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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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@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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Post #ApRzIofPI52Q2GjQa8 by [email protected] |
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@violator @mcc It’s worth noting that SSD lifespan hasn’t really been a con… |
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Post #ApRzRDMHN8J4von0bI by [email protected] |
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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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Post #ApS2DUCgFG5kz5Rf28 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #ApgP23L0oBvHdSIYpE by [email protected] |
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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… |
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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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@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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