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just five raccoons in a raincoat

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welp, getting fedora up and running on there was a breeze. It seems to work perfectly. With the custom kernel the hardware works 100%.

Keyboard attaches -> keyboard works; keyboard detatches -> tablet mode (with auto-rotate); full touch controls; pen works and is beautiful to use in krita; close the keyboard cover and it sleeps instantly; open the keyboard cover and it wakes instantly.

Only issue (which I knew going in) is that the battery life on this thing sucks. It's like 3-5 hours screen on time. I'm mostly going to use it in places where I can plug it in, and I'm doing some testing of drain while suspended.

Otherwise, would recommend the Surface Pro 6 as a cheap linux tablet.

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Fedora just kept having bugs and crashing. While the touch worked wonderfully the apps crashing was awful. That wasn't a hardware thing though. That was a Fedora thing. So, I scrapped it and installed Arch. It was of course way more work to get installed, and I have ran into bugs. However, I have only found one I couldn't fix myself. I've had zero crashes.

Tablet is great now.

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Using for Fedora for a day really showed me why so many think Linux isn't a reliable desktop system. I think I was getting about one app crash every 10 minutes.

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With arch linux (surfing the web, configuring things, playing music, and installing things) the Surface Pro 6 got about 8+ hours of battery life. Wifi and bluetooth on, and brightness at 20%.

That might seem low brightness, but it gets super bright. 20% is about the same as 60% on my pixel phone.

I need to do a battery drain in suspend test, but if that is less than 1% an hour then it will be just as good as my phone and only need a charge once a day or so.

It of course can be put into performance mode as well, but that's not really my use case. I guess it's cool it's available.

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If the US congress was replaced by the WWE it would be a disaster, but would it be worse than what we have today? 🤔

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🐱 📰
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I need to get an electronic repair heat gun

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If this linux tablet project ends up working out, then I'll need to swap the battery. Tablet is held together via a screen adhesive though.

Also, I want to do the full case swap for the Steam Deck which requires removing the screen held on via adhesive.

Seems like a skill I should probably learn and get tools for.

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hmmm, is a hairdryer hot enough to remove adhesive for screen removal?

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"Remember, hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait."
-- Razor

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How's this?

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Apple's top specification apple computer costs $12K. With a payment plan, that's less than
rent.

I propose the new company motto:

Apple, still better than your landlord 🤷‍♀️

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I actually think that tech hobbies are good and fun. Getting creative with technology is a cool pass time in a world that has so much tech that goes to waste.

Luxury brands and disposable consumer items are silly though.

When I do tech projects as a hobby now, one of my personal questions before I begin is: "how will I be using this in 10 years?" I plan for it to be in use for at least a decade, and make plans to keep it repaired and useful.

That's the real joke of those Apple goggles, I can't imagine still using them as anything but a costume prop after a couple months of novelty use. Even if they take off Apple will make them obsolete in a couple years.

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walks out on stage in a casual business outfit

The future is here. A new technology future we continue to advance every day.

walk three feet to the left

We support the innovation that will make things change. It's like magic

walks back to were I was

Today, we are changing everything.

emphatic hand movement

Introducing, decade old thinkpads running archlinux. Starting at $35 this will revolutionize how we live.

...

And that's not all. Starting today you can get a decade old laptop and install linux yourself directly from a dumpster in your neighborhood.

crowd goes wild

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I left a laptop at home, and just brought my Steam Deck. I have a USB-C hub and used it as my main computer with no issue. When I was at places with a TV I hooked it up and used it over HDMI with no issue.

I got Tailscale working on my phone and Steam Deck for instant connection to my home network. VPN and home server connectivity as great.

I used OSMand on my phone with offline maps for driving and directions. Even when I was in the wilderness, I was able to have a good map for roads, terrain, elevation, trails, lakes, etc with no spying and no data usage. The driving instructions were also way less anxiety inducing than Google Maps. No last second turn notifications. The only weirdness is when you are coming up to a highway exit that is a highway junction, it will say "take a left at exit 123 to stay on highway 12" instead of just saying to stay on the current highway.

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Recently, the WHO released a statement along the lines of "sugur free sweetener are bad for your health".

The research that was done does not say that. The communications goal was reported to warn against people who drink water, that switching to sweetener alternatives has no health benefits, and long term effects are unknown, so it's safer to not drink them".

However, that isn't really well communicated through the WHO's short statement and how media is reporting it.

If you drink a lot of sugary drinks, then artificial sweetener seems to be better than that. Switching to plain old water of course is also good. The benefit seems about the same. And drinking water long term is known to have benefits over drinking sugary drinks.

The studies DO NOT say that artificial sweeteners are bad for your health, poisoning you, causing diseases, or anything like that. So, if you are like me and occasionally drinking artificial sweeteners to replace sugary drinks then you are fine, but water is still the gold standard.

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Someone should make a synthetic software, text to speech, voice that is queer/trans coded.

I just want to do:

Xenia, fetch updates from pacman.

"OK. Fetching updates."

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funding police? in this economy?

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kinda wish there was a setting to just auto-silence open-reg instances.

It's such a huge vector for spam and malicious intent. Open reg without spam protection, robust enough moderation to quickly address obvious (as in obviously violating the rules of the instance they are on) bad actors, and such the fediverse isn't even meeting the standards that the corpo sites have.

It's a balance between ease of access and the security controls for sure, but right now the status quo is way to ease of access with almost no controls to prevent bad actors.

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this is the most "water is wet" headline I've seen in awhile

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/05/more-of-portland-areas-homeless-people-staying-in-shelters-thanks-to-more-available-beds.html

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btw, the reason this is news here is because there is a myth of "service resistant homeless". According to the myth there is a group of people who will resist all support in the name of rejecting society. The myth claims there are enough shelter beds for everyone, but they are refused.

About 300 shelter beds were added. About 300 more people used shelters. There are still over 2000 more people without access to shelter beds. That's over half the people without secure shelter in Portland.

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is "service resistant homeless" a unique Portland classist phrase or is it more widespread?

I'm pretty sure that "criddler" is a unique to Portland slur.

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Portland, now is a good time to get fans or window ACs before the shelves go bare.

I was able to get a fan from a mutual aid group a couple years back. I asked and got about 5 offers for good fans.

After today the 10-day forcast is all in the 80s and 90s.

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    @topher in fact, in my state parents get prosecuted by the state if they deny life saving care to children for religious reasons.

    Never been tested on gender affirming care, but has on a few other medical procedures that parents denied and chose "prayer" over.

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    @Wyndix ew, fuck off child abuser

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    in the future, media will portray teenage hackers as kids who get into battles of wits with LLMs. Using quick thinking and gotchas they best the machine and bypass security controls.

    This is both wrong in how it anthropomorphizes LLMs, but also right in the understanding that these products have such flimsy security it can be bypassed by 15 year olds with creative writing.

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