that’s not the main reason.

it’s more because that shit is there forever. so if it’s impossible to inspect and trace payments now, that don’t mean it remains so five or 10 years from now. btw, chainalisys had some monero tracing like years ago.

so imagine if we’d have a perfectly preserved crime scene from like 1785 (and multiple, perfect copies of it!) and we can unleash the full power of today’s forensics on it.

I have the same experience. mounting the vault (sshfs) to showing contents is like 5 minutes. client ryzen 5600, no significant CPU activity.

it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can’t make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.

edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it’s a 5 fps stuttering mess. that’s before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.

holup, you can’t send fucking images with a free account!? def no videos with that “limit”.

I’m already in the process of moving my corpo stuff to XMPP but this should precipitate a total exodus, both private and business shit.

thank you for an elaborate and in-depth review, enjoyed imagining owning it. although it has a lot of nice-to-haves (e-ink, keyboard, etc) at 10x (that’s TEN times) the price of my usual phones Imma forget about it as soon as I click “post”.

so what you’re saying is that the firmware powers off when on battery and just suspends if on AC? I have to say I’ve never heard of such a thing. could be a setting in the DE; e.g. Plasma has a buncha stuff to set up separately for when on battery and when on AC, maybe your issue is there. does it behave the same when you power down from terminal (sudo shutdown -h now)?

also, not to hamper your impressive research, but what’s with the powering down of things? all my hardware (desktops and laptops) get powered down or restarted like never or rarer. when it’s time for bed, they get suspended and then woken in the morning, ready to go as I’ve left em. the one laptop that spends days without power, ready to go when I have to leave, has the suspend-then-hibernate thing implemented so its power drain iz zero.

not familiar with the usability issues that you need X11 for, but fedora has spins for xfce, cinnamon, etc. that are gonna keep X11 around for a long time.

holup - you shut down the laptop and in such a state it drains the battery?! I mean, that’s so outside of the OS’ functionality, it don’t matter which one you got. the only sensible conclusion is that shutting down the laptop in debian doesn’t turn it off, there are no other explanations.

fedora is more modern by way of kernels and DEs and whatnot, but I’ve looked up your hardware, that’s an 8th gen i5/i7, that’s plently supported even in old bookworm.

one thing to lookup is in BIOS, my T480s (same generation) had a power management setting in BIOS that was either Windows or Linux, so make sure yours is set correctly.

edit: to add, the other issue, standby, blows on any hardware I’ve tried so what you need to do is implement suspend-then-hibernate by setting up a swap file that’s RAM + 4 GB (or RAM * 1.5, if you run zram) and then enabling first hibernation and then configuring suspend-then-hibernate. so in that setup, your laptop sleeps normally, and if you don’t touch it in say an hour, it dumps the RAM to the SSD and powers off. when you power it on, it restores from swap and that’s faster than cold boot and your shit is how you left it.

naturally, alla that’s pointless until you fix issue #1, the drain when it’s supposedly off.

because they used to be special. “I run linux”, matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, “I’m in”, awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker…

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain’t special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

I would like nothing more (well, there’s a few things I’d like more, but for the purposes of this we’ll let it stand) than for this fucker to get hurt and for this shit business to implode.

but nothing close to that is happening. sales that are lower than before indicate that there are still sales, nazi sled image notwithstanding. the P/E multiple is still through the roof. there aren’t liquidity issues apparent.

this might be an indication that things might be moving the right way, but at present, nothing is “collapsing”.

and even if alla that somehow materializes, this doesn’t even touch the fucker in the slightest, it is inconceivable how much he’s got.

so, this is a cope article.

the true value is in discarded laptops, skylake or newer. a quick search in my local marketplace finds double-digits of those under $40, with busted screens and other failings, which aren’t important for e.g. headless deployment.

they got low-power, capable CPUs to boot, you get a shitton of connectivity, storage options, etc. power brick included (gotta buy one for a raspi) and you don’t dick around with arm64 packages and SD cards. if you don’t need video decoding, you can go even older.

woudn’t put too much trust in recommendations from dudes that rely on you constantly buying new shit, as their income depends on it.

yeah, this is a “cope” article from dudes I’ve never heard of before. nothing is collapsing, the shit is still worth insane multiples of P/E, they still sell HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of model 3s (close to 400K per annum) and this joke of a “journalist” conflates the unpopularity of the (higly impractical and niche) cybertruck with “teslas”.

thank you, very thorough. are them messages public somewhere, on my or their profile or whathaveyou?

guess I’m fucking stupid, no understando how to do that. help please?

so there are still sales.

dude, I mean come on - which lenovo tablet? woulda taken you like two seconds to include the model. intel? arm? config?

lol get bent. telemetry galore, from the dudes that brought you “battery has limited charge cycles via firmware, afterwards it’s dead”, just how their toner division does it.

don’t know about that latitude, but for the thinkpad you’d do well to disable the nvidia graphics in BIOS setup. intel graphics is adequate for daily stuff and you can actually use the thing as a mobile device i.e. on battery,

dios mio, the prices… horror! for a corporation to choose between this and thinkpads, OK. for an end-user, get bent!

I’m quad-lingual and it’s a mess inside my head. every so often a sentence pops up in my audio output buffer formed from different languages and normalizing it takes a while, so sometime I come off as an idiot.