Five days since my #Legion9#i9 laptop arrived and I put #Ubuntu24 on it, then my data, dev tools etc.
Status:
most things just work: Canon printer, disk mounting, USB devices etc and I figured out how to configure the 🎄 keyboard/led modes. Minor foibles like Dash-to-panel settings missing sometimes.
Boy is it fast. LLM answers instant (no CUDA yet), build flies etc.
internal speakers not working but I have also a Bluetooth speaker. Trackpad too, so bought USB mouse+TP.
I have had a new laptop for a day, and it's shit-hot!
Clearly aimed at gamers but the best spec I could find for development.
I went #Lenovo#Legion9 (max), rather than #Dell for the first time because the spec, and the fact my last Dell is faulty after 6 years (whereas my previous 15yr Dell is still perfect).
Lenovo support is poor, outsourced, unhelpful and knows less than I do.
Windows 11 was the only option, so no Ubuntu drivers. But ok, except the trackpad so far, USB devices on order.
Folks are enjoying the Fedora and @centos booth at Red Hat Summit this week. Come check out the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Slimbook Fedora 1 if you're here!
Thanks to Lenovo and Slimbook for these awesome devices that come with Fedora preinstalled!
I hooked my GNU/Linux-loving son up with an old #lenovo#thinkcenter mini-PC that I picked up at a used AV store for about $50. For another $20, I upgraded the ram to 12GB.
He's got it setup it up with #debian as his first home server, with which he's now hosting a few static websites and an internet radio station for his friends and family. He's got loads of resources to spare for when he gets into running larger services.
You don't need to spend $30+ a month on cloud services when an old recycled office PC will more than suffice.
The best part? Helping him troubleshoot his problems with #DNS and #nginx and all that fun stuff. I've already made every mistake possible over the decades, and he gets to benefit from that. That how it should work!
Spent the afternoon trying to get my 3500U to downclock to anything lower than 1.4GHz... long story short, amd_pstate is gatekept by Lenovo's unwillingness to allow us to enable ACPI on the BIOS of the Thinkpad T495, where there is a huge amount of people complaining about this and yet no BIOS update has been provided... some work is ongoing on kernel 6.8+ to bring compatibility to AMD APUs but we are not there yet... Of course, if I had Windows, this works, regardless of the BIOS. So there's that. I'll wait for the geniuses to crack this CPU power savings and underclocking. Meantime? Will carry my laptop charger, just in case I need to juice it up.
Das hatte ich schonmal repariert gehabt (ganze Kühlkörper-Lüfter-Kombo ausgetauscht), aber anscheinend bin ich nicht gut genug für um mit Hardware was zu machen. Daher würde ich das jetzt gerne professionell reparieren lassen, von jemandem, der da Ahnung von hat. (Daß das über dem Neuwert liegt ist mir klar, aber ich mag keine neueren Laptops, die machen alles kaputt (Display doof, Tastatur doof, Touchpad).)
Haken: es handelt sich um mein Dienstlaptop, daher braucht’s eine Rechnung auf den Firmennamen hinterher, und bitte in .de.
Et bien ce week-end j'ai sauté le pas ! J'ai trouvé un bon portable #Lenovo qui tourne maintenant sous #LinuxMint comme un charme ! J'ai récupéré mes fichiers, mes polices et go la mise en page sous logiciels libres ! Bye-bye l'iMac, tu auras bien servi ! (Et c'est mon ado2 qui est trés contente !)
I might have posted about this already, but it looks like a cat must have landed on my laptop pretty hard when it was closed one day, because now some parts of the screen are brighter than others.
It's an old lappie, but I've come to love it (it was also a gift) so I am going to try to replace the screen. The videos make it look easy.
My Fedora workstation is a Thinkpad P51. I forgot this laptop has 32GB of ram and i7 processor. I believe it's 8 core with an Intel and Nvidia dual graphics card. Used to run Windows and AutoCAD.
It has an Expresscard/34 slot which I have never used. I was wondering if this was even a thing in 2024? Does anyone use this port on their laptops and how is linux support?
The #SteamDeck's existence has prompted other big brands to also churn out their Deck competitors like #ASUS' #ROGAlly, #MSI's #MSIClaw, #Lenovo's #LegionGo, etc. which is great bcos competition is always nice.
... but unfortunately, to my eyes and only my own, there really isn't any competitor to my Deck and it's not bcos of #Linux/#SteamOS which yes, I do absolutely require out of a #gaming handheld (definitely not #Windows, no), but it's all about the design. Blows my mind how the Steam Deck is still the ONLY gaming handheld that doesn't scream (not as loud at least) "I'm a boy" or "I'm a gamer".
The obnoxious logos and branding (MSI's even has "TRUE GAMER" etched on their handheld lmao), the RGB vomit everywhere on the handheld wasting the already very precious battery life and weight of the device, the "rough" edges and curves (or lack thereof) of the device that screams "gamery"... and more. The design of the Steam Deck is still not only the most ergonomic imo, but most importantly the stealthiest of them all. I despise obnoxious designs and I appreciate #Valve's decision not to participate in that mess. I just wish and hope that future Decks would come in more colourways.
"Prices start at $2799 for a Thinkpad X13 Gen 5 with a Core Ultra 5 125U processor, 16GB of LPDDR5x-7500 memory and a 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD or $3014 for a 2-in-1 model with similar specs."
"All versions of both laptops ship standard with a 54.7 Wh battery, a 5MP webcam, and a 1920 x 1200 pixel IPS LCD display with a 60 Hz refresh rate and up to 300 nits brightness."
I can get a laptop with mostly double the specs for less than half of the price. What did I miss?