I have a 2011 MacBook pro with 16GB RAM, but the screen is dead. Time to see if I can remember the magic key combination to get past the BIOS screen so the external monitor can work to install some flavor of headless linux
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Ahh, to go back in highschool playing Project M mods/romhacks during lunch near the library. The first time I've touched Linux, using Fedora on a USB 2.0 stick to bypass the main Windows 7 OS on my school laptop.
A time still during Obama, one year before Trump gets elected. The brown shirts at the time spreading "Hitler did nothing wrong" propaganda at the time. And I still had my soul and dignity back then.
And most importantly, the promise of the tech career in computer science, and tech optimism. The future was looking bright then.
I can't wait to get my TMS treatment soon
I mean if it really could send us back, that would be just swell
Feels less like time travel and more like cost-cutting dressed up as progress.