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[Discuss] Think I need a new computer
- Subject: [Discuss] Think I need a new computer
- From: rrose at pobox.com (Randall Rose)
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:12:36 +0000
- In-reply-to: <f7057ccd-c279-4de5-bcdd-974fa3432225@borg.org>
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Minor point, but this is not a bad time of year to find a computer at a low price. School's out, nowhere near back-to-school season, no Christmas rush. On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, at 7:38 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > My Dell XPS 13 7390 is getting old creaky, and at nearly 4-years, it > isn't new, but how annoying, it has been a nice machine. > > This morning it was dead, I had left it plugged in, running, with the > lid closed. And this morning its battery was dead. It has been > complaining about disconnects, so maybe there is an intermittent in my > cables. > > Reboot, look at log files, see nothing interesting before the messages > from my powering it up. Then a while later, as I unlock it the dialog > asking for my password went away, the background of the lockscreen > refreshed, and the mouse pointer froze. Trying to switch consoles didn't > do anything. I forced a powerdown. > > Looking at logs it looks like it saw me plugging and unplugging power, > closing the lid, and pressing power button. > > I ran a memtest and it passed. > > I installed an unrelated-looking Dell firmware update it has been > wanting for a long time: > > ? FW 22001070 Device Update > ? Dell 2200 NVMe SSD Firmware Update > > ? *Fix the "Drive not detected" issue reported by the Dell ePSA tool in > some rare > ? cases. > > Reboot and things are slow: Login and my desktop sits dark for sometime > before painting my background picture. That sites blank for sometime > before drawing my desktop icons. > > And now I think I am noticing funny delays here and there, hard to be > certain. > > I'd willing to be suspicious of my upgrade from Debian 11 to 12, but > that was nearly a month ago, rebooted several times, and all seemed to > be working well. > > > Grrr. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a new computer right > now. But the battery is supposedly only 57% of what it used to be. The > trackpad doesn't like to click in the location where I like to click and > is only slightly more agreeable in other places.? One of USB-C jacks > seems grumpy (not noticing things I plug in) and the others are maybe a > bit odd, not sure. > > God I wish everything weren't so damn disposable. > > > Let me see what https://frame.work has in stock, their computers can be > repaired, even upgraded. > > Do I want an AMD Ryzon 7040 or an Intel i5-1340P? Is one better better > supported for Linux for these days?? > > > Grrr. > > -kb, the Kent whose incremental backup just finished, time to do another > on another disk. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at driftwood.blu.org > https://driftwood.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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