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who the fuck think it's a good idea to push bios update via windows update?, it can't even get video driver update right. Before you flaming me for using microslop windows this is my brother laptop not mine

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sometimes both. I recently started using an old Macbook with Void, which they have notorious broadcom-wl, so I searched a lot and a got a micro network adapter. It was actually quite hard to find with a working driver because Realtek. Anyway this one I found seemed to had a dkms driver on Void repo, so I went with that.

The dkms driver gives bunch of errors for some reason. I didn't have time to debug it and just compiled from Github. Naturally I have to compile it every kernel update. I probably can add a hook for it but haven't done that yet because lazy.

Edit: Added a kernel hook. It's not harder than writing this comment. :)