#Troubleshoot MacBook Problems

[miilkymoonsims]

Hi, I love your profile and sims! I’m ‘kind of’ new to the sims world! I’ve been playing since 2018, but not religiously. I just wanted to ask about your mods folder (sorry if it states somewhere on your profile these kind of questions aren’t allowed, i’m new to tumblr too and still understanding how it works). Feel free to ignore this question if it’s not allowed. I understand that by having lots of folders within the mods folder it can make the game lag. I just wanted to ask how your mods folder looks? As I want to keep mine tidy and be able to find certain cc easily. I’m also in the process of buying a pc as I am currently using a macbook and have so much cc it’s starting to not work… If you have any tips or suggestions with having a pc (if you have one yourself) and how your set up looks, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!! 🤍

How I organize my mods folder

Hi! No problem at all! :) Here's a look inside my mods folder (main).

I usually organize my own folders by type/category, then by subcategory or creator. For example, I have separate folders for build items, objects, and cas cc (such as clothing and hairstyles) from certain creators from whom I have many sets.

Just a friendly reminder to never go deeper than five subfolders!

For some categories, I prefer to organize my subfolders by function (accessories, overrides, face and body related content…).

Also, I prefer unmerged files because I find it easier to replace outdated or broken files, and it makes troubleshooting easier.

As for my PC specs, you can find them here. I always play on the highest possible settings (including gshade) and my game takes less than 1 minute to load (my mods folder is currently 45 gb). Overall, I'm very happy with my PC and highly recommend it.

Hope this helps!

[schistcity]

the thing that gets me about the lack of technological literacy in a lot of young gen z and gen alpha (NOT ALL. JUST A LOT THAT I SEE.) isn't necessarily the knowledge gap so much as it's the lack of curiosity and self-determination when it comes to interacting with technology.

you have the knowledge gap side of things, obviously, which highlights issues related to the experience of using pieces of hardware/software becoming detached from the workings of the hardware/software itself. you start seeing people (so called "ipad kids") who are less and less familiar with the basics of these machines—like knowing how to explore file and system directories, knowing what parts of the system and programs will be using the most power and interacting with each other, knowing what basics like RAM and CPU are and what affects them etc. these aren't things you need to sink a lot of time into understanding, but they seem to be less and less understood as time has gone on.

and this lack of familiarity with the systems at work here feeds into the issue that bothers me a lot more, which is a lack of curiosity, self-determination, and problem solving when younger people use their technology.

i'm not a computer scientist. i'm not an engineer. i have an iphone for on-the-go use and i have a dinky 2017 macbook air i use almost daily. that's it! but i know how to pirate things and how to quality check torrented material. i know how to find things in my system directories. i know how to format an external hard drive for the specifications of my computer. i know how to troubleshoot issues like my computer running slowly, or my icloud not syncing, or more program-specific problems. this is NOT because i actually know a single thing about the ~intricacies~ of hardware or software design, but because i've taken time to practice and to explore my computer systems, and MOST IMPORTANTLY!! to google things i don't know and then test out the solutions i find!!!!

and that sounds obvious but it's so clear that its just not happening as much anymore. i watched a tiktok the other day where someone gave a tutorial on how to reach a spotify plugin by showing how to type its url in a phone's browser search bar, then said "i'll put the url in the comments so you guys can copy and paste it!!!!!" like ?????? can we not even use google on our own anymore?? what's happening???

this was a long post and it sounds so old of me but i hear this lack of literacy far too much and the defence is always that it's not necessary information to know or it's too much work but it is necessary for the longevity and health of your computers and the control you have over them and it ISN'T too much work at all to figure out how to troubleshoot system issues on your own. like PLEASE someone help.

[netscapenavigator-official]

I installed elementary OS 8 on my 2011 MacBook Pro after no longer wanting Zorin OS on it, and now that I’m experiencing it (and the community surrounding it), I’m realizing that I would rather put my dick in a meat grinder than be remotely associated with this operating system.

And after hours of downloading, troubleshooting, installing, and setting up, I’m just so tired. I’m ready to go back to macOS, full-time. I’ve put the latest macOS on this machine via OpenCore Legacy Patcher before. It’s a shame my days in Linux end like this. I’ve genuinely enjoyed it for the past few years, but I’m just so tired of the elitism, the division, the complications, the errors, the you-name-it. There’s always a problem.

Privacy isn’t worth this. I’d rather be in Apple’s back pocket than this, so ig that’s exactly what I’m going back to.

[zeemakesthings]

To hell with Windows, hello Linux!

(Long, long 2 AM rant) I got an Alienware Area-51 Threadripper R6 from FB Marketplace last year. No, it's not my main machine, and don't hate me for it.

It was cheap, and it's nostalgic. I remember watching a bunch of tech videos growing up and this was one of my favorite computers. Did I understand any of the tech garble? No. But I thought it looked freakin' cool. So I saw it online and said why not. It'll make a good birthday present for myself, plus I can use it as a testbed of sorts for whatever computer projects I can think of.

It's treated me well despite my abuse. I've stress-tested it, done some rendering, ran some language models, and dabbled in crypto mining. One of the GPU's failed but i wasn't too surprised.

Throughout all of this, however, I've had three occasions where Windows decided to remove itself from the living realm. The first time I assume it was a driver error. I unplugged a device and it fully froze. After a restart, it would no longer boot. I'm not too worried since, it being a testbed, I don't have important stuff on it. So I reinstall Windows and move on. (Should I have had to do that in the first place, I don't think so.) The second time, it died after an update. A standard Windows update. Can't remember what exactly. But it stopped booting after the restart. This time, however, it appeared to also brick the firmware? Plugged in my installation media, turned on the computer, and I'm greeted with an empty drive list. It couldn't see the drives in my PC. Wack. Spent a few hours troubleshooting that one.

(I'm writing this at 2 AM, about to pass out, can't remember much details lol)

It's been smooth sailing for about four months. I'm having a blast, gaming, surfing, the like. I've started hosting a Minecraft server for my friends for the past two weeks. PC has been on for most of that time, with a few restarts to freshen up the system. Fast forward to yesterday (technically two days ago since it's past midnight). I do another restart, and before starting the server again I decide to check for any updated. Two pop up, I decide to let them install. Windows stopped booting. This time I'm stressed, since I'm hosting our server. I migrated it from Aternos so people can join whenever they want, so it has a months worth of progress on it.

I make an installation media (on a Macbook mind you, don't get me started on that process), and attempt to recover the windows install before I reset it. I spent four hours figuring it out on Tuesday, and couldn't even make it to the Setup screen. I gave up, hit the hay. Wednesday I got right back to it, going as far as to re-installing the BIOS. After that and some more, I finally get to the Setup screen, where I'm met with a new message: "Install driver to show hardware".

"awesome, a new challenge" the he sais to his self *he was then shot 74 times* I saw that message and knew this wasn't gonna end well. Luckily I had an NVMe adapter on hand so I could pull the server files from my drive.

Six hours were spent, wasted, on troubleshooting this error. I've gone through forums on at least half a dozen websites. Nothing worked. All hope was lost for Windows.

Then, a little penguin appeared in my head. I had to try. I've had Linux in the past, only temporarily. It's never given me any problems besides running games with anti-cheat. That's mainly why I haven't switched fully before. But developers have improved Linux support for games, and now Steam has their own Linux-based OS. So I said, why not. I created my Ubuntu flash drive, plugged it in and booted my PC. First try. It worked. Of course it would, it's Linux. It doesn't care if you install it on a literal potato fresh out of the ground. It's now Thursday midnight past, and I'm finally downloading my apps and programs.

At this very moment, I made a decision. I will never use Windows again, unless for the rare circumstance I need to run a Windows-only program. In that case, I'd rather dual-boot my machine than have it Windows-only. I've never had a bad experience with Linux. Is it challenging? Yes. Is it as user-friendly? It can be, as long as you don't need to do anything significant. But I'm fine with that. I'm willing to learn, and I have fun doing so. I'll finally rid myself of Microsoft's greedy and selfish products. And yes, I got the Minecraft server running on Linux. Only took me 15 minutes, and even that's because I've never done it before. It's a five-minute process.

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[doberbutts]

Undertake already was going to be widely popular because it was a game that in its inception already had a gigantic fan base because many of the early fans followed Toby Fox from his work on Homestuck. Homestuck was HUGE, at one point one of the most popular if not THE most popular webcomic out there during its heyday. And while Fox didn't come up with Homestuck itself, he DID put forth a lot of effort into helping Hussie with it, and Hussie was also partially involved with the making of Undertale as the two of them at least *were* friends during that time.

Then you add that as OP said Undertale was 10 bucks and could be played on a toaster if necessary, so not only was there already a gigantic rabid fan base at launch but also this gigantic fanbase could play it regardless of the machine they had.

But wait! There's more! When undertale first released on Steam, it was marked as playable on Mac. It very wasn't. I bought it at launch and the damn thing wouldn't open. I was in art school playing on the school-supplied macbook pro. So I did the only thing I could think of without refunding and negatively impacting an indie creator, and emailed Fox directly based off the email on his website at the time. I asked him if he knew about the glitch preventing the game from opening and if he knew of a workaround. His response was more or less "I told Steam their UI broke it and they wouldn't listen to me, I knew this would happen, sorry about that here's a DRM-free version no problem".

He then announced to his fan base that the Mac version was broken and if anyone bought it not realizing that, to email him and he would do the same. To my knowledge he made good on it for every person who contacted him. He didn't ask me for a receipt. He didn't ask for proof of purchase or proof it wouldn't work. We didn't email back and forth troubleshooting. Simply "sorry, here you go" and a download link that, btw, still works last I checked tho I don't have a Mac anymore and can play it on steam easily with my gaming laptop I've purchased in the mean time.

And also. It was just a really good game, with great sound design, a fun game play loop, and an interesting story that gets more interesting the more you investigate it. Of course it's hugely popular. Fox grew up in the age of cult classics and went "I can do that" and then did it.

But also I think with all of these things going for it, plus the fact that Fox clearly knows how to take care of his fanbase, he would have had to have been *trying to bomb it* for it to fail. And to this day he still holds my respect for making things right immediately.

can i be so honest for a second. with the initial disclaimer of 'undertale is also just a really good game', i cant take anyone seriously who asks why undertale got more popular than like, any triple A game or game that requires a console/beefy computer. undertale was 10$ and could be played easily on my 6 year old apple laptop that used to emit sparks. it was accessible to the most powerful audiences: broke people and teenagers

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The media narrative that future generations would become "digital natives" was always kind of obviously wrong to me, because those "digital natives" were really a phenomenon confined to people born within a very specific window of time (roughly 1982 to 1989), who came from a specific background i.e. middle class, and fit a certain profile i.e. male, "indoor kids". Now, I was one of those kids. The week I was born in August '88 was the same week my dad bought a computer, an Atari ST. I grew up on that computer, using it from a very young age. Then in 1995 my dad bought me and my brother (but let's be honest, I was the one who used it more than anyone else, and it eventually ended up in my room) a 90mhz 486DX2 with 16MB RAM and a Gravis Ultrasound. It ran DOS 6.0 so I had to learn how to use a command line, how directories worked, and how logical and consistent file organization saved time and effort. Because everything was command line, you learned how to type properly. I hit 95WPM on a bad day, 130WPM on a good day.

Running games back in the DOS/WIN9X days could be a pain in the ass. I learned how how to set my soundcard's IRQ so that I wouldn't wind up with interrupt conflicts and then suddenly my joystick wouldn't work. You'd run into driver problems constantly, and the early 3D days it was a nightmare trying to get games to run. So you learned how to troubleshoot. In general there were less layers of abstraction between you and the OS, and between the OS and the hardware. You had more direct control over processes, and more access to the guts of the OS, all of which has the drawback of allowing for the user to really fuck things up in catastrophic ways.

You learned basic computer literacy because you had to, and it was often painful and frustrating. Now, for obvious reasons, developers wanted to reduce that friction. If you make it so the only way to install most software is through a walled garden app store, well that reduces the chances grandma installs identitythief.exe, and if you lock down certain settings and place critical files in hidden folders well then your little brother is less likely to delete system32.dll because someone in voice chat told him it would speed up his game, and if you make the console/command prompt/terminal less important well then there are less chances to misuse a recursive modifier with a remove file command and accidentally delete all your files.

As every action becomes more and more abstracted from what's actually going on, the average end user no longer has to learn many of the skills that I learned by necessity and no one is bothering to teach them because the narrative told us that kids would grow up as digital natives, able to perform all sorts of feats with computers, and understand them on an instinctual level. But they failed to predict that so much user experience would be so frictionless that there would be little reason to do the difficult and frustrating work of learning how computers work, and if there's no reason and no opportunity to learn a skill, well then no one bothers to learn that skill.

The whole "digital native" thing was always bunk. I realized that when troubleshooting issues for people just a few years younger than me, whose first computer of their own was a Macbook or a Windows XP/Vista/7 machine. The gulf in knowledge was pretty immense. Some of them would know specific programs like Pro Tools, Photoshop or Final Cut very well (often because they had taken a course or had been taught by someone), but they were helpless if anything went wrong with their computer, even simple things. You'd even find this sometimes with people who could program, I never bothered learning how to program beyond BASIC and HTML (I can do rudimentary BASH scripts too) but I definitely know more than some people I've met who are competent coders, and I don't consider myself an expert.

I don't want to get all "things were better back in my day", because honestly it's a hell of a lot better now. I much prefer it when things just work and I'm not forced to tinker with something for hours to make it work. If I'm going to tinker I'd rather do so of my own volition. That said, there's something to be said about having at just a little friction in the user experience, just enough to make you go "so why does this work like that?"

Also stop giving children iPads. Jesus Christ.

this can't be true can it

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Popular Macbook Audio Issues

Before coming to a solution, it is essential to ascertain the precise problem. Below are some of the most common issues MacBook users usually face:

No Sound Output – Your Mac does not produce sound even after regulating the volume level.

Distorted or Crackling Sound – Your audio is blurred, and this makes it very hard to access music or a call.

One Speaker Not Working – Only one side of the speaker is producing sound, while the other remains silent.

Low Volume – The sound output is significantly lower than usual.

Audio Cutting Out – The sound randomly stops and starts.

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How to Fix MacBook Audio Issues

Check Sound Settings

Make sure your MacBook volume is not muted and the output device is properly set:

Go to Apple menu > System Settings > Sound.

Make sure the right output device is chosen.

Turn up the volume and see if the problem still exists.

Restart Your MacBook

A reboot can solve most minor issues, including sound problems.

Go to Apple menu > Restart.

After rebooting, see if the problem is solved.

Reset PRAM and SMC

PRAM (Parameter RAM) and SMC (System Management Controller) regulate most functions, including sound preferences. Resetting them may solve speaker problems.

Turn off your MacBook.

Press and hold Option + Command + P + R for 20 seconds.

Let go of the keys and see if the problem is resolved.

Look for macOS Updates

Software bugs may lead to audio issues. Updating to the latest version of macOS may fix them.

Go to System Settings > General > Software Update.

Install any updates available.

Test with Headphones or External Speakers

Insert headphones or external speakers. If they are working well, then the problem is probably with the internal speakers, and you might be in need of a MacBook speaker replacement.

Run Apple Diagnostics

To identify if there are hardware problems:

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Switch it on and keep D pressed until the diagnostics screen is displayed.

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When to Look for MacBook Speaker Replacement

As a last resort, if none of the above methods help, then your speakers are likely physically damaged. Some of the indicators are:

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No sound at all after a reinstall of macOS.

Liquid damage.

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Multiple days later, I've actually managed to get Debian 12 running on my old MacBook. I'm going to throw my troubleshooting into the world, just in case. Not like anybody comes to Tumblr for tech support, but I'd be remiss if I didn't at least present this information in a public way.

Solved

GPU Drivers

Apparently this whole time, the thing causing the black screen on boot was the AMD dGPU. These things are known for failing in this generation of MacBook. Mine, however, has not failed, so I didn't even think to suspect it. I know it's okay because OCLP macOS, Zorin OS, and Pop!_OS were all capable of booting with it still enabled.

For some reason, though, Debian absolutely shits its pants when presented with the AMD Radeon 6490M. I followed this guide for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and disabled the AMD dGPU, forcing Debian to only see the Intel HD 3000 iGPU, and everything booted–no problem.

Wi-Fi Drivers

Debian won't install the necessary Wi-Fi drivers for this machine during install, but I got the Wi-Fi working, regardless. However, apparently the "b43" open-source driver really hates the Broadcom BCM4331 chip that 2011 MacBook Pros have (despite claiming to support it). Not only did it not detect 5 GHz networks, but it also would just randomly stop working. The network would stay connected, but stuff would just get super slow and eventually start timing out. The fix was to purge "firmware-b43-installer" and install the "wl" (broadcom-sta-dkms) drivers instead (I did this in reverse order because I didn't want to lose connection and have to get up and plug the thing into Ethernet. Nothing bad happened as far as I can tell). Now the WiFi works perfectly.

Custom Cursors

The cursor I use (A Linux Conversion of the Posy Cursor for Windows) did not like being placed in [ ~/.local/share/icons ]. That wasn't enough for it. The arrow and pointer would work, but only in some apps. The loading hourglass was nowhere to be seen. Apparently, you also have to place a copy of the cursor folder in [ /usr/share/icons ]. Which is weird because Debian doesn't allow you to move files into that directory without using the "sudo cp" command in terminal, but whatever. The folder's there, and my cursor's fixed.

Partially Solved

Custom Theme

On Debian (although I think this is more specifically a GNOME issue), custom shell and GTK themes just love to be inconsistent. I still haven't fixed everything. Some apps still disobey my custom theme's macOS-like window control buttons, but it's whatever. They were always a luxury, so I can deal with some apps (like Firefox) not having them.

This isn't, however, the only thing that's still broken with my Custom Theme. For the record, I'm using Orchis. Apparently GNOME's auto dark/light mode just doesn't work anymore. The option is still there in Settings, but setting it to "Default" (which clearly shows an icon of both a dark and light window, indicating it'll change on its own) will do nothing. It just picks one theme and stays that way. I tried using GNOME extensions to fix this. Specifically, I tired "Night Theme Switcher" and "User Theme X." Both would properly switch the Shell Theme. However, they wouldn't change the GTK4 theme, which meant apps like the GNOME Files App would just not obey the new system theme unless I manually added the theme's files to [ ~/.config/gtk-4.0 ] and then logged out and in again.

So: bummer. Auto Light & Dark mode doesn't work, and for now I don't think it's possible to fix. Not the end of the world. I just set everything to dark mode for now, but it is a bummer. I do like using Light Mode during the day, and on the low contrast screen this 14-year-old laptop has, it really helps, but oh well. It's not a deal breaker.

Not Solved

Debian 13 "Trixie"

During my escapades and attempts to make Debian work, I ended up trying to install Debian 13 RC1 to see if newer packages and kernels would fix the AMD GPU issue. I tried both the Netinst ISO and the DVD ISO. Both of them would not work, period. I would select the EFI boot from the Mac Boot Picker, and the installer would immediately black screen and freeze. Debian 12 at least let me install the operating system before failing. Why Debian 13 RC1 did this, I have no idea. I haven't tried installing it since I disabled the dGPU, and I won't be trying until Debian 13 is the main stable release. So for now, Debian 13 is completely unrunnable and uninstallable on this hardware (in it's default form, anyway), and I can only hope the dGPU disable fixed it, or whatever they do between now and it's first stable release does.