Their support blamed my friend swapping the SSD with another one for the main board dying. There was nothing wrong with the SSD. He put it in another computer and it worked just fine for years.

We will never even consider buying one of their piece of shit laptops again.

lol

I mean they’re not entirely wrong. 1% lows are very much an issue and you can see the spikes in OPs screenshot.

But uh… let’s just say they’re a pretty notorious user.

I really want to go AV1 too. Most of what I play is airplayed from my ipad to whatever so I only need my iPad to support it. But I’m not buying an iPad air just to airplay AV1.

But H265 has been prevalent for about 10 years now so basically any smart TV made in the last 3 years should support it. And if yours don’t then any el cheapo smart tv stick should.

You don’t even necessarily need to delete either. If you have a ton of H.264 video you could convert it to 265 or AV1 with minimal quality loss, but huge space savings.

Battery life has been worse for me on Intel machines vs PowerBooks. The Intel machines just did so much more.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527#%3A~%3Atext=and+it+will+remain+available+through+the+forthcoming+macOS+27+—+the+next+major+macOS+release.

Rosetta is currently available for any Mac with Apple silicon, and it will remain available through the forthcoming macOS 27 — the next major macOS release. Starting with computers using macOS 28, Rosetta functionality will be available only for certain older, unmaintained games that rely on Intel-based frameworks.

Neat, wonder what’s included in Mac OS 28s games, and if it can be hacked to run on whatever.

Link works for me now. Federation seems slow sometimes.

FYI Rosetta 2 is not supported on the next Mac OS release so it won’t be playable if you update.

Nobody is buying this CPU for the value.

Don’t make the post if you don’t want others to benefit from it.

PM a random person and bother them if you want to be selfish hoard the info for yourself. Don’t make a public post on a public messaging board if you don’t want that info to be public.

I absolutely detest how on lemmy deleting a post also nukes access to the comments. They’re still there, but there’s no way in many normally lemmy UI to get to them.

Thankfully I can still use my American Express!

I don’t see why that would have broken anything. I’ve never done that before. I’m pretty sure on that old version of Mac OS you could’ve just run resetpassword in terminal to have reset it. But maybe that’s only on the dvd.

Well as long as disk utility works find an iso of whatever Mac OS you want to run and burn that to a USB drive. 10.6 is my favorite since it still has Rosetta to run old PPC OSX software, has the old look, but has the best software support.

They can, but most mainstream distros started dropping support for them a few years ago so software support is getting pretty rough.

Honestly I’d just keep it on Mac OS and explore old Mac OS and its quirks. If you downgrade to 10.4 you can run classic Mac OS games/software in addition to osx software. Mac OS has no drm so just burn a disk and boot off it. 10.4 only needs a single layer dvd, 10.5 needs a dual layer. If it’s an early G5 then any 10.4 installer will work, if it’s one of the last then you’ll need the machine specific restore dvd. You can find all the software you can dream of on Macintosh garden.

USB boot is possible but a little finicky. If you’re going to try Linux use a DVD. Linux is “supported” but it’s not worth the pain of the quirks of USB boot and the quirks of Linux on Mac.

Oh that’s not a G5 that’s an Intel iMac. Yeah Linux will boot just fine on that machine USB or dvd. I’d still play with old Mac OS on it since as soon as you put modern Linux on it becomes just a boring PC that can’t run much to me.

BMW did that and everyone hated it.

People don’t want synthetic sounds, they want the real thing.

If you’re legally blind you cannot get a drivers license. And it doesn’t take much to be legally blind.

Plenty of people have “enough” DDR4, but want more CPU performance. This is perfect for that.

120-140w. That’s with 5 hard drives spinning 24/7 and now a GPU I added in there to do mostly nothing. Would be 100-120 without it.

However, he cautioned that the production investments could drop if mega technology firms see their return on investment on AI capital expenditure drop.

There’s also that.