HexagonSun

joined 1 year ago
[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days 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.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week 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

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Clearly a task beyond many dog owners of Brighton, sadly

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lisa needs braces

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jacob’s Ladder.

A largely forgotten psychological horror film from 1990 with Tim Robbins and Macaulay Culkin.

Saw it on TV once by chance and loved it ever since.

I’d say it’s must-watch for being influential despite its moderate success and being incredibly gripping as you try to get your head around what’s actually going on.

 

Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!

 

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 HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
 

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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