Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
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Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
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Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
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#3The only reaction I can think of to this massive non-sequitur of an article is "WTF?"
If you really care about forced obsolescence, refuse to upgrade and push back strongly whenever you can against the wildly wasteful web and its effective browser monopoly. Write and prefer native code. Add drivers for hardware that's "no longer supported". What does this have to do with Hackintoshing? No idea.
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#4The only reaction I can think of to this massive non-sequitur of an article is "WTF?" If you really care about forced obsolescence, refuse to upgrade and push back strongly whenever you can against the wildly wasteful web and its effective browser monopoly. Write and prefer native code. Add drivers for hardware that's "no longer supported". What does this have to do with Hackintoshing? No idea.
There's a flavor of virtue signaling about saving the environment using really old hardware.
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#5Just install linux and move on with life
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#6The only reaction I can think of to this massive non-sequitur of an article is "WTF?" If you really care about forced obsolescence, refuse to upgrade and push back strongly whenever you can against the wildly wasteful web and its effective browser monopoly. Write and prefer native code. Add drivers for hardware that's "no longer supported". What does this have to do with Hackintoshing? No idea.
There's a flavor of virtue signaling about saving the environment using really old hardware.
Yes, but associating that with Hackintoshing is the weirdest part.
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#7Just install linux and move on with life
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Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#8Just install linux and move on with life
For those who care about their life and getting things done just install WSL.
You still get to run Windows as normal and have Linux running without messing around or playing with display servers, drivers and the like.
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#9Just install linux and move on with life
For those who care about their life and getting things done just install WSL. You still get to run Windows as normal and have Linux running without messing around or playing with display servers, drivers and the like.
I tried WSL, but when WSL 1 was abandoned in favor of Hyper-V I was devastated because the new Hyper-V WSL is kind of shit in comparison. No longer are processes and files shared with the host system, you just get an opaque block of CPU and an opaque block of disk space being used. BTW, if at any time in the future you have to clear out part of that opaque block of disk space to make room - good luck shrinking it. I completely recognize why WSL 1 could have been unsustainable for Microsoft but that does not mean that I do not disagree with the decision to abandon it.
There is a certain attraction to the Linux being safely contained but I'm just not getting it at all. I don't want my Linux in a container, I want to live there.
So basically that's why I now use macOS, because it doesn't have to use hacks like WSL in order to be like Linux, it just already is Unix.
Also in general I tend to find that Apple is more detail-oriented than Microsoft, they are probably autistic as fuck and that is a very good thing. (in my opinion)
I'm not yet fully happy with the state of affairs on desktop Linux, although GNOME is to a degree shaping up to a decent experience (partly by copying macOS, though). Their trackpad support is far better than Windows, for example.
Re: Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice
#10For calibrating your understanding of greenhouse gas emissions producing, packaging, shipping, using, and recovering materials from a 14-inch MacBook Pro in 2023 emits about 243 kg of carbon [1], which is equivalent to using 27 gallons of gasoline. [2]
For some people, this may math out. But it's probably easier to worry less about buying a new laptop every once in a while, and more about driving a bit less or getting a more efficient car.
[1] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/14-... [2] https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calc...