I got my Pocket for my (another) bussines trip. Before the trip I tried
to fix some stuff. The first was the keyboard layout. I had to
reinstall my system in August (my fault: I run the Debian unstable and
ignored the warning about bug related to kernel modules) and from that
point the original "EurKey" layout. No big loss as the only important
symbol was missing (the tilde). Anyway, I have fixed it by replacing
the "us" by the "eur" in the $(HOME)/.config/sway/config.d/input file.
Anyway, configuration of 2 layouts and usual way to configure keys for
shifting them (xkb_options) haven't work for me for same reasons.
I have added a bunch of thermal pads on the WiFi and power regulator
(or what it is) chips. It improved the WiFi reception noticeably but
not enough. It seems that in some point the copper slab (which is used
for heat dissipation) became too hot to be able to cool the WiFi thing
enough.
There are two known solutions: to use a discrete WiFi card (it didn't
arrived before the trip, of course) and to use a cooler CPU (most of
the available CPU moduli don't have a WiFi chip anyway).
I will see how much the new WiFi card will help (I'm not sure how much
the new CPU can help with current issues of non-working sleep and I
have no issues with CPU speed or RAM size).
I used the machine in the train. Surprisingly, on the first ride there
was no chance to connect but it worked on the second ride. I had the
same place but the carriage was different - they had the same look and
internals but something differed (there was more people during the
second ride). In the hotel room I wasn't able to connect at all. My old
Xperia phone was able to do, as usual.
Thus I mostly worked off-line. The machine has a quite nice keyboard
with actual mechanical keys and well-placed trackball.
