Preach brother.

Companies like Tuxedo Computers and System76 try to pass themselves off as hardware companies, but I think it’s fair to say that they actually have more in common with software companies, in that their work is mainly to do with software and clever marketing and very little in, say, designing the board that goes into the machines they sell. Not to say they don’t touch hardware at all and are just playing the slimy middle man; they obviously put in some work but definitely not to the extent implied by the marketing.

One of the most telling sign that Tuxedo Computers isn’t what it seems on the surface is that their laptops sometimes will have weird non-Linux-compatible hardware despite claiming to be a “made for linux” hardware vendor. Take for example, the Sirius 16. At first glance, it’s a system that seems almost perfect for Linux: Amd CPU and GPU so no need to wrestle Nvidia drivers. Great, right? But then you look at the fingerprint scanner and, hang on, it’s “Windows only”. Why is that a thing on a “designed for Linux” laptop? It’s because Tuxedo didn’t design this thing. Some other company did. And they sure as hell didn’t design it with Linux users in mind. If they did, they would probably have used a fingerprint scanner that’s compatible or dropped that feature it all together to make the product more affordable (it’s a gaming laptop; how much do you need biometrics?). The fact of the matter is that barebones laptop manufacturers (Clevo, Tongfang, etc.) design for the average market, OS-wise. In other words, they design for Windows. These machines can run Linux, just as HP and Dell and Lenovo and Acer machines can run Linux, but there’s no guarantee that they will run Linux flawlessly.

Oh yeah, and their manuals are very sad, if not pathetic. Dell, the soulless beast of a company that it is, still pumps out detailed service manuals for all of its laptops. Lenovo manages much the same. So does HP.

So, yeah, maybe people should take this into consideration before buying from a Clevo reseller like Tuxedo or System76.

swiss people can’t swim, silly

That kind of looks like how a machine would look if the RAM is loose in the socket or otherwise have a bad contact. And since you mention that it’s random and sometimes there are no vertical lines, that’d be my guess rather than anything to do with graphical software. Is the RAM on your machine soldered on or is it detachable? If it’s the latter, I recommend taking the RAM out and reseating it to see if things improve (try this a couple of times, just to be sure the RAM is properly seated). If the RAM is soldered on then it might have something to do with out of memory. Does the system slow down a couple of seconds before freezing entirely? If it does then it’s likely it’s a OOM thing.

Oh, and for good measure, can you get to the tty (ctrl + alt + f2) when the system freezes? If you can then it’s probably a graphical thing and you can try restarting those processes. If the system is in a complete freeze then I’d say that’s another point for the OOM hypothesis.

If I understand you correctly, I think you can manually create symlinks to the HDD. For example, if you want libreoffice suite to be on HDD, you would go into where the libreoffice suite is located on the SSD, move it to some location on the HDD, and create a symlink in its place pointing to the new location. This way, the data is stored on the HDD but all programs still find its way there.

I would also recommend upgrading your HDD to a SATA SSD. But of course, that costs money so, up to you.

me if i was Tails, or “The Amnesic Incognito Live System”, a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity against surveillance, which connects to the Internet exclusively through the anonymity network Tor and is designed to be booted as a live DVD or live USB and never writes to the hard drive or SSD, leaving no digital footprint on the machine unless explicitly told to do so.

fitting, considering HP products are ass

yeah lmao. the article itself is not that bad, but gosh, the title really does make it seem like these people have never ever heard of the exotic and far-flung country of… Hungary, ever.

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Thanks for the clear and concise answer, my man. Cheers!

I also thought that was the issue at first. I’ve tried reconnecting and putting more slack/less slack but the symptoms stay the same. Plus, if it was worn out from open/closing the screen, I think it’d affect the backlight as well as the display when I wiggle the screen back and forth. But they’re both is stable from what I see.

I’m confident it’s that capacitor since I can see the pads aren’t rounded but jagged (there are rounded ones on the board, and I know those are supposed to be empty). That would suggest that the capacitor was torn off by the plastic of bevel of the display assembly being pushed in too far. I can also see that there’s a hole in the protective tape covering board, right where the capacitor should be. It’s a bit awkward to describe but yeah. Plus, the previous owner also described scratching that bevel and symptoms showing up after they did it too often. So all in all, I’m pretty sure it’s the cap. Still, thank you for the answer!

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Alright, this is too good to be bait, so I’ll just say it straight up: CBT on the internet always, always means Cock and Ball Torture. Always.

Crawl OST by Alex Yoder. All his other stuff is pretty good as well, but this one is my absolute favorite. Too bad he doesn’t release stuff very often.

“You will eat, by and by, in that glorious land in the sky, way up high. Work and pray; live on hay. You’ll get pie in the sky when you die! …That’s a lie…”

i don’t want to sound mean here, but the whole point of an invite system is that only relatively trusted people can get in. giving invites away to anyone asking for it would mostly defeat the point.

There are numerous ways to deal with it, depending on the specific application and use-case. For some, there’s an open-source alternative that, while not 100% similar in every aspect imaginable, does offer basically the same functionality (LibreOffice for MS Office Suite, Thunderbird for various email clients, Firefox or just Chromium for Google Chrome). For others, you can use an emulator (WINE, for example). For games specifically, Steam offers an emulator that works for most games (Proton); in fact, all the games I’ve tried worked. Then, there’s the very last option, which is using a virtual Windows machine within Linux. I mention it last because I honestly haven’t found many cases where I absolutely needed to do this, and because the set-up is rather “involved”, shall we say. But if you’re using Adobe Suite stuff then, yeah, you basically got no choice there.

Would you mind listing some of the essential programs that you use so we can get a better idea what your workflow is?

basically an agreement between 14 countries to share signals intelligence amongst one another. effectively, if your data gets captured in Sweden, all the participating states are able to get their hands on it. check out the Wikipedia article for more details on 14 eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Fourteen_Eyes