I’ve seen this enough times that I laughed without watching it. Funny stuff.

However, this guy has actually switched to Linux, and is willing to adapt and learn how to use it.

The letter arrived yesterday.

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

Oh fuck! Is that a RAID array? That must’ve taken so long to put back together!

It’s okay. I’ll probably end up switching to Arch, though.

It works, but there are a couple of issues:

• HiDPI is not supported by cwm, so I’ve had to do “duct tape” fixes on everything (changing .Xresources, changing GTK conf files, increasing the font size in polybar). Qt apps aren’t playing ball.
• The WiFi card isn’t supported by any BSD, so I’m using a dongle.
• The fan doesn’t come on as often as it does on macOS, so the MacBook can get rather hot.
• The headphone jack supports optical jacks as well as standard 3.5mm ones. Under OpenBSD, however, the LED inside is constantly on. This isn’t a problem, but it’s not normal.
• Polybar can’t seem to access any system information (e.g. disk usage), but I suspect that has nothing to do with the hardware.

I’ve already gone and installed macOS 11 alongside OpenBSD (although I’m going to distrohop until I can find something that “sticks”). I might have a look at patching Monterey, though.

As for those specific versions, High Sierra was the oldest version with decent software support, and Mavericks has those lovely skeuomorphic icons. I know it’s old, but I was using OSX Snow Leopard (alongside crunchbang++ i386) until I got this MacBook Pro.

Catalina could be the one, in that case. Essentially:

• Mavericks is the only supported version with skeuomorphic icons
• High Sierra is the earliest version still supported by enough developers for my needs
• Big Sur is the latest version supported on the MacBook