never pulls the trigger as all I had to go on was Amazon and Reddit reviews of how things sounded, which is so subjective as to be almost useless.
I saw the Echo Mini in the Guardian for an article about DAPs and trusted that a little more and finally bit the bullet.
Apparently someone from FIIO in the forums said the Echo Mini wasn’t capable of gapless, which feels unlikely when iPods from about 2006 could.
Your device definitely sounds like it addresses my biggest “wants” for mine.
I find every firmware update fixes something but also breaks something.
Great they’re working on it but super annoying also.
Some updates crash the mini refreshing my library, and since about 2.7 a lot of multi-CD albums don’t show the tracks in the right order anymore.
Still a fan, but definitely not the easy ride that iTunes + iPod was on that front.
Oh, and cool you can use it as a nifty HQ external DAC also.
I’m pretty happy with my FIIO Snowsky Mini.
It mimics a miniature Walkman and looks really great, and has a cassette playing interface that lets you totally ignore obtaining / managing album artwork. I really don’t care about seeing album art when I play music, but equally I hate seeing a ? or something when an interface expects you to have artwork. This solves that perfectly.
It’s only up to 256GB, and it only lets you scroll through all artists or all albums so navigation isn’t the quickest.
It sounds amazing. People go on about how good certain iPod classics sounded, but this is audibly better than any iPod ever was.
Doesn’t do gapless playback.
Can get them for £40-£50.
Back on Fallout 4.
Never tried non-console modding before, but Vivid Fallout & Another Green Mod got it looking real nice 👌
Your username is spinning me out. We always ask our cat if he’d like to “Eat da feesh” when we feed him any fish tins or treats, and we spell it just like that when we message each other to say he’s been fed too haha.
…Milo, is that you? 🐈⬛
For the reasons I switched to Debian see my other reply.
I use the computer for:
If you have a 15” Retina MBP, it’s been a huge pain in the ass, and multiple distros just stopped working after updates, often not long after installation. But also it’s been a good learning experience for the very same same reason. To work well in 2026 it needs the Nvidia graphics disabling - but the NVRAM defaults that Mac to Nvidia at startup for Linux, so even that bit isn’t straightforward! If you simply blacklist Nvidia it won’t boot.
I also bought a USB WiFi adapter as the Broadcom card doesn’t work initially on most distros, and can’t support WPA3 even when it does work.
Yes, at this stage. Although before now I’ve installed a few different things over the last couple of years as a learning experience also.
It’s not my main computer, but one I replaced. This freed me up to have a computer with no music or photos or anything on it, so I could test different distros and DEs and troubleshoot stuff without having any concerns about losing anything if I made a mistake or just erased and started over.
I’d never actually used Linux before 2023, much more familiar now.
I truly adored the vehicle physics in that game.
Getting into a car in GTA V was probably the most disappointing gaming moment in my life. I never liked GTA V all that much, solely due to that.