Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.

I’m sure someone will use rust to build a bloated reactive declarative dynamic UI framework, that wastes cycles, eats memory, and is inscrutable to debug.

Nice conspiracy theory.

Yes, OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

Regarding Linux distributions, I don’t have a specific recommendation. You might be worse off with a distro that doesn’t include nonfree drivers for wifi, bluetooth, graphics by default. IIRC these MBPs use Broadcom Wifi chips. Ubuntu and derivatives would be my first try. Definitely read up on how to install Linux on MBPs. You probably might have to configure something in OpenFirmware/EFI.

This is also true for other people.

The biggest issue is security updates and a current internet browser.

Of course I can use a 30 year old computer that still works with the software it can run.

LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.

• Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
• The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
• The presentation software produces ugly results by default.

The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.

Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.

Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.

That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.

LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.

15 years is actually reasonable.

I have a ten year old laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. It still does most things, I bought it for initially just fine. Granted this was one of the best laptops you could buy at the time.

Apple stopped supporting it with a current version of macOS a couple of years ago sadly. It’s still possible to patch newer versions to install and run on the old machine, but it’s a bit of a hassle.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.

I agree with you.

Yes, banks are used for crimes on a massive scale. Usually that’s not available to small time people.

Crypto can be used for criminal activity with a low barrier to entry. There are several use cases where things maybe should not be illegal in the first place. Like buying drugs for example.

For some people feet being gross is what turns them on. Anything taboo or disgusting triggers emotions, which can be channeled sexually.

What country are you talking about?

Israel has actual protests against the government ongoing. It’s not clear if Netanyahu will manage to win the next election.

There are no protests in Russia at all and elections are a farce.

FreeBSD of course.

I read posts just like yours ten years ago.

Last half for the painter of this picture.

Is it that long ago already? I thought they had kept it around. Thank you for updating me.