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debootstrap handles that, arch-install-scripts has got a lot of helpful tools. after the initial install, you arch-chroot to it and install stuff you want, via apt, tasksel, etc.

when you connect the PSU, does the laptop power on or do you have to press the power button? mine doesn't power on on its own, with or without battery.

very cool. wanted to do ~~exactly that~~ something similar with a Lenovo Ideapad I found. except, I don't want to buy the adapter board, I just wanna utilise the existing two SATA ports in the laptop; one HDD, one DVD. haven't figured a zerospend way to do that, as the SATA ports on the MB are female, as are the cables.

second, don't wanna use an external PSU, there's gotta be a way to get 12 V off the board somehow or use a step-down module from, say, backlight?

does acer have a power-on on AC setting in the setup or do you have to power it on manually?

*mi phones used to be the go-to for the enthusiast; stellar hardware for an awesome price and a wide custom ROM support base. none of those things is true anymore.

as you can tell from https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#xiaomi the support is lackluster. the way I heard it the dude who was in charge of publishing kernel sources quit/got fired (?) and now there's a backlog and they ain't super-enthusiastic about keeping up. the unlock process was a shit-show even before they tightened the ~~torture~~ rules, now it's downright masochistic to participate in that scam, with additional limits per year, evermore extending "wait periods", mandatory mi account, etc.

my advice, go get the F3 if you ain't tossed it and replace the battery, it's fairly easy.

well Gilfoyle certainly made this crap sound way cooler than it is

got fed up with the local marketplace options so Imma scrap together a market. haven't touched django in like a decade, not up-to-date on tooling, don't wanna pay for 3rd party services... what can possibly go wrong?

90% of everything is shit. journos are falling head over heels to prove that maxim.

can't stand those things, along with movie X made Y money, couldn't give less of a fuck if I wanted to.

got a busted Lenovo Ideapad 520ISK out of a dumpster, missing screen but otherwise perfectly functional. the thing has i5-7200u, 8 GB, two SATA ports inside and this prompted me to look up converting the thing into a server, specifically figuring out how to run 3.5" drives off it; I'm very anti-friendly towards using USB solutions for such a task.

searching was arduous, both web and yotube, and except one lonely forum post (remember those?) didn't find anyone attempting let alone succeeding in running it thus. the 2.5" and 3.5" connectors are identical (there are micro SATA to SATA adapters for the DVD port) but the drives will need 12 V that the 2.5" ports ain't got.

what I've concluded is that all that's needed is a M/F SATA extension cable which I have trouble sourcing locally; the power will come from a separate ATX PSU for the time being, although I'm sure I can pull 12 V from somewhere on the board.

don't got no 3d printing nor fabricating options, so it'll likely look super-janky, but that's not a huge concern for me now. I'll do a write-up if I succeed.

lol fine - 3x 2 GB 1333 modules out of a busted 1366 motherboard I found and one 4 GB 1866 module I couldn't pair with anything, worked fine for years. the i7 got upgraded to workstation and a C2D i found by the dumpster took the server role. same drives, same debian, same docker-compose files - all good so far.

I've downgraded my server from 1st gen i7 10 GB RAM (don't ask) to Core 2 Duo 4 GB with the same load and barely felt it. my entire infra including desktop, laptopS, tablet, phoneS, etc costs like a third of this "missed value".

not shitting on your choices, but positing that the price-gouging retail market is all there is, kinda disingenuous; there's sooo much stuff being discarded although perfectly usable.

like, I couldn't bear the super-expensive raspberries while they were in the $50 range, let alone now. marketplaces are awash in busted laptops, with way better value and performance. discarded corpo desktops can house cheap HDD and run 24/7 for eons. etc.

the, uh, alternatively acquired FC ND version doesn't work on wine due to some creative ways a bypass was implemented; doesn't look like this fixed it

the author is the co-dev of cwtch with a proven track record of shipping product. as they state, it's impossible for any one dev to take on a product of this magnitude but I'm cautiously optimistic about this thing being in a position to gain contributors at this point.