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I don't really care about boot times, but as a tech guy 23 seconds sounds like an error to me and I want to find it and fix it :)

Also, old laptops with dieing batteries (or new ones with always-on sensors such as fingerprint readers) have some leakage during sleep so it may be better to turn them off if you are not going to use them for a few days.

edit: resume/suspend in linux works just fine and has done so for many years (in response to eltoozero)

I haven't tested any of these myself, but this page contains some great suggestions:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/10290/how-do-i-improve-boot-...

The initial boot delay is VERY annoying. I wish libreboot was supported on my laptop, then I could ditch lenovos ancient BIOS (and the NSA ping) once and for all:

https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/#supported_laptops_x86intel

I did that with 2009 thinkpad and it got much worse. I guess the cheap paste I used was worse than the 6 year old paste lenovo had used :(

What _did_ help was to take out the fan, clean it and then oil it carefully (too much oil or doing so without cleaning it first will only make things worse). You can also buy replacement fans, although original fans are quite expensive.

> ... I find the boot time compelling enough (~23sec until login, plus 2sec to open the browser) that I do not need this.

I think something is slowing down your boot, I get faster boot on a 2008 thinkpad running the same OS.

OT: systemd was supposed to improve boot performance but it has actually become much worse. Upstart on a weak chromebook boots in under 2 sec, why shouldn't your current generation thinkpad with a fast SSD match that?

Different people have different needs. This laptop despite its minor flaws was in the end the best option for his particular needs

...or as a HN user said a while back:

    tuananh 42 days ago | parent [-] | on: Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
    
    all of this largely depends on personal preference.
    
    to me, i value battery so much more.

:)

Serious question: why is this on HN front page? Am I missing something?

I am sure it is a great laptop, but it also looks like a X1 with larger bezels. Why would you want that instead of X1?

It seems it is already available for appimage and snap:

    $ snap find krita
    Name   Version  Developer  Notes  Summary
    krita  3.1.1    krita      -      Krita: the free digital painting studio

For the record, the latest apt version on ubuntu is 2.9.7

Thank you, I was hoping to get an answer like this!

I also noticed that 3.1.1 is available on ubuntu snap. At this point I am not sure if I should go with snap or appimage. Either way, it is great to get packages directly from the developers!

I think the title should be "Designing as a web Developer".

There isn't really much in that post for you of you are not HTML guy.

Link to source without the malware packaging (?):

https://github.com/HTTPSChecker/

OT: Krita and others are doing great things for content creators who want to use FOSS.

BUT most of their work is lost to us due to the way distros handle external software. If you install Krita, gimp, darktable in debian you will get really ancient versions (unless you use a PPA from a mostly unknown source, but even then you can get quite old versions).

Serious question: this is the third time a exploit of this kind is publicly revealed for this app. How comes we don't see a global hack outbreak?

I mean, script kiddies would love to break millions of phones. What has stopped them from doing that so far?

This project looks very interesting!

And it seems they have addressed many of the issues with Chisel (of RISC-V fame) in Spindal: http://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc/chisel/

Despite the click-bait title this was actually a very good read.

So basically the 99%?

serious question: how invasive is the wechat app compared to its "western" competitors?

8. move your project from the malware loving sourceforge to a more reputable place

If you found this interesting you might also like Andrew "bunnie" Huang's book on the subject: "The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen"

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/the-essential-gui...

> Top comment is an apple fan boy desperate to continue to believe in apple and affronted by the existence of other laptops ...

Unfortunately this is becoming common on HN posts that praise or even merely discuss another company.

I love everything about the ASUS laptops expect one thing: the mushi keyboard. Press the keys in the middle of the laptop and the keyboard flex with as much as 4-5mm.

    High DPI is still half baked in Windows. 

I found this comment hilarious given who your employer is...

This was great to know, thanks for sharing this.

is it as good as the ones on the thinkpads?

The first gen X1 came with 8GB of RAM and standard SATA interface (is was quite bulky for that very reason).

Maybe you are thinking of some other device?

X1 is business series, I think their "malware" was some analytics they installed on the cheap consumer laptops.

(not that it makes it any better)

Writing this from a Lenovo X1 running Linux...

The keyboard is great so if you do a lot of writing (e.g. you are a developer) this is a very good machine. But if you are doing other stuff then maybe this is not the machine for you.

With that said, checkout darktable (http://www.darktable.org/ ) which was discussed a few days ago on HN.

been pretty jealous of my windows and mac friends getting all the nice viruses lately.

I think Debian & Ubuntu installs this by default for some crazy reason.

Maybe it's time Linux distros learn what OpenBSD learned 10 years ago: more packages more problems

> While Evans' attacks won't work on most Linux servers, they will reliably compromise most desktop versions of Linux...

Nope, patched already in debian and ubuntu.