Do you think it could also be due to an ACPI table?
Its possible. I know from the BIOS revision changelogs that the T470 did get a patch to fix this, but the X270 never did.
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amiga-workbench commented on I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I wonder if this can help with the extremely irritating bug (intentional?) on the X270 where if you give it a third party 9-cell battery, it will raise CPU_PROCHOT all the damn time, and my processor would drop to below 1Ghz clock speeds.
Back when I used to have an X270 I had a shell script that ran on boot which poked a register to disable thermal throttling handling. Not at all ideal, but it made the machine usable in the absence of official Lenovo batteries which they stopped manufacturing pretty damn quickly.
amiga-workbench commented on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% docs.hetzner.com/general/... · Posted by u/williausrohr
I recommend Netcup as a solid EU budget alternative to Hetzner, zero complaints from me.
Their ARM64 boxes are fantastic, but sold out at the moment.
amiga-workbench commented on Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices github.com/pocketblue/poc... · Posted by u/nikodunk
Oh, Linux on mobile. My cynic take:
- only works with very few phone models
- battery doesn’t last long
- bad UI with tiny elements.
- not managing a smooth refresh rate
- no apps
That‘s the pattern we‘ve seen over and over again. The only approach that has worked better is to base things on AOSP.
I feel like taking the approach of ramming the entire current desktop userspace into a phone is a misguided one. I can fully see now why Android reinvented the wheel across the board.
If I were to do a Linux Phone platform, I'd be targeting feature phone levels of functionality to begin with, with a focus on battery life and actually working telephony. I'd be aggressively throwing Wayland/GTK and all that nonsense in the bin just to get something basic working well. Draw straight to the framebuffer if you have to. This doesn't help with the app problem, but it sets a tide mark for quality & performance, and it can be iterated on.
amiga-workbench commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
Whats the model?
Its a NEC MultiSync M551
amiga-workbench commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
but the markup is quite high
Maybe a decade or two ago, but I looked into this last year, and the prices were just about the same.
I got mine 2nd hand on eBay as new old stock. £300 for a 55" 4K panel. The only thing I can ding it for is that the backlight local dimming is done in columns which is extremely distracting, so I turn it off. You have to remember this thing is designed to sit in a shop window in direct sunlight.
Ticks all my other boxes though, powers on as soon as my finger leaves the button on the remote, same with input switching and any other interactions with the OSD. Its completely braindead, just how I like it.
Oh, they also sent me the model with the touch digitizer installed. So I've got capacitive touch and pen input, it has a USB-B port on the side to connect to a computer.
I've switched to a low carb diet this year and have cut out just about all processed foods. I am considering getting a GLP1 injection privately in the near future. I'm hopeful that when I do get down to my target weight, my diet will remain changed, my habits will have improved and I'll be putting my new mobility to some use.
I don't plan on going cold turkey, I'll taper off the dose slowly and see what happens.
amiga-workbench commented on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings screenrant.com/stranger-t... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
Conspriacy theory ... TVs have bad sound so you're compelled to by a soundbar for $$$
I've certainly had the experience of hard to hear dialog but I think (could be wrong) that that's only really happened with listening through the TV speakers. Since I live in an apartment, 99% of the time I'm listening with headphones and haven't noticed that issue in a long time.
I don't think the bad sound is necessarily deliberate, its more of a casualty of TV's becoming so very thin there's not enough room for a decent cavity inside.
I had a 720p Sony Bravia from around 2006 and it was chunky. It had nice large drivers and a big resonance chamber, it absolutely did not need a sound bar and was very capable of filling a room on its own.
amiga-workbench commented on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
No dedicated GPU is certainly unrelated to whatever been happening for last two years.
It's just in last 5 years integrated GPUs become good enough even for mid-tier gaming let alone running browser and hw accel in few work apps.
And even before 5 years ago majority of dedicated GPUs in relatively cheap laptops was garbage barely better than intrgrated one. Manufacturers mostly put them in there for marketing of having e.g Nvidia dGPU.
A dedicated GPU is a red flag for me in a laptop. I do not want the extra power draw or the hybrid graphics sillyness. The Radeon Vega in my ThinkPad is surprisingly capable.
One of the few cases where they actively ruin the first book, to the extent you take them as true sequels. Clarke basically licensed his name and plot to Gentry Lee, who proceeded to ruin the sense of wonder by explaining everything, often in deeply unsatisfactory ways. They would have been reasonable scifi books (for their time) if they hadn't attempted to follow up the classics.
Star Wars prequel/sequel situation.