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That old "mac can support 64bit OSes but will only boot 32bit EFI" was one of the first rabbit hole I encountered but casually trying to install Linux. I managed to do it but with such pain. This was the first program I compiled and I didn't know C or programming at the time :
https://github.com/cassepipe/make_single_eltorito.c
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
> Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse
Many people already have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard lying around. They'll also have a phone already. Plus, there are very cheap docks where you can just slide your phone into a laptop shell, priced similarly to the worst and most awful Chromebooks imaginable.
> So nothing works offline.
You can run a vscode server on your phone (https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases). What's lacking is the VSCode GUI, so pointing a browser at http://[::1]:8080/ will work just fine.
I use a 2007 iMac running Snow Leopard as my photo lab workstation. Upgraded to 5GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Runs Aperture 2, scans film, and prints photos like a dream. It can even do some light web browsing with https://github.com/wicknix/InterWebSnow, but it often struggles with the modern web.
This machine can also be upgraded to a Core 2 Extreme, but I haven't found that necessary for my workflow.
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