u/lproven

I had a Bip. Great device and I loved it. After 4Y it died. I bought a Bip 5 to replace it, and it was junk: too bulky, screen invisible unless awake, couldn't detect wrist movement to wake, shorter battery life, app infested with ads, and more. So I sold it, and bought a Neo instead. I like it. It looks like an old Casio, it does the essentials and nothing more, and although mine is now several years old it still lasts a week.

Is there a similarly low-end modern semi-smart watch? Something that doesn't look like a fashion accessory for hairdressers, doesn't need a touchscreen, is daylight-readable while inactive or asleep, and like my Neo (£15) doesn't cost more than my phone?

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic.

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My iMac is 11 years old. It's unsupported by the last 4 releases of OS X for x86. I put Ubuntu 26.04 on it last night. It is dual-booting with macOS 15.7.7 Sequoia (thanks to OCLP).

(iMac Retina 27", Late 2015. Quad Core i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe main disk, 8TB HDD secondary drive. Second screen, Apple 27" Thunderbolt Display, connected over dedicated Thunderbolt cable.)

On the main machine Ubuntu 26.04 (GNOME) is fast and stable. Wifi, audio, power management, screen resolution, all working.

But when I connect my 2nd screen, an Apple 27" Thunderbolt Display, it freezes for several minutes. The 2nd screen lights up but the primary blanks. USB stops responding. Even if I disconnect it, I can't shut down cleanly.

On an old Dell XPS13 laptop with Thunderbolt 3, through a Startech Thunderbolt 3-to-Thunderbolt 1 convertor, the display works fine in Pop OS 24.04, but only as a screen: its USB, audio, webcam, Ethernet and Firewire ports are not detected.

This seems a serious incompatibility issue: an Apple display with an Apple screen.

I have a 2015 iMac running its latest official OS, macOS 12 "Monterey". I can't open the new Imager app: I get the crossed-out icon indicating some kind of incompatibility.

But I can't find what it needs anywhere official. Does it need a newer macOS? If so I will have to look into OCLP but I am happy with Monterey.

I also looked on Ubuntu but the latest Pi Imager snap is version 1.9.