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boredsquirrel , to linux in Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?
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That depends on where you live.

In europe I recommend Novacustom or 3mdeb if you want coreboot, Starlabs too.

In the US System76.

0x0 ,

No Tuxedo?

boredsquirrel ,
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Tuxedo has coreboot in some of their laptops afaik.

Their chassis’ are waay better than the clevo garbage I currently have, but

coreboot >> design

Rose , to patientgamers in Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?

Thinking of starting Tchia, given its recent addition to Game Pass.

DickFiasco , to asklemmy in People who used older macintosh OS in the 90s, what was it like for your daily use, work, games etc?

I used a Mac SE/30 running OS 7 quite a bit in the early 90’s. I remember it being incredibly reliable; in fact, I can’t even remember what a crash looked like on a Mac, whereas I can still picture the BSOD from Windows 3.1.

I don’t remember noticing much difference in snappiness or intuitiveness between Mac and Windows back then though. Both were pretty easy to learn, even for people with limited computer experience. Anything with a hard drive felt snappy at the time, because the previous generation of computers all ran on floppy disks which were slow as molasses.

propter_hog , to linux in Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?
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System 76

sunzu ,

Their laptops ain't as good as their Desktop which are premium from what I gathered from comments

possiblylinux127 ,

The laptops are Clevo devices. However, Clevo does make good hardware and most models run coreboot.

If you can afford it they are a solid devices. I like the metal body.

DadVolante , to nostupidquestions in Help me understand littering
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Cigarette butts really anger me. It’s a sign of entitlement that I hate. The person knows it’s smelly and disgusting, so they get it as far away from their person or car without a second thought.

I can be judgemental about it because I smoked for over 20 years. I kept a ziplock bag on me (kind of like you would for dog poop when walking your dog) and would keep em in there until I could find a trash can. The ashtray in my car was also used instead of throwing them out the window.

Now that I’ve quit the habit, I notice it even more. It’s awful. My father and mother in law throw their butts on our lawn literally every time they come over, even though they are fully aware that we don’t smoke. When I put a coffee can on the front porch and let them know that’s where they should throw them, they looked at ME like I was the rude one.

Judge em hard. Cigarette smokers have very little space for other people in their world.

Thorny_Insight OP ,

Yeah I confronted a friend for throwing one onto my lawn and they didn’t seem to get why it was such a big deal for me. He clearly thinks nothing of it. In the army we were always told to bury them. It’s not a perfect solution either but so much better than just tossing it.

ryannathans , to linux in Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?

Tldr Amd & amd

Strit , to linux in Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?
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I will say that a second-hand ThinkPad is a great option. They can be real cheap, but you can also get a pretty decent new one for your budget.

You can likely find great T480-T495 that fits your needs really well.

boredsquirrel ,
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I HIGHLY recommend against the T495. That thing has a great keyboard, fingerprint sensor, okay camera and mics, okay ports. But it is underpowered af, and Thinkpads always have the Thinkpad price.

It has a great chassis, but my coreboot Clevo NV41 has double the performance and kinda same battery life.

Strit ,
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I disagree with it being underpowered for regular office use and media consumption. If you can get your hands on a 16 GB RAM one, it should be able to handle just about anything other than gaming.

boredsquirrel ,
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The RAM doesnt matter, it has 8GB builtin (or is there a 4GB model??) and one slot flexible.

Yes the CPU is okay for regular office stuff. But the AMD linux support was suboptimal, I had regular suspend-resume issues where the lockscreen would freeze and I needed to hard shutdown.

And… for some reason that thing doesnt even boot anymore. Removed the battery, using official charger. Doesnt boot into the BIOS anymore, no idea what I could do honestly.

Maybw the mobo is damaged…

mortalic ,

Agreed, I love mine.

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

I’m farting around on a T480 for school and light retro gaming. Works great! Super easy to upgrade too

Kalcifer ,
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A T460 is good as well.

JackiesFridge ,
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Another vote for the T480. I have a T480s running Mint and it’s been lovely. No driver issues and for office/light media creation/consumption it seems to work without a hitch.

Joltey ,

I would vote against getting something like a T490 as it has one memory slot soldered onto the motherboard and it has the same processor as the T480 anyways iirc.

odium , to meanwhileongrad in I've decided lemmy.ml is too tankie for me, and would like to know what instances completely defederate from it?

How to block an entire instance on jerboa:

  1. Open post.
  2. Tap three dots on bottom right of post
  3. Tap block
  4. You should see options to block user, community, and entire instance.
FundMECFSResearch OP ,

Thanks. Does this prevent me from seeing users from that community too?

odium ,

No, I think it just blocks all lemmy.ml communities. Not posts/comments made by ml users on communities from other instances.

In my experience, it did greatly cut down on the tankie posts and comments I was reading because ml users’ political takes are mostly contained within their own instance. I only come across tankie takes once every few days now. And I’m on lemmy a lot.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Honestly, unsubbing from lemmy.ml communities helped a ton. I don’t browse all, so it’s really effective.

CMDR_Horn , to linux in Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?

Look at frame.work they have good documentation about various Linux distros on their machines

clark OP ,
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I have, unfortunately they’re too expensive for me.

nichtburningturtle ,
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helenslunch ,
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They’re within the $1k spec you mentioned? Not to mention future cost savings in repairability and upgradability.

boredsquirrel ,
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Their firmware updates are pretty late and they ditched coreboot.

But I guess the hardware is awesome. Keep in mind that these thunderbolt adapters suck quite some battery, so having a laptop simply with the ports you need uses up less battery. Also, the modularity may not be needed and causes it to be less stiff.

Chef6652 ,

They ditched Coreboot?

boredsquirrel ,
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They gave some coreboot devs laptops but didnt invest anything apart from that, afaik. The result was not working well enough, so they use insyde (which has pretty cool features but also past security vulnerabilities and it is backdoored by Intel & the NSA)

Like, UEFI being backdoored by the NSA is not a conspiracy. “Persistence” in “end user device data retrieval” was one big goal. Persistence means than an OS reinstall, Secureboot, boot integrity, QubesOS disposable Cubes etc. will all not protect you, as that shit is in the firmware!

No security or privacy without coreboot. Google knows that and has all their servers on coreboot and also all Chromebooks. Android is ARM so that is different but also WORLDS more secure than any secureboot garbage.

cmnybo ,

It looks like work is still being done on Coreboot for the Framework. They got it running on the AMD version. It’s not ready for use yet, but at least there is some progress.

boredsquirrel ,
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Nice! Thanks for the note!

Frameworks sound like a really cool idea.

Can you disable ports like on hardware? It would save a good amount of battery

insufferableninja , to science_memes in Breast Cancer

pretty sure iterate is the wrong word choice there

Peps ,

They probably meant reiterate

Mouselemming ,

I think it’s a joke, like to imply they want to not just reiterate, but rerererereiterate this information, both because it’s good news and also in light of all the sucky ways AI is being used instead. Like at first they typed, "I just want to reiterate… but decided that wasn’t nearly enough.

lil_tank ,
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Common case of programmer brain

apotheotic ,

I suppose they just dropped the “re” off of “reiterate” since they’re saying it for the first time.

corsicanguppy ,

That’s not the only issue with the English-esque writing.

insufferableninja ,

100% true, just the first thing that stuck out at me

TheColonel ,

Dude needs to use AI to fix his fucking grammar.

DarkThoughts , to mildlyinfuriating in This scam is approved and doesn't go against Google's policies

Sounds like a pyramid scheme.

possiblylinux127 ,

Probably not against Google TOS

Rai ,

More like a pig butchering scam. Kitboga recently “invested” real money for the first time in a QuantumAI scam so they would talk to him, and got some psychopath named Lana who talked to him about the scam for days until he kinda leaked who he was a lil bit and she ghosted.

Firoaren , to nostupidquestions in Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace?

Trust me, as someone who has that right now I dearly wish I didn’t. It’s false & unhelpful. Especially when there needs to be a painful change but people refuse.

Magister , to internetfuneral in US8246454B2
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ted kaczynski?

unreachable , to lemmyshitpost in Mamma mia
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