Subj : Re: Purism Librem 14 - Dead after ~4 Months
To   : Greenlfc
From : paulie420
Date : Fri Aug 26 2022 21:50:12

 Gr> FWIW, I've run OpenBSD on a Mac Mini 2,1 (2011) with decent success. 
 Gr> Check my gemlog for details.  The biggest issue with it was that there's
 Gr> no drivers (at least not without doing some kernel hackery I couldn't be
 Gr> bothered with) for the wireless card.

Awesome, I will try to spin up a gem client to doso - I quickly got my wireless 


































































































































































































































































































































































card up with broadcom-wl, as opposed to the Arch-stock broadcom - but speakers 
and webcam are nowhere to be found as of yet. :P Its fun, tho... got that HiDPi 


































































































































































































































































































































































and fractional crackin. :P

 Gr> I have my work-issued MBP 15 (2018 or 2019) begging to get Linux, but as
 Gr> the start of this thread indicates, I need a backup work machine for
 Gr> when my primary goes down.  If I hadn't fallen back to the Mac, I
 Gr> would've been on a Latitude E7440 from 2014 :D.  (actually, still a
 Gr> decent machine with 16GB and a good SSD, as long as you keep the tabs
 Gr> down and avoid Teams).

Yea, the machine I'm playing on is a 2017 iMac Pro - the fact that I need to 
get rid of that stupid 'fusion drive', which is just a 26GB SSD w/ a 1TB HDD 
linked together with MacOS software hackery is ever-apparent. :/ Ugh. I don't 
wanna cut that screen off just to doso; however, if I do I can replace the 
current teeny NVME and the HDD with SSD hardware that will allow me to dual 
MacOS and *nix in a much better way. Damnit.

 Gr> I'll give a full update once it's arrived, but Purism confirmed my
 Gr> diagnosis and swapped the motherboard on my L14, so we'll see how that
 Gr> goes.  It's supposed to be back on my doorstep this afternoon.

Sweet - sounds like once they touched it and could see the issue the repair was 


































































































































































































































































































































































super quick. While I'm super happy w/ 99% of the Frame.work support, I wish 
that when they SAW a 1 off issue like mine they'd offer that same service; send 


































































































































































































































































































































































it in and get it fixed. Maybe I'll suggest to them - I *know* that if they 
touched the machine and SAW the issue... it would help them service others. 
Well - maybe the *1* other person that it happens to. Ugh; hope you got yer 
Librem back today!!



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