Thanks to a random brain ping from a youtube video, I've suddenly gotten a hankering for playing Devil's Crush for TurboGrafix16 on my lil Ambernic gadget. And then I started playing Pokemon Pinball for GBA. And now I want to play Metroid Prime Pinball on my Nintendo DS. I've never really liked video game pinball all that much before, but suddenly it's hooking me. Weird brain
I'm also terrible at actual physical pinball, but suddenly feeling a twinge toward it too
Since I'm a masochist, I decided to get this MacBook Pro updated to macOS Catalina. Then, I'll try a re-partition to install Fedora for some dual booting torture. The live ISO on a USB drive seems to work better than Linux Mint. Cool!
Time to install, then... and... the installer segfaults. Okay then 😅
Seems to work with a workaround, though. Cute lizards
Also a star of the show is this cheap USB Ethernet widget, since it seems all Linux distros hate the wifi hardware on all Apple laptops
Hmm well, it was working until I did a software upgrade on Fedora and rebooted 🙃
@elmiko This is a mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro, still in decent shape but apparently abandoned by macOS updates
I did end up activating some non-free software repos to get to the wifi drivers. I wonder if I dragged in some bum Nvidia drivers too? I guess I could reinstall and then proceed more carefully step-wise and see what beefs it
@elmiko Well, I can say the Ubuntu installer didn't work at all. Linux Mint *mostly* worked, including wifi but sleep / suspend never worked. Fedora KDE desktop worked until this point, including sleep / suspend but not wifi.
I'm really just hoping to get this thing a few more years' life as maybe a word processor or a basement tinkering terminal 🤞