If you read this blog post and think "Nice! I will buy the same Thinkpad and use Linux", then be aware that the previous generation P14s has serious issues with power drain in standby[0]. These issues have been not been resolved since September 2020.
In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware!
I had the same issue with the ThinkPad T14 AMD. Left it in my backpack for two days and the battery was completely drained.
What made it worse: Lenovo's own USB-C Gen 2 Dock would refuse to charge the battery when it was drained. I had to borrow a friend's MacBook Pro USB-C charger to get the battery up to a reasonable charge.
(Yes, the dock does provide enough power for charging the laptop.)
That seems like an issue with your MacBook Pro? I have used MacBooks since 2007 and I never noticed such issues (unless there is a process blocking sleep). With the T14 I immediately noticed it, with the same usage patterns as I had with the MacBook.
Sounds like the issues from X1 Carbon 6th gen where the only available standby was always-on-standby (Windows-only thing): some patching of ACPI tables has helped with that, though Lenovo has since updated the BIOS and restored the usual S3 standby. 7th gen worked out of the box, but I am not sure if that matches t490 or t14 generation (or maybe even t480).
The biggest worry for me is putting it in a backpack and the battery causing a fire.
What do you mean by “seems to be highly explosive”? I have used Pytorch to model many non-dnn things and have not experienced highly explosive behavior. (Could be that I have become too familiar with common footguns though)
Yes, when Wayland acts like X then X apps sometimes work. In the process you abandon the security and performance features of Wayland.
Getting xwayland working is another story. I can't seem to get it to work at all on my PinePhone; but to Wayland's credit, the phone crashes for all sorts of reasons.
Yeah, Wayland needs to act like X when using a pure X application.
But emacs X/"gtk" frontend has been controversial for a few reasons, with work having been under way for quite a while for a new frontend, somewhat unrelated to Wayland.
Xwayland not working on pinephone is ironically primarily an X problem, as Xwayland is just xorg-server compiled with only the Wayland backend enabled.
And, as there are little to no xorg developers, fixing xorg is proving tricky as there is no one to make a new xorg release...
Why would you abandon the security of wayland by an xwayland app? It only sees at most other xwayland apps.
As for the pinephone part, I may not understand your point about “to Wayland’s credit”, do you think stability issues on the pinephone is due to wayland?
The PinePhone has unstable hardware, it doesn't matter if I run X or Wayland and it doesn't matter what distribution I use. I can't keep it operating for more than 5 minutes before the screen goes to blank and/or it gets stuck in an endless reboot cycle that requires removing the battery to halt.
Which distro? I have one as well and at least under mobian , while it is really far from stable, it works. But reboot cycles sound like a hardware bug rather than unstable hardware.
And multiple release versions of each; using multiple different sdcards as well as the on-board memory.
The only OS that doesn't exhibit the reboot/black-screen issues for me is the one used to allow flashing of the device over USB.
The factory test software works, all of the different OS variants; so if there is a hardware issue the factory test software isn't able to detect it. Notably, I've left the test software running without issue.
I've even tried turning off all the hardware dip switches.
Interesting, but if you really are enthusiastic about the pinephone than perhaps try to order another motherboard (I’m thinking about it because the older has only 2 GB of ram)
I've got the Manjaro CE version, so it should be new enough. I'm also not flush wish cash, so... Yah, I'll be buying diapers for my toddler, not a motherboard that may or may not work.
It's a shame, 'cause I really like the concept, and bought it for myself as a birthday gift. Thought it would be a fun project to hack on.
I have been plugging and unplugging multiple displays into my laptop since March. Usually I have emacs running locally (xwayland) and an emacsclient over X11 to a remote server. I have not experienced any issues so far. Maybe the readme is too conservative in this regard?
The disadvantage of neutron imaging is that you may have to wait two weeks until you can pick up your imaged objects.. Many objects turn radio-active due to the bombardment with neutrons.
I recall reading about using neutron beams to alter the chemistry of phonograph needles. I think the idea was to make them into a radioactive isotope that continually ionized the needle, so that it repelled dust.
But maybe I'm remembering wrong. The closest article I can find is from Theodore Gray [0]. It talks about old phonograph needles made from osmium, which is very toxic in dust form.
You're probably thinking of polonium record cleaning brushes sold by staticmaster.
Its an interesting case study in planned obsolescence, the radioactive half life being only a hundred days the anti-static effectiveness of the brush would completely disappear a couple years after manufacture, requiring the purchase of yet another brush.
Electronic / ham radio people would sometimes use staticmaster brushes in the winter when soldering RF preamp FET transistors to try and eliminate transistor-destroying static charge; I was never personally a believer in that technique at least at the amateur level.
Thank you! That was driving me crazy. And now I see why I got confused: it's another phonograph-related dangerous-element fact that I learned from reading Theodore Gray's book, The Elements [0] [1].
Now if I could only remember why I thought neutron beams were involved...
Neutron scatter is the main thing producing the dark spots, though there will certainly be some neutron capture too. In some materials, e.g. boron, neutron capture can be significant.
Still, it's always important to compare the induced radioactivity with the background radioactivity as a comment above did. It's easy to forget that we live in a field of natural low-dose ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and from the bowels of the Earth.
For me definitely! I have a tiny VPS running ARM that I use as a build server. I get so much SSH spam that it noticeably slows down the VPS (both with and without Fail2Ban)..
"Written in Go" signifies to me that it can be faster and more resource-efficient than Fail2Ban: a good reason to check it out.
Is this really much of a problem? I have a VPS that's been online for years, serving port 22. I average about 200k attempts per year. I have it set to pubkey only, root can't login at all. If you connect without sending a pubkey, it pretty much instantly tells you to go away. I don't bother with fail2ban.
Maybe I should start logging attempted pubkeys as a side project just to see what pops up.
To me, this quote gave the impression that Jitsi developers similarly (and falsely) claim that it is end-to-end encrypted:
> Is Jitsi Meet end-to-end encrypted? #409
> ... "yes, https://meet.jit.si/ encrypts the communication, only the two clients and our server has access to them". ... [1]
In fact, "yes, .. " is an answer to the question "is it reasonable to use Jitsi Meet from an untrusted wifi network?". It was written by a user of Jitsi and not one of the developers.
A developer answers "when talking on meet.jit.si your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge."
MEMRI is a Israeli non-profit organisation to "aid the understanding of the Middle-East". It is not by any means objective. Its goal is mostly to find inflammatory or antisemitic fragments in Middle Eastern media and provide them to a Western audience.
I looked at the fragment on the MEMRI site and it was devoid of any context. Airing a speech does not imply endorsement. (Most, if not all, American media outlets have shown Iran's Ahmadinejad tirades against Israel, for example).
tl;dr: Take Israel's PR department with a grain of salt.
Apparently the mere inclusion of Israelis (I recognize 3 Israeli names out of the 7 listed in its staff page) is enough to label it "Israel's PR department".
Al Jazeera, on the other hand, have received so far over $160m from the Emir of Qatar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Organization) - yet many commenters here seem to think that doesn't influence its coverage at all.
I thought MEMRI was accused of being Israel's PR department because it was founded by "ex-" Israeli intelligence officers, refused to disclose its funding, tends to distort meanings in its translations, is highly selective in translating inflammatory pieces while ignoring opposing pieces adjacent to them, etc.
Putting aside the completely unsourced FUD in your comment, clearly MEMRI does have an agenda. Personally I rarely visit that site and wouldn't get my news from it. But my question was why would you consider a network that is openly financed by Qatar objective, and an organization that is not financed by Israel "Israeli PR"?
Putting aside the completely unsourced FUD in your comment
Which of my claims are you questioning?
My question was why would you consider a network that is openly financed by Qatar objective, and an organization that is not financed by Israel "Israeli PR"?
I think Al Jazeera is relatively objective (compared to other news networks) because they often include people with opposing views on their shows. Beyond that, I don't think objectivity is the be-all and end-all of news networks. I can't watch CNN because its programming is directed towards children: lots of flashy opinion, idiotic conventional wisdom, a shockingly limited window of acceptable discourse, very little actual news content regarding issues that matter (as opposed to celebrity 'news'), etc. I'd hesitate to trust Al Jazeera's reporting on Qatar, but Qatar isn't a very important country and Al Jazeera has managed to piss off a lot of middle eastern dictatorships and monarchies.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is openly funded by Qatar and you claim it's a good news source. So the mere possibility that MEMRI is funded by a government disqualifies it, while the known fact Al Jazeera is funded by a govt is fine. How come?
In any case, once again, I DO NOT consider MEMRI quality journalism. The argument here isn't MEMRI vs Al Jazeera, it's thinking independently vs. news consumerism. My point is that AJ fans, much like FOX fans, simply choose a source the confirms what they want to believe. I would recommend reading many sources, and automatically believing none.
Consider the millions of people in the west that can verify MEMRI, since the original tv programs are on the web. [Edit: Also consider that Wikipedia quoted MEMRI.]
So what can be said, is that the type of content exists in Arab media.
I don't really know about Al Jazeera and their spin. I seriously doubt most people claiming it is trustworthy do, either. The pro-Al J seem willing to vote up/down people for agreeing/contradicting, which is an interesting weighing of the importance...
Edit: It is fun when people recommend Al Jazeera without even knowing their agenda -- while other sources are dismissed, which are verifiable by many millions of people in EU/USA...
In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware!
[0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/T14-AMD...