41 points

Well if your definition of “working” is “can run all the important programs and game” then anything thats not windows or linux wont work.

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16 points

Honestly. I got a work mac and now I can’t run notepad++. I’m stuck with an ide I hate.

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Use TextEdit for .txt and .rtf, and get Sublime Text, VS Codium, or any of the other bazillion IDEs out there until you find one you can tolerate. Helix does that for me. (:

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6 points

Thanks for the suggestions. I cannot fucking stand vscode or vscodium

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7 points

If you’re willing to take the plunge and spend more time in the terminal you could give neovim a try.

To turn it into an IDE contender you can use LazyVim to automatically setup a bunch of quality of life improvements.

It’s a bit of a commitment to learn but it is super rewarding when you get it.

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2 points

kickstart is another great starting point for tinkerers

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22 points

TempleOS, huh? Better give it a try then.

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18 points

It’s an amazing piece of technology made as a hobby project by the absurdly talented Terry Davis. He gradually lost his world, house and evetually his life to debilitating mental illness, so it makes me sad to see posts like this using “mentally unstable lol” as a punchline.

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8 points

So … no updates?

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5 points

Fork it!

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4 points

I agree it’s in poor taste to make fun of his mental health issues but calling TempleOS a “hobby project” is burying the lede a little…

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8 points

where plan 9

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6 points

In outer space

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74 points
  • Do you like to throw money at your problems and more money when you’re told: 🍎

  • Do you have a nonconsensual submissive kink with a love for sadistic roughly forced updates destroying what you were working on and ads shoved deep up your home directory: 🪟

  • Do you like free stuff and can RTFM: 🐧

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why RTFM when you can

  1. Be the manual (own distro)
  2. forum (Linux mint fr fr epic gaming free robux baby gronk rizzed up livvy dunne sigma) i use this

sorry for the brainrot

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I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out. Is it a part? The OS? Something external? How am I supposed to diagnose this fucker with so little information? Windows is rapidly heading down the same road. Linux will remain the final bastion of those who fix their electronics themselves

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23 points

Indeed I think the “Yes/No” are the wrong way around on the Apple part of the flow.

Also, why else do you think they call them geniuses. Only geniuses could possibly fix your smooth metal rectangle.

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“After smoking a bowl in the break room thorough investigation, we have determined that you need to buy a new one.”

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78 points

I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out

Buy a new one, duh

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Or do the same basic troubleshooting you would for any other computer. It sounds like the person you’re replying to doesn’t know how to do that. They should learn. It’s not that hard.

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Debugging a Mac is just as simple as debugging a Linux OS… because it is Linux.

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10 points

I can’t tell if you’re making a joke or just confidentially incorrect

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27 points

macOS is Unix. Everything can be logged and reported through the terminal if you want more debugging information. There are also power tools you can download that give you better GUI-based control over a myriad of things.

Though it’s worse now than it was ten years ago. Apple’s software has been suffering under Tim Cook and it’s probably not going to get better until he’s gone.

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15 points

If only it had a whole slew of logs, like any other OS, that I could easily Google the locations of… Nah, vomiting ignorance on Lemmy is easier.

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5 points

support.apple.com

If shit gets real real, developer.apple.com.

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Mac is Linux? You debug it the exact same way, except unlike Linux, you don’t have to worry about 50 different distros, so it’s a lot easier to find solutions. Debugging a hardware issue is just as hard as any other platform… what are you even trying?

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The one thing I’d agree is that it tends to be harder to fix hardware issues. Well, on the new one’s you just don’t because it’s soldered, but a friend’s late 2015 27 inch imac has a borked SSD, and to replace it, we’d need to take off the glued on screen.

Softwarewise, I prefer the issue-finding experience to the windows one, though.

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