cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38558693

We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.

However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.

So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you're using it with? How is it?

Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I'm wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?

GNOME has collected some very old code over the years. During the recent GNOME 49 release, we've made some drastic cleanups. Most visibly, we've dropped support for X11 and gained many dependencies on systemd. Let's explore some of the what and why for these changes!

I'm glad to announce v0.4.3 release!

Syncspirit is independent BEP protocol implementation. Like syncthing is continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization tool.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/refs/heads/master/docs/fltk-overview.gif

You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64 (AppImage), Windows 32 bit (WindowsXP is supported), Windows 64 bit and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).

Notable changes:

• [core] fix compatibility with syncthing v2.0 (i.e. tolerate directory with non-zero size and without blocks)
• [core] allow to specify root certificate authority to use in all tls/ssl connections, see faq, mostly actual for Windows XP with expired system certificates
• [core] allow to load huge databses and interrupt loading porgress
• [core] reduce memory consumption by model (~ 44%)
• [core] use in-depth scan order instead of in-breadth
• [core, win32] fix negative serial number in generated ssl-certificates
• [core, fltk] more correctly display file scanning progress
• [core, bugfix] make successful upnp port unmapping upon shutdown
• [fltk] deactivate currently selected log level button

Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible is written from the scratch software in C++ as classical desktop application.

Syncspirt source code uses GPLv3 license.

Any feedback is welcome!

WBR, basiliscos.

Developer @basiliscos2@lemmy.ml

I bought a 2242 size m.2 SSD to use as lvm cache for an external DAS I'm working with. The drive is supposed to be 64GB, but when I pulled it up in gparted I found the below. (I created the partition to see what would happen.) If my calculations are correct, this drive is acting like a 1TB drive instead of a 64GB drive.

If my calculator is correct, a 64GB drive should be 59.6 GiB instead of 931.5 GiB.

So, would you trust this drive?

Apparently gnome-schedule is quite old and unmaintained. I want to help a friend with this and it shouldn't be a commandline option, has to be GUI. Something like kcron, task scheduler on KDE.