there's a pandemic of idiots doing the "I personally" thing. every fucking post and comment, some mouthbreather wants to sound distinguished and whatnot by inflating their wordcount with nothingness. what's the fucking opposite of this, "I unpersonally", what?

"I personally like to..." what the fuck! just say "I like to", it's the same sentence, nothing changed, you didn't add any nuance to your stupid fucking take.

edit: awesome reading comprehension up in here. it's not a crusade against the word, it's a rant against morons using it wrong. as in "I personally like to..." - nothing is added here by using the P-word! you liking shit is the most personal, subjective thing on the planet, you didn't add anything, you just sound like little carmine.

edit 2: figured out a better title - "personally" is the new "literally"

kinda bonkers that global software availability hangs on such a thing

so, was installing the usual jellyfin-media-player flatpak on a new install as I did so many times, mistyped and was presented with a list of jellyfin related apps. there's a new Jellyfin Desktop app in there that def wasn't there before, has the official sounding org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop id.

installed it, looks the same. haven't caught that in the news feeds I follow, so what's the story there, what's different from the iwalton3 thingy?

$ flatpak install jellyfin
Looking for matches…
Similar refs found for ‘jellyfin’ in remote ‘flathub’ (system):

   1) app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/x86_64/stable  <-- new thing
   2) app/com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player/x86_64/stable  <-- old thing
   3) runtime/org.jellyfin.JellyfinServer.Plugin.IntelComputeRuntime/x86_64/stable
   4) app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinServer/x86_64/stable
   5) app/com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-mpv-shim/x86_64/stable

edit: so far, works as drop-in replacement, functionality is the same and command line switches work (e.g. I have a shorcut that launches it in TV mode on a 4K screen with --fullscreen --tv --scale-factor 2). the UI is noticeably faster and it plays some HEVC files that were glitching out on same hardware.

so I got a bunch of old Macbooks lying around; they can be had in the $20 region locally in varied states of decay. fixing them up is cheap and easy, so it's an inexpensive hobby with potential resale upsides. so it occured to me it'd be fun if I could paint them; cheaply of course, can't outsource this to professionals.

tried searching for successful projects but came up short. I believe the main hurdles were:

• expensive devices, nobody wants to risk fucking them up - not an issue any more
• you kinda hafta disassemble them as paint can fuck up a bunch of stuff - not a problem for me
• something about aluminium not taking regular spraycans and such - might be misremembering this

this is kinda what I had in mind:

you got any pointers on what and how?

90s jangly guitar pop vibes

Do you use Signal for chatting securely with friends and loved ones? Us too! We endorse it wholeheartedly, and rely on it for nearly all our communication.

But the vibes are deteriorating here in the US, and we should have a communications contingency plan for if Signal goes down.

picking up a Simple Minds vibe... no idea who they are, Soma.fm is pushing them

okay, first off: hey, what the fuck?

mozilla has a A THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS of dollars? what were all them cookie sales for thunderbird? oh yeah, they have this shell game of interlinked but not really entities so you can play whack-a-mole till the death of the universe.

and they wanna burn it dicking around with AI? fuck each and every ghoul steering that ship into the abyss, and they can take Gnome's fucking shaman or whatwasit with them.

is everybody insane, "silicon valley" was supposed to be a satire, these cretins make mike judge seem like a prophet...

"Their first mistake was letting him in. Their biggest mistake was letting him out!"

a black man plays uncle tom to infiltrate the CIA and then uses the acquired skills to form an urban guerilla movement. very avant-garde, supposedly was banned for a while.

surprisingly good direction and performances, solid technicals, and the obligatory slice-of-life moments from that era.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42330116

in this inaugural post to !linux_on_mac@lemmy.ml we'll disable discrete graphics on a Macbook Pro and make the thing run exclusively off the Intel graphics.

reasons aplenty; 2010/11 models have their share of failed GPUs. those can be disabled with this trick and you get a fully functional machine that would otherwise necessitate a costly repair or it'd be thrown out, due to its age.

GPU and/or GMUX failures continued on post-2012 retina models; folks used those anemically cooled laptops for gaming, with predictable consequences.

finally, if you want to switch to linux, the discrete graphics complicates your life significantly.

this method works on all the models listed in the subject; if you know it works on other ones, please let me know and I'll add it.

the only downside, you'll lose video out as it's connected to discrete graphics.

so, boot off a macOS installer or your existing macOS partition, open the terminal and go:

nvram GfxMode=4 (prepend with sudo if it's from an interactive shell)

(todo: how to add the EFI variable from linux)

and reboot. that's it, your discrete graphics is gone. it's not present in lspci output, system report, etc. not only that, it's no longer drawing power netting you a cooler system and longer battery life.

there were earlier versions of this with some GRUB shenanigans followed by some kext/systemd magic, but thanks to the awesome folks at macrumors that's no longer needed.

in this inaugural post to !linux_on_mac@lemmy.ml we'll disable discrete graphics on a Macbook Pro and make the thing run exclusively off the Intel graphics.

reasons aplenty; 2010/11 models have their share of failed GPUs. those can be disabled with this trick and you get a fully functional machine that would otherwise necessitate a costly repair or it'd be thrown out, due to its age.

GPU and/or GMUX failures continued on post-2012 retina models; folks used those anemically cooled laptops for gaming, with predictable consequences.

finally, if you want to switch to linux, the discrete graphics complicates your life significantly.

this method works on all the models listed in the subject; if you know it works on other ones, please let me know and I'll add it.

the only downside, you'll lose video out as it's connected to discrete graphics.

so, boot off a macOS installer or your existing macOS partition, open the terminal and go:

nvram GfxMode=4 (prepend with sudo if it's from an interactive shell)

(todo: how to add the EFI variable from linux)

and reboot. that's it, your discrete graphics is gone. it's not present in lspci output, system report, etc. not only that, it's no longer drawing power netting you a cooler system and longer battery life.

there were earlier versions of this with some GRUB shenanigans followed by some kext/systemd magic, but thanks to the awesome folks at macrumors that's no longer needed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42299124

#1

my most recent example is a Macbook Air 13 that I chimera'd out of three different machines; awesome that 2012-2017 models have interchangeable parts. was lucky and one of the boards had 8 GB RAM, a rarity back then. alas, the only battery I got has barely 60% capacity and zillions of charge cycles and I ain't too keen on spending money on a replacement.

ok, so shit autonomy, be happy you got a workstation for like $15 in total and run it thusly. except, this one shuts off even if there's like 70% remaining and subsequently won't power on without a charger - kinda big deal for a laptop. I imagine not all its cells are up to spec so when it reaches a threshold it cuts out. under macOS, the SMC lets it sip power and when you attach a charger it just wakes as you left it. linux ain't that cool, when you connect power - all your unsaved work is gone.

what linux does have is intel-undervolt. just a smidge of -50mV was enough to remedy the issue. after a coupla days, moved it to -75mV, still perfectly stable; at -100mV it occasionally KPs.

so a thing that was unusable away from a charger is again a mobile device, netting me 4+ hours of light use and almost a week of standby!

#2

eons ago I had a Thinkpad W520; at least I think that was the model - a 15.6" with the chunky, 7-row keyboard sans numpad. lenovo stabbed me in the heart when they decided that all subsequent models must rock the annoying numeric pad, making you type off-center and... anyhoo, the one I got, had a partially damaged screen, about 100ish pixels wide and super irritating, flashing constantly. replacing it wasn't in the budget and relying on an external monitor was a no-go...

hello xrander! that thing allowed you to cut off a part of the screen and that's what I did - converted the 16:10 to something more like 4:3. not only that, a friend taped over the busted part with some carbon-like decal making it look super sick! I'm still trying to find a picture from way back when but no luck so far...

not only did I get a super usable machine, it was the coolest workstation by far - maxed out RAM, three SSD/HD in there... well, as cool as those things can be, anyways...

#3

a few years back, I got a 13" Yoga, forgot the model, for pocket change. dual-core i5 and soldered 8 GB RAM, gorgeous screen, awesome battery - but it constantly blue-screened. break out the mint USB with memtest, and yepp - errors. dogdamn, no way can I afford to fix this thing and if I try desoldering those things, Imma burn the house down. and break the thing even further...

enter GRUB and its BADRAM feature! you can exclude arbitrary region(s) of RAM and the OS that boots after it will be none the wiser - it just uses the rest. and verily, it worked without issues, used it for years and I believe it still works to this day with his current owner.

#4

got a kernel-panicking Macbook Pro 15 Mid2010 for next to nothing. those things died en masse, the issue was a capacitor that drove the Nvidia chip. any strain or excess power consumption and the thing gave out and the OS crashed. the fix was/is simple - disable the Nvidia chip via EFI variable and use just the Intel HD graphics. you lose display out but gain a cooler machine, longer battery life, and you get zero issues with linux.

having fixed it, I installed linux and wanted to upgrade the RAM to 8 GB. alas, no sticks I found would work in the thing. turns out, the fucker only takes 1066 MHz RAM. I totally lived with the conviction that if you stick faster RAM into slower hardware, it'll run it slower, but apparently that ain't so. so tried bartering with junkers, I'll give you my 1333 RAM, you gimme yours - no takers. buying stuff for something that cost me less than $10 was out of the question...

turns out, you can use linux to reprogram the SPD data on the RAM module! you change its identifier to 1066 and the macbook recognized it as such. furthermore, you don't need to patch both sticks, if one is 1066 it can run the other at 1066 as well - so you can run 'em slower! no idea if this is an apple thing or its widely present, but I got a functioning workstation for free!

#5

finally, the Dell Latitude 5285. that's a 2-in-1 tablet with detachable keyboard that I got without the battery. it had okayish specs, the i5-7300u is nothing to get excited about but it had 16 GB LPDDR3 soldered on. the touch display is beyond gorgeous - 400-nit 1920x1280 IPS and the intel graphics shipped the full 4K @ 60 Hz to my monitor via DP-Alt. the only problem - the fucker won't boost past 400 MHz without the battery! buying the thing is out of the question (y'all notice a pattern here, right?) so what are we to do...

thankfully, we got msr-tools. the thing can patch CPU's registers and en/disable some things, and one of them is BD_PROCHOT. that signal makes the CPU throttle on account the heat, it's also triggered if anything is amiss - touchpads disconnected, battery not present, etc. what's needed is read out rdmsr 0x1fc if memory serves correctly, and then you add one bit to the read out state and write it back with wrmsr 0x1fc 0x1xxxxx et voila - speedsteps up to 2.7 GHz, a quick systemd script to make it permanent. it won't turbo, to 3.3 GHz or sumsuch, but this was more than enough for everyday use.

thanks for reading! y'all got any stories how linux can save your ass without spending money? share it with the class!