Fuck you, Dell. Because of your root CA with free matching private key that you put on everyone's systems.
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I bought a Lenovo laptop last year to replace my ailing Dell Inspiron 1501 (which has lasted about 10 years about now). It was the only decent laptop I could find with and AMD A10 (I strongly prefer AMD over Intel for various reasons).
First thing I do is replace the HD with an SSD. This went pretty easy, open the back and switch the discs. After installing Debian 8 on it the problems started: No network. I don't remember whether it was a crappy Broadcom thing or some Realtek garbage. Since I originally had the same problem with the Dell laptop (which was cursed with a Broadcom wireless chip) I switched it for the Atheros I had bought specially for this.
After booting the laptop it tells me "Unauthorized network card detected". At this point I'm pretty pissed because not only did they put a crappy wireless card in it (and you can't really find this in the specs) but they actively prevent you from fixing the crap yourselves.
This laptop has since gone back to the store for a refund. No more Lenovo for me. Still looking for a good replacement, since all manufacturers seem to be crappy for various reasons.
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You do know that the missing firmware files exist in the
non-free
repo, right?
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Of course I do, and I even tried them - despite really disliking it (closed-source stuff makes me feel dirty somehow). Didn't work well, network was very unstable, worked one second, got timeouts the next. Definitely not something I would want to work with.
Besides it's the principle: If I buy a machine it belongs to me and I don't expect unnecessary restrictions to what I can do with it.
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Fair enough. But I actually only had such problems with Atheros, not the other way around. Not the driver thing necessarily, but connections dropping and the damned thing just keeling over and refusing to work at all until I cold rebooted. And that was both on Windows and Linux, so most likely a firmware problem, not a driver problem.
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I bought a Lenovo laptop last year to replace my ailing Dell Inspiron 1501 (which has lasted about 10 years about now).
Keeping a laptop for 10 years: TRWTF detected.
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@kt said:
And now it's Visual Studio that's keeping me there
kt, meet VSCode. VSCode, kt.
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Day-to-day, with no need to dual boot.
I "dual boot," mostly because I paid for the version of Windows it came with and maybe someday it will actually be useful. I don't remember the last time I booted Windows for any reason other than to run updates.
That's nice. What distro?
I use Kubuntu 14.04 on my machines and mostly RHEL 5 at work (we may upgrade to RHEL 6 Any Day Now).
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Keeping a laptop for 10 years: TRWTF detected.
Yeah, one of these days I'm going to retire my fleet of IBM T42 units. One day...
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You also think Dwarf Fortress is fun, so we're like 3-4 standard deviations from the mean here.
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kt, meet VSCode. VSCode, kt.
VS Code does about 1/10th of what Visual Studio does.
I mean it's great as an alternative for, say, SublimeText, but it ain't no Visual Studio.
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@martijntje said:
(closed-source stuff makes me feel dirty somehow).
How?
Please elaborate.
It means he has a day job as a Gloryhole attendant.
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He's obviously Dutch so anything is possible ...
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You also think Dwarf Fortress is fun, so we're like 3-4 standard deviations from the mean here.
I think this may be a sign that I've been spending too much time here, but I'd actually consider trying Dwarf Fortress if I didn't already have chess as my time sink.
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People respect chess. Ain't nobody respect a Dwarf Fortress player, and that includes Dwarf Fortress players.
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my time sink.
You mean to tell me you have time for another time sink besides WTDWTF?
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You mean to tell me you have time for another time sink besides WTDWTF?
Yes, that's just one of the benefits of being divorced with no kids.