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kentiko··on New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
I have the same laptop with the 4K IPS display and the AMD 5850U, and I am pretty happy with it. On Ubuntu I had to install the Wi-Fi driver manually [0], tweak the grub config to make the screen brightness control work [1], and install gnome-screensaver to make suspend/resume work properly. Maybe things would work better out of the box on Pop!_OS? Otherwise, it's pretty good. It does not heat up much compared to the previous Intel laptop I had, and it is plenty fast. I was not able to make Howdy [2] work properly, and the fingerprint reader was not reliable compared to my MacBook, however.

[0]: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89

[1]: Add this to the grub file : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.backlight=0"

[2]: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

kentiko··on Ubuntu 21.04
Is it possible to use GNOME 40 on this release of Ubuntu?
kentiko··on Ubuntu 21.04
You can find 21.04 here: https://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Ubuntu/relea...
kentiko··on Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic
TV nowadays do a lot of "image enhancement" as they call it. Things like contrast and saturation boost to make TVs look "better" at the store. Calibrating a screen that dynamically messes with the colors seems impossible. Maybe Apple will ask the user to set the screen in a more passive mode to deal with that?
kentiko··on Update on beta testing payments in Signal
I did this weeks ago. I am screwed, they will never listen to me again if I tell them to drop Signal...
kentiko··on Update on beta testing payments in Signal
I had a look to Element after seeing it mentioned here multiple times. Sadly it' is too complicated for me to ask my friends and my family to switch to it. Signal was just so simple to use in comparison. Here even the name, Element/Matrix, needs explaining. Matrix is much more that a chat app, it's too much to be a Signal or Whatsapp replacement.
kentiko··on Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
After convincing all my friends to move from WhatsApp to Signal I am really annoyed about this move. This really damaged the trust I have for Signal. I hope they realize their mistake quickly and drop this idea.
kentiko··on Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode
Your threshold is probably way higher than the average Macbook user that probably does not even know about the recovery mode.
kentiko··on Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively
You can download it here :

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-r...

kentiko··on When 13.3 is greater than 14
Remember the Chromebook Pixel and it's 3/2 screen? That thing was made for web browsing. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3493458/ne...
kentiko··on Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
That was fun
kentiko··on New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano
> <999kg

Yeah I hope so.

kentiko··on Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
> For that matter, how did humans discover go?

I like how he used the word "discovered" and not "invented".

kentiko··on Bye, Bye, Google
I don't know how to quit Gmail. Any suggestions?
kentiko··on Slow leak detected aboard Space Station
"the hole is covered using Alexander Gerst's finger for now" - https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/9bi49u/the_iss_is_cu...
kentiko··on CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain
I don't think the big cog will be stiff enough to not bend under the pressure.
kentiko··on TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.
kentiko··on GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number
Can anyone explain why it takes so long? It also seems to launch a lot faster on linux than on macOS, I wonder why.
kentiko··on Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017
Just add a PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox

sudo apt install firefox-locale-[your language]

kentiko··on How fast are those packets moving?
Radio takes less time because it takes a direct, straight path from point to point. An optic fiber will always have a longer path.
kentiko··on BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia
Paper on proofs of space: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893.pdf
kentiko··on iPhone 8
Check out Pushbullet? https://www.pushbullet.com/
kentiko··on An experiment to test whether nuclear fusion can be controlled to generate power
Source? Compare to how much heat we receive from the sun I doubt our activity adds much heat.
kentiko··on YubiKey 4C
It's an authentication key, not a flash drive.
kentiko··on With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus
What you are saying makes me really sad. I live in Paris and I just graduated (CS). I am currently working as a java developer in a large company, the job is incredibly boring and I feel like I am not learning anything. Interesting jobs seems out of reach of a junior developer. I don't think Station F is going to improve things much. I am now thinking about moving somewhere else to find a better job.
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