ExtremeUnicorn

joined 11 months ago
[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Get a Thinkpad T480, Intel ME can be disabled and it has working coreboot/libreboot builds, might someday be fully open-source. Don't let your close ones use vulnerable spyware.

It also checks all of the boxes, except what's a "foldable screen"?

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

That may be the case, but this is a machine that runs on stable now for hundreds of days straight and it couldn't even last an hour or so on the first boot of a bare unstable system.

I never got to fully troublshoot it, but it wasn't worth it to me in the end.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've installed Debian with the sid repo once after using stable for years. That's where I've had my first random system crash where everything just halts like on Windows. It also was a pretty bare system at that point, nothing special installed or configured.

Never again.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To add to this, there is always the debian backports repository, which receives major updates for things such as office, BTRFS progs and other common software.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

There's always an alterior motive with that company, you can count on it.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's made by Google, that's enough.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think I get the point you're trying to make, but these are hardware factors that just can't be redeemed with software.

If you have two completely different panels, you will always have a visible difference, the only real answer is to get matching monitors (and then calibrate them, on top).

If your screens are gonna look different anyway, why even bother? I don't get the specific use case (which doesn't mean there isn't one).

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I personally never got that point, because when you multi-screen, wouldn't you specifically want two of the same model anyway because of color correction, fps and such? I know you can calibrate two different displays, but that will only get you so far and they'll never look/feel the same.

I am sure there are use-cases for this, but how common is it that somebody needs this feature?

What's much more common imo is connecting a laptop to two entirely different displays and mirroring the output and I had huge issues with Wayland in the past where it would just show half of the screen on either one, depending on resolution. Not sure if I did something wrong, but had to switch to X11 to make it work.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

vote for the right party

o.O

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Will I be able to use it without disclosing all my contacts, then?

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

A doggy dog world.

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