diff --git a/early-init.el b/early-init.el
index 5125f29..51f96a4 100644
--- a/early-init.el
+++ b/early-init.el
@@ -20,6 +20,18 @@
 ;; (run-with-idle-timer 5 t #'garbage-collect)
 ;(setq garbage-collection-messages t)
 
+;; doesn't quite work
+(defun mir/dont-make-obsolete (orig &rest args)
+  "only run ORIG when its not linum."
+  ;; (message "obsoleting: %s" args)
+  (if (or (member 'global-linum-mode args)
+	  (member 'linum-mode args))
+      (message "linum is deprecated but i dont care")
+      ;; (let ((inhibit-message t))
+      ;; 	(apply orig args))
+    (apply orig args)))
+(advice-add #'make-obsolete :around #'mir/dont-make-obsolete)
+
 (defun display-startup-echo-area-message ()
   "A re-definition of the function.
 Tell the Emacs startup time and number of garbage-collections