Oh trust me, I know pretty quickly when that 3080 turns on and when it turns back off. Hybrid graphics is what I’ve been fiddling with the most.

So far I’ve been playing with Linux on my old work laptop and they’ve been playing together nicely. Almost everything else about the laptop? No. But hey at least graphics works.

What’s even worse is when it “supports” it but in a way that’s so unusable broken it’s better to just not support it at all.

I tried Linux on my old laptop with an Intel AX201 card. For the longest time it wouldn’t constantly connect to 5ghz, try to swap to 6, then 2 seconds later fall back to 5. WiFi was basically unusable on that laptop unless I turned off 6ghz. Even then speed was only half what it should have been.

In 3 years I haven’t had a single attempted connection that wasn’t me. Once you get to the ephemeral ports nobody is scanning that high.

I’m not saying run no security or something. Just nobody wants to scan all 65k ports. They’re looking for easy targets.

Change the port it runs on to be stupid high and they won’t bother.

I remember the doom and gloom whenever he returned to working at Nvidia. “Oh they’re going to effectively kill the open source drivers.”

I’m glad he’s up to good work still.

The themed icons are even worse

Over time I hate themed icons more and more. In like 2013 when I still used Android as my main phone I used to use them. But shortly after that I realized any customization I do myself is just… hideous? And ever since then I’ve hated all of it.

iOS recently added tinted and “dark” icons and they’re all horrendous.

https://www.xda-developers.com/material-you-monet-theme-engine/

Apparently it’s officially called material you, but that name is so stupid I think I’d prefer to call it by it’s code name too.

If you only have one M.2 slot then M.2 to USB adapters are stupid cheap and infinitely useful as a fast AF flash drive.

If your drive is sata then those are also cheap and the same applies, just not quite as fast.

CPU: intel 7th gen or earlier.

I doubt companies will be flooding markets with anything. 7th gen devices came out almost a decade ago (yes it’s almost been that long since 2016) and most companies only keep computers for 3-5 years max.

Zfs through trunas will let you do raid 1, then jbod more raid 1s as you add more drives. That’s how I’ve gradually gone from 2 12TB, to 14TBs, the. Finally up to 20TBs without any hassle. I’m sure other software raids will do the same.

And ran on the xbox 360… which had 512 MB.

It’s a negative feedback loop.

The less time you can spend optimizing games the less you know how to optimize games. The less you know how to optimize games the more time it takes to optimize games. Optimizing games becomes too costly for management. Goto 10.

Why have two computers doing basically the same job when you could just have one?

Have the NAS be the media server and save power and get better performance.

skamtebord

That rams not gonna use itself.

Thank god. Whoever decided that “smart battery charging” should only ever be automatic, and can’t be hard capped should be quartered. Thank god more companies are finally giving people the option. Especially since it apparently goes all the way down to 70%. This might be what gets me to finally retire this poor phone.

Does the phone have a built in battery charge limiter or do you need to root for that? I leave my phone plugged in all day/night running stuff and I really don’t need it at 100% 24/7. I think that’s the only thing I need root for at this point. Nothing else I want to run needs it anymore after android 13 finally added the ability to toggle airplane mode on and off WITHOUT root.

That’s what I was gonna say. Like my pre iPhone smart phone had bluetooth and wired hotspot.

How good are their devices? My Pixel 4 is still working, but its definitely showing it’s age.