If they literally only have a handful of users, so probably don’t see a need to do anything about it 🤣

Are you able to see the boot log while it’s booting? Hit escape if not, and see where it’s getting stuck.

I’m shocked they sold that many

Subjective

Then I shouldn’t have had to share that link with you which will solve all your issues, right? I’m sure you know all the Linux things from your sarcasm, and it’s the Hardware’s fault.

You must be new to Linux as a whole.

Here: https://github.com/mudkipme/awesome-minisforum-v3

Also there’s a TON of reviews about this running Linux. Can’t say a bad thing about it.

They haven’t widely released the chip yet, but they made a lot of public claims during trade shows, which I’m sure you can find.

Do you have money to replace everything plugged into those outlets, and sufficient home insurance that also ignores such things? Then, no, I guess.

Just take an hour and make a ground yourself. It doesn’t take a lot of specialized knowledge to do so.

Edit to say, I’m pretty sure any surge protector worth itself has a ground output on it already. Just run a wire from it into the literal ground if possible, or over to a place in your home that is properly grounded. You’re just trying to give something like a lightning strike a path of least resistance to discharge into. Any metal conduit in your home SHOULD be grounded, so that’s an easy option.

Yeah, thanks for the writeup. It was a good read. You’re creating the kind of content you want to see more of, and we should all be doing more of that.

The very design of the Internet is just a bunch of interconnected servers, and search engines just consolidate access to that. I don’t need that to reach my bank, or pay my bills online, or even to find code I’d like to use. They make it easier, sure, but name one site you go to that doesn’t have its own localized search built-in? My grandmother just needs to know how to do the things she needs to do, and that all works fine for her. My friend spends hours just link hopping on Wikipedia for no reason. My neighbor wants to find the best deals on whatever new thing he wants to buy, okay, you’ll probably need a search engine for that. Different use-cases.

Your writeup is presupposing that everyone NEEDS the latter kind of usage on the Internet, and that just isn’t the case. The use of a search engine is totally optional when you’re describing the Digital Divide, which is more about access to information and services being a human right. I don’t think the founders of that concept had Netflix and Amazon shopping in mind.

I run two different resolution monitors on GNOME and haven’t had this issue. My second display also comes and goes from my laptop pretty frequently, and it’s been flawless, so I’m not sure where the issue actually lies. If it’s in KDE, I’d be looking for a scaling or border setting somewhere to try and figure out the behavior. It may also be that you’re extending a control element of some sort (taskbar in GNOME) to the second display, which you’d want to remove.

There’s a few things in here I would say you’re absolutely deriving from a fundamental misunderstanding of what they are.

• Gatekeeping: I’m not sure what this means in your context, but it sounds like you’re imagining that some technically specific groups aren’t fond of outsiders, and make it impossible for newcomers to join. What you may be misunderstanding is that some groups - just as in any other field - are specific to a catered crowd for a reason, while others or not. There are proper channels to go through to get accepted into said groups, most of which in the FOSS world would be to create something adjacent to that space that becomes popular and recognized. Johnny Newcomer wouldn’t just be able to jump into the “1337 HaxX0rs Lounge” private IRC otherwise, but that isn’t gatekeeping. I can’t wander onto an MLB field, or an F1 racetrack just because I want to learn, and amateurs won’t get access to similarly skilled people in the technical communities for the same reason. Teaching newcomers can be time consuming and takes a lot of effort, and people just want to focus on their own things in their free time.

• “Open Internet”: The Internet by its nature is open. Access to it is not, because the hardware is not, and the delivery is not. As far as places people can’t go, or don’t have access to, that’s quite subjective I suppose, but I’d say the majority of it is decided who is making what content, and how much they decide to charge for it and to where people can access it from, surely. If we dial things back 20 years, there was a lot more free stuff, but once corporations get involved - especially if they are publicly traded - they find ways to monetize everything. This does not prevent others from being able to publish at will whatever they want online, it just seems most people don’t bother anymore. A “Closed Internet” would more suggest you had to “pay to play” in that sense, but I’ve never seen an example of that happening in the real world.

• Enshittification: I think you just missed the mark on this point from where the title and initial direction of your writing was heading. You’re right about corporations making things shitty out there, but they can only affect their own little places on the Internet as a whole. People don’t need search engines to use the Internet, they just prefer them. They don’t need streaming services, they just tend to use them. They do need unrestricted access to human services (governmental or otherwise), information, and communications to really thrive in the world we live. The ones who are fucking that up are the corporations consolidating that physical access, and the authoritarian governments who are restricting how you get that access, and what you can see from it. This is what is leading to the massive partitioning and decentralizing of the Internet as a whole and it’s services right now as we speak, which could be a good or bad thing depending on how you see it. Google censoring for governments is objectively awful, but there are other options.

I’m not trying to be nitpicky, so sorry if it comes off like that, but there’s some big swings for ideas in your writeup that presuppose some of the smaller ideas above, that I think shape the very ideas you’re writing about, but will unravel if thinking slightly differently about the root cause of them.

As the article says, there is no graphics driver yet, so nobody is experimenting with these chips in the gaming world yet in that sense 😉

Maybe somebody is prototyping a Windows platform in the meantime, and I haven’t seen the benchmarks, but I would be surprised if these chips could outperform AMD’s similar APU packages.

Since they started targeting the PC segment with these chips to take on Apple’s insanely priced m-class chips, and Amazon and Google’s custom ARM datacenter chips.

They partnered with Canonical to do the first run of development for kernel support in the past year, and now it sounds like they’re moving to get the graphics driver developed and upstreamed.

Well if that’s actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don’t need energy production, they need storage.

As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.

Have you confirmed that Wayland has this same issue?

Logs

Nothing can stop anyone anywhere from cloning a storage device. You can encrypt it however many times you want, but it can still be read at the block level.

I’m not sure where the paranoia lands or is focused towards, but there is no storage device that exists that can’t be copied, so if that’s your hangup, you should just accept that and move on. If someone has physical access to your drives, then can copy it, but whether they can decrypt it is up for debate.

As the saying goes: given enough time and effort, anything can be brute-forced.

Yeah, but you’d need to sudo in order to affect the files. So that’s a simpler way of doing what you’re suggesting.

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