Mint causing PSU failure? - Lemmy.World
So I’ve dabbled with trying out Linux over the past 10ish years, but this past
year I’ve been trying to commit to the transition away from Windows entirely due
to the sunsetting of Win10. The computers I own are fairly old (newest one being
a laptop from 2018), since money has been very tight for a while, so I figured
they would get some revitalization from using an OS that wasn’t so bloated.
However, the 2 old PCs and 1 Chromebook I installed Linux Mint onto all had
their PSUs fail within the span of a month, which is making me paranoid. Both
PCs were really old (2013) and were what I had for basic steam gaming until I
got a Steam Deck last year, but I put Mint v21 Xfce on them for basic web
browsing and programming (v22 had too many issues with the old Nvidia graphics
card). The Chromebook was from around 2015 and I gave it to my parents to use
since all they needed was something to browse the web and check their finances.
I put Mint Cinnamon v22.1 on it just a couple months back. Mint seemed to run
really well on all 3 computers for several months, they weren’t
overused/overclocked, and weren’t kept on or in hibernation for more than a day.
Then without warning, one by one they all just refused to boot up entirely.
Pressing the power buttons does nothing, not even a brief flicker of life. Does
anyone else have experience with this kind of thing happening to them? I’m not
looking for a fix to these computers since I’m pretty sure they’re all
completely dead, but all of this happening in such a short timeframe feels like
it’s not just a coincidence. Is this a common problem with Mint that I just
didn’t see when looking for a distro to use on old hardware? Honestly just
baffled. I still have one laptop left that’s running win10 that I’d like to get
transferred over to some version of Linux soon, but this experience has made me
very hesitant. I really need this laptop readily available for studying and job
hunting, but I’m quite aware of the security risks the longer I use win10.
What are some science fields or projects that could use programming help?
https://lemmy.world/post/32817418
What are some science fields or projects that could use programming help? - Lemmy.World
Sorry if this isn’t the right place for this question but I couldn’t think of
anywhere better to put it. So I finished my degree in computer science a couple
years ago right when the tech crash just started hitting, and the job market has
been an enormous clusterfuck. Instead of trying to get a job where everyone
seems to be going all-in on LLMs, machine learning, and crypto bullshit, I’d
really like to be able to put my programming skills to good use helping out
scientific research in some way, but I have no clue where to start. While in
college I did help out my university’s biology research department by writing
small programs here and there to help undergrad/grad students who weren’t very
knowledgeable about technical solutions, but because of the recent funding cuts
to scientific research and education, everyone there is struggling harder than I
am. Ideally I’d love to help contribute to causes that help improve people’s
lives (or astronomy just because space is cool). Does anyone know of resources I
could look into to start down this path?
Need help setting up macOS virtual machine
https://lemmy.world/post/31726364
Need help setting up macOS virtual machine - Lemmy.World
I have an upcoming interview for a position developing iOS apps using SwiftUI,
but I don’t have experience programming for SwiftUI (my prior experience was in
ReactNative) and don’t own any Apple devices so I can’t use Xcode to practice. I
have tried setting up Oracle VirtualBox on my PC with Windows10 to run Mac OS
v12.01 Monterey (64-bit) several times with different settings, but every time I
start it up, it gets stuck on the following lines: -
ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start -
waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out -
ApplePC::notifyPlatformASPM - registering with plugin with ASPM Support false -
AppleKeyStore: 7492:109: unexpected session: 100000 uid: -1 requested by: 109 -
AppleKeyStore: 11150:109: operation failed (sel: 7 ret: e00002c2, -1, 100000) -
IOConsoleUsers: time(0) 0->0, lin 0, lik 1, - IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLockState
3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0 I admittedly don’t have much experience with
VirtualBox or MacOS, and any time I’ve tried to search for these specific
messages I come up empty. Is there any way of getting this virtual mac running
to the point where I can start using Xcode, or am I just out of luck?
