Or just have DLSS run the game at 480p, but upscale it to 4k! You’ll never notice the difference we swear!

In your recovery there should be a backup option. Pick that and back up everything.

Then make sure you copy that backup off the phone in case you really hose things and have to start completely fresh.

That’s still theoretical speeds, I doubt any drive will be that fast.

Device ships with good emmc storage, it’s all pretty dire. The surface go my friend has got about 150MBps writes and 250 reads. That’s what I’d expect from a “good” emmc machine. I bought some $100 Walmart special a year ago and it gets like maybe 150 reads and 50 writes. Hard drives are fast than this.

Some USB drives are actually pretty good. I have a drive that sustains over 350MBps reads and 150 writes, and bursts almost up to full 400MBps.

That that drive is the exception, not the norm. Those micro center flash drives with white labels? You may get 1 gig of writes in before they crater to 20MBps or less. And the newer black ones? I’ve seen single digit MBps transfers. Putting an OS on there is suffering. Shit just writing the iso on there is bad.

Emmc will be consistently mediocre. If OP had an EMMC laptop then I’m going to guess they didn’t pay extra for a fancy flash drive so the experience is going to be DIRE. If you want to play with the live environment it’s fine.

Not all laptops have replaceable wireless cards. If you have a thinner machine they probably soldered it on. But I can’t find any rhyme or reason to what manufacturers do and don’t solder.

What distro are you running? I can’t believe it wouldn’t flush cache before hibernating on any OS.

Those 200gb games take a while to download, even on a gigabit internet connection.

Pretty much no manufacturer is going to sell you parts besides maybe replacement feet. But the only things that fail on mice are all jellybean components.

Left mouse button fails? Buy another from mouser. Middle button fails? Digikey. Side button? Some other components selling company.

Outside of those super light mice there’s nothing special about any of them other than the exact layout, and the case. And the cheaper the mouse usually the simpler they are on the inside, and the easier it is to solder. Most PCBs will be single sided with through hole components.

Those really low capacity cards have DIRE read speeds though. I wouldn’t want to cheap out too much on them.

We have one SD card at work that seemingly works fine, but has read speeds of like single digit Mbps. It’s plenty for the arcade machine it runs with no more than 10mb roms at the max. But oof is it bad.

Was your bios updated in the last few years? Not when you updated it, but when the manufacturer pushed a newer update.

If it’s older than 2023 then you’re screwed. If it’s been updated since then then you’re probably fine.

Unless you manually configured a bunch of things you shouldn’t need to do anything at all. AMD generally has great open source drivers so everything should just work™️

OP wants a “laptop Grade” processor which generally means x86. The pine tab has a rock chip arm CPU which is… dire? It’s 5 years old and even then was based on a like 7 year old process node. Very Linux first for an arm tablet, but not a laptop grade CPU.

Don’t forget battery life. Most of those systems get some pretty awful battery life, or are comically large.

Nvidia for compute* has always been fine on Linux. It’s Nvidia for an actual display that’s been the biggest problem.

A chance? It 100% doesn’t.

A surprising number of websites still work with these old devices though. I have an OG HTC Dream and it will go to more websites than I’d think it should.

If it’s an LSI card then make sure it’s either been flashed into IT mode, is capable of being flashed into IT mode, or is relatively modern and has that option built in.

What you really want is an HBA, but HBAs can be expensive, a raid card flashed to act as an HBA is typically much cheaper. A 6 gbit SAS card will do 3gbit sata, and no hard drive should be writing more than 3gbit. If you want to do SSDs then find a relatively more modern 12 gbit SAS card which will do 6gb sata.

I guess also look out for the REALLY old ones that won’t do over like 3tb. But I bought one of those for $20 almost 10 years ago so that shouldn’t be a concern. Those are probably all in the trash by now.

Do you really need direct OEM driver support after the 1st OS version? Usually the open source drivers are good enough by the time the next release comes out. After 4 years do they not have functional drivers for that machine?

Something actually capable of doing this well? Even a raspberry pi would be better suited.

Why would you read the article when you could just complain in the comments?

Wait wifi doesn’t work with the Surface Kernel?

I loved the servers that were 24/7 metro, no drags etc. some of those were (and still are) my favorite. Or pistols only, no Glock 18. When you get rid of custom servers you get rid of that custom experience.