I forgot this thread even existed. Basically, I did the research, there is no non-cloud vacuum unless you root it yourself and use Valetudo. The Dreames are the easiest to hack but be careful when purchasing models that were manufactured after 2021 because the publically available method doesn’t work on them. There is still a private method being shared around some Telegrams and what not but I didn’t have the time to look into it.
from AliExpress…
yeah…
something tells me that this is just a handheld pc with pcsx2 on the backend
My T60 ThinkPad still works…
Fedora Asahi is for ARM64 versions of MacOS, your 2012 MacBook Pro is x86, meaning that any x86 Linux distribution will run on it. My personal recommendation for someone who is not as tech savvy is Linux Mint. You don’t have to install it either until you decide it’s a good fit and instead run it from RAM and fiddle around with it until you decide it’s a good choice.
Liars! Galaxy S5 was IP67. One of the Xperia phones (forgot which one) was also water resistant but without an IP rating. IIRC one of the HTC phones was also water resistant. At the very least Apple, don’t piss in our faces and tell us it’s raining.
I recently discovered Yabai & sky’s which has a learning curve but once you master it, it is the optimal way to use a computer (I’m just a Linux user who was forced to use a Mac as his work machine)
Not really, in OSX earlier than Ventura, when it prompts to select network you can skip it and then once you’re inside the host block Apple’s ABM in /etc/hosts
If it’s running macOS Ventura and was previously enrolled into their MDM, every time you install the operating system (OSX Ventura), you will be prompted to connect to the internet which evidently means it will be enrolled into their MDM once again.
You can burn a MacOS Monterey image to a thumb drive, install it on the Mac, and when it asks you to select a network, you skip it, which bypasses the enrollment into the company’s MDM.
Burning MacOS on a thumb drive from Windows: Since Windows doesn’t have native APFS support, I assume you will need to first set up a MacOS virtual machine (others feel free to correct me, I never had done this due to access to a plethora of Macs I have) , passthrough a USB thumb drive to it, burn MacOS Monterey to it from within the virtual machine and then use it on your 2018 MBP.
This will require some trickery, and the solution itself is a bit hacky, but it’s managable.
As with any software release, I usually hold back until things are resolved. My apps work, I’m happy that they do, and that’s good enough for me.