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Booting the installer? How would that help?

Good to know!

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I thought Windows 11 was torture enough haha

I recently read an article stating that there's absolutely no difference between random and urandom in Linux. I don't know, can't say I'm an expert on the subject.

@ex-itguy I don't know either, but chatgpt told me that /dev/random uses physical entropy instead of an algorithm for generating random number /dev/urandom uses, but /dev/urandom is enough if your drive is secured.

@ex-itguy Also I'm told that random uses your computer entropy completely while urandom uses your computer entropy and then uses an algorithm to substitute the entropy. So use random for absolutely secret data that you can't afford to lose

I wouldn't take advice from chatgpt too seriously. It harvests from all over the web, including the wrong answers. I've seen it completely make things up when asked about a musical collab between me and another singer haha

@@ex-itguy Yes I know that too well so I'll fix its wrong answers with my own assumptions

That's awesome! Thanks!

Thanks!

Indeed it felt about the same as Monterey on this one. Video editing is the main reason I bought an M2 last year. 😉 It's fine on iMovie, a little sluggish on Filmora and totally unusable on Davinci Resolve. I guess Final Cut Pro could work but I wasn't able to pay that much and didn't want a cracked version on my work laptop.

We're 30 years apart then 😄 I've been in the IT industry for 24 years or so, but in the end didn't like it anymore. As soon as I quit my job, the hobby came back to me. 😃

I believe so indeed, but it's fun to try them 😊

They were VERY far behind the competition. M-series is insane innovation.

Did I mention I do have an M2? ;) Tbh, video editing is the only reason I upgraded about a year ago. For everything else, the i5 is still plenty enough (well apart from gaming, but I'm not doing that on the M2 either).

Too bad it's still a Mac

Haha, none! Apart from the sudden restart due to the WiFi driver installation it felt rock solid. 😄

Thanks! That would be pretty cool haha

I wouldn't say they're wasting anything. It the very least they gain some knowledge useable in other projects. But they seem to make good progress lately.

Waarom OpenCore als je er toch Linux gaat draaien? Heb ik een functie van OC gemist? 😅 Zelf geen enorme fan van Mint (of Ubuntu derivaten in het algemeen) maar ik verwacht dat ook dat er prima op zal draaien. 🙂

@@ex-itguy Ja ik ben met MacOS opgegroeid als tiener, plus als je een MacBook hebt is het toch in mijn ogen zonde er geen MacOS te draaien, want niet elke device kan dat... Naast dat ik sowieso dual boot fijn vindt om compatibiliteitsredenen. Zit nu op een Windows + Mint dual boot, Windows voor anti-cheat games, CAD software (verplicht voor uni) en MS Office, de rest doe ik allemaal met Mint.

@@ex-itguy Verder, Mint was hetgeen waarmee ik mijn MacBook Pro Mid 2009 revivede en heb er verder niet echt negatieve ervaringen mee, alhoewel ik wel ooit iets als Manjaro of EndeavourOS (of normaal Arch) wil uitproberen...

some people think using open core legacy patcher is illegal but it's not because you can download the latest versions of macOS from Apple's website for free so it's impossible for that to be illegal if the software is free to begin with.

Grey area I guess. In the past Apple sold MacOS separately. Today it's bound to a device as a "free" download. It's not free though, as it's only to be used with a supported device.

Nobody with a single functioning brain cell cares what a corporation considers 'legal' We do wtf we want.

@@ex-itguy To be downloaded, used, and distributed as we please. I've made a lot of money slapping Windows onto USB sticks.

I like Linux so I don't find it inconvenient at all, but that's personal taste I guess. The problem is that Monterey will be an insecure OS to connect to the internet soon.

I've seen people take apart floppies and drives and put in an sd card. Looks pretty cool and can provide pretty big drives haha

Thanks! I expect Mint to do as well as other distros I tried. I mean, in the end they're all using the same kernel, drivers, etc. This 2015 MBP is not very upgradeable. You can change the SSD for an NVMe using an adapter, but that's about it. Even the memory is soldered on.

@@ex-itguy In my opinion, Apple are creating e-waste these days, having said that, dosdude1 is able to repair and upgrade even the most modern Macs, but not everyone has that ability or the required equipment.

I certainly would be lost as soon as I'm going to solder stuff on a logic board haha

@@ex-itguy Yes, it would take a while to master the required skills and to get the equipment, dosdude1 manages it.

@@ex-itguy My previous reply disappeared so I shall try again, in my opinion, Apple are creating e-waste by making their current products non upgradeable.

Dank je wel! Ik denk dat elke Linux distro wel prima moet werken, maar persoonlijk vind ik Arch best fijn op deze laptop inderdaad! Ik laat het er nog even op staan, kijken hoe het bevalt. Ik gebruik het ding nog meermalen per week. :)

Really? I find their website a pain to navigate so I believe I used Distrowatch to download the iso because I just couldn't find it on opensuse.org. I guess I should look harder then. 😄 Edit: check! I don't know how I overlooked that! Still can't find the downloads from their website but using the link on Distrowatch I can just open the live folder...

I might keep it on here as well, it works really well!

"btw" 😭

arch btw

distro hopping seems so dumb to me. half of the differences seem to be purely cosmetic.

what arch distro?

Yeah I wouldn't try anything without a working power connector haha

Yes it should work well on your 2012 MacBook, i'm running monterey on my 2009 17" MacBook

I didn't even know that. Maybe I should see if my M2 will boot from USB.

@@ex-itguy I think those can boot from USB though I am not totally sure. the problem I was talking about was that the bios is on the SSD so when it fails then it can't boot into anything so it is bricked due to no bios. I should have clarified that. Louis Rossman spoke about it in a video I think. I remembered it because I was looking at one of those M1 air models because of the battery life, but when I found out that the SSD and ram are soldered and tied to the device I just got a normal laptop. they could make the most powerful and longest battery laptop but if it is doomed to fail with soldered on SSD then it is worthless. I like to keep stuff for a long long time so that put me off apple laptops.

That's really bad. I hope it doesn't happen... Tbh I looked at buying a Linux laptop when I needed something faster, but the fact that I'm using iZoptope audio plugins for which there's no good alternative I bought myself a new Mac. Those only run on Windows and MacOS and I'm not going to work on Windows haha

I'd love to see that one run the Sequoia!

Hahaha, I guess I should really try that some time. 😄

Thanks! I actually hadn't tried opencore before. People pointed me to that on my Mac Pro video a while ago but it wasn't an option on the 1,1.

Do you recommend a newer version that still can be patched and works alright on older Macs? 2011-2015 ish

Maybe, but all newer macOS releases normally get total of 3 years of support, a lot of Ventura's bugs are fixed and same thing for Sonoma, the unfortunate part is that these bugs only really get patched after main software support is over.

Use a secure erase tool like blkdiscard. :) There might even be a secure erase feature in your system's bios so you don't even need to boot an OS.

Thanks! Indeed I've seen those adapters. But to be honest, 128GB is more than enough for me on this laptop. It's not going to run Doom Eternal anyway and I'm not doing any actual work on this one anymore. :) I do have a short SD card (also 128GB) in it that sits flush with the laptop (took it out for this test) so I can store a little bit more. I used that when I actually worked on this one to store my audio projects.

@@ex-itguy I completely understand what you mean. I find myself using platter HDDs or 128GB SSDs on older machines that I like to fire up from time to time. The worst experience was w/ an old Fujitsu that ran a single core Celeron on Windows Vista. I upgraded that to a Core 2 Duo T7200 + 2GB of DDR2 RAM and man it's.... still kind of slow, but in a much-faster-than-the-original-spec kind of way. 720p youtube videos baby! I also love my old 2013 15" MBP. Still works great in Sequoia with OCLP. My wife's old 2009 13" MBP even runs fine with OCLP Sequoia. There's also a HDD caddy that was installed instead of the Superdrive, so it also runs MX Linux on a cheap 128GB Toshiba SSD that was harvested from a broken Thinkpad tablet (RIP). The Thinkpad basically became an organ donor for my daily X230 (panel). Looking forward to more of your videos. Keep it up!

Seeing it runs the latest MacOS without any issues whatsoever, I feel Apple might be missing out on some MacOS money. I mean, people will buy those M4's anyway so it's not that they would lose any hardware sales. Ah well.

Doesn't smell too good though

My passion had faded big time after more than two decades in IT. That's why I'm an Ex-IT guy now 😆

That's usually R3 on handhelds.... but the TSP doesn't have that. So you would need to go into the Retroarch setup and assign one of the buttons you don't need for something else to it.

Thanks! Converting one of those probably has more value than a keyboard one could buy new for €5 haha

It sure does add to the nostalgia, but having to burn several cd's to see what works and what doesn't felt a bit too wasteful 😄

@@ex-itguy I am a collector of blank optical media discs, I have more than enough of them xD

@ArcardyArcardus I actually bought a spindle last year, and then I noticed people are giving them away for free on Facebook and local marketplace sites so I kinda have enough of them as well now haha

That would be awesome indeed!

People say so, but no-one seems capable of proving that theory. I don't think you'd have much to worry about your personal files even after a single pass.

Then you have to understand magnetic groups (aka Domains). If you get enough of them aligned (but not perfect) then we call it a one or a zero. Even erasing one domain doesnt break all of them. And in that way analysis of the weaker domains can reveal the data but the depth of overwriting it took to get to that state. Anyway there's a whole technology on reading these which applies at least 7 levels of overwriting -- probably more.

@@LG-qz8om I know that theory, but I have yet to _see_ someone actually do it. ;)

Oof... I want to disagree with you, but... you are right. I still very much like the project though and would love to see it grow, but "at the moment" is taking over two decades already.

You see? I'm just a n00b! 😄 Thanks!

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