If the government did it - I would be very angry. Do you know how much internet help with democracy in the world? Think of it as shutting down all libraries with books, and forbidde any kind of communication.
It would of course try to setup some communication and gather people. I currently only have one irc server. I guess people want something webbased as they probably don’t have the client software.
I would probably lose my job as well as it is a software as a service company that require internet to function.
Haven’t used it myself, but similar to casa os there is also cosmos os, which looking here seems to offer some build in storage management options. Maybe this could be worth looking into?
Acer has had this policy for over 20 years. I bought a laptop long ago from a vendor that I had issues with and they refused to give me support because I was running Linux at the time. (I forget what distro. Probably either Mandrake or early Ubuntu.) That laptop went right back to the vendor.
It will. Keep in mind that, depending on the type of job, you’ll have to keep learning new tech just to keep up: virtualization, containers, orchestrators, automation, backups, logging, auditing, scripting and God knows what else. It’s a good starting point to get you the jobs that the Windows crowd won’t touch because of the command line.
Well it definitely isn’t in the trashbin, and nowhere in the filesystem since I’ve done a find cmd search on all the directories, and also checked the .minecraft folder’s saves, but thank you for the idea tho!
If you go onto the Acer forums, it looks like those super helpful forum members will tell you that you don’t need BIOS updates anyway, they don’t seem to be of much help.
If you can get your hands on the Windows Update, you can probably extract the BIOS file from there and load it into the BIOS manually. If you can’t load it into the BIOS, make a Windows installer drive from the ISO you can find on MS’ website and also copy the update .exe over. Boot it, pick a language, hit shift+f10, and run the update from the command prompt.
HOWEVER: based on the information at the bottom of this page, it looks like this laptop is just a Clevo that Acer stuck their logo on. Maybe you can ask Clevo if they can provide you with update files? I can’t find the exact model on their website, it seems like Acer produced this device as a low-cost deal specifically for the Indian market and decided to just… not support it?.
If you can get your hands on the Windows Update, you can probably extract the BIOS
How?
I can’t find the exact model on their website, it seems like Acer produced this device as a low-cost deal specifically for the Indian market and decided to just… not support it?.
Which is very dumb.
update .exe
What .exe are talking about exactly? Is there some exe inside windows iso?
And idk what clevo is. Maybe a mass manufacturer of low quality computers (from my low effort search)
It’s been a while since I’ve needed to do this, but back in my Windows days you could look up a Windows update by its KB number and download a file you could use to install locally. Those files are weirdly structured archives (I think CAB files with a different extension).
Which is very dumb.
Agreed. Feels borderline illegal where I live.
What .exe are talking about exactly? Is there some exe inside windows iso?
Most BIOS updates come with a firmware file and a .exe to flash it. You’d need to extract those from the Windows Update file if you can find it.
Clevo is a company that designs and builds laptops. They generally don’t sell directly to consumers. Many Linux friendly laptop resellers use Clevo to get the basic laptop down and then modify the base model to be Linux friendly. Cheap laptop companies all over the world also have Clevo produce laptops for them. Some Clevos are quite nice, but a lot of them are built as cheaply as possible, like for instance your laptop. Normally the base model can be found back on their website, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for your model.
Looks to me like Acer took a standard Clevo device, put a slower AMD CPU into it, and now you end up with a laptop where neither party seems to be willing to have anything to do with it. It’s still possible that Acer has Clevo make the device for them with their spec, but that’d still leave Acer responsible for updates usually.
You say there are supposed to be BIOS updates on Windows Update, how do you know they exist? Did you find anyone mentioning the updates anywhere? With how little support Acer is willing to provide, I sort of doubt that there are any updates at all…
But you’ll probably have to check each update and see if the “Supported Hardware IDs” match some sort of UUID in dmidecode. I’m not sure if those are supposed to match though.
Then there are some generic firmware update tools for Linux that might work, or might brick your laptop.
It’s obviously Under Armour, has the same kinda historical pun to it when you don’t think about it too deep. I’m assuming Victoria Secret is accentuating femininity while under armour promotes masculinity.
Same, niri. Want to move away from hyprland for so long. Also Emacs but I don’t want to spend months configuring.
Also a foss android distro, but I can’t find one for this phone.
there are also lots of other things like common lisp, Redox OS, cosmic desktop, trying to make my own compositor, rope science, activity pub, webtransport, bevy, ecs, and much more.
Edit: Hey, I finally installed niri and everything works!!!
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