opened a YouTube video, thought my laptop was muted, and then got reminded that there are no speaker drivers
After the just-after-warranty-expired demise of my Thinkpad T13s - an ARM on Windows laptop - I was in the market for something that gave anywhere near the absolutely astounding battery life that I got used to, hauling it around on several flights.
Costco had an M2 MacBook Air on sale, so I cross referenced the Asahi Linux Feature Support wiki page and found out that everything except the webcam, speakers, and microphones worked at least a little bit as of late July 2023.
So I ordered it and decided to get GNOME and my primarily Go/Python/JavaScript-based development workflow running. My installation saga - detailing various solutions for core functionality, pet peeves, and various apps - begins after the break.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,, video games? -- kastel, 2023
(though to be serious, they should link the substack copy of my How Should We Talk About Visual Novels article since revue is gonna die)
Thinking about how instead of saying shrinkage or contraction we say negative growth, as if we cannot ever accept anything in other terms