Notices by Matt Quick :unverified: (mattthequick@fosstodon.org)

If you are able, go donate to your local PBS and/or NPR stations. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs

This whole thing yesterday was the push I needed to finally #DeleteTwitter. I haven’t used the account in years but I’m done now.

I just got tickets to Windy City Riot in Chicago! LFG! #njpw

Who is ready for #njwk19 in a little bit?

Who is ready for WrestleKingdom 19 tonight?! #njwk19

Today, we celebrate a man who by the time of his mid-thirties had changed the world.

Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton, born December 25th 1642 (as reckoned in England)!

#Santa is on the move! https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

Happy Sunday everyone!

I’m spending some time tonight reading through some of the FBI case files on #DBCooper

New kernel update for Linux Mint means I have to once again run through the steps to get everything working on my MacBook Pro again. Another time I’m glad I documented the steps when I got this thing working a while back.

@btp I got a fantastic deal on issues 1, 7, and 8 and said to myself “Welp, might as well just try and finish the run.” Last one came in the post today.

I’ve now collected all 24 issues of Marvel’s Godzilla King of the Monsters run from the 1970s. #ComicBooks

@tylerhall Yeah. Just played a few. I’m hooked. I’d be happy to beta test for you via TestFlight if you ever need someone.

@analogfusion Me too. When I saw the kernel update in Update Manager I went “Well, I bet that’s going to break everything” and sure enough I was right. Too bad those drivers aren’t just cooked into the kernel already.

Starting my day by updating my Linux Mint install on my MacBook Pro (there is a whole thread about setting it up a while back). I’m glad I wrote a blog post about how to fix the camera, microphone, speakers, and Bluetooth on this device because I had to run through all those steps again.

@hisaac Recently I read “Eight Billion Genies” and thought it was fantastic. But I’d have to say my all-time favorite is “Batman - The Killing Joke”.

I had a hell of a time getting the drivers to work on Linux Mint for a few things so I wrote up a quick and dirty guide of what I did to get everything working. You can find it here. I hope it helps someone else down the line as these Intel MacBooks approach the end of their OS support from Apple. https://mattthequick.bearblog.dev/macbook-pro-141-mid-2017-audio-camera-microphone-and-bluetooth-fix/

@LateNightLinux Eggnog - yay or nay?

Upgrade to macOS Ventura completed. I then shrunk that partition to half the hard drive, and installed Linux Mint on the other half. Just going to fully patch that and see if everything works (no audio drivers at this point but I’ve got a lot of patches and a kernel update to install). All in all, looks like $40 for this MacBook Pro was money well spent.

Looks like this thing can go all the way to macOS Ventura, which is still supported by security updates. Creating the recovery USB now and then I’m going to upgrade and see what happens.