small_crow @ small_crow @lemmy.ca

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I'm sorry to inform you that you will be hearing every word that comes out of his mouth for at least another four years. You might want to disconnect if it really bothers you.

Yep! I mean, it's been two years now. I've tried TLP, Powertop, and both combined.

They improve things but I still only get about 5 hours, half the battery life I did in Windows 11. I've accepted these downsides because I already have the laptop and can't just go buy a new one, but a device with proper Linux support has real upsides.

I bought an Ideapad Slim 7 Carbon (sold as yoga in other markets and looks identical to the Yoga Pro 7 you mention) for its beautiful screen, similar to your Yoga option but only 90hz, and its thin and light body a couple of years ago. The OOB experience in Windows was great (for Windows) and it's been mostly good in Linux. I needed to replace its m.2 wireless card for compatibility reasons, battery life is very short in Linux, and the speakers don't function - the firmware on the device doesn't adequately identify its audio hardware so that the Linux kernel can make use of its built-in amplifier.

Ideapads don't get the same Linux support as Thinkpads, so there's been no help from Lenovo. You may be in the same boat with a yoga. Even Cirrus (the makers of the amp) tried to update their drivers but couldn't do anything with what Lenovo makes accessible in its firmware.

Maybe newer models have improved in this regard. If I knew the speakers would be an intractable problem when I was shopping I wouldn't have bought it.

It's a hybrid device - AMD processor with Nvidia GPU - which is a hassle. I couldn't get it to work properly myself, wound up going with a gaming distro (Nobara) to deal with it. It's mostly fine. It also doesn't shut down. I assume some bios setting I don't have access to is not interacting well with the way Linux shuts down. There are minimal bios settings available to manipulate (because Ideapad's are not considered power-user devices).

Build quality of the laptop itself is also mostly good, though the keyboard is on the flimsy side. My 'c' key's switch broke in a way that can't be repaired so it occasionally pops out of place. That started about a year in.

I would need to relocate my parents for that, because they live in the middle of nowhere and I needed to relocate to a city for work.

Everything good is because I did it, everything bad is because the other guys.

~ Roman Senators probably

I wish I could have continued the boycott but I spent like 30% more on groceries when I was avoiding Loblaws properties and it was not sustainable. What's the solution when every store is gouging?

Forty years... forty... years... I wonder if there was something *new *that our liberal democracy started forty years ago, where the focus shifted towards expanding economic growth at all costs.

New and different but still liberal. Neo maybe.

National flags are jingoist nonsense. Patriotism is a social disease.

I'd call it the Slop Bucket

Anti-trust is not about seeking perfection, it's a defense against abuses of power. That's a good thing unless you like to be abused by the powerful, in which case lick some more boots.

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Everything I know about liquid containers I learned from the TSA. Any liquid could be a secret explosive, so Israel had to blow it up to be sure it was really water. Destroying the water was an unfortunate and necessary measure to ensure the safety of all Gazans.

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How do you even make 20,000 amendments to an 18 page document? Did they change every word individually?

I've smoked so much weed in the years since legalization. I was a regular smoker before, too, but my consumption habits spiked after - especially during the COVID years. As in heavy, chronic, daily use.

I started cutting down drastically late last year, and I'm quitting for good now. Cannabis hasn't had a positive effect on my mental health.

Chronic and heavy use have definitions, for anyone who doesn't know. Regularly consuming cannabis twice or more per week is considered Chronic use. Heavy use is anything more than two times per week or ten times per month. Almost all of my friends are heavy, chronic users.

Definitely some. I'm sure they'll be building housing for the staff on site at the "Arctic satellite ground station" and "northern operations hubs".

Just join the army. Free room and board.

The version of Neuralink we can afford will be ad supported.

No, jokes. It's plural because there are many jokes on you.

And the rest overestimate how much they know.

Greek Salad is mostly fruit.

tHe ELiteS 🙄

In addition to worsening living standards, the RCMP also warns of a future increasingly defined by unpredictable weather and seasonal catastrophes, such as wildfires and flooding.

Well at least they're recognizing climate change.

The RCMP report looks legitimate when you view it in that tiny little iFrame at the bottom of the article. Interestingly though, if you try to view it full-screen it takes you to the website Scribd, where it was hosted, which says it has been removed.

I also don't see it on Matt Malone's website (the person the article says made the ATIP request), Open By Default, where there is a searchable index of ATIP requests and results.

https://theijf.org/open-by-default/search?q=whole+of+government+five+year+trends&sort=score&startYear=2023&endYear=2024&orgs=Royal+Canadian+Mounted+Police

The ID number on the report doesn't even match the formatting of ID numbers for ATIP requests.

NatPo ID: A0013001_6

Random ID from Open By Default: A-2023-09971

I won't say it's for sure fake, it looks very real and would have taken some effort to put together, but there's no corroborating evidence of this report existing outside of this NatPo opinion piece