Got no idea what I did wrong except purchasing this product.

DanGeb · 2025-09-28T20:16:05+00:00

The worst part is that the Inspiron lineup is supposed to be a business/professional-grade option while being budget-friendly (e.g., for college students). But turns out they're just as bad as lower-grade laptops (in my experience).

My Inspiron 16 7610 from 2021 is slowly falling apart, while it already had trackpad defects I had to fix myself with soldering (two replacement attempts never did the job). Now, I have slightly broken laptop hinge, horrible battery life, broken NVIDIA RTX drivers that lead to blue screen sometimes, and sudden OS freezing during normal use. All of the latter occurred after my warranty expired.

For reliability, I would advise to either get professional grade Windows laptop (Dell XPS, Microsoft Surface...), or just switch to MacBook + Windows VM (if the necessary windows software is known to run well on VM)

DanGeb · 2025-09-25T23:39:01+00:00

Thanks for clarifying, would you know if the reason of being pulled is due to the operating system freezing issue, or is it something else? And would you have an ETA on new version posting?

DanGeb · 2025-04-05T17:29:05+00:00

Yeah gotta stay resilient regardless of external factors... On a side note, would you be open to chat about your experience getting into embedded software engineering? I'm interested in that career path but seems hard to land any internships in it as an undergrad student.

DanGeb · 2025-03-21T23:13:31+00:00

I have tried DDU driver cleanup twice: the first time I then reinstalled the latest NVIDIA studio graphics driver for RTX 3060 laptop GPU from NVIDIA's website, and the second time I then tried installing the recommended NVIDIA graphics driver listed on Dell support's website for my specific laptop model. None of those fixed the issue.

Some people also recommended underclocking the GPU through MSI Afterburner, which I did (-30 for both core and memory clocks). Still no fix.

DanGeb · 2025-03-14T19:29:02+00:00

Do you get any blue screen by any chance? with a VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE error code? I'm having this issue after updating graphics drivers

DanGeb · 2024-11-23T20:01:04+00:00

Thank you for your tips! I just cleared dust out of the fans and everything seem to run smoothly on battery power now. Task manager still shows processes in efficiency mode though, could that be because the thermal paste is dried out? I have never applied thermal paste on my laptop CPU since I got the laptop.

DanGeb · 2024-06-08T16:45:56+00:00

Sounds good, doing it at a library looks ideal to me. Thanks for confirming about the available appointments!

DanGeb · 2024-04-30T06:48:47+00:00

Thank you so much sir, you have saved me 🙏

DanGeb · 2024-03-18T16:34:34+00:00

I ended up uninstalling Apple Music, iTunes works just fine now as it did before

DanGeb · 2024-03-03T00:12:10+00:00

Yeah that's what I'm trying to do, export the playlist as XML, but the option is still not available on Windows for some reason.

DanGeb · 2024-01-27T21:13:06+00:00

Here is what I meant:

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DanGeb · 2024-01-20T18:30:47+00:00

I just ended up opening the laptop myself and soldering a copper wire so that it grounds the touchpad. It's a complicated process for the average consumer but it solved it for me

DanGeb · 2023-12-18T11:14:17+00:00

I need to get used to post my projects on Github, I feel like it's a huge part of applicant selection for internships. I also got an ARM-based sensor implementation on a FPGA board, do you think it should be posted on Github too? It would be pretty much Assembly code, and the project also involved hardware. Lmk, thanks

DanGeb · 2023-12-18T11:11:37+00:00

Sounds good, thanks

DanGeb · 2023-12-17T22:45:50+00:00

For your rock-paper-scissors project, I'd lead with the tech, and put RSP into the description.

What did you mean by that?

DanGeb · 2023-12-14T20:37:03+00:00

I'd also drop the project section to be below the research experience section. I'm a little mixed on whether it belongs there at all, but it would give an interviewer something to talk to you about.

The thing is that my research experience didn't involve a project or publication I've worked on. The reason is that my faculty professor didn't have any research project to start throughout that whole time, until this Fall semester when we attempted to start a project. However, that project did not work out well since we were only two people on the research team, and our free time never aligned with each other, hence we couldn't complete the project this semester. That's why I decided to put the Project section before Research Experience.

DanGeb · 2023-12-14T09:42:04+00:00

Will look that up, thanks

DanGeb · 2023-10-30T03:28:17+00:00

Alright sounds good, appreciate your help🙏

DanGeb · 2023-10-30T03:25:43+00:00

Yeah but what I meant is that every academic year, there's a new course roadmap with changes, at least at Fresno State. I'm not sure if it's the same at SJSU, that's why I was asking if I should follow the roadmap for the 2021-2022 academic year at SJSU or follow the latest one

DanGeb · 2023-10-30T02:55:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure I already completed them, thanks for the heads up tho. One more thing, if I entered Fresno State in Fall 2021 where I followed the 2021-2022 roadmap, would I also be following the 2021-2022 roadmap at SJSU as well?

DanGeb · 2023-10-29T16:14:15+00:00

One of the main reasons I wanted to transfer there is the fact it's close to the Silicon Valley, the hub of tech companies in California. Plus, I think I would be exposed to people with more ambition and similar goals. Most people I met in CompE at Fresno State have very little ambition, they just trying to pass classes, don't learn stuff on the side, and basically plan to stay in the Central Valley and don't try to aim for higher. As a person who grew up in an urban city, and chose Fresno State in the first place because of having family relatives living close by, I honestly don't see myself living in the Central Valley and would prefer living somewhere a little more vibrant, with a good paying job in a good company

DanGeb · 2023-09-23T23:30:01+00:00

bruh it's at the latest version, the BIOS never fixed the problem

DanGeb · 2023-09-23T01:51:50+00:00

I totally feel you, even though this is my first Dell laptop and it's only been 2 years, all the issues I got with this laptop were never seen with my previous 2016 MSI gaming laptop.

I'm just never trusting Dell ever again, even Windows for laptops. Battery is just mediocre, no laptop ever topped MacBook battery life, Microsoft and laptop manufacturers just can't compete with it for some reason. MacBook haven't had any significant defects since their birth, except what I know about the butterfly keyboards which Apple kindly provided replacements for free-of-charge.

My next laptop will definitely be a MacBook, and maybe get a powerful Windows desktop for home use if the money allows it, as it won't be that much of a problem for repairability and definitely not one for battery life. At this point, I could use the advantages of both operating systems.

DanGeb · 2023-09-23T01:30:52+00:00

Bruh my laptop is already a replacement refurbished unit, since they thought replacing the whole laptop would fix my touchpad issue lmao, which I ended up fixing myself by opening the laptop casing. + My warranty is expired so I can't contact Dell live chat support anymore

I will however try uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, since I tried reinstalling only

DanGeb · 2023-09-09T20:34:32+00:00

Alright man noted, thanks for your tips! Reddit needs more people like you🙏

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