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mzur commented on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops   linaro.org/blog/linux-on-... · Posted by u/MarcusE1W
pentamassiv · a month ago
If you are thinking about getting a Tuxedo, I suggest to get something else. I got one because they promised fwupd support, upstreamed drivers and maybe coreboot support. None of that is working even years afterwards. People from the kernel got so fed up with them, they considered blacklisting them [1]. That seemed like a wakeup call as they now at least started with upstreaming drivers.

If you want to change some settings oft the device, you need to use their terrible Electron application. It's so bad, volunteers created an alternative. Even they are getting tired of Tuxedo though [2]

The device is also not repairable at all. I had an issue with my screen and they gave me a quote of ~200€+ to repair it. I'm sure I could fix it myself for a lot less, but no parts are available and no instructions.

I hope they improve, but for now I'm disillusioned and would not buy it again.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Drivers-Taint-Patches

[2] https://aaronerhardt.github.io/blog/posts/tuxedo_rs_update/

mzur · a month ago
I'm a happy user of my second Tuxedo laptop after using the first for over 7 years, repairing several parts. I found their support very responsive and spare parts affordable. Your points are valid though. If you don't like their custom stuff, the device also works fine with a stock Linux install (Ubuntu in my case).
mzur commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million   calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
mzur · 2 months ago
If you need a web app to mark/count things in images, search for "image annotation" tools. I know first hand of a tool that is around since 2009 and still maintained.
mzur commented on The Sheep Incident (2008)   damninteresting.com/the-s... · Posted by u/EndXA
mzur · 2 years ago
If you liked the article, please consider a donation to Damn Interesting. They recently announced taking a break [1] because of a shortfall of donations. DI has been such a great resource for interesting articles (to me) and it would be sad to see it wither away.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/breaking-a-bit/

mzur commented on May Flowers Spring COSMIC Showers   blog.system76.com/post/ma... · Posted by u/frankjr
mzur · 2 years ago
I see they have a workspaces applet that has "row" and "column" in the source code. I'd love to see a GNOME-like DE that supports 2D workspaces again so I can happily abandon my GNOME extension (Workspace Matrix).

I couldn't figure out how to run COSMIC so I couldn't test if the applet really supports 2D workspaces, though.

mzur commented on Ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended by GitHub   phoronix.com/news/ipmitoo... · Posted by u/marcodiego
ashishb · 2 years ago
Any recommended automated mirroring tools to keep a backup of private GitHub repos to avoid the situation where your GitHub account is suspended?
mzur · 2 years ago
I use this shell script with a cron job: https://gist.github.com/rodw/3073987 It can back up repos, issues and wikis.
mzur commented on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?    · Posted by u/sbolt
mzur · 3 years ago
I just use good old Thunderbird.
mzur commented on Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday    · Posted by u/nja
maltris · 3 years ago
You havent by any chance been sued by some weird lawyer from a german capital whose name pops up all over google on researching this in the name of a person that does not really seem to exist?

They are fraudulently trying to trick people in paying ~170 euro without any clear statement on what is their claim. Dont fall for it.

mzur · 3 years ago
I haven't been sued personally but some of my clients were. I told everyone to ignore it but had to update their websites nonetheless.
mzur commented on Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday    · Posted by u/nja
majodev · 3 years ago
Just moved off my 8 years old project google-webfonts-helper https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper from their free tier to my own private infra and replaced the current dyno with a 301 handler: https://github.com/kenmickles/heroku-redirect

AFAIK sadly Heroku does not provide some other _free_ permanent redirect option for their *.herokuapp.com sub-domains without actually running a dyno there.

mzur · 3 years ago
Thank you so much for google-webfonts-helper! It's been helping me a lot recently ever since there was this questionable court decision in Germany that using fonts directly from Google violates the privacy regulation and website owners were sued all over the place.

u/mzur

KarmaCake day32March 31, 2019View Original