Blaster M

Leave it as is. Some people go tin foil hat about Secure Boot being insecure, but that’s like saying “don’t lock the bottom lock on your door because someone can use a lockpock in 2 seconds”.

Fedora works fine and automatically with Secure Boot, and that is an important defense against on-boot malware injection.

Better FS

Latitude is my rec, not XPS. IDK why the XPS always seems to have issues.

As for “stupid hybrid graphics”, my HP Gaming 15 is a few years old now and still kicking… AMD/nVidia GTX dual graphics. Only reason I had to replace a board was because the heatsink wasn’t attached properly from the factory.

And yes, it is a linux laptop too.

DELL Latitude laptops. They’re designed for work, come with repair guides from DELL, and have upgradeability. The 5310 is one of the longest-lasting laptops for battery life you can get for $200-300 on ebay (over 8 hours battery video streaming, I’ve done this) that still has half decent specs (16-64GB RAM, NVMe SSD upgradeable, i5 10th gen)

Runs fine on Debian Stable

Stupid is as stupid does

Reaction

The lights are combined link/act, not separate link act. left for upper side, right for lower side. 2 and 4 are blinking, 1 and 3 (the empty ports) are not.

It’s alive and kicking on standalone android thanks to Quest, but soon more android headsets that aren’t from meta are about to come out. Being able to PC VR with these is always a preference.

also the lack of good VR support - it’s a super hacky mess to get it working right

Clearly TWM

Remember kids, whatever Linux Distro you insfalled, it’s the wrong one…

The Xodus

Debian stable let’s goooooo

False prophets will arrive and mislead many

and that’s why I always go straight to the company website to find that info instead of googling it

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A whole airplane on the couch

It does, as DDR5 comes with rudimentary ECC protection builtin.

My problem is this is an AM4 system using DDR4 memory… already outdated.

last access time

If you’re running it thru the FUSE driver perhaps…proprietary ntfs drivers absolutely rip

Also make sure last access time is turned off, that is a nice auditing feature for opsec, but it slows things down for the normal user. It should be off by default above 256GB drive sizes.