Joshumo :Polymaths: :TeslaFire:

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy

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Howdy y’all! Josh here. Nero-spicy educator and overall okay-est dude.

#Linux and #macOSX aficionado. #ewaste connoisseur. #techtinker

Other interests […]

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@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM

“The social media platform has been accused of using its algorithms to promote far-right and neo-Nazi views since its takeover by Musk, who himself supports far-right and neo-Nazi politics.” https://mastodon.scot/@nr/117447152275406085

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 15, 2026, 2:05 PM

@dm May your bounty be high as you your wallet goes low 🤣

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 15, 2026, 2:03 PM

@dm

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 15, 2026, 1:22 AM

@chris Outside of the wifi/broadcom driver issues, they are very capable machines.

My 2011 mbp is chugging along great with Snow Leopard and Mavericks. Some cool people out there made workable browsers for both.

As for the 2013 it’s been my testing device due to it’s smaller size and lower ram […]

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 14, 2026, 9:23 PM

Today I should be picking up the new-to-us laptop for the kiddo. Yesterday I swapped out the 500g mac ssd for a 256g mac ssd in the 2013 macbook; I even added a thermal pad to the ssd too. After the switcharoo, I tried out a few low resource distros but wasn’t able to get any of them install […]

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 14, 2026, 5:57 PM

@thelinuxcast Depending on what you want to do with it, I say go for it. The old Intel Macs hold up well and are surprisingly capable. You will probably have to hunt down wifi drivers, besides that super solid. I have ran Debain, Fedora, and SUSE based distros with no issues.

I would hold out a […]

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 14, 2026, 6:47 AM

@jp I figured if the laptop is a dud, the price alone (currently) is worth the ram and ssd.

I will be picking it up tomorrow. The goal is to put Bazzite on it for the kiddo.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 14, 2026, 6:16 AM

I love my local university surplus store. For $100 I was able to score my kiddo a Ryzen 5- 5500U HP laptop with 16g ram and 256g ssd. This should allow him to play his Steam games unlike the old crusty dusty macbook pro 2013.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 9:04 PM

While I lay in bed with the flu, I am in awe that I can easily surf the web from my 2011 #Macbook Pro running #SnowLeopard.

This is such a hardy laptop. This toot is from from said laptop.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 4:43 PM

#Butterbian #XFCE was a success. I had to do some #shenanigans to get the wifi to work on the macbook

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 5:18 AM

Sad news… the install would not take on the #macbook. #RPiOS worked well from the flashdrive but got stuck on the boot screen when running directly from the macbook.

So now I am trying out #Butterbian

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 4:31 AM

Earlier today I tested #RaspberryPiOS on the patato like #ebox (2017 Intel Celeron) and was able to #Minecraft running well with low settings.

Now I am in the process of switching the kiddos old macbook over to RPiOS to see if I get some gains compared to running Fedora.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 1:08 AM

For my peeps running #Gnome and #Fedora, what is a good program, app, extension, ect. that I can easily use to limit battery charging?

I want to set the kiddos old #macbook to only charge to 80/85%

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 2:32 AM

The last couple of days I have been playing around with Gnome Parental Control as I resetup my kiddo’s old macbook. I have to say it’s better than nothing. I wish it had more than all or nothing controls. Web browsers are full access or none; you cannot set up approved sites. Same with […]

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 8:40 PM

Today’s mission in tech is replacing Floorp with LibreWolf on all of my devices.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 6:18 PM

@PurpleJillybeans My mind instantly went to this:

https://youtu.be/zng5kRle4FA?is=RVtIhnHVWHv4_ztJ

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 3:44 AM

I am feeling spicy tonight.

Tonight is a good night to install #Butterbian with #MangoWC

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 26, 2026, 4:07 AM

I was at a big box book store to kill some time. Normally I got with a book or two in mind and wander around trying to find them. When I do not have luck in the hunt, I will pull up the big box bookstore app to find out which section it is in. Well, the big box bookstore app removed that […]

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 23, 2026, 3:32 AM

For my #retrogaming enthusist, have any of y’all installed #Steam on #Batocera recently?

Does it work well?

I am not happy with my current Fedora Plasma Bigscreen set up and looking for something different.

@jlw-the-jobber.polymaths.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 21, 2026, 3:31 AM

Yesterday either I or an update #borked my sff AMD build running #Fedora #KDE BigScreen. After many frustrations and switching out hdmi cables, I decided to give #SteamOS another try.

In stall was a bit more extra than a standard linux install, but I got there in the end. So far it has been […]

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