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That's absolutely no fun at all! I've dropped Apple pretty hard (to the point where I've gone back to a flip phone - my objections to Android are significant a
by Syonyk 5y ago
That's absolutely no fun at all!
I've dropped Apple pretty hard (to the point where I've gone back to a flip phone - my objections to Android are significant as well), and I've accepted that if I want to use computers, it's probably best to use weird configurations that are often broken, because it discourages me from spending too much time on them.
I mean, I feel like even using x86 Linux boxes is lazy. :/ This box, currently, is an ODroid N2+ that's working fine. I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 over on the other side of my office (the "solar shed" posted yesterday, for some reason), and I've made that into a nice little desktop too. Still working on Spotify support, and I was actually quite surprised to find out that I can watch something on YouTube today...
My laptop is a PineBook Pro running a custom kernel (I really should push the sleep/resume patches I wrote for the sound card upstream... one of these days...).
Unsupported hacks are fun! They're challenging, and also reduce my dependence on computers, because odds are good that one or more simply don't work at any given moment.
And it's not just computers. The closest thing I have to a "daily driver" (other than the family car, which my wife and kids have priority for) is a 2005 Ural - sidecar motorcycle, evolution on a late 1930s BMW, quite literally the most vile handling thing you'll ever encounter on the road. It works, I work on it, I get places eventually, just no longer at the speed limit.
Anyway, the very insanity of bare metal Linux on the M1 actually appeals an awful lot to me.