PlexSheep

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[–] PlexSheep 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Got a Framework 12 and have all sorts of tiny annoying but somewhat manageable problems with it.

It used to overheat and then throttle to 400 Mhz every few seconds on high load. Overheating meaning 100°C. After a long time being annoyed and thinking "did I do something wrong" I reached out to support, and eventually got a new motherboard. It's better since then, but it still gets hot quickly. Also, if I just idle, like maybe a few Browser tabs and that's it, it will get somewhat warm ~65°C and I just don't get it.

For some reason, it sometimes does not find my hard drive on boot. Works the second or third attempt, and is no software problem.

The light detection thing has to be disabled in software to be able to use the brightness buttons.

At the start, my wifi sucked really bad, just on this device.

Having some more ports than just the audio jack and the extension cards would be neat too.

Also, it was really expensive.

So yeah, I sadly wouldn't buy it again, I think. The concept is really neat, but I've had too many annoying little problems. I still do use it as my main computer, and it works reasonably well, is light and well transportable, works with my docking station easily, etc, but those issues are annoying.

[–] PlexSheep 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, we do air conditioning more and more nowadays...

[–] PlexSheep 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why JK though? There are many financial options to at least get more returns than inflation, working for people without fuck you money too. It takes some financial education that we likely have to learn ourselves, but there are options. And it's possible to reasonably lower risks and costs enough by selecting the right financial products.

Though obviously, if you just buy what the bank guy says, the bank will make the profits, not you.

[–] PlexSheep 1 points 3 months ago

It was bad enough. Schlimmer geht immer.

Also, comparing flights and trains doesn't really work, I think. The getting into the plane time alone makes it too different.

[–] PlexSheep 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

X11 is the display server. Your desktop environment, like gnome, has a window manager managing your opened applications and tells the display server "please render this stuff on the actual screen".

X11 is ancient and sucks, because for example, it can't do fractional scaling well, which is important for screens that have a higher resolution, since everything appears tiny otherwise.

The display server also offers some functionalities that the desktop environment can make use of, like global hotkeys, or screen sharing.

I'm not an expert or anything, but I think it's about right like this.

[–] PlexSheep 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, not just DB too, but the local transit agencies too. Its a wonder that it all works so well DESPITE decades of mismanagement and austerity.

[–] PlexSheep 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How are the illegal border controls from outside into Germany on train currently? By car, they didn't even look us in the eyes when we passed, a complete waste of time.

The Bundespolizei could do actual work instead of just sort of chilling on the borders and checking people that don't look German enough (presumingly).

[–] PlexSheep 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

My total journey from Berlin home this week was about 50 minutes late, and the connection after the ICE was not pretty.

[–] PlexSheep 3 points 3 months ago

Tronald would likely abuse the fuck Out of it to do more "emergency measures". We've seen this in Germany in the 30s with the Ermächtigungsgesetz after the Reichstag burned.

[–] PlexSheep 7 points 3 months ago

You seem to underestimate it though. Amazon is pretty big here as well, even just considering the "buy stuff" parts.

[–] PlexSheep 2 points 3 months ago

This is amazing. I'm stealing this.

[–] PlexSheep 2 points 3 months ago
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