rotopenguin

joined 2 years ago
[–] rotopenguin 4 points 2 years ago

There's more device integration reducing part count on the board, which generally improves assembly and inspection. Who knows if the BOM is cheaper, but improvements to reliability and reparability will save money. It's easier to repair and turn around broken screens & broken shoulder buttons. Fewer Decks are going to come back because the overheating charge controller exploded, thank god.

[–] rotopenguin 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not worth risking tearing the cable, it'll take you forever to order a replacement. Pick up a bottle of 99% iso alcohol at the pharmacy.

[–] rotopenguin 55 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This is the first time I've heard about gluing a cable to the heat shield cover. Oof.

[–] rotopenguin 2 points 2 years ago

Keep an eye on thermals with s-tui. You could down-throttle the processor with tlp. At some point you'll probably have to deal with the thermal-transfer pad being bad or whatever, that is never a fun job on a laptop.

[–] rotopenguin 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can get an N100 mini system for about $150. Pay a little more to get (the intel enforced maximum) 16GB mem. I have a Beelink Mini S and it's perfectly fine.

[–] rotopenguin 1 points 2 years ago

Btrfs has some extra demands for its swap file, so the tool has its own "btrfs filesystem makeswapfile" command.

[–] rotopenguin 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nah, I think the next stop is Linux Vista.

[–] rotopenguin 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Go watch Die Hard, The Day Of The Jackal, Rope, Seven Samurai, The Martian. It is possible to write a movie that isn't moved forward by passing around the idiot ball. Characters can take reasonable actions, and still have stuff go wrong and have to take new reasonable actions to adjust.

[–] rotopenguin -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Look, I love spaghettification porn as much as the next guy, but Loki was a mess. The story was gobbldygook. I could not see any good interpretation of all the stuff about purifying non-übermensch timelines. The Wilson / Hiddleston chemistry was great, really that's the only reason to keep watching.

[–] rotopenguin 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a native speaker, it isn't any particular phrase that I've ever heard before. Therefore it's a sex thing

[–] rotopenguin 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm happy for new buyers getting a better deck that I got. That makes more of us to tell game devs "you will test and tune your game to run well on the Deck". It means more games that work for me.

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