I bought a decent DELL laptop for a great price, as it was DOA.
The Win11 update had killed the system.
I ran a linux live usb drive on it and it ran perfectly.
If you're not absolutely tied to MAC OS, then linux would give older laptops a new lease of life.
I haven't used macs in 20 years, so I'm a bit behind on them.
Is it an intel based mac?
If so, then you could run any version of linux natively and have the latest OS/browser updates, or you could run any OS you wanted in a virtual machine.
Thanks, I'm not tied to Mac OS, and had Linux laptops for years. But every programming job I had in the SF area just issued me a MacBook, so I got used to them and bought one for myself. It is indeed an Intel based Mac, early 2015.
I have OS X 10.11 but need 10.13 to upgrade Brave browser to deal with their new javascript for liking comments.
But https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 does not give me 10.13 as a direct download, only via the App Store, and that App Store download fails with "The recovery server could not be contacted." Earlier versions up to 10.12 have direct .dmg file downloads, but not 10.13 or above.
I did get a copy of 10.13 off of archive.org as an ISO file, so in theory I can make a bootable USB drive from that and install that way. Feels a little risky, like it could be an image with spyware in it, and maybe it will brick my machine.
Installing Linux seems like a lot of work, but would have the advantage that I could have the same Debian on my laptop as on my patrick.net server.
Do you have instructions for installing Linux on a 2015 Intel-based MacBook Air? If it's easy enough, maybe it's worth trying.
Terrifyingly spot on.
Thanks!
(I sure wish Substack would get around to fixing the "like" link. Doesn't work in my two-year old browser, and I can't upgrade for technical reasons.)
Do you mind me asking, which browser and what technical reasons?
I'm not totally inept with computers, so might be able to find a solution.
I'm on Mac OS X 10.11.6 so Brave won't let me upgrade.
And I'm on very old Mac laptop hardware, so Apple won't let me upgrade the OS. I don't like OS upgrades anyway.
I'm with you on the OS updates.
I bought a decent DELL laptop for a great price, as it was DOA.
The Win11 update had killed the system.
I ran a linux live usb drive on it and it ran perfectly.
If you're not absolutely tied to MAC OS, then linux would give older laptops a new lease of life.
I haven't used macs in 20 years, so I'm a bit behind on them.
Is it an intel based mac?
If so, then you could run any version of linux natively and have the latest OS/browser updates, or you could run any OS you wanted in a virtual machine.
Thanks, I'm not tied to Mac OS, and had Linux laptops for years. But every programming job I had in the SF area just issued me a MacBook, so I got used to them and bought one for myself. It is indeed an Intel based Mac, early 2015.
I have OS X 10.11 but need 10.13 to upgrade Brave browser to deal with their new javascript for liking comments.
But https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 does not give me 10.13 as a direct download, only via the App Store, and that App Store download fails with "The recovery server could not be contacted." Earlier versions up to 10.12 have direct .dmg file downloads, but not 10.13 or above.
I did get a copy of 10.13 off of archive.org as an ISO file, so in theory I can make a bootable USB drive from that and install that way. Feels a little risky, like it could be an image with spyware in it, and maybe it will brick my machine.
Installing Linux seems like a lot of work, but would have the advantage that I could have the same Debian on my laptop as on my patrick.net server.
Do you have instructions for installing Linux on a 2015 Intel-based MacBook Air? If it's easy enough, maybe it's worth trying.
"Bosom peril" is fucking hilarious.
Anyway, time to go shove rocks into my peanut butter.
I'm gonna get started on this gravel and pebbles diet, AI can't be wrong. "You will eat the stones".