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My new lightly fork now works on even more systems, and I'm still looking for people that are interested in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey that looks nice at a glance. Will check it out!

Cloud storage/backup options [Linux] in c/[email protected]

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

I've been using mega synced folders for most stuff. Works fine.

Fedora: GNOME or KDE? in c/[email protected]

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

I tried to do this before, but it did not work out.

I couldn't make the meta key alone open overview. I also tried to add a dock there, but I can only have a panel when not in overview, which is the opposite of that I wanted. I also liked the notification menu and the quick toggles menu in top right corner.

I have been planning to get into plasma extension development to fix some of these issues.

Macbook Air wireless card replacement? in c/[email protected]

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

Initially installing them wasn't a problem anyway, but rather the driver breaking. It feels good to trust the laptop a again.

Macbook Air wireless card replacement? in c/[email protected]

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

If you're still looking to free your USB port, I have now confirmed that this upgrade works!

Linux on iMac? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It would help if you got the model right, and an exact one at that. As the others said, "iMac" isn't a mac laptop, but an AIO desktop.

From the thread I gather you have some model of MacBook Air, that looks like this:

I run linux on one of these. Everything worked out of the box, except for wireless. See my 2-part adventure for how I solved it.

Mac "bios" isn't exactly how you'd expect from PCs. Hold down alt key during startup to enter boot menu, and you're good to go.

If your family member was a mac user before, they might be most comfortable on Gnome, as it has aped many ui features from mac os. It has a similar dock, fluid trackpad-friendly navigation that works the same way, and more.

Why YAML sucks? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm fine with python, because it's consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.

goto fail;

Macbook Air wireless card replacement (continued) in c/[email protected]

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

Oh, I guess it's all good then. Thanks

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Macbook Air wireless card replacement (continued) (lemmy.kde.social)

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Part 1: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1763180

So I went and did it. Ordered an adapter and an intel ax200. It seems work just fine out of the box in linux. This cost me 25 to 30 euros total.

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Antenna considerations

The laptop was only designed for up to ac. The new card can do ax, which uses a different band. My router doesn't support ax, so I have no clue if that will see significant signal drop with the old antennae. I actually haven't even bothered to look deep enough to know if this even would be an issue, maybe it's okay.

I don't need to learn the language, I'll just use the translate app. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Hi, I'd just like to join the club.

Macbook Air wireless card replacement? in c/[email protected]

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

Too bad. Guess I'll go order the adapter.

Macbook Air wireless card replacement? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

2013 Macbook Air as the post says. It's some i5 board, can't say anything more specific right now.

Anyway, I'm also kind of done with software hassles on this one, and I also prefer linux, so I'd rather keep using it.

Macbook Air wireless card replacement? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, these adapters are exactly what I intend to use if there's no mac card that just works.

However, for normal cards I have no clue about antenna compatibility, and macos compatibility. I guess the latter is just a nice to have instead of a requirement, though.

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Macbook Air wireless card replacement? (lemmy.kde.social)

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Edit: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1921123

I have this old '13 air. It's outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (🖕 Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can't find any networks anymore.

Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I'd rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?