u/D3-Doom

To those with AppleCare™ how long do your AirPods™ last between needing to get them replaced. Normally, it’s 3 months but this past cycle it was just one month. I can’t imagine I’m using them “harder,” than other people. I don’t sleep with them, I don’t use them during exercise, I don’t work outside near dust or dirt. It also fails their test so I know this isn’t just in my head.

Friend of mine said they haven’t need to replace them in the year they’ve had them and I’m an outlier. This true? Or are they the outlier

Not sure if the main Linux sub is the appropriate place for this so remove if it isn’t

So I’m sitting with a Dell laptop shipped with Windows 8 and Intel Pentium. This thing is at least a decade old and has a battery so fried the capacity diagnostics measure at 6%. So right off, I’m not expecting this to do anything taxing. I can’t tell much beyond that because this thing either the model number has long since faded, or it never had one in the first place.

During my formative years I would’ve defaulted to Fedora, but I hear that’s less recommended than it used to be due to changes in management. The majority of my setup runs on MacOS with heavy emphasis on command line usage. I figure management should be simple enough via SSH and SMB. The hope is it getting usable enough to be a local share server or Jellyfin server. Beyond that maybe setting up Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home

A mild concern is that I inherited this machine from a deceased relative who passed unexpectedly. Other than BIOS diagnostics she was the last person to use this machine and while I doubt the drive is encrypted I still worry the documents therein may still be important to other family members, but don’t realize it until 5 years from now.

I figured a dual boot install should leave her files metadata intact under windows, but I have about a dozen decent memories of botching it in the past and nuking the whole disk. I’m also trying to avoid booting into windows all together if only to avoid possible lockouts.

What would be the recommended distro? I’m using Fedora Media Writer to make the bootable USB. I’d appreciate any tips, tricks or anecdotes that come to mind. I haven’t properly used Linux beyond troubleshooting since 2016

The support page seems to just be how-to articles

Felt worth mentioning since I didn’t see a where to watch page, and I actually think it’s still on MAX in the UK

This would be macOS 6.5.0. I had become aware that this was an issue in pre-release, but the stable version had not been affected previous to version 6.5.0.

I’m not sure if proton is aware of this as their stable releases are usually quite stable