PrettyFlyForAFatGuy @ PrettyFlyForAFatGuy @feddit.uk

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other way around. Whatsapp is a signal clone.

There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).

It's mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn't a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments

The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it's literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the "Raspberry Pi" build of Private Internet Access

I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.

couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery

It's mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.

Honestly it's game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i'm probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK

i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work

i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don't have to put much effort into setting it up

This was in the desert in texas wasn't it?

good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time

did you try and use Arch?

i've only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch

Everytime i've installed ubuntu on a laptop it's worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch

bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops refurbished recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.

The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.

Even with the slight bugginess of a "concept image" OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.

Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows

mega is a social media platform?

hold on, this is from the "states rights" lot, right?

And they had to be dragged into it by the japanese

ah yeah

wasn't that foil?

i don't blame them, you monster

feddit.uk if you're in the UK

You best either be pro "communist" or not really talk about politics at all of you want to go to lemmy.ml

It's run by the same people who run lemmygrad and their moderation policies reflect that

you could look for instances with no stated political goals.

I'm on a general instance for UK people. do the admins have biases? probably. but as far as i can tell it's not an instance with a political goal.

Above all avoid the tankie triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net are not recommended unless you're into... that sort of thing

My nokia n95 had a small integrated FM transmitter.

Tanked the battery but was fun to play with

sorry, i couldn't hear you over the sound of my free healthcare

idk man, the shit that comes out of the drip tray of my coffee machine sure smells like it has a lot of bacteria in it

yeah, it didnt really work so i deleted it