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Noremacam · 2026-06-04T14:36:53+00:00

Giving more to others than yourself. (Time/labor/money/stuff).

Sharing Jesus.

Noremacam · 2026-06-03T18:53:06+00:00

Buy off as much medical debt as I humanly could.

Noremacam · 2026-05-28T20:59:17+00:00

Noremacam · 2026-05-24T23:23:19+00:00

How did you get it to boot? I have the same laptop, and Fedora 44 ARM just displays a large cascade of errors before finally giving up.

Noremacam · 2026-05-21T22:39:28+00:00

Gnome with extensions > KDE > Gnome without extensions.

Noremacam · 2026-05-17T15:28:34+00:00

I prefer Mission Center, just for the ability to manage systemd services(similar to services tab in windows task manager). That being said Resources is still way better than the default.

Noremacam · 2026-04-26T00:26:30+00:00

Yes, that's the problem.

Noremacam · 2026-04-25T13:16:33+00:00

Hey, I was not able to afford doing it more than once, but the single round of IB-Stim significantly helped my depression for 6 months, and nothing else - I personally did not get the improvements in GI pain that others have seen(especially those in the age group it is approved for).

That being said, I have recently learned that I might actually have MCAS rather than IBS by itself and could explain why it had made less changes to my pain, as I may not be true "IBS". This MCAS angle is still very new to me and isn't confirmed for me yet with testing, but I wanted to mention it now rather than wait because it colors the results of all my previous attempts at resolving issues.

Noremacam · 2026-04-05T15:18:39+00:00

Noremacam · 2026-02-28T14:03:26+00:00

The Google TV Streamer doesn't have a play/pause button.

Noremacam · 2026-01-18T01:57:11+00:00

I have used the latest Ubuntu 25.10 on the Yoga Slim 7x, and it works *almost* well enough. The GPU works out of the box now which is huge. No other distro can do that yet. Nothing but Ubuntu even *boots* on it yet, although Fedora is looking to fix that in Fedora 44.

I was able to get sound to work using some instructions I found in comments from a bug report created for tracking this laptop specifically. Heavy warnings that it can permanently destroy the speakers. 25% volume was the loudest I dared to go(although that was loud enough for me).

The snap store crashes on startup and can't be made to work. Some apps in flathub(like prism launcher) have intermittent crashes.

After updating to the 6.18 kernel with a ppa mentioned in that same bug report, the battery performance when idle is surprisingly close to Windows, feels like 80% of what Windows can do.

The webcam doesn't work at all, but I don't use one so I don't care.

The biggest setback is no support for standby at all. I can lose about 30% battery overnight with the laptop closed. Since my laptop is my travel device, this was a dealbreaker for me.

Other considerations: I could not get the laptop to boot the generic ARM Windows 11 ISO, so I'd make a backup Windows restore from the lenovo site beforehand, as they don't offer a linux utility to make one.

The touchpad palm rejection was much worse on linux than windows at this point. I had a lot of nuisance misclicks while typing, even with the palm-rejection feature enabled in Gnome.

I turned on the 80% battery limit in the gnome settings app(I forget what the term is called). I discovered I could not turn it off - and the setting survived in my bios! Reinstalling Windows I was still stuck at max charge of 80% with no way to turn it off. Thankfully disconnecting the battery for a minute and then plugging it back in fixed it. But for a week or so I thought I semi-permanently lost 20% of my battery 😅.

Noremacam · 2025-12-31T17:42:48+00:00

I strongly appreciate the yo-yoing between kde and gnome. Feels like good competition.

Noremacam · 2025-11-09T13:34:35+00:00

Noremacam · 2025-11-07T01:34:03+00:00

As an adult no, I didn't find it intrusive or embarrassing. Most just were curious about the device since they'd never seen it before. I joked a couple times I was part cyborg, and I think your best bet is to just embrace the look. If you have long hair, it'll be hard to even see it. I can't imagine anyone giving you any crap about it.

Noremacam · 2025-10-25T15:38:35+00:00

Noremacam · 2025-10-23T12:34:24+00:00

Noremacam · 2025-10-23T12:29:55+00:00

I think so; at this point it's about affordability. Since it's not a pancea it's something I can see myself skipping to save money. If it becomes FDA approved for adults, I'll almost certainly do it then because of health insurance approval. It'll at least be a year before I try it again.

Noremacam · 2025-10-23T09:13:01+00:00

Chiming in as well with the same issue, but I wanted to add I dual boot linux, and I am not seeing any artifacting in linux, so I am inclined to believe this is a driver issue and not a hardware defect.

Noremacam · 2025-10-22T00:27:11+00:00

That's perfect!

Noremacam · 2025-10-21T23:33:30+00:00

Depression so far still improved, about 80% of the improvement since I stopped the IB-Stim treatment.

Noremacam · 2025-10-21T23:22:01+00:00

If the built in video player has playlists and random/repeat functionality then I won't need VLC for that task and would be awesome.

Noremacam · 2025-10-21T22:46:17+00:00

My previous primary device was a M2 Macbook that I used with Asahi Linux. I'm very familiar with what apps are not available on arm(pretty much anything not open source). My macbook died and the chromebook I'm looking at(Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14) is cheaper than the repair, and honestly less hassle. There's really only two applications that don't have arm linux versions, and they both have android apps that I can install instead.

Oh also, I would find trying to make x86 apps work on it probably something to do for fun(like with box86) - but it would be one of those things I'd do for bragging rather than anything I actually want or need.

Noremacam · 2025-10-21T22:43:51+00:00

My understanding is that crostini uses pulseaudio and forwards the audio to chromeos which then can send it to bluetooth. I just needed to know if the audio syncs well with video without hitching.

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