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| Okay. Please help me as I ask COMPUTER BABBY QUESTIONS.I have a Thinkpad T14 Ge… | |
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| @mcc According to https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/client-ssd/bg5.h… | |
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| @mcc edit: never mind, you're being inundated in correct responses. Sorry.… | |
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| @gnomon @mcc One minor correction: mSATA is a very different physical connectio… | |
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| I only understand computation as the MANIPULATION OF ABSTRACT PLATONIC FORMS. I… | |
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| Okay thank you all for explaining. I have one more question: Is there actually,… | |
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| @mcc If you're looking for speed, choose WD SN850X (Samsung used to be good… | |
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| @mcc Personally, I stick with drives manufactured by the companies which make t… | |
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| @mcc Their firmwares have different bugs (I.e. the secure erase function might … | |
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| @schrotthaufen wait wait who defines tb as 1000 and who defines it as 1024. is … | |
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| @mcc @schrotthaufen Windows always uses binary sizes (1 kB =1024 bytes, 1 MB = … | |
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| @mcc you'll probably be fine with the big name brands, samsung, wd. You can… | |
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| @mcc to clarify, sorry, the difference between slc and qlc mainly being speed a… | |
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| @violator @mcc It’s worth noting that SSD lifespan hasn’t really been a con… | |
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| @mcc as someone who worked in a family-owned computer store last summer, there&… | |
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| @bob_zim @violator I do, um. A LOT of Rust clean builds | |
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| @mcc @violator That won’t be a problem on any M.2 SSD. The kind of synthetic … | |
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| @mcc Of these, Intel (Solidigm), Kioxia (Toshiba), and SK Hynix make mostly dat… | |
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| @bob_zim Wait if I'm looking at a WD¹ how do I know if it's one of the… | |
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| @mcc Mostly look at the box. Looks like the SN850x is offered with or without a… | |
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| @mcc Looking a bit more into this, I wouldn’t bother with an SN850x in a lapt… | |
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| Okay. So I think I have my plans for the hard drive complete. Now here's th… | |
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| @mcc trade up to debian imo. d-i ships with even non-free firmware by default n… | |
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| Okay I have more computer build babby questionsI got a hard driveBut I've b… | |
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| @mcc almost all laptops have an inbuilt thermal pad for the M.2.what temperatur… | |
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| @gsuberland uh… now? the current one?…how would i get that information in l… | |
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| @mcc @gsuberland smartctl, usually | |
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| @whitequark @gsuberland oddly, ubuntu does NOT recommend smartmontools when you… | |
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| I only want to open up the laptop once. Trying to decide if I should(a) just op… | |
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| @mcc I never bothered with thermal pads on SN850X in my Framework laptop. Hasn&… | |
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| Update: Fuck this town i'm out | |
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| @mcc hehe, welcomewe have outdated software but there's a lot of it and it … | |
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| @mcc (you almost certainly want to run testing) | |
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| @whitequark hmi was hoping that if i ever wanted to run anything not-outdated i… | |
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| @mcc it depends, sometimes you do want it running nativelyupgrading to testing … | |
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| @whitequark ok. actually i guess here's the question, are they running diff… | |
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| @mcc i run a weird mix of stable+testing which works fine too | |
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| @mcc the kernel version is just whatever you installnothing stops you from usin… | |
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| @mcc @whitequark sudo sed "s/stable {or bookworm i forget}/testing {or uns… | |
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| Crucial is a subsidiary of Micron (which is also a fab, like Samsung) but they … | |
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| Alright one last shedpainting question. Should I install Debian Stable or Debia… | |
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| @mcc My main argument against testing is that there’s no security support, yo… | |
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| @mcc unstable, like a true american | |
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| Okay so I just got the YouTube video up, aligned all the pieces I need to move … | |
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| Putting on a big fluffy sweater and an anti-static band and then realizing thes… | |
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| OK I actually have a kinda dumb question. I've set up a nice clean space on… | |
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| As a piece of utterly unhelpful context, the power in our building is EXTREMELY… | |
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| In every type of modern electronics repair there is a step that's like &quo… | |
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| @mcc It's always such a delicate balance of pressure, like which snaps firs… | |
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| @mcc In my 27 years of tinkering with computer insides, I never used an antista… | |
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| The back of the laptop will not come off :( :( :( no matter what I do :(There i… | |
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| @mcc Try pushing the bottom either towards the front, or the back – sometimes… | |
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| @mcc Oh, and if you're just starting with prying the bottom off – just us… | |
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| EVENTUALLY IT MADE A SNAPPY SOUND AND A TINY PIECE OF PLASTIC FLEW OFF AND IT O… | |
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| @mcc Yup, that happens about half of the time when the laptop's a few years… | |
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| MY CHILD… MY CHILD… WHY CAN I SEE YOUR INSIDES | |
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| *Opening the M.2 packaging* Ooh, that's so nice of them! They included a fr… | |
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| @mcc Keeps your mouth cool as you chew. | |
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| @mcc Don't forget to remove the plastic if you'll use the thermal pad. | |
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| @mcc Definitely not a dumb question. When working on a laptop, you should conne… | |
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| @mcc I was following a video describing how to remove a piece of trim from my c… | |
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| "So this here is called a 'Zero Insertion Force' socket" &quo… | |
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| I can't :( it won't :( it won't go in :( a critical part of this pl… | |
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| @mcc You know how with a SO-DIMM, you insert it into the socket at an angle, th… | |
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| BRAIN TRANSPLANT SUCCESSFUL… NOW MOVING TO INSERT SECONDARY BRAIN… | |
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| @mcc Getting the brain out is the easy part. The hard part is getting the brain… | |
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| Wait HECK I just realized. There wasn't a heatsink on the original M.2 like… | |
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| @mcc Don't worry about the cooling pad – as I mentioned earlier, I have 4… | |
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| I guess what happens is my new HD doesn't spread out heat quite as well as … | |
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| @mcc Worst case, you can run the new drive with no thermal pad and it will thro… | |
| Post #ApgPBmgTa8NssdyiUy by [email protected] | |
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| …you know, now that I've got it open… I wonder what's supposed to g… | |
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| @mcc A LTE module most likely (might take an M.2 2242 SSD, too, depending on th… | |
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| @mcc Generally a cell modem goes there. Slots like that typically have PCI-ID r… | |
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| @mcc A number of things could go there, most likely a wifi card or a cellular m… | |
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| @bob_zim @mcc it really feels like "hey how could we make the user more ne… | |
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| @doephin @mcc I don’t know. SO-DIMM retention clips are awful. Removing a sti… | |
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| Booted without an OS. As expected the Thinkpad firmware was just like "lol… | |
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| Debian installer just looks so charmingly goofy. All trying to be graphical but… | |
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| Debian disk setup is asking if I want "LVM". I have never heard of th… | |
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| And… the Debian installer is successfully engaging with my new hard drive! Th… | |
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| Bikeshed color suggestions once again invited. Debian offered to let me set up … | |
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| @mcc 500M EFI is more than enough (and trimming it down will make you more pote… | |
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| @mcc i love my t440p -- remove two screws, then a third, and you can replace th… | |
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| @mcc EFI: bump it up to a gig. It doesn't need much but it's annoying t… | |
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| @gsuberland I've got 16GB of RAM in. I had swap disabled on Ubuntu and it w… | |
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| @mcc @gsuberland One trick is to keep a ‘nice -20’ console, serial, or ssh … | |
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| @mcc at any rate, you can, of course, always resize this without losing data. a… | |
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| @nabijaczleweli "but growing the rootfs will be annoying" wait though… | |
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| @mcc growing it beyond the 31G of (rootfs+swap) yes | |
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| @mcc you can resize ext4 by taking data off the end in-place in seconds-to-minu… | |
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| @mcc in general, I'd say that a split-/home (especially on a laptop where y… | |
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| Oh, changing any of these defaults is actually a real pain. The Debian disk par… | |
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| Me: Using GiB when setting up partitions like a good little girlDebian installe… | |
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| Anyway I think I *AM* gonna buy another heat spreader thingy, it has a heat spr… | |
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| @mcc I wouldn't bother, unless you're planning to do a lot of writing (… | |
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| @mcc Zero? Insertion, Force! |