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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jamie_oliver@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Just wanted to share my experience moving to Linux from MacOS. Very satisfying, but of course not at first. I think my patience has improved a lot too lol.

I started out trying live bootables on my 2012 MBA. 4GB RAM, 60GB HDD. Not a beast really, but it is my only computer. I obviously couldn't risk ending up without a working OS, so the only option was dual boot from an external drive. Bought an SSD connected via USB and started trying to install distros. Initially Fedora Workstation. Was a mess. Slow, wifi was not working well, odd crashes etc.. Decided to start over with something lighter, but all other installers crashed halfway through. I kid you not I shot my back again bent over my small laptop i without working peripherals trying to install different distros. My doctor was not happy when I came back and told her I fucked up my back again because of my posture lol. Apparently, a shitty USB leads to crashes on most installers. I knew Anaconda worked tho, so I went back to a lighter DE with Fedora, XFCE. Set up an install on the SSD with a shared partition I could access from both MacOS and fedora. No big permission issues yet.

Then fixing network drivers. There is a lot of info about what chip needs what driver, a lot of which is incorrect apparently, because my chip which was supposed to work with bcma needed broadcom-wl. The joy when I remembered USB tethering was a thing.. For a laptop with no ethernet plug this was a godsend. Got the drivers, got wifi.

And since then, many "issues" I encountered where simply things that generally happened behind the scenes on MacOS I didn't even know where happening. Learning about these things has been very gratifying, and gives a lot of respect for a polished OS that just works like magic. Eventually, an issue on MacOS I could not solve due to it being a walled garden made me switch to Linux as a daily driver, and once I got over CMD and CTRL being swapped it sped up my workflows and runs better overall. More tweaking tho of course.

There are odd quirks but I found fun solutions for some, and began planning and learning to remedy others. Mostly, everything is working really well. I am having a lot of fun!

My tip for anyone struggling with getting started with linux, set up a log function so you can easily log any relevant changes you make, and have it accessible from somewhere else (like a shared partition or external drive for example). This way you know what you have done and can use that to fix whatever you fuck up. Also, make a knowledge base with the sources you find useful. I have a small kb in UpNote now so I can look up how some things were done instead of having to search and find the right guides over and over.

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Oh god I just had a flashback.. I remember a festival I was at in my teens, after a week of doing acid, molly and RCs I was more or less not present, smoking a spliff watching Sexy Sushi play as the sun came up. Two girls come up to me, take my spliff, take a hit, blow it into the others mouth with a kiss and then mine. I am on way too much acid (and way too inexperienced) to do anything but keep smiling and smoking.. I don't think I could have done much else even if I wanted too, but it really didn't even register as any sort of flirting at the time. I can't remember them leaving but I guess they did? Anyways, I feel you anon..

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of doing shrooms with a guy I met at Freqs Of Nature festival, he tells me "I need to sit down a bit" so we do, and after an hour of silence goes "woah. I was just contacted by aliens".

Man I will never forget his face, stone serious. We went back and danced after that.

I wanted to share some unexplainable experiences while on psychedelics but since you are on psychs no one believes you :(

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish

I don't remember the specifics of the mental process, this was like 8 years ago. But it was some sort of manifestation technique, probably in the first half of the book

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh lol yeah. I did "magic" once and it freaked me out so bad I never tried it again.

So I was a bit of an edgy person and fascinated by religion. I bought a book about black magic on ebay or some shit, it came with a drop of blood from the previous owner I realized when I got it in the mail, which was kind of creepy bit you know, authentic?

So yeah, I am reading and it is fascinating stuff. I love the overall concepts and the metaphysical implications, but you know, I don't actually believe in that stuff, so I decide to try it out..

The next day I go to work in a factory, we built trucks/lorries or what it is called in english. I try the techniques I read in the book, about highly specific manifestation and willing into existence. I visualize a sort of trade, and specify the factory will stop for an extended period of time, but not enough to cause any irrepairable economic harm or loss of employment, and certainly no physical or great emotional harm, only economical at a level far removed from the average floor worker. About an hour goes by, and everything stops. Apparently, the engines have not arrived from Germany, due to some delivery chain issue. We cannot continue the line as we are out of engines and they can only be inserted at one specific point, so everything stops until we get more. We all laugh and start just chilling around the factory, there is nothing to do anyways and we already cleaned everything imaginable the first 30 minutes or so (you would not believe how fast cleaning gets done when over a thousand people are ordered to clean because "well we can't just have you standing around"). Now I want to make clear no big stop like this ever happened in my entire time there, especially not because of something that wasn't a big fuckup by someone on site. I got kind of freaked out and never really touched that book again lol.

I have some other ones, but no one else was around for those so they are easier to just blame on me not being very mentally stable at the time.

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yes and no. I only play the 360 (because of money, not choice) and the very specific brand of action games they had are not a thing today. The mechanics and presentation are "retro" in the sense that they are from a different era.

There are many that share similarities but the more you play from this era today the more you notice how much things have changed.

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

This happened to about five of my 360 games. I was so disappointed when I set it up after YEARS and went to play old favorites and the discs were rotted..

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Calling the OS biOS is fucking funny

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

So like, I wasn't much better when I was 21, but I do think you did go a bit far here.

It is not your place to ban him or control what he does online, you can however tell him it makes you sad that he watches others. You said as much ypurself and you should probably explain and apologize for the overreach, but explain why. I personally think that watching porn has nothing to do with any partber you may have. It is not a real relationship and possibly even a problem he has, no way to know. What it doesn't do tho is reflect on you. Finding any other person attractive doesn't mean he doesn't find you attractive, there is no correlation.

You should talk it out, without blaming him but explaining that it makes you worried and sad and why, and unless you present it like "he should have known" he will listen if he cares about you. This is not a he problem or a you problem it is a plural you problem (god this sounds better in languages with more exact wording..)

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Ignorance has consequences tho.

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

A rep for the Centerparti literally used this argument on the news today, they are very against it. It is just a proposal at the moment, even the military passovely criticized it as they use Signal for communication.

Hopefully that's enough for it not to pass but you never know. If it passes that's a new low.

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Man Onion is way to believable these days..

Edit: this text is hilarious great job OP.

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I have a deep love for Houston and Memphis rap and g-funk. This is one of my favorite albums from the Houston scene. While there are many great album covers in the southern rap and hiphop scene this one is just so funny. Ocean Of Funk is a funny name, but coupled with a low-rider "surfin' the waves of funk", it becomes priceless to me.

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