MacBook Air Shenanigans

I spent more hours than is reasonable getting Fedora updated on my old MacBook Air (2013). 4 gigs of ram, hilarious.

The clock was set to February when this booted up, so it’s been at least 5 or 6 months since I ran the machine. The screen isn’t good but it’s overall a quality laptop. Framework laptop isn’t as well built, really. But much more powerful, and much more RAM.

Trouble is I updated to Fedora 40, which took several hours, and then wifi didn’t work. Why? I’m not sure. Some weird issues but the broadcom-wl package was installed and up to date and the card was showing up is lspci, like it was working. But Network Manager showed nothing at all. Why?

Goosing it on the CLI using the various wireless tools got it working, but then after a while it stopped. Couldn’t say if it crashed or if it just timed out because it was after 1 am and I didn’t go digging through the logs.

The Weather (Again)

Two thoughts on weather, though not particularly original:

  1. Apple cannot get their shit together. The weather widgets have been saying “Severe Weather” 24/7 for weeks. It’s useless. Is it a heat advisory, in which case it should say “Heat Advisory”, or is it an air quality warning which similarly should be explicit? It certainly isn’t thunderstorms or hail… Do they just not have weather in Cupertino? It’s embarrassing how bad it is.
  2. It looks like the extreme heat may break in a few days. Let’s hope.

RG35xx SP Update

I’ve been running the stock OS on my Anbernic RG35xx SP. I don’t love the stock OS but it works and has pretty nice overlays for mobile systems. And pretty bad ones for normal consoles.

After a recent Retro Game Corps video I decided to give muOS another look. I set it all up, set up Skraper to download artwork, copied all my games (but not saves…) over, and got auto-sleep and shutdown configured. Got PortMaster working too. At this point I’ll probably keep it on muOS, though I have the stock SD card and that will certainly keep working fine as well.

Some Linux Gaming

I was playing around with installing games on my Linux laptop so I installed Fallout New Vegas and 80 Days. New Vegas loads up and seems to run well with minimal configuration, though it’s unplayable with the keyboard and trackpad. Better with a mouse, or use a controller. It was mostly to see how it ran than anything. It did take 20 minutes or so to compile shaders. I assume that isn’t needed on Steam Deck as they are precompiled and downloaded.

80 Days also loaded up and ran without issues, though it set the fans alight. I finished an old run I had left in dire straits, getting to London in the afternoon on Day 80. Then I ran a new run and managed it in 69 days, though it was a rough journey.

Posted on 06 August 2024