hushable

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Without going into much detail, my workplace sells a product that's makes use of an industrial computer that has two regular off-the-shelf hard drives in it. For some reason both hard drives are similar, but were sourced from different manufacturers. We got a notification from the provider that manufacturer B would cease production and proposed us to use two drives from manufacturer A instead.

I had the genius idea of giving my two cents and suggested we accept as it will work, they are just standard hard drives after all.

Now I became the hard drive expert at work, got dragged into endless meetings and being asked the dumbest of questions regarding this change. It's been a year and the change hasn't been approved by higher ups yet.

AsRock BC250. You can get them mostly on eBay, but theprice has gone up over the past months

Meaningful friction my beloved

I know the repos are solely managed by Ubuntu

That's my main issue with it, it makes your system dependent on a platform solely owned and controlled by Cannonical

I check and lurk HN almost daily, what surprises me the most is how the AI discourse changed almost overnight. There must be an astroturfung campaign going on and I wouldn't be surprised if it's all LLM generated.

I left reddit about the time they introduced /r/popular and I recall the announcement mentioning that they would remove /r/all eventually. It's been a long time, but this was coming.

Battery life is good, not 12 hours, but I would say closer to 8 to 10 depending on usage. Charge time is a bit long since the battery has a lot of capacity.

Everything worked on Debian out of the box, I'm, using GNOME and did not have to configure nor setup anything extra. Sleep works fine and I have setup the power button to that behaviour. Sometimes when the battery is too low (say about 10%), then it won't wake up from sleep even tho that ought to be enough juice to keep the computer running for about an hour still, that might be a BIOS setting I haven't bothered to look into.

sorry, I misread, I have StarLabs Lite, not the Horizon. But I am seriously considering upgrading to it

Linux support? amazing, been running Debian on it no problems, everything working out of the box. Customer support? no idea, I had no need to contact them

our company renamed out ML team into AI team, just to please investors, they been around for over a decade and never touched an LLM

I absolute despise when people dismiss some videogames as a boomer thing. Boomers did not play videogames (in general), as a matter of fact, most of them hated them.