HexagonSun

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My 2012 MacBook Pro has exactly the opposite behaviour on a clean install across multiple distros. The brightness keys do nothing until after a suspend, then work fine until the next reboot. Never found a fix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I was a huge fan of that person going to that length, and saying they’d argued with their girlfriend about it, haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Clearly a task beyond many dog owners of Brighton, sadly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Confusingly both. The name is from the red panda, but the icon is absolutely a fox!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

This article immediately had me searching in confusion over whether the logo is a fox or meant to be a panda! What is your logo? Fox or red panda?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I was thinking the other day how much cooler flap displays at stations and airports were compared to modern displays.

Such a nice interface between computer control and a purely mechanical display. Watching them update, flipping through all the variables to land on the right one, and then clearing was so cool.

I miss the noise they made too. Haven’t seen one for like 20 years now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lisa needs braces

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

To me “do you believe in ghosts?” and “do you believe in UFOs?” are basically the same question.

It depends how loaded the word “ghost” (or UFO) is in your mind.

Do I believe we have an immortal soul, or that consciousness can exist outside of a human or animal brain? Do I believe in angels, demons, spirits and entities etc? Absolutely not.

But do I believe that people who aren’t lying, and are being 100% genuine, truthfully report seeing things we cannot explain? Yes. Whether it’s pure hallucination of the human mind or something else that is genuinely being witnessed I don’t know and don’t suggest to know.

As proof that “ghosts” don’t actually need to be anything to do with the dead, I saw my mum at home once as a child, when she wasn’t really there at the time. She’s was wearing clothes she owned, but not what she was wearing that day. She was and still is very much alive. I’ve always remembered that I didn’t make this up, but the memory is too distant and vague at this point for me to put any real trust in it now.

Maybe I genuinely saw something unexplainable. Or maybe our brain hardware that generates the reality we perceive around us can occasionally vividly generate what isn’t really there. Who knows.

 

I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984).

Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced.

The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away.

I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha.

A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi,

After messing around on various distros as a learning experience, I’ve had Debian 12 installed (via installing Spiral Linux) for a few days now on my old Mac.

I noticed today that gparted asks for the root login when launched and that my own user doesn’t have default access to any partitions I create using it.

Is this expected behaviour or have I messed something up?

Thanks!

 

Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!

 
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