Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

  • 8 hours ago
    RE: https://wandering.shop/@charliejane/116800523671759832 This book was fabulous, you should buy it and read it
  • 1 day ago
    The trackball remains undefeated as the superior pointer input device for the discerning cat caretaker
  • 1 day ago
    I did end up activating some non-free software repos to get to the wifi drivers. I wonder if I dragged in some bum Nvidia drivers too? I guess I could reinstall and then proceed more carefully step-wise and see what beefs it
  • 1 day ago
    Hmm well, it was working until I did a software upgrade on Fedora and rebooted πŸ™ƒ
  • 1 day ago
    Also a star of the show is this cheap USB Ethernet widget, since it seems all Linux distros hate the wifi hardware on all Apple laptops
  • 1 day ago
    Seems to work with a workaround, though. Cute lizards
  • 1 day ago
    Since I'm a masochist, I decided to get this MacBook Pro updated to macOS Catalina. Then, I'll try a re-partition to install Fedora for some dual booting torture. The live ISO on a USB drive seems to work better than Linux Mint. Cool! Time to install, then... and... the installer segfaults. Okay then πŸ˜… https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2411887
  • 1 day ago
    I'm also terrible at actual physical pinball, but suddenly feeling a twinge toward it too
  • 1 day ago
    Thanks to a random brain ping from a youtube video, I've suddenly gotten a hankering for playing Devil's Crush for TurboGrafix16 on my lil Ambernic gadget. And then I started playing Pokemon Pinball for GBA. And now I want to play Metroid Prime Pinball on my Nintendo DS. I've never really liked video game pinball all that much before, but suddenly it's hooking me. Weird brain
  • 2 days ago
    Also, as it turns out, Mac OS X Mountain Lion is too old. For what? Yes.
  • 2 days ago
    So, after an unsatisfactory attempt at installing Linux Mint on this old MacBook Pro, I figured I'd try a network reinstall of macOS. Wow. I havent seen Mountain Lion in forever 😳
  • 2 days ago
    Puck and his sister Inanna were the first cats I took care of as an adult. They would both purr and start kneading when I walked in a room and looked at them. Puck would jump straight from the floor onto my shoulders and go to sleep.

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