Funny that what got me here was actually the occasional difficulty of reaching folks in the other cars during road trips.
How far can you reach with that 2m HT?
Where I'm from, the license-free HT operation is in a specific UHF range with low power, which I have very little faith on.
Which band are you on?
Where I'm from, 2m band seems to be popular due to the small antenna requirement. The fact we're in densely populated area probably also play a role.
There should be the 70cm band as well, but I haven't seen any sign of life around here.
Did the magic smoke come out?
If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.
If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.
While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you'd expect, there are things that may not be covered.
For example:
- there's no setting for hyperthreading
- no way to disable SATA drives, in case you'd like to be selective
- you'll need to reflash the BIOS if you want to change boot order permanently
Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.
How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?
I actually assembled this thing from parts, including the lid. Replacing it is not an option as it is in a very good condition except for that outer layer. I just wanted to see if I can do anything to it.
Thanks for the suggestion, tho.
It would be nice if these scars were actually by me 😅
But yeah I get your point
Discoloration on the Exterior of T420
Hello good folks in the Lemmy Thinkpad community!
I have recently built a T420 from parts. Things have been running well. Since it's mostly from scraps, it's far from perfect, but it works.
One of my pet peeves is some discoloration along the edges and corners of the top cover. I am guessing this is the part where the paint got worn off from bumps and frictions. Is there a way to restore it? I honestly don't care about the rubberized coating, but having that consistent matte black would be really great.
I was thinking of that plastic model paint. Would it work well?
Also, the back part of magnesium chassis that's supposed to be painted black seems to have its bare color exposed.
Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?
This reminds me of that time I accidentally roasted my college instructor in front of the class.
It was some kind of logic class for computer science. We were going thru a topic of "statement", which is "something that has a truth value".
I asked, "what about sarcasm?"
He answered, "sarcasm also has truth value in it, so it's also a statement".
Then he told me to give an example, to which I instictively gave without much thought: "this class is great!"
Had the whole class laughing while he frowned.
It was the very first day of him teaching.
open-source nvidia driver with flatpak
Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise.
I got a Thinkpad W530 with Quadro K2000M GPU (Kepler). With coreboot, I was able to get around all the headaches related to Optimus only having the discrete GPU enabled.
The GPU itself is well-supported by nouveau driver, missing only a few features on the power management side of things.
Things are good when I run stuff natively. However, I have yet to figure out Flatpak. I know we use org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.* packages that are some kind of Mesa abstraction layer.
Things are much more straightforward with Intel and AMD GPU. It is actually quite easy with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it doesn't exactly come free.
The ultimate question is: Should I install one of those org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-<ver> packages with my nouveau? If so, which version?
Building And Testing A 1912-style Radio - Hackaday
Doing electronics in the 1910s was rather rough, with the radio probably the pinnacle of hi-tech. Despite this, with some know-how and basic wood- and metal-working skills you could get pretty far …
I made a little script to bootstrap clean Gentoo installation from existing Gentoo system
Create a new Gentoo installation from scratch with an existing Gentoo installation
And with the land they just discovered, they'd expand their settlements.
I guess the whole genocide thing is unintended, huh?
"Whooops, we accidentally wiped out the whole population of this land. Whadya know, nobody lives here now. Somebody should definitely claim it!"
Are IO Sub Card of T420 and T430 interchangable?
I plan of having a maxed-out T420 for fun. Thinking that Firewire isn't particularly useful these days, but a second LAN port might. The Sub Card of T430 has a LAN port along with the USB and I was wpndering whether or not it's compatible with the T420.
I have to ask: why so many European country specific feddit instances?
Problem Uploading Image: Vague Error Message
Tried uploading an image I took with my phone camera into a Lemmy post, and failed.
I gotta admit that the image was indeed large (4MB). Refusing it would be reasonable. After resizing the image, it was successful.
What I found to be unreasonable was the error message. It returned a bunch of JSON garbage on the pop-up.
I ended up having to move from my phone to my computer and went on the network inspect tool just to see what's going on (a "file too large" error).
I would suggest a clearer error message. I don't know how this could be implemented, but it will be a deterent to a lot of people.
Secondary Monitor Glitching on KDE Wayland (open source Nvidia driver)
Hi everyone, I've neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I'm using the nouveau driver.
The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.
This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it's not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.
Anyone have any idea about this issue?
Edit: I should probably mention that I was using DisplayPort in the photo, but I also tried VGA and it gave the same result.
Edit1: I was able to narrow down the problem somewhat. Switching the BIOS setting to "Discrete only" for the GPU (thanks coreboot!) seems to make the glitching go away! This means the Optimus would be to blame.
Opening Link
The current alpha is going great!
I'd like to make a few requests, especially regarding link handling.
- Lemmy links (e.g. a lot of people linking recommended communities) with this app
- Other links in regular browser, not in-app one
I hope that we'll reach beta (or better, stable) soon!