I think your Thinkpad is broken. My house is littered with the things and none of them charge off only a single port unless defective.

Notable exceptions are P and X1E series devices, but those don't charge off USB-C at all up until the latest X1E gen.

What crappy laptops are we talking about here? I've seen this on tablets and phones but never a laptop. Even my crappy Dell work laptop does just fine on a USB-C docking station.

Exactly. I'm describing things programmers THINK are elegant.

>Ok, so you don't recognize elegance either.

I would never presume to recognize it.

It's just that all the examples I've seen of supposed elegance in code have seemed more like inside jokes between people in the know. Or possibly a way to increase job security... as long as nobody can understand WTF you did without immense effort, you're more difficult to replace. Yay?

>Quoting a high end philosopher with an incomprehensible unrelated quote makes your argument unassailable by small minds.

I love it. Definitely need to include this in my repertoire at work.

As a hardware developer who only dabbles in programming, I've never really understood the reason for "elegant" code. I mostly find it hard to read and understand.

To me, good code is self-explanatory and, barring that, well documented. It should also produce an efficient program, but that's not *necessarily* directly linked to what I've seen programmers call "elegant", which is usually something much shorter and more cryptic than I would have written. With no comments, of course.

If you want to use modern security-theatre-required applications (such as banking or trading), you're pretty much fucked unless you go with a big mainstream phone OS. A lot of institutions/companies seem to be deprecating website functionality in favor of mobile apps for the "security" features, so just using a web browser is also no longer an alternative.

I literally run this setup, with a dedicated gaming/photo/music/video PC that runs Windows and everything else on Debian.

However, that doesn't solve the aggravation entirely - as I sit here on the couch typing on my Debian Thinkpad, I'm seeing in the corner of my eye that Windows has once again woken up to install updates - despite having disabled automatic updates AND disabled wake timers. I still get the "Hey, install Windows 11!" or "Hey, I've reinstalled Edge prominently for you and would like to help you import all your bookmarks!" after updates, and it won't just stay the fuck asleep or hibernated.

When I finally find a good FOSS alternative to Photoshop Camera RAW I'll probably revisit getting rid of Windows entirely, but until then I'll have to keep it around, so I might as well keep running my games, DAW and video editing on it.

They're quite nice when you're trying to be, you know, energy efficient... I quite like 'em for battery life.

The NPU seems much more useless to me, other than slightly improving greenscreen functionality I have no idea what to use it for.

Have you been there? I'd say it's much worse than you make it sound.

A lot of the immediate pollution is from people literally burning trash and (literal) shit in the streets. Not just to get rid of it - during the colder months (Delhi gets surprisingly cold) it's also to keep warm. The trash itself strewn absolutely everywhere doesn't help either.

It was the same in most of the larger cities... this was right before Covid. Will take a lot more than electric cars to make me want to go back...

It doesn't sound like you've ever used Gnome. Workspaces, tiling extensions, and even the built in native splitscreen layout are all conducive to a decent multitasking experience. My 4k display is usually split into 8 different segments... on Gnome...

For most Lifetime license owners that'll probably just be the kick in the pants they need to migrate to an open source alternative...

Have they fixed all the issues yet? Power drain, limits on modularity (certain modules can go in certain slots without triggering aforementioned power drain), weird firmware issues, bad layout on the coin cell holder causing people to rip it off (solder pads and all) when trying to replace the RTC battery...?

I'm all for releasing new mainboards with all the new tech, but it would be great if their sustainable laptop concept could be, well, sustainable... WITHOUT having to replace the entire core of the machine in order to get fixes for the issues.

And even for work, carrying a Linux laptop (or MacBook) and remoting into a Windows workstation can be a solution for many scenarios. It's only when it comes to screensharing that that's a bit of a pain.

It's not the length that's the issue, it's the content.

Complaining about donations tapering off when you fail to implement the exact features that people expect and want when they're donating to your project reeks of being completely out of touch with your fanbase. Of COURSE the people trying to pay you to make their machines work on Linux want all the features to work. OF COURSE they want working sound, all of their potential battery life and support for external displays... wtf did you expect?

I understand that these are herculean feats that were never explicitly promised, but the communication could have been clearer. Hell, a few sentences later this person is arguing that their distro can "totally be daily driven" and is being done so by thousands of people... NO, it's a broken alpha that lacks support for basic hardware features. Be clear about managing user expectations and you will have a much better time... but then there would have been less hype and less donations initially, so that's also not an option. Hence the social media crap mentioned in the /. summary.

Lucky for me, I hate Mac keyboards so my Linux-on-ARM ultraportable laptop hopes are pinned on Debian for Snapdragon Elite... maybe by 2030? Until then, as long as I can keep upgrading from one Thinkpad T14 to the next I think I'll be fine without Asahi.

Auto closed captioning and live translation is something that can be quite useful in certain fields, but meeting software vendors such as Microsoft have once again shot themselves in the foot when it comes to marketing and selling these features. At work we have some sort of Microsoft Super Premium Plus whatever subscription that includes Teams Premium Pro Plus something or other... but when you try to activate live translation in a call with a Chinese supplier, it turns out that you need a Teams Premium Pro Plus ULTIMATE ARMAGEDDON license...