ARM magic
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Thanks for the idea @wr250 ! This laptop had Mint on it about 5 years ago and was retired as the experience was awful - system would lock up running package updates from the cli! Surprise that the battery did not explode and, after 10 years it still reports 80% of lifetime capacity at full charge! That’s better than all of my more modern machines. They don’t make 'em like they used to… this one also had an unadvertised SATA expansion - was purchased as a cheapo EMMC-based netbook, back in the good old days…
It is shockingly responsive. This laptop is ancient, dual core n3350 with 4gb ddr3. Sadly the bat utility for Asus laptops [1] did not recognize the battery, so I couldn’t set charging limits. Oh, well…
The old guy in my building doesn’t have internet so I included offline access to the top 50k Wikipedia articles (full text + images) using Kiwix. He’s a musician so I also included some offline TED videos about music (Kiwix), a boatload of music production software including Ardour, Reaper, ONLYOFFICE (WHY ARE WE YELLING?), gnome-chess, pySol Fan Club edition, FreeTube for when he’s at the cafe or whatever… just working on getting WINE/VSTs functional.
This laptop also has that EMMC storage (it was mfg around 2015 if I recall) but it’s about as fast as a cheap thumb drive (60mb/s?), so I installed Ventoy on it, with GParted Live, MX Linux 25 Live, and I will also take a snapshot of the bare system (+ my customizations) in the ISO partition. I hid the whole EMMC in Thunar using udev rules. This recovery system can be selected by using the UEFI boot menu. Should be idiot proof.
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Nothing is idiot proof! They are smarter than you think!! I get surprised every time I see what they do!! 
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Sun Tzu says: know your enemy 
9070 upgraded to 9070xt in my main rig
4070 upgraded to 9070 in my 7945 box which is connected to my oled tv
1080TI upgraded to 4070 in my 5600x box which is just connected to a 1080p monitor. Very lazy, still havent updated the OS.
Wife’s running this weird buggy cloud infested malware called “windows” on her pc and she hasn’t got WSL up so i cant just ssh in and fetch from it … 5700x / radeon 6800 / 64gb 2tb nvme, misc 16tb hdd, 8tb hdd, 500gb sata ssd.
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We’re not here to cause no trouble,
We’re just here to do the video card shuffle
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Hahaha, the 9070xt at microcenter for $580 was too good to pass up, especially with lack of any refresh likely any time soon…
Also, had a friend’s kid who was asking about the 1080TI as an upgrade from his geforce 960 for his racing sim setup… so figured i had a good enough excuse to upgrade.
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There’s fastfetch for Windows 
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Sorry for going offtopic, but…
I got a 9070 at Microcenter a day after it released. I had asked for a minimally overclocked version, but they mixed up the one I wanted with the one someone else had asked for. That person had gotten a gaudy Powercolor Hellstone something. I splurged at the time because I was afraid of the AI bubble causing a graphics card shortage; and that’s coming, but later than I expected. I was really disappointed to have seen that graphics card prices fell in July. Anyway, I originally didn’t want the XT variant since my PSU couldn’t handle it, but Microcenter mistakenly giving me the wrong card forced me to upgrade my PSU. Anyway, I thought wth, might as well get the best AMD has to offer since next gen graphics cards will be gone. I’m either going to sell my non-XT, or give it to my buddy. Thankfully, there isn’t a PSU shortage.
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yea but im too lazy to walk over to her pc and log in and turn on the tv and hit printscreen and then save the screenshot and then pull it up on my other pc via samba. If i dont already have ssh services running on it, then, its not my pc
LocalSend makes file sharing a breeze on Windows/Linux/mobiledeviceofchoice a breeze!
(Yeah yeah, off topic 
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I was going for the 9070xt on release day, but i had to work, and microcenter is about 1 and 1/2 hour drive from home, so, i did the next best thing and snagged one off f newegg, had it in the cart like 3 seconds after they listed, but, got errors when checking out, so all that was left was $700+ xt cards or $600+ non xt cards, I grabbed a hellhound 9070, which worked just fine in my power supply, but i kinda felt like a sucker paying $640 for it… except that when it undervolted and i increased the power levels, it benchmarked at about 99% the level of the XT cards.
I usually just buy the cheapest model of the highest end card that has somewhat acceptable price to performance…
But, since I just upgraded one of my displays from 1080p to 4k (got rid of my old sony SXRD projector and replaced it with a smaller 65inch OLED), i wanted a more capable GPU. Also, got a nice bonus at work for 2025, and finished paying off my mortgage, so, no buyers regret thankfully.
Nvidia driver change made me switch to a new computer that i bought from a friend. My old one was a Nvidia GTX 1070 AMD ryzen 5 1600.
Also it was running Arch with Awesome. Happy with the change and hyprland seems to be a lot more stable.
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How are you liking that laptop so far? I was considering this model or the Ryzen HX370 one, but the latter is really hard to find available 
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I love it. Light, thin, cold, silent, powerful enough for my needs and awesome screen. The battery life is toe to toe with my m4 macbook.
The only downside is the recent linux kernel which started causing issues. I have a thread on that topic: System stall/freeze on Intel Ultra 7 258v laptop
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