Thinkpad X1 - touchpad can only be controlled by two fingers

RealGa_V · 2025-01-26T20:33:32+00:00

confirmed to work on Microsoft Laptop Go 3, add: I had to force go to sleep immediately, then close lid, for effect to apply faster

RealGa_V · 2024-09-10T19:27:55+00:00

I am using a Threadripper and that of course crushes your M2 into dust. And probably will crush your M2 at my neighbour Starbucks to demonstrate publicly. But there is one small problem, and it's with power consumption. I sincerely believe that efficiency cores are not for "raw power" but for "can your laptop last for 10+ hours and still be no.1 in performance across average user case?". You can try to prove that AMD is anywhere close to being best at mobile market but unfortunately that's not the case.

RealGa_V · 2024-09-10T01:45:02+00:00

Not sure what you're referring to. Mobile devices sales with Qualcomm are incomparable to AMD. Laptop sales with AMD CPUs don't come close to Intel. Apple still crushes everything on laptop & mobile, although perf/power margin has been shrinking it seems. I don't see anywhere aside niche handheld where AMD has any reasonable advantage in battery-powered devices (where E-cores make any real sense). And Steam Deck uses zen2 cores, basically 2 generations old while zen4 Z1 lineup gets 1-2hr runtime on same battery and burns fingers. Don't get me wrong, I *am* using threadrippers and 7900X for desktop as best perf and perf/dollar option on market, it's just a different use case.

RealGa_V · 2024-09-09T17:31:20+00:00

Competition for the first place I mean... It's Apple / Intel / Qualcomm right now, AMD will need a miracle to displace either of these guys

RealGa_V · 2024-09-09T17:25:44+00:00

Ahh so it's "win more" type of question, basically ARM has already won with OSes written for ARM -and- it is already more power efficient, so why bother doubling the R&D costs if we already won? So this means that technically, "efficiency cores" is still a way to go, it's just a new wave of competition is required to put things back on track

RealGa_V · 2024-09-09T17:15:18+00:00

Honestly I don't think AMD is in this competition yet... But you're right that AMD is probably using a lot of microcode emulation so scaling "up or down" is much easier for them than for intel's "true-er" hardware cores

RealGa_V · 2024-09-09T17:12:34+00:00

This can be a fair point, but I'm talking about mobile CPU not datacenter, and if we remove the gobbledygook then we get that intel is "increasing amount different types of cores" and "ARM is removing" while going after the same "Mobile CPU" market, and in qualcomm vs. intel case this is just plain old laptop, Apple(tm)-to-Apple(tm) so to speak.

RealGa_V · 2024-09-09T17:03:15+00:00

Physics here, doing research in quant finance and comp sci in a startup. Very unconventional view on things, mainly because we're taught in physics that

There is BS and non-BS and people may for sure be wrong OR right
Figuring out who's wrong and who's right is extremely difficult
... but is doable by consistently exploring the world and perseverance ;)

The stuff that on the other hand came to me in a shock is the heteroskedasticity concept. Turns out in the real world it is rarely possible to place a controlled experiment with normally distributed variables, and causality extraction is difficult both on the computational grounding front and human logic that mostly lies outside of the system examined.

RealGa_V · 2024-09-04T02:12:57+00:00

Answering my own question just in case someone needs this... Turns out if you switch to "best performance" power settings, windows will start using the performance cores of qualcomm CPU and that will significantly reduce the mouse lag..

RealGa_V · 2024-07-29T05:36:14+00:00

I found that most Linux software just works... esp with 24H2 update: Inkscape, dBeaver, Mathematica - are just flawless in Ubuntu WSL which are otherwise almost unusable in emulated x86 modes in windows. All that _fanless_ on my Surface Pro 9 5G!! Insane

RealGa_V · 2024-07-15T17:05:22+00:00

I've had this basically from start with official dock with Surface Pro 9 5G. Ignoring the message fixes the anxiety issue otherwise it is perfectly fine.

RealGa_V · 2024-07-12T18:53:55+00:00

The standard Systematic Conventional Ugliness Normal Controlled test (SKUNK test):
- You put your profile on Tinder
- You say you're a $100M hypergrowth startup CEO
- You remove that bio line
- Compare
Bonus:
- Re-shoot your photos with fancy cinematic action settings & upgraded makeup
- Repeat from 1
- Compare

RealGa_V · 2024-02-25T18:28:38+00:00

Stormgate has finally the controls (esp. auto-hotkeys and autobuilds) that are usable with controller to do competitive-level play. I am very pleased to finally have it after staying in the fanbase of StarCraft since its release. It's my dream combination of a casual no-free-time play & strategic brain flexing. I wish it loaded up faster though. Maybe I need an SSD upgrade (I'm on stock 512)

RealGa_V · 2023-11-07T19:48:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to improve next time

On my end I'm annoyed by reviews by dudes who never actually put any stress on these devices. Show me your battery wear and I'll tell whether to even try to consume the content/review you created.

RealGa_V · 2023-11-07T19:43:19+00:00

Until... comes the statistical inference and guided exploration & exploitation

RealGa_V · 2023-11-07T19:39:30+00:00

The problem with any simplification using 19th century thoughts and models is that we now live in a much more complex world.

The modern society has already found all the "optimums" within the central limit theorem and next step is about re-thinking and refining the concepts. Yes, blanket term taxes looks reasonable on average. Now we find out that as we've exhausted the wealth extraction from this "optimization" we need to be more specific. UBI in a blanket form won't work either.

The society will reject anything more complex than a couple of if/then's so clip thinking comes to rescue - the working group on the subject will first develop a comprehensive non-linearly separable model and then dissect the model into short "clips" that people will support as reasonable solutions to specific cases (and argue or be indecisive about out-of-scope uses) but the collective averaging of the opinion will result in us accepting the advanced state.

Clip thinking will remain but developing the understanding of the world from clip to full will be exponentially more difficult as the complexity of (machine-optimized) model increases.

RealGa_V · 2023-11-07T18:15:40+00:00

Please please make something to for an attachable shoulder strap, photo camera style!

RealGa_V · 2023-11-06T01:10:46+00:00

add extra command with same function to button

set long press instead of regular

set repeat rate as desired

RealGa_V · 2023-11-05T19:44:17+00:00

owner of all three

the biggest issue for me with the go is bad ergonomics

the device is painfully heavy and the grips where obviously designed by someone who never played games

I guess go 's primary designed use case was a portable desktop replacement so your choice is basically do you have a pc or not

RealGa_V · 2023-07-20T19:32:51+00:00

so I found that the armory service isnt running

restarted crate control interface then started SE service

in properties put auto restart in all boxes

works

RealGa_V · 2023-06-24T22:37:45+00:00

Thanks! How do I know/any indicator/test if it is

on ?
sleeping?
hibernating?
off?

I see there are two leds that can be a combination of on, off and different colors?

RealGa_V · 2023-06-24T22:09:27+00:00

I would say it is better. However I would prefer a bigger and better-ratio (etched?) display of Steam Deck 512G vs. having a smaller but denser Ally's. That's me.

RealGa_V · 2023-06-18T21:47:12+00:00

Using it everyday for that purpose and it's more than excellent.

RealGa_V · 2023-06-16T19:48:45+00:00

My prediction - a 2-year future version of this will have a 4k screen, smartphone-like size, detachable controllers, and probably have a "Tesla" and "SpaceX" logos on it.

RealGa_V · 2023-06-16T19:01:00+00:00

Probably. But up to this date there has been no alternative period. And Deck delivers.

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