MacBook Pro Wi-Fi on Fedora, revisited: solving 2020’s mystery and 2026’s new obstacles

Five years after my 2020 Wi-Fi article ended on an unsolved “deal-breaking issue”, the same 2011 MacBook Pro running Fedora 44 finally gave up all its secrets: kmod vs akmod, the WPA3 handshake loop, GUI edits that silently undo nmcli fixes, a 54 to 540 Mbit/s speed arc — and a closing lesson about trusting journalctl over your own memory.

Installing novelWriter on Fedora Linux: repo vs pipx

novelWriter is in the official Fedora repos — but the packaged version is old enough to write a different project file format, which matters a lot if you write on more than one machine. Here’s the pipx route, the enchant2/hunspell step macOS doesn’t need, and how to switch over if you already used dnf.

GRUB’s Short Memory: Making a Dual-Boot Machine Remember What You Picked

Five seconds to pick Fedora or Windows is four seconds too few. Here’s how to give GRUB more time, and – the trick I set up on my Z840 years ago and never wrote down – how to make it boot whatever you chose last time. Two lines, one twist: Fedora already has half of it.

I’m not that impressed with the Tourbox Elite 2024

I’ve splashed out on a Tourbox Elite in translucent black for just under $300 back in 2024. This was literally 50 days before their “new and improved” version came out that supported the iPad. Naturally I wasn’t allowed an exchange because they’re such a “nice” company. This review has been sitting in here as a … Read more