Always did like the look of those models.

Thanks for the Archi Wiki link. I always forget about that thing. I’m a bit fan of the late model, low mileage computer purchases. They are cheap and I’m keeping something out of a landfill in Africa.

That’s where my AMD focus came from. I assume the BIOSes are different and may at least have the option to re-enable S2. I’ve seen a few of the 8840 processors and the laptops look nice. There’s specifically an Asus one I like but I’ve ready mixed reviews on it with Linux.

I’d love a Framework but the 13 is a bit too small for my old eyes and the 16 is just too heavy. I’ve gotten spoiled by lightweight laptops. I was looking at that 16 for a long time, though.

No kidding. My old Dells are great but the newer beefier one requires me to spend alot of thought on keeping it charged. I went back to my M1 Mac just for the lack of worry about having enough power. I wish MS didn’t have such power over the vendors but I also wish we could figure this out on the Linux side. I’ve searched and searched for an S0ix solution but finally gave up and asked here about other hardware.

I’ve heard alot of those stories but have never experienced them. I hope I’m not just trading one problem for another in trying to find a good sleeping laptop.

Ohh, look, a list of companies to disinvest from.

Sit down Tommy, you are out of your league here.

“brought to you by Carls Jr.”

Newer Dells have removed the s3 deep sleep. I believe the cutoff is between Intel 11th gen and 12th gen in (at least) Latitudes. I have a i7 12th gen that sucks at sleep, but an i5 8th gen that sleeps well.

AI provides no knowledge and only makes its users dumber for relying on it. Don’t we have enough SciFi episodes out there to have already learned this lesson?

I always look for the companies that are advertising heavily. If we could see their books, I’d say the ones that spend more on marketing than engineering, product, and ops are likely the ones who will enshittify, eventually. They are building the product or service to sell later so they are trying to drum up users and corner the market.

Unfortunately, this is just about everything in the US now.

No one likes little teddy, it appears.

Very true. Pretty much everything is made up from something they saw on CSI or NCIS the night before. They are trying hard to make their “industry” cerebral when it just isn’t.

Same here. Both my brother and I are left-handed. I’m the analytical engineering type. He’s the musician type. I’m about as creative as an algorithm. He got the creative talent genes in the family.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t. I’m just saying that we tend to sensationalize the wording more and more each day. Eventually, there will no longer be words strong enough to get the appropriate attention and people will suffer because of it.

I’m not faulting Anker. I’m faulting Gizmodo.

Ahh, the sensationalist headlines. “STOP USING THESE NOW OR YOU WILL DIE!”

I’m not calling out you, OP. This is just the nature of journalism now. “OH OH, LOOK AT ME!”

I gave snaps a fair shake as well. I’ve never been beholden to any specific distro or family line either so I’ve always been open for new and better. I just struggled with the lock-in and the slower responsiveness.

I didn’t have much trouble with updates on the Arch side but I saw it more as an accomplishment than a daily driver. I did run it for a few years on an older system where I needed to squeeze out efficiency. I haven’t been one of those users that needed to tweak everything always for a long time.

I also appreciate the delineation between regular updates and security updates. I did my biweekly system updates for work yesterday and that delineation helps me gauge the time it will take before pressing enter.

That’s my only concern with running pure Arch. I like my computer to be usable. I’m well beyond the state where I want to spend more time tinkering and repairing than using. I do like the idea of rolling release but not bleeding edge (i.e., released 5 minutes ago). Also, I removed snaps from my Kubuntu instance first thing.

That makes sense. I have found a new love for KDE. I had been a GNOME user for years before but I went with Pop_OS for a bit before feeling like that was a bit old. I moved over to Kubuntu for the new Plasma 6 hotness and I really like it. I’ve run Arch before and wasn’t really keen on the instability so I haven’t delved into any of the derivatives yet, although they are looking nice these days. Maybe I’ll dip my toes in those waters soon. I’m still in a test phase for full-time desktop Linux, though. I’m probably going to buy a Tuxedo laptop soon and I plan to give their OS a try with the purchase.