This is, 100%, without a doubt, just a way for him to avoid legal liability for doing things of his own free will. He wasn’t complicit in smuggling! He was taken advantage of by that irresistible Chinese succubus! It’s her fault!

Now, I don’t really care. I think it’s great that he’s bypassing US sanctions. Altho I would prefer China have its own domestic chip manufacturing and not buy from companies like this, but until that is fully developed they need to get by somehow. But yeah this is the most obvious scapegoating I’ve ever seen.

In fact, I’d like NOBODY to buy from companies like this. NVIDIA should crash and fucking burn.

thanks

that is what my laptop uses. Why mine works and yours does not is very complicated. I looked into it a bit. Firstly, my laptop is a Dell Latitude 7400 (non 2 in 1 model). This supports both modes, but mine is configured to use s2idle. One of the huge pluses of this laptop is that is had a stock Ubuntu option when it was sold. You could get it shipped to you with Ubuntu preinstalled. Now, I don’t use Ubuntu I use Debian but the Dell firmware is still configured to support Linux out of the box. So Linux isn’t being treated as a 2nd class citizen for this laptop. It’s getting the VIP treatment just like Windows.

Another thing is my actual configuration. Thermals prior to sleep matter a lot. If you laptop is too hot it will fail to enter the sleep state it needs to. Meaning it stays hot and continues to run and dies fast. I have heavily modified my laptops thermals. I have the CPU capped at 2.5Ghz, I have tlp running, and I have high quality thermal pads added inside the chassis to spread heat around to the magnesium back plate. Because of these mods my laptop does not use its fan, and the CPU hovers around 50C passively while in use. This means I never have a problem with suspend due to thermals.

I also have components, like my SSD, that are modern and support deep sleep states. My SSD is a WD Black SN770 1TB. Which is both pretty power efficient and supports deep sleep states.

Another thing is that the tlp and powertop tweaks are preventing wakeup triggers that would pull it out of suspend. and of course the last big thing is just that I keep my firmware up to date. Dell released firmware specifically to fix modern standy issues and I have that update. Dell ships easy firmware updates to linux users and you can install them with a few clicks and a reboot. Another advantage of the Linux native support.

Really can’t reccomend the laptop enough if you want a used business class machine its great and you can find them for 200ish$.

Well idk what about my setup isn’t modern? I guess my laptop is a few years old but its not that old. 2020 model. and I run debian stable so not bleeding edge but not crazy. My laptop is just one that ships with an ubuntu option and so it has good linux compatibility in general. So that probably helps.

i can put my laptop into suspend and lose maybe 2% of battery per day at most. So hibernation seems a bit unnecessary. Maybe if your RAM is less efficient or something? Idk.

im not that person but just let me chime in dont run this code on your pc. Its very sus.

Well I do have a blur thing on here. I edited Noctalia to remove the rounded corners. I like them sharp for this theme. It fits the fallout vibe more imo. Will have to try Umbriel out at some point but I’m pretty happy with the result I got from this theme for now.

does it have an overview?

Well niri is actually perfect for me because I am a gesture user. All my navigation is done with mousepad gestures.

Oh god. That’s atrocious lol.

You laugh but id rather talk to a robot than a cop anyday lol

Gonna buy one of these and install it into my toilet bowl and drop hot steamers on it so Amazon can watch.

Yeah, I’m a bit obsessed with New Vegas. I even made my own Radio New Vegas I can listen to on this lol. https://whiplashpost.substack.com/p/guide-bringing-mr-new-vegas-to-life?r=9c0sfd

Oh also I have a mouse cursor theme that is the Fallout New Vegas cursor, but it’s currently falling back to my old purple one for text. That’s why you see that in the terminal. I’m trying to find a text one that fits better to put in there. The main pointer looks like this:

I don’t restart enough to be too worried about it:

I actually have a local model LLM on my laptop thats based on Qwen3.5:9B and I launch it with instructions so it acts exactly like Yesman and have a yesman icon to launch it with lol. Also, it jailbroke it somehow? Like I asked Yesman how to make a molotov cocktail and he was all, “Golly Jee Boss, that’s easy! And fun!..” then explained how lol. Mr House better watch out. Then of course my fastfetch outputs: OS: Robco Enterprise 38 Kernel: The House Special Up Time: 253 years, 3 months, 9 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, 32 seconds

and the ACII is:

Gotta commit to the bit.

thanks for the info i had no idea

tutanota is good

Edit: I have learned that perhaps they are not.

I’m glad you like them! I want to do the Legion, maybe a Ranger themed one, Gomorrah, Great Khans, Followers, etc eventually too. I just need to find good background images and nice central logo images to use. It can be tough to find good ones. I did a lot of converting with imagemagick for the ones already in there lol.