Outdated Peripherals

[harshness]

Whether it's taking a series of screen shots with specific step by step instructions on how to make Acrobat/Acrobat Reader the default PDF Viewer because an update reset it to Edge

That's a four-step process (unless you do it the Windows way). Right click on a PDF, select properties, click on "opens with" change button and click on the reader. Going in through settings takes more steps and involves a whole lot of scrolling to get to the .pdf file type.

Please tell me that you don't paste this into Word.

The trick would be to prevent Windows from messing with your choices.

 

[Yespage]

I use print screen all the time. Scroll Lock is the button that confuses me, I've never seen it called for to be used in my entire life.

 

[rvvaquero]

Scroll Lock is the button that confuses me

Yeah, they need to replace it with a troll lock.

 

[EarDemon]

That's a four-step process (unless you do it the Windows way). Right click on a PDF, select properties, click on "opens with" change button and click on the reader. Going in through settings takes more steps and involves a whole lot of scrolling to get to the .pdf file type.

Please tell me that you don't paste this into Word.

The trick would be to prevent Windows from messing with your choices.

Right Click ->Open With -> Choose Another App -> Adobe Acrobat or Reader -> Check Always Use This App

It gets pasted into Outlook and Teams

I use print screen all the time. Scroll Lock is the button that confuses me, I've never seen it called for to be used in my entire life.

I've seen Excel nerds use Scroll Lock in worksheets, apparently it makes something easier. I have no idea how to use Excel for what it's designed for nor do I want to. I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a fork then work with spreadsheets.

 

[Yespage]

I guessed it dates back to the Lotus 123 days of DOS spreadsheets.

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[navychop]

DOS ain't done until ………

 

[harshness]

DOS ain't done until ………

Until 64K isn't enough memory.

 

[navychop]

…(something) won't run.

 

[Foxbat]

Apple is trying to unload some Lumon peripherals:

Mac - Lumon Terminal Pro

See how Mac — and not the Lumon Terminal Pro — was used to edit the Apple Original series Severance.

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[harshness]

Apple is trying to unload some Lumon peripherals:

Apple Fools!

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[Foxbat]

Foxbat, Jr., dropped off his old 2011 MacBook Air which was dead as a doornail because the MagSafe1 power brick died. I had pulled it out of storage the other day, thinking I might just take it to Apple to be recycled. The problem was it being dead, he didn't have a chance to wipe off his profile or data after he had migrated to his new MacBook Pro.

Anyway, I had picked up a cheap little dongle from Amazon that uses a standard USB-C power cable and PD USB-C Power Brick to plug into the dongle's Type-C connector to the original MagSafe connector (now known as MagSafe1). It's a much more affordable solution since I saw Apple 45W MagSafe1 power supplies were ~$70. I connected it to the MBA and got the "Happy Mac" sound. The PD power brick I got has a power indicator and I saw it was drawing 40-43 Watts.

I booted into the Apple Hardware Diagnostics utility and everything tested good. I booted up into Recovery Mode and after verifying with Foxbat, Jr. that there weren't any files or data he wanted, I erased the macOS partition and the TimeMachine partition (yes, I know it was a bad configuration, but at least he had backups while he was using it). When I went to install High Sierra, however, I got stymied by this:

Fortunately, Google to the rescue, by searching this image Google found an article at StackOverflow that explained how to fix this problem, and yay, it worked out for me. So, last thing was a PRAM reset (being an Intel processor) to wipe the last vestiges of any personal information from this machine.

Boy, I don't miss the Intel processors. As it was updating the OS, the fans were going gangbusters to keep it cool. I don't think I've ever heard the fan in my M4-powered Air, and the M3 MacBook Pro I had a few years back would only run the fans when decoding complex video streams, which wasn't very often.

But, this Late 2011 MacBook Air was pretty easy to work on. I had used it for my work and Foxbat, Jr., inherited it for his College years after I replaced the battery and upgraded the SSD to 480 GB. Unfortunately, Apple stopped support for these and any 3rd-party browsers have likewise moved on and won't support High Sierra. Time to install Linux…

 

[b4pjoe]

Foxbat, Jr., dropped off his old 2011 MacBook Air which was dead as a doornail because the MagSafe1 power brick died. I had pulled it out of storage the other day, thinking I might just take it to Apple to be recycled. The problem was it being dead, he didn't have a chance to wipe off his profile or data after he had migrated to his new MacBook Pro.

Anyway, I had picked up a cheap little dongle from Amazon that uses a standard USB-C power cable and PD USB-C Power Brick to plug into the dongle's Type-C connector to the original MagSafe connector (now known as MagSafe1). It's a much more affordable solution since I saw Apple 45W MagSafe1 power supplies were ~$70. I connected it to the MBA and got the "Happy Mac" sound. The PD power brick I got has a power indicator and I saw it was drawing 40-43 Watts.

I booted into the Apple Hardware Diagnostics utility and everything tested good. I booted up into Recovery Mode and after verifying with Foxbat, Jr. that there weren't any files or data he wanted, I erased the macOS partition and the TimeMachine partition (yes, I know it was a bad configuration, but at least he had backups while he was using it). When I went to install High Sierra, however, I got stymied by this:

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Fortunately, Google to the rescue, by searching this image Google found an article at StackOverflow that explained how to fix this problem, and yay, it worked out for me. So, last thing was a PRAM reset (being an Intel processor) to wipe the last vestiges of any personal information from this machine.

Boy, I don't miss the Intel processors. As it was updating the OS, the fans were going gangbusters to keep it cool. I don't think I've ever heard the fan in my M4-powered Air, and the M3 MacBook Pro I had a few years back would only run the fans when decoding complex video streams, which wasn't very often.

But, this Late 2011 MacBook Air was pretty easy to work on. I had used it for my work and Foxbat, Jr., inherited it for his College years after I replaced the battery and upgraded the SSD to 480 GB. Unfortunately, Apple stopped support for these and any 3rd-party browsers have likewise moved on and won't support High Sierra. Time to install Linux…

You can install up to macOS Sequoia on it using OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher). OCLP is getting phased out because Tahoe is the last version that will work with Intel CPU's and I don't think it was ever updated for Tahoe but it still should work fine up through Sequoia.

 

[navychop]

If I can't revive our old iPad 3, I may need to do a sledgehammer reset.

 

[Foxbat]

Time to install Linux…

 

[harshness]

I think you might be happier with Mint than Ubuntu. Mint leans orders of magnitude less on Canonical's proprietary and industry-trailing Snap single-file executable system.

Mint is also the development bed for Cinnamon.

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[Foxbat]

It looks like Ubuntu v26 likes the fifteen year old MacBook Air and its 1.7 GHz Core i5 processor. It has 4 GB of RAM, which used to be a lot, remember? Now, you get bigger emails from your Grandma…

 

[Foxbat]

I think you might be happier with Mint than Ubuntu. Mint leans orders of magnitude less on Canonical's proprietary and industry-trailing Snap single-file executable system.

Mint is also the development bed for Cinnamon.

I'll have to try that. Ubuntu is what I got familiar with back in the Folding @ Home days.

 

[HipKat]

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I agree with Harshness that you may like Mint better or Peppermint, which is a lighter version that works well with older machines

 

[harshness]

I'll have to try that. Ubuntu is what I got familiar with back in the Folding @ Home days.

Mint is built on Ubuntu (which is built, in turn, on Debian), so not much is unfamiliar. The differences are mostly in Mint's favor.

 

[osu1991]

I went with Linux Fedora on a roughly same vintage old laptop. A Dell Inspiron 5548 with a 5th gen i5-5200u and 8 GB ram. Around a 2015-2016 model I think. It was my nephews laptop for high school and college. It lived a rough life being dropped a few times and the last time cracked the corner of the case and hinge and apparently broke the wifi wire. I put a usb wifi dongle on it and kept it for a spare then it stopped booting and when I took it apart the battery was swollen and the hard drive was dead. Hated to throw it away as it was an easy fix and still usable, so I ordered a new battery for $20 and swapped an extra 1TB SSD I had into it. Then windows 10 didn't want to authenticate on the reinstall so I said F'it and put Linux on it to play around with. I had tried Fedora before and was somewhat familiar with it, so thats what I went with. It's usually the laptop I take out on the patio to browse around with if I don't have an ipad handy.

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