I got my dead internal display to work with an external display on mirrored mode, and I got it to reliably boot past Apple‘s incredibly finicky AMD graphics drivers.
I ordered a bottle of Jim Beam, and I’m going to bed. I’m fucking exhausted.
If anyone wants to offer further advice, go ahead, but any Apple bashing will be firmly ignored because I just don’t have it in me to take it
Well, for the past 14 years it ran macOS 10.13 and was my primary plex server.
But, over the last few years, its software shortcomings have become impossible to ignore. I would have moved on to Linux years ago, but personal problems have gotten in the way, but now - with a solid alternative remote server set up and running - I can finally revamp my own. And so I am.
And, wow - I’m so glad for the alt plex server, because mine will be down for a while! even this 2012 iMac is a real cunt without an Apple os. And I would prefer macOS, but Linux is still great, and I’m glad to have it.
I’m just so exhausted from wrestling with apple’s very finicky hardware, but this hardware, from anyone else, would just be broken. Apple hardware- at least of this generation- was especially brilliantly engineered, and that’s the only reason that this computer wasn’t in a dumpster years ago. So say what you will about Apple hardware, but I’ve had this computer for 14 years, and I’ll probably have it for another 10. So it was worth a lot more than I paid for it. And I definitely think it’s worth the work.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯