laylower (u/laylower)

laylower commented on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC tuxedocomputers.com/en/Di... · Posted by u/Venn1

adastra22 · 25 days ago

WSL or Docker is the only way to run Linux on these, it seems :(

Windows 11 with all the bloatware removed isn't a terrible experience though.

laylower · 22 days ago

Yeah, w11 unfortunately, with bloatware removed fortunately.

laylower commented on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC tuxedocomputers.com/en/Di... · Posted by u/Venn1

ndiddy · a month ago

It's a shame that this didn't end up going anywhere. When Qualcomm was doing their press stuff prior to the Snapdragon X launch, they said that they'd be putting equal effort into supporting both Windows and Linux. If anyone here is running Linux on a Snapdragon X laptop, I'd be curious to know what the experience is like today.

I will say that Intel has kind of made the original X Elite chips irrelevant with their Lunar Lake chips. They have similar performance/battery life, and run cool (so you can use the laptop on your lap or in bed without it overheating), but have full Linux support today and you don't have to deal with x86 emulation. If anyone needs a thin & light Linux laptop today, they're probably your best option. Personally, I get 10-14 hours of real usage (not manufacturer "offline video playback with the brightness turned all the way down" numbers) on my Vivobook S14 running Fedora KDE. In the future, it'll be interesting to see how Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips compare to Snapdragon X2.

laylower · 25 days ago

I'm typing this from a snapdragon x elite HP. It's fine really but my use is fairly basic. I only use it to watch movies, read, browse, and draft word and excel, some light coding.

No gaming - and I came in knowing full well that a lot of the mainstream programs don't play well with snapdragon.

What has amazed me the most is the battery life and the seemingly no real lag or micro-stuttering that you get in some other laptops.

So, in all, fine for light use. For anything serious, use a desktop.

laylower commented on Shader Glass github.com/mausimus/Shade... · Posted by u/erickhill

laylower · a month ago

Can I change the pixel emulator to something else?

And also, I read it talks to #device capture input (webcam/capture card)#

Can't cheater providers use this to inject colors?

laylower commented on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs checkout.com/blog/protect... · Posted by u/StrangeSound

junaru · a month ago

To me this looks like getting hacked, donating to some public non-profit, deduct it via taxes (essentially spending nothing) and spin it online as a positive.

laylower · a month ago

Even if it were, it'd be much more than anything others that got hacked have been doing..

laylower commented on Ask HN: Any actual AI projects in production at bigcorp? · Posted by u/meetingthrower

laylower · a month ago

Yes but only with people in the middle. You can't operationalize most of this properly.

So tasks like coding, summarizing, personas for editing, finding excerpts from long pdfs, answering questions based on documents feeding, it's generally useful to some extent.

laylower commented on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach theverge.com/news/797051/... · Posted by u/PaulKeeble

laylower · 2 months ago

Will the British Government be held liable for ID Thefts from this? If they hadn't created a honeypot with minimal security would this info now be out there?

WTF were they thinking about?

laylower commented on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill politico.eu/article/one-m... · Posted by u/cuu508

laylower · 2 months ago

Joachim - we need more of you.

laylower commented on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) windscribe.com/blog/the-v... · Posted by u/walterbell

laylower · 2 months ago

So anyone else besides Airvpn and Mullvad is even worth considering?

laylower commented on A New Internet Business Model? blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/mmaia

laylower · 3 months ago

How grateful should we be to cloudflare that they are able to help us make the internet a fairer place? I for one am indebted that they want to hold the keys and guard the doors.

laylower commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? · Posted by u/rickybule

pipes · 4 months ago

Thanks for this, UK citizen/subject here I believe the UK government is likely to go down the path of banning vpns.

laylower · 4 months ago

Can someone competent pull together a manual to set a vpn with obfuscation? I am sure it will be well received.

A github repo would be ideal really