fuck yeah✊

ditto😆

Intel really set themselves up for a perfect memefest😂

Thanks Steve

If I recall correctly, Canada got rid of carrier lock-in several years ago

yup, you’re more likely to have a better time with Linux if you have an AMD gpu

currrently if you get an NVIDIA gpu, you’d miss out on features like explicit sync and triple buffering, NVIDIA’s getting better about supporting Linux via open source drivers, although with their current focus/obsession on AI (and decrease on the gaming market based on Jenson’s recent behavior towards gamers at Computex 2024) it’s hard to tell what efftect that might have for driver support

• so I’d still typically recommend most to use an AMD gpu for a better time

Triple edit: omg thank you all for the (totally not useless) awards!!

Mental Outlaw’s vid is probably a good place to start, afterwards I’d recommend reading Libreboot’s documentation

Edit:

how can I check the ROM after I run the command $ ./build roms t440plibremrc_12mb

ah rip, I didn’t catch this part sorry

unfortunately I’m not the right person to answer that, hopefully someone else might know

guess we replaced Google
Noice🤌

NixOS on my laptop and Arch on desktop

desktop’s having occasional graphical issues but that’s primarily due to my gtx1080 showing it’s age

Laptop’s doing good although I’ll never buy an Asus laptop ever again (battery charging issues)

• most likely gonna switch to Framework if they release an affordable AMD laptop in the near future

maybe the scheduler cron in combination with git might work for you?

for us admins we generally tend to let the community mods handle their community’s reports

and for communities that are either:

• not on our instance or
• is on our instance but has no current active mods,

then we’ll take over for moderating those communities till we find people who want to try becoming moderators🤗

sure why not

I’d be down to help as I have experience with various distros at this point🤗

heads up the GPU drivers are proprietary as of posting:

The SpacemiT K1 also doesn’t have any upstream open-source graphics driver as another disappointing aspect.

on distros that have more recent packages, like Fedora.

ah you’re right!

😳I asked a stupid question as I should’ve checked the Tech Compendium (ArchLinux Wiki) before asking😅

thanks! +1

A third player is absolutely welcome to the game

definitely agreed as more competition drives better products for lower prices to consumers✨

just wondering but do you happen to know if Intel’s gpus are good for all Linux distros?

• last I heard was that they’re primarily supporting Ubuntu (I could be wrong about this)

The Steves are right that if A.I is still as profitable for both AMD and Nvidia by then, expect prices to go up for any flagship. It wouldn’t make any business sense not to.

you have a good point

although I have to wonder if we’ll have to wait 2 years:

• if the next gpus are midrange and NVIDIA happens to launch their next flagship sooner than AMD, then AMD’s confirming to take a loss in marketshare which would be pretty bad as they’re currently being cornered/squeezed on both sides
• Intel’s launching their next gpus pretty soon and their performance gains from improved drivers has been pretty surprising/honestly pretty impressive as I personally didn’t expect much from them on the gpu front

currently for:

• budget gpus Intel seems like a good option
• flagship gpus (power efficiency be dammed), NVIDIA is a no brainer
• best Linux support (currently) AMD gpus are the go to

however for the vast majority of users, people will look for gpus with Windows in mind so in reality it might be just Intel and NVIDIA oddly enough

• Intel’s providing great budget friendly cards
• NVIDIA’s serving cash whales

With the 7900 XTX currently being around

• $900 USD and
• $1300 CAD…

at what price point do you think AMD will release their next gen flagship?

yeeesh is this with Windows 10 and/or 11?

still not a fan of Windows

edit:
just remembered this is Windows 11, unfortunately I know some people that got forced to use it with most modern laptops

seems like it should be an opt-in setting in BIOS;

• HP might want to learn from the other OEM vendors what to do for BIOS/UEFI configuration

On the offhand chance that someone with a bricked HP laptop stumbles here looking for what to do (prob via smartphone or public library computer),

• I’d recommend on removing the M.2 SSD (gumslice-shaped PCB that contains your data) to protect your data
  • this can be found by googling your laptop’s serial number and looking for the manual, after downloading the PDF file you’ll be able to open it with Firefox
  • you’ll typically need a philips-head screwdriver to remove the laptop’s case and remove the SSD

I’m assuming the users might be coming from Windows

hopefully this helps someone out there