Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • I’m running (Ubuntu based) Mint Cinnamon. My laptop came with Ubuntu pre-installed and thus the BIOS pre-configured.

    If I put the laptop to sleep and wake it from sleep again, it messed up the fonts but only VEEERY occasionally.

    The fingerprint scanner doesn’t work with any of the drivers/software I’ve tried, which is a huge bummer.
    When I dual-booted Windows on it for software for school, I noticed it worked splendidly on Windows without any installation.

    The battery life went from 11h to 40m during my normal usage, this happened in a span of 4 years.
    I’ve replaced the battery with an aftermarket one, which also went from 9h to 2h battery life in about 2.5y.
    I’ve rarely had the battery drained below 5%, but it did run until the last percentage the few times it happend (on the original battery)

    I’ve never had black screens or screen flickering like you described on this laptop, but putting my desktop PC to sleep on Linux Mint does cause it to wake up to an unrecoverable black screen.
    My laptop’s also never had the connectivity issues.
    Nor anything else.

    My experience has been really good, and I plan to continue using this until even a new battery won’t do good.
    That might be due to Mint’s pre-installed software, I don’t know.













  • I’d prefer base 12, but with given the current state of numeric affairs I’d much prefer metric time over using metric for everything except time (and screen diagonals)

    That way, with decimal time, large scale planning becomes much easier to grasp. This part of the project takes 3.475 days (=3 days, 4 hours and 75 minutes), 200€/h from the customer makes that part days × 2000 = 6950€…

    (and that way I’d just know my laptop’s screen size is 40cm instead of it being marketed as 15.6 Unicorn units while actually being closer to 15.75🦄)