[10:46] <leonie_98> greetings
[10:48] <malonumas> Hi!
[15:28] <mr-day> is lubuntu have gui setting for battery alarm when critical
[17:46] <tomasino> happy saturday, folks -- I'm about to try installing lubuntu on a late 2008 aluminum macbook. Any advice before I start?
[17:53] <antis> best of luck :)
[17:53] <tomasino> thanks
[17:54] <wxl> tomasino: intel chip, right?
[17:55] <antis> having running lubuntu on late 2007 plastic macbook - runs pretty good. if you don't get the booloader (grub) up, try the "refind" boot manager - i installed it on a usb-stick for test and on disk later on.
[17:57] <antis> wxl, since 2006 yes
[17:57] <wxl> tomasino: in that case ^ make sure you use amd64
[17:59] <tomasino> fantastic advice. thank you
[18:37] <Nightly> hello
[18:51] <tomasino> refine is the best advice. thanks so much for that. I've got it running
[18:54] <tomasino> aaaaand it's not detecting the wireless card, of course
[18:54] <tomasino> why is that always the challenge? :)
[19:13] <agaida> because of nice people with non-free licenses and firmware
[19:13] <agaida> as usual
[19:34] <wxl> x
[19:37] <tsimonq2> y
[19:38] <antis> is this how they communicate at alphabet? ^^
[19:40] <agaida> tomasino: in such rare cases a wifi-cable is handy https://y.5id.eu/t
[19:41]  * agaida hide
[19:48] <tsimonq2> antis: Maybe :P
[19:48] <tsimonq2> agaida: lol
[19:49] <agaida> tsimonq2: not my idea - just reality
[19:50] <antis> tomasino, you could get a good overview via the "nmcli" command - unfortunately it is somewhat hidden in lubuntu and part of the nm-applet network management toolchain… :)
[20:05] <antis> tomasino, you could further check and install proprietary drivers via "settings -> software & updates -> additional drivers" and/or find the chip information (presumingly broadcom) and add the vendor id to some configuration file in /etc/… (i don't remember exactly, sorry)
[20:06] <antis> ah and almost forgot -> "pommed" is a very important thing as well :)
[20:10] <antis> found some good reference for the wifi problem: https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/Wireless
[21:16] <nano> i need to icon pack
[21:23] <tomasino> thanks antis and agaida. I have everything working well. I just had to install the broadcom drivers like usual. This laptop has an ethernet port, luckily, so thath was just a couple minutes worth of work.
[21:23] <tomasino> I'm doing a dist upgrade now but everything looks fully functional and it performs fantastically well for a 9 year old machine
[21:23] <tomasino> this is my first time experimenting with lubuntu and so far it's great. I'm normally on Mint with i3, but I'll keep this distro in mind for older hardware.
[21:25] <agaida> intel macs are not really old or outdated - thats the nice thing about apple
[21:26] <agaida> they was delievered with all the needed things in good quality and quantity
[21:46] <tomasino> if it wasn't for their software
[21:52] <agaida> the only infamous thing with apple and pc hardware was their usage of ATi cards or chips if i remember right
[21:53] <agaida> back in 2009 i had to learn patch, debuild and such things first to get my ATi 4950 running with ubuntu
[21:55] <agaida> hihihi - the bug(s) with the patch from an amd employee are still open in launchpad
[23:21] <Other> to connect to lubuntu, from a windows 7 machine, I read I should use Xrdp.  But I get nothing but a xwindows login then an empty desktop.  Is Xrdp the way to go?
[23:22] <demophobia> what do you mean 'connect to lubuntu'?
[23:22] <Other> a remote desktop
[23:23] <demophobia> ah, thanks. i can't help with your question.