See if anyone has reviewed how the model of interest performs under Linux or check if there’s a report for it on linux-hardware.org

Around 2020, I had purchased a new laptop and desktop. It took about two years until everything worked on the laptop under Arch, main issue being the microphone and speakers. About another year and a half until the same on Debian. On the desktop, the wireless card didn’t work with Linux on day one and still doesn’t work that well on Linux to this day. Swapped that thing out with an Intel wireless card.

Driver support for various old peripherals and nvidia cards

rsync to my laptop, which is periodically imaged to a couple of external disks, one of which sits under a fake plant at work when not actively used.

On Debian, I install android-file-transfer, mount my phone manually with aft-mtp-mount ~/androidmount, then run rsync -a --progress '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'

If the Android folder is too much trouble, you can also run rsync -a --progress --exclude 'Android/' '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'

I use UTC+0 because I don’t like the ideas of timezones and DST.

People who modify their cars to be obnoxiously loud. Makes me wish they’d get sand in their engines and grind their gears down.

Wild guess, but have you used me_cleaner at any point? This happened to my T510 when I tried neutering the Intel ME, sometimes the fan works, sometimes it wouldn’t, and no apparent errors came up.

Surprisingly good in most cases. Main thing missing for me is support for programs directly talking to USB devices (understandably, the associated driver support is its own can of worms).

1000% agree. Had to install an older version of Pinta because it was also gnomed a while back.

While I’ve yet to contribute to open-source projects aside from reporting issues, I’ve got my eyes set on something like libadapta. As soon as one of the programs I use on a daily basis gets gnomed, I’m going all in to soft fork libadwaita and restore as many GTK3 features as I can.

• someone who ran rm -rf /usr/share/icons/Adwaita

Putting everything I need for a project in a folder with a readme at the top level:

• Alleviates having to browse or search for files each time I use them
• Stashing any relevant commands, file paths, tutorial URLs in the readme, even if it looks ugly so I don’t have to keep scrolling through my bash history

Waking up to no headache after feeling gross yesterday due to said headache.

crouch low to the drain to minimize splashing

Fossify Calendar and Fossify Notes

We chose from a list where students with earlier birth dates got to choose first. Perhaps a consequence of small school district combined with less commonly-learned language, but after the 3rd year with the same teacher, we tended to revert to our real names, just pronounced with an accent.

I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.

Making my phone’s home screen functional. Calendar widget on the left, notes widget on the right, 3 rows of frequently-used apps on the bottom.

Went from having no calendar nor a quick place to jot notes, to having a severely overengineered planner with built-in notes that I didn’t actually use and didn’t fit in my pockets, to now finally having my day organized and my mind clear.

Also centralizing my random notes into a single ~/Documents/quicknotes plain text document for each of my machines with a taskbar shortcut pointing to it.

Depends on the degree of coreboot support. If the vendor or a firm like 3mdeb officially supports coreboot on your model of choice, it’ll have first-class support and you won’t miss out on anything compared to your typical proprietary BIOS.

If you plan on installing it yourself, do read carefully through the coreboot docs since some systems will have a few quirks (e.g. audio jack issues on T480/T470). But once coreboot is up and running on your computer, it’s smooth sailing on Linux. Compiling and flashing can be a bit of a rabbit hole, but I’m happy to give some pointers if you go this route.

I daily drive a ThinkPad X230 with Libreboot and haven’t had any issues. The only significant differences I’ve noticed are

• Faster boot times (1 to 2 seconds to reach LUKS prompt)
• Config menu (nvramcui payload) has very few options
• (Libreboot exclusive) Full-disk encryption by having GRUB with LUKS2 support directly on the BIOS
• I left out UEFI support since it’s complicated on the X230 and it’s not necessary for Linux to boot

Lost my mind a few years ago over this quirk. Now I always change both files when I want to change the hostname.

I tend to do the inverse of the two-step process you mention. Make the diagrams in Libreoffice Draw, export as .pdf, then use \includegraphics{} in Beamer.

Somewhere around $12. Covers email, VPN, and non-KYC data. Might jump up several dollars if I get around to making a personal website with a custom domain.

The only streaming media I consume regularly is on Youtube and I don’t see a good alternative on the horizon. uBlock and Pipepipe it is for now.

Without food, just shy of 24 hours. Slept around 12 hours after almost pulling an all-nighter, then never got hungry enough to get out of my room until late in the night. Was groggy all day, didn’t feel hungry for several hours, then it nagged for another few hours until it gnawed at me and I couldn’t do anything without thinking about food. So I ate, surprisingly only took a normal-sized meal to satisfy the hunger.

I’ve gone without water or food for about 9 hours at a time on several occasions. Mostly just makes me lethargic at the end. But the most memorable time was when I went on a trail with a couple friends for about 4 hours. It was the middle of summer in an arid climate and I realized I forgot to bring water about an hour in. Was very parched and heart racing by the end, but didn’t bother me too much. Then chugged about 3x 500 mL bottles as soon as I got back in the car.