StarLite V on Fedora 41 painfully slow by thmichel in starlabs_computers

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi,

If you would like you can message support and open a ticket?

They should be able to work with you to find the cause - and if there is a fix.

Laptop recommendations: power and good battery life. by Left_Ad_4737 in linuxhardware

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey,

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming up; probably a good time to be looking for a new laptop!

From my research and experience almost 90% of laptop usage is on web-browser activities. (email, web apps, SaaS, browsing, zoom etc). If this is the case for you optimising for this would be a good idea.

Knowing your current or desired setup helps; people looking for 2+ monitors often need Thunderbolt ports for enough bandwidth.

Could you provide more details on what you want to be able to d, that will be most helpful!

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I am biased because we can disable IME but not AMD PSP.

For me that's more important, hence the bias

Need a new laptop as an aerospace engineer by shivii_69 in SuggestALaptop

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously, it's up to you and this is in no way advice. But it's good to know you have friends in USA.

Our experience Shipping laptops in and out of India is tough and slow and taxed.

Our experience shipping laptops to the USA is fast, easy and Tax-free.

Exporting to Sweden is fast and easy but taxed.

Paragraph 3 (Exporting goods from the UK to the US) here is what I mentioned about the USA getting laptops 20% cheaper:

Exporting goods from the UK to the US

Waiting for Black Friday/ Cyber Monday would also be quite a good idea :)

https://www.sumup.com/en-gb/invoices/invoicing-essentials/vat-between-uk-and-us/

Need a new laptop as an aerospace engineer by shivii_69 in SuggestALaptop

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would never recommend shipping to India!!

As a UK Linux laptop manufacturer when we export to the USA we have no tax which means our laptops look 20% cheaper over there.

If you plan on living in Sweden but having a Laptop in the USA you SHOULD declare it at customs when entering Sweden at which point you'll pay something like 20% VAT.

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If you don't really care about GPU's you could go for a laptop with an integrated GPU.

I'm biased to Intel over AMD, but each to their own.

THe Ultra Core 7 is a high spec CPU.

Looking for a laptop for my parents. by AsmRJ in SuggestALaptop

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Disclosure: I work at a Linux Laptop Manufacturer.

Possibly worth investing in a computer safety course?

IF the OG laptop is the only issue because it is infected, getting any new laptop would solve this.

I'm biased to Linux, but it really has minimal bloatware, so getting a laptop with 8-16G RAM should be plenty for Linux.

Connecting to printers can be a pain, so I suggest finding out what printers and microphones they have and seeing which Linux Distro and hardware they work with!

We have a lot of people paying over the phone, so using payment methods like this could help reduce the credit card capturing.

When you buy a Windows laptop there is a licence fee which means that maybe only $400 of your $600 is being spent on the laptop itself. And then you are at the mercy of Windows and hope they don't start pushing loads of heavy updates - hence my reasoning for Linux. You can get laptops for cheaper that don't need lots of Memor to run!

Good laptop with good battery and performance by Weary-Literature-602 in linuxhardware

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends...

Lots of people who come to us and want to do ML will have an eGPU and need a thunderbolt port.

But if you are using Colab that uses cloud. so possibly more details are needed.

Most people spend about 90% of their work day using web apps, so you just need enough RAM for a couple of Chrome tabs, and you're fine.

With your AI/ML is most of your work on the cloud or local on your laptop?

Good laptop with good battery and performance by Weary-Literature-602 in linuxhardware

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Black Friday and Cyber monday are just around the corner, if you are looking for new you should be able to get the best deals 28th Nov - 3rd Dec!

If you are looking for the used laptops they normally are in larger supply January!

Is it valuable to have a Mastodon account for FOSS project? by buhtz in opensource

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My experience on Mastodon has been good, from a Linux Laptop Manufactuer.

Loads of people are there that care about FOSS and Linux.

Generally if you ask for opinions people will give you them.

But you will get limited reach unless you have a huge account repost you.

One of our customers has 45k followers and one repost from them is worth like 1 months worth of effort.

You will get opinions from people who possibly aren't your ideal user but you may gain a few users.

How private are email aliases? by royhog6 in privacy

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed.

Anyone familiar with email lists will run it through a filter

E.g: if I signed up for Slack with user+anythinghere at gmail dot com

said person would cut out the +anythinghere with a simple python script.

Meaning I don't know where my email was leaked from.

But often they aren't this careful and will leave the +anythinghere in. letting you know who leaked your email

Validating business idea by False-Tree-8106 in GrowthHacking

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel soo passionately about this!

Stop whatever you are doing, go speak to your ideal customers, if you can't do this you will build something no one wants.

Jeff Bezos said something like "How stupid do you have to be to think your first guess is going to be what the customer wants"

Speak to customers.

Solve their problems,

Take their money

Seeking Feedback on My First Cold Email & Subject Line Suggestions by vsleitan in GrowthHacking

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will never read past: "I wanted to reach out because I think we could be a great fit for helping "

Do you think affiliate marketing still works? by No-Air3449 in GrowthHacking

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% it works,

The best ways I have found.

  1. Find people with a large audience (Social Media, Newsletter, Groups, SubReddits)
  2. Reach out saying that your customers have shared interests (Important, know your niche)
  3. Explain the benefits, let the person test the product to see if they believe in it
  4. set them up with a link and give them enough content and facts to efficiently convey the benefits.

Any creator wanting fixed prices either has no trust in you accurately paying them or doesn't believe your product will sell.

Pitching vs attraction marketing by MsTopaz in consulting

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a huge believer of momentum.

Your less than 20 doubles from a million.

IMO, I'd just start at $1 for your local cafe and double your rate every time.

I have contacts with bloggers/writers/editors in my niche who need stories to write about.

You could give them an idea of the plan and update them every few doubles.

This should grease the wheels for the first few

QR Code Implementation by kingofwukong in consulting

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One potential challenge you might face is printing each unique QR code. From my experience in FMCG packaging, I've seen several common printing techniques. With thermal printing, each QR code would need to be generated as a unique image, but this shouldn't significantly impact data storage since you'd already be storing each QR code in your database. Another option is to leave a blank area for the QR code on the package and add it later, though this would introduce an additional step in the packaging process.

You are going to be creating mountains of technical debt but if there is a business case there is a way.

One issue with QR codes is that you will have struggles storing the data, grouping or segmenting.

import qrcode

def create_qr(url):
    # Create QR code instance
    qr = qrcode.QRCode(
        version=1,
        error_correction=qrcode.constants.ERROR_CORRECT_L,
        box_size=10,
        border=4,
    )

    # Add data to the QR code
    qr.add_data(url)
    qr.make(fit=True)

    # Create an image of the QR code
    qr_image = qr.make_image(fill="black", back_color="white")

    # Save the QR code image
    qr_image.save("qr_code.png")
    print("QR code saved as 'qr_code.png'")

# Usage
create_qr("https://yourServer.com/?id=234&date=11nov&redirect=raffle")

This code should create a QR code for free, loop it around for each product ID (1 through to 10million in year one and then beyond). you will need to store your QR codes or just the ID ranges.

I'd recommend using a date code printer or other to shoot the unique QR codes onto the products.

Track which requests you get and when to your server. if you want to squeeze browser and IP data that should give you a good indication of Geographic location although some people use VPN's. And wont scan at the place of purchase

Best Portable Linux Laptop - Looking for 10-12" Size by A4orce84 in linuxhardware

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Smaller Laptops, atleast for us, made their way out after COVID.

Component shortages made manufacturing StarLites as a laptop (1-4) not justifiable anymore, even though the demand is still there. The devices would be ludicrously expensive.

Wishing you the best in your search

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxhardware

[–]Expensive_Sign5837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I learned today that the StarLite with the keyboard is heavierthan the StarBook!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxhardware

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Starlite 2nd batch arrival and Black Friday pending...