Welcome to Otisburg!

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.

Coughs in Metal Gear Solid 3.

That’s would be the Bee’s Knees.

Bray, maybe? Is that an affirmative equine sound?

so unfortunate that neigh doesn’t work for the pun here.

British comedian Leomard “Lemmy” Henry.

I said goodbye to MacOS after PTP stopped working for Android phones (Photos, Image Capture, Lightroom), and the Android File Transfer (MTP) app broke around the same Mac OS upgrade. I would assume they eventually fixed some of that, but I just don’t have any trust left in Apple after all that. My mini is running Windows 10 now, with the bootcamp drivers.

I’m genuinely glad for you and the other poster here who got by unscathed. Maybe we have slightly different chipsets. Mine is bcm57766/b57nd60a.

Was it ever just flagged as a bug, or some intentional planned obsolescence on the part of Apple?

Mine was out of support by the time I noticed. And for whatever reason I was in the vast majority minority of people who didn’t think buying a new external NIC was an acceptable solution, like that other guy who replied to me here.

May just make it a server for plex or something.

Exactly what I was going to do with it when I moved it to somewhere wired. I now instead have a Synology Diskstation that can do hardware encoding/decoding. I still use the Mini, but after the PTP thing I wiped the disk and run Windows on it (for Lightroom Classic, and honestly the Gb would still be welcome with the media stored on the NAS, and I use Synology Drive to sync the Catalog folders)

I think there are some workarounds to get past the “supported OS” thing

If I remember correctly, with the first OS update that had the downgrade, you could roll back to the previous OS version (or boot Windows or Linux) and get it back, so it was just in the driver. But then at some point that stopped working too, so maybe an on-chip firmware update had been applied too. I tried store-bought and home-made Cat 5e/6 cables, different switch ports, hot-swapping different computers to confirm they would negotiate to Gb, and even loading the vendor OEM drivers and utilities after installing Windows.

Genuinely happy for you to have escaped this issue. I had mine on wifi when the OS update that killed it rolled out, because I couldn’t run a cable to that part of my house, so I didn’t notice until a couple of years after the fact. Even booting Linux or Windows it was still stuck at 100Mbps. There used to be a lot more threads on the Apple forums and they inevitably ended in people being content to just buying external thunderbolt adapters to get the speed back.

Any report?

Dude, they disabled a capability of the hardware it shipped with, with a firmware update in the OD update. I have one of the affected Minis. I bought a computer that shipped with gigabit Ethernet and they removed that feature. I don’t care if I could buy an external adapter. Would you think it was ok of Nvidia retroactively capped you 120fps GPU at 12fps because you can just buy another GPU?

I’m a bitch, I’m a lover
I’m Hulk Hogan, hey there brother
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Not mine, saw it on Bluesky I think

oh, that’s a puzzle piece? Then googling it, @[email protected]’s guess was right, the puzzle piece is LfS.

but when the day comes on that Red Hat starts making questionable choices,

Uh that day came and went when they changed CentOS from a downstream source rebuild of RHEL to an upstream dev branch that stabilizes into RHEL. They’ve now gone off the rails with closing public access to the sources and having RHEL T&C require customers to either relinquish they’re GPL right to redistribute the sources or have their support contract terminated.

I know with 100% certainty that if my MacBook did a thing last week, it will do it tomorrow.

You would be wrong. They disabled gigabit ethernet in 2012/203 iMacs/Minis with an OS update, 100mbps only after that. They broke PTP for Android phones with an OS update.

I think it’s Kali

cranberryzero was the shit.

Dig[g] up? Admit it, you’re Mr Babyman!

If you click the question mark icon at the far right of the markdown buttons when in the comment editor it should take you to documentation for the markdown.

::: spoiler This is the displayed text. 
This content  
Is hidden, can put images and everything here
:::

I don’t think any mobile apps actually support this spoiler syntax though.

I’ve seen comments to the effect that Calckey is the Fediverse Tumblr.

Always, I want to be with you!

A master, and a baiter.

User-level instance blocking is not yet implemented. You could use an instance that is defederated from lemmy.world, such as beehaw.org.

On desktop browser, you have to right-click the button and copy the link, which can then be posted into an app the takes the otpauth URI.

Once a user on instance A subscribes to a community on instance B, then instance A starts caching posts from the community on B. But to my understanding it doesn’t retroactively fetch all historical posts and comments.

The problem with this is where do you draw the lines and how do you enforce it? For example I mod a community for a specific sports league. Should there be an instance for the one league with communities for each of the teams? Maybe an instance for the sport in general but then what if you have the same team names in different leagues. Or the same league name in different countries? What about if we wanted to group team communities under a geographic instances instead of by league or by sport?

I’m not sure if you can block an instance as a user

Nope

I was actually talking about the movie! Featuring an AI that comes up with a plan for “meeting everybody’s needs.” ;)

Although, with the advances in AI, maybe someone could write a story about some megacorp AI meeting everybody’s needs. It might be an interesting writing experiment.

You mean like iRobot?

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