to go back to your car analogy that's terrible when I cut it well no but I think I'm gonna say bad things about your

now is you're not just gonna edit it out of existence yeah I always edit out jokes that don't land it's the

the privilege of being the editor right so we should start with some follow up as always there are

approximately seven hack and toss users and on the planet and every single one of them is written us to tell us how it's possible to get everything to work

asterisk dagger double dagger double asterisk we got some people also writing and saying oh I've had you know all your worries are

founded I have a hack and toss and I ran into all the problems you describe and it's kind of a pain brother

people like not a pain at all I got everything to work it's got to follow right guys and do the right things and flash the right stuff and wait for the drivers to be updated with each

update and it's not a problem I mean these are two sets of people describing the exact same situation is just that from one person's perspective

all you just do the series of steps and everything is fine and the other person's perspective all you got to do these series of steps before everything's fine like it's the same situation right

just all depends on how you look at it and if it's something you would enjoy doing or something you would find a hassle

if we could kind of pick a theme of what we heard we were pretty much correct about the trade-offs about it is a pain sometimes for most people

how much of a pain it ends up being for you depends a lot on your component choices and that if you follow these guides and if you choose

like exactly the components they say and if you don't have like special

need requirements to I have to make this other

Wi-Fi card work because that's the one I have or whatever else like if you're willing to buy exactly the right components if you're going to buy all new components to do this

it's probably a lot easier and you'll have an easier time with it but if you're trying to get it running on components you already had for other reasons you might have a harder time

I think that's a pretty good summary actually

Charles Perry wrote in and he had said hey you know you guys joked about Apple Store employees not knowing about the mac mini that actually happened to me

in September of 2015 I was at the Apple Store and I told the salesperson that I wanted to buy a mac mini and I got a blank stare and reply

the salesperson had never heard of it for real so that is the thing that has actually happened

that's awesome I always wonder about like the kind of training they get like I thought every Apple

I did used to do it like they would fly you off to Cuperty and O and give you this whole training course and like you'd be briefed on Apple's entire line

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