well, the biggest motherfucker was the non-functional internal display. it burned out 8 years ago (as almost all did), but running it headless under MacOS 10.~ was never an issue. That OS always had fallbacks via Apple Remote Desktop and MacOS driver magics.
I’ll make a post later and write up the fill details (the workarounds/fixes were surprisingly simple, but very difficult to find, and I never would have found them on my own)
edit: I tried ChatGPT first, and while I got reasonably far, it just either pointed me in the right direction or handed me an answer without context, Claud actually found what I needed immediately, but also explained everything in detail and also WHY everything worked the way it did, gave me background, context, alternative options, approaches, and more.
Incredibly niche situations like that are the best tech help posts, because you could be a lifesaver to someone who finds themselves in that exact trouble again one day.
see, I’m not a tech or even a linux newbie, but I don’t often find myself in especially weird/niche situations. I also don’t like spending days/weeks trying to dig through decades of forum posts looking for the one other person ever to have a problem sort of similar to mine twelve years ago and then to try interpolating their solution from another distro to mine while being unaware of possibly hundreds of variables which might make a difference, leading me down a month-long road of trial-and-error until I come up with a maybe-solution that might work until I widdle it down to something that actually resembles what I want. I know that I don’t like this because I’ve spent decades wasting time going through this many times before. I suspect many people have.
no. I’ll ask claud to do all that process for me in 5 seconds and spit out a solution that works now, and I don’t feel bad for using Claude for that, especially if it actually teaches me all of the process while it’s at it.
well, the biggest motherfucker was the non-functional internal display. it burned out 8 years ago (as almost all did), but running it headless under MacOS 10.~ was never an issue. That OS always had fallbacks via Apple Remote Desktop and MacOS driver magics.
I’ll make a post later and write up the fill details (the workarounds/fixes were surprisingly simple, but very difficult to find, and I never would have found them on my own)
edit: I tried ChatGPT first, and while I got reasonably far, it just either pointed me in the right direction or handed me an answer without context, Claud actually found what I needed immediately, but also explained everything in detail and also WHY everything worked the way it did, gave me background, context, alternative options, approaches, and more.
Incredibly niche situations like that are the best tech help posts, because you could be a lifesaver to someone who finds themselves in that exact trouble again one day.
see, I’m not a tech or even a linux newbie, but I don’t often find myself in especially weird/niche situations. I also don’t like spending days/weeks trying to dig through decades of forum posts looking for the one other person ever to have a problem sort of similar to mine twelve years ago and then to try interpolating their solution from another distro to mine while being unaware of possibly hundreds of variables which might make a difference, leading me down a month-long road of trial-and-error until I come up with a maybe-solution that might work until I widdle it down to something that actually resembles what I want. I know that I don’t like this because I’ve spent decades wasting time going through this many times before. I suspect many people have.
no. I’ll ask claud to do all that process for me in 5 seconds and spit out a solution that works now, and I don’t feel bad for using Claude for that, especially if it actually teaches me all of the process while it’s at it.