#alethepedia | 2020-11-20

thought before it was only the "air" model

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billymg: exactly

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thimbronion: i've been through 3 'balloon' batteries now..

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asciilifeform: same

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billymg must be lucky, had same macbook pro "retina" since 2012 and original battery still going strong

11:37

I wonder if it's because I rarely ever drain the battery...

11:38

thimbronion: was curious about the OS after reading this article https://archive.is/u7aWQ (says that the new machines will ONLY boot on the latest version of macOS, so was wondering if that also applied to non-apple operating systems)

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11:39

also describes brand new phone home system in the new (required) OS

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"It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it."

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thimbronion: all of my dead batteries had cycle count <4

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billymg: 'feature' copied from microshit/w10

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billymg: I've also been looking at getting a system76 laptop.

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billymg: hopefully as consulting winds down over the next year I can transition to something like that.

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thimbronion: i gave up long ago in chase for 'good laptop'

11:49

there aint any, and not likely to be.

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asciilifeform: I won't contest that.

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thimbronion: i'm in same boat re: macbook as workhorse for (now occasional) fiat gig as well as general toilet box

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though with ancient version of os x

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fiat gigs*

11:54

I'm definitely looking forward to getting a local gentoo box set up again. It's fucking loud though and I hace no place to put it at the moment.

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asciilifeform: yeah i remembered w10 being the OS that jumped the shark with regard to phone home features but never read more into it as never had any desire to go anywhere near windows (since using it in college long ago for pc gaming)

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sad that apple went the same way

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though certainly not surprising

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thimbronion: i solved the noise problem on my desktop by switching out all case fans for Noctua brand fans

11:56

billymg: I did the same. It used to be way worse.

11:57

ah

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billymg: I have a watercooled thing that is completely silent - but it's not amd, etc.

11:58

maybe some other component fan causing the noise? CPU heatsink fan? vidcard, psu?

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IMO if not overclocking then a large air cooled heatsink is sufficient, even on the 125W amd i'm using

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billymg: I'm in kind of a small space at the moment and there's just no escape.

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But yes I have dual cpus, both with giant noctua fans.

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nice

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those are really wonderful fans

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Also installed recently a rather powerful graphics card with a pretty noisy fan - haven't been able to get the display workig since then unfortunately

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