Yep! I mean, it’s been two years now. I’ve tried TLP, Powertop, and both combined.
They improve things but I still only get about 5 hours, half the battery life I did in Windows 11. I’ve accepted these downsides because I already have the laptop and can’t just go buy a new one, but a device with proper Linux support has real upsides.
I bought an Ideapad Slim 7 Carbon (sold as yoga in other markets and looks identical to the Yoga Pro 7 you mention) for its beautiful screen, similar to your Yoga option but only 90hz, and its thin and light body a couple of years ago. The OOB experience in Windows was great (for Windows) and it’s been mostly good in Linux. I needed to replace its m.2 wireless card for compatibility reasons, battery life is very short in Linux, and the speakers don’t function - the firmware on the device doesn’t adequately identify its audio hardware so that the Linux kernel can make use of its built-in amplifier.
Ideapads don’t get the same Linux support as Thinkpads, so there’s been no help from Lenovo. You may be in the same boat with a yoga. Even Cirrus (the makers of the amp) tried to update their drivers but couldn’t do anything with what Lenovo makes accessible in its firmware.
Maybe newer models have improved in this regard. If I knew the speakers would be an intractable problem when I was shopping I wouldn’t have bought it.
It’s a hybrid device - AMD processor with Nvidia GPU - which is a hassle. I couldn’t get it to work properly myself, wound up going with a gaming distro (Nobara) to deal with it. It’s mostly fine. It also doesn’t shut down. I assume some bios setting I don’t have access to is not interacting well with the way Linux shuts down. There are minimal bios settings available to manipulate (because Ideapad’s are not considered power-user devices).
Build quality of the laptop itself is also mostly good, though the keyboard is on the flimsy side. My ‘c’ key’s switch broke in a way that can’t be repaired so it occasionally pops out of place. That started about a year in.
I would need to relocate my parents for that, because they live in the middle of nowhere and I needed to relocate to a city for work.
Everything good is because I did it, everything bad is because the other guys.
~ Roman Senators probably
I wish I could have continued the boycott but I spent like 30% more on groceries when I was avoiding Loblaws properties and it was not sustainable. What’s the solution when every store is gouging?
This website has ads, despite my ublock extension, and threw a full-page interruption at me asking for my email address twice while I tried to scroll. I gave up before I even got to the content. That’s some user-hostile bullshit.
Forty years… forty… years… I wonder if there was something *new *that our liberal democracy started forty years ago, where the focus shifted towards expanding economic growth at all costs.
New and different but still liberal. Neo maybe.
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National flags are jingoist nonsense. Patriotism is a social disease.
I’d call it the Slop Bucket
Anti-trust is not about seeking perfection, it’s a defense against abuses of power. That’s a good thing unless you like to be abused by the powerful, in which case lick some more boots.
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Tell me where I said I’d teach a child suicide should be front of mind. All I mean is they should get to choose if they live - in response to someone pleading that we all stop having children.
I want to have a child. Why should I not, because the world could be in rough shape due to climate catastrophe? I’ll let them make that call and I hope they don’t have to.
OP was begging everyone to stop having kids because they gave up on life - that’s better than recognizing we can choose to stop living at any time?
Accepting the end of the human race is a lot more “what the fuck” than accepting the end of a human life, imo.
Which mentality?
That human life is worth living, but circumstances may not always be, so we reserve the right to choose our own exit from it, or that choosing to live is saying life is better than death?
Nah. If the climate crisis turns into societal collapse, and my future children want to avoid the pain of living through the apocalypse, they can kill themselves when things turn bleak. It’s the same choice we all have. There’s always a way off the ride. Every day any of us live is a day deemed better than the alternative.
In arguing that doctors shouldn’t pay tax on more of their capital gains when they retire because they often have no access to a pension, they’re ignoring that pension income is fucking taxed.
What a load of bullshit.
Such a strange thing to celebrate. This kind of service should really be run by the municipality. Like, my city has a dozen eco-stations for dropping off some chemicals, electronic waste and furniture or other household stuff that can be broken down for scrap. E-waste is always free.
I’m sorry to inform you that you will be hearing every word that comes out of his mouth for at least another four years. You might want to disconnect if it really bothers you.