u/ChanceGrapefruit4107
The (very) bad Upway experience, worth €4,000.
I wanna share a bad story with you
On 28 August, I bought a refurbished Riese & Müller Transporter2 from Upway Belgium, with extended warranty and insurance. €4,000 out of my pocket.
This is not a leisure purchase. I'm independant and it's a work tool. I bought It to replace my Chike, whose frame cracked.
First problem : The partner bike shop in Brussels refused the delivery. Nobody told me. It was only when the promised "two to eight days" started getting seriously long that I contacted customer service, and that's how I found out.
Other problem : Today, 25 September, I have no bike, no delivery date, and not one more word of explanation.
I've written to customer service several times. Every reply rephrases my own question back to me, adding nothing. Their AI is very good at de-escalation, absolutely sucks for solutions. No public phone number. No named contact. Just a mailbox that acknowledges receipt and says nothing. That's terrible.
Worth keeping in mind if you're considering this kind of purchase and have been thinking about those guys
u/ChanceGrapefruit4107 — 20 days ago
I bought my first MacBook since 2011
Here's my latest little project.
I recently went back to taking some classes, and I didn't want to lug my massive workstation around just to take notes. It's a beast (96GB of RAM, 3kg) but total overkill for that. So I dug out an old 2015 MacBook Pro and gave it a second life with Linux (Mint), the same way my iMac now runs its own version. These machines are gorgeous and so thin, and they were headed straight for the scrap heap.
Here's how to do it:
- Grab a USB stick
- Download Rufus
- Download the ISO for the Linux distro you want to install
- Create a bootable USB stick with Rufus
- Plug in the stick, then power on the machine while holding the Alt key
- Select the boot option on the EFI disk
- Enjoy
If you're thinking of refurbishing an old MacBook, here are a few issues I ran into:
Wi-Fi card driver not supported
=> Fixed by switching to kernel 6.14
Automatic sleep mode
=> Fixed by disabling sleep-on-lid-close, since it was poorly implemented
Fans stuck at minimum speed
=> Fixed by installing mbpfan
Now I've got a light, silent, good-looking machine that does exactly what I need, for free. If you've got an old MacBook gathering dust, give it a shot. Happy to answer questions if anyone runs into the same issues.
u/ChanceGrapefruit4107 — 4 months ago
▲ 482 r/Ubuntu
This 2011 iMac has been resurrected
Thanks Ubuntu !
Unfortunately, his old i5 is around 70% when running Firefox. Kubuntu might be wiser
u/ChanceGrapefruit4107 — 5 months ago