Sure, but a new battery isn’t that expensive

Thanks! I thought the problem was the T2 chip and I thought the non touchbar macs had them too, but it’s been a while since I looked into this. I have a machine with a broken touchbar that could plausibly run something that isn’t macOS and was very disappointed when I realised I essentially had to install special distros with some kernel patch or something on it.

What do the v3 and v4 in the architectures mean?

This is a pity because MacBooks pro from ca 2013-2015 are great; cheap second hand because they’re out of support in macOS, good screens, excellent build quality and fast enough for anything you want to do with them.

I wouldn’t recommend macs in general. Anything with a touch bar (intels from ca 2018-19 and on) are tricky to get to run Linux at all, anything with apple silicon is very experimental, and the older models have Broadcom Wi-Fi that doesn’t ship with drivers on any distribution I know of.

Are you looking for help or are you just venting?

Makes sense, mine is a sheltie but is constantly mistaken for an Aussie

What breed is that? It looks almost exactly like my dog!

Those really are the loudest coveralls I’ve ever seen. You succeeded!

Upvote for dogs

One of my harder earned life lessons is it’s structurally impossible to run a company that develops and sells a product based on this kind of soft values and buying devices from them is almost always a recipe for disappointment. It doesn’t even have to be the fault of the company (though it often is)

I’d like for there to be only one, but it doesn’t matter to me which one that is.

I guess it depends on which ones don’t move here. Right now it’s all of them, but that might improve later.

Frankly I’ve been looking for a while now and I can’t figure out how to subscribe to a community?