+1 for bluefin. I’m actually running that on my own laptop. Fw13, it’s been rock solid, which is exactly what I wanted.

Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁

Ours is going up $100/mo next year

I loved 12s when I did them. I’m not saying to work yourself to death, I mean I did 3 12s a week, and it was amazing. Especially if you start early in the day? 6 to 6 and you’ve still got the ability to do stuff at night. Not like, ragers or anything, but like, dinner plans.

Best thing was that it was a small nursing home, 20 beds, so they fed us breakfast lunch and dinner. The food was meh, but better than fast food, and the savings were amazing!

If management didn’t stick their heads up their own butts, I’d probably still be there. But I noped out when the owner brought her step son in to run the place. He was… A piece of work. Confidently uninformed. Arrogantly incorrect. Held on high by Mommy.

Ever look into atomic/immutable distros? It’s a whole different way of doing things, but so far… I really dig it.

I have a tendency to muck about in the settings and configs, and make my system… Unstable…

But with an atomic distro, running flatpacks for most things and containers for anything exotic, my fingers stay out of the pie, and my system has been rock solid for 3/4 of a year, which is impressive for me.

I don’t think I’ll go back, not for my main machine anyway.

Just popping in to say raid is not a backup! It is for high availability!

Stuff’s expensive, it sucks, I’m not saying you need to spend more than you’re able to, I’m just warning you and others that while raid is often considered a pseudo-backup, it’s real purpose is high availability, so you can still access your data while your restoring from your actual backups somewhere else.

Best practice is 3-2-1, 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, 1 of which is in a different physical location.

But honestly, if you can just get 2 copies, both on hard drives, both in your same house, you’re still miles ahead of simply relying on raid.

Backup your data!

Thanks for coming to my TED talk 😂

It’s comments like these that make me realize that maybe I have ADHD… and then I stick my head on the sand and ignore it again…

So uh, what’s the use case for this thing? Why do I-… er… why would someone want one?

Asking for a friend…

https://a.co/d/5S3ZJTT

It’s like a teal, blue green ish

Extremerate emerald green

Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.

But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.

The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.

But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.

I’d still do it all again though, looks great

Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.

Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.

If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?

No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦‍♂️

Slow Internet users unite!

Mine could be worse, it’s 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.

Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn’t have it 😬

Right now they’re putting fiber in my town though! Soon I’ll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That’s way too much though, I’m gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I’m paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it kind of is a toy 😬

To each their own though 👍

See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it’s super easy

Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won’t have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!

Can confirm 🫠

While not as enticing, it should be much easier for the deck to handle.

People’s concern with the increased resolution is that games that are already marginal, like horizon forbidden West, will slip further down in frame rate.

If hardware accelerated 720p becomes a thing with a software update, I’ll most likely bump it down for a net INCREASE in performance 😬

I’ve sent a support message to the creator, hopefully he’ll have an answer 👍

It’s 1080p, which is unfortunately just a little harder to drive. Apparently the hardware in the new screen technically supports hardware downscaling to 720p, but that isn’t implemented yet, and may never be.