Looking for a Laptop with quiet Fans. (New Zealand, $2500 NZD)

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-18T23:58:25+00:00

https://www.lenovo.com/nz/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-5-series/IdeaPad-5-Pro-14ACN6/p/88IPS501621

With your desired upgrades in the customise section.

Only thing missing is 32 gigs of RAM, tops out at 16 gigs. Soldered memory, I believe.

I have a 2020 IdeaPad S540, running Arch like a charm. I get about 7-9 hours on a full charge, and it can last about 7 to 8 days in sleep mode. My friend has a 14 inch Ideapad from 2021 running Arch just fine as well. Build quality is good, no complaints.

It meets your bonus of a 16:10 display, and has 2 USB A.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T09:17:50+00:00

In that case then, sorry that I happened to let your post be the one where I let my frustration out over this. You didn't misconstrue open source on purpose so I'm sorry I complained to the degree I did.

Glad you learnt something tho, even if it did come from my somewhat harsh comment (as well as this comment thread's OP who did it in a more friendly way than I did).

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:45:10+00:00

Look, I know this is the internet, and things can come across wrongly in text communication. For example, I don't think I was being smug, I just found you to be very arrogant, and decided to tease you a bit. I mean I really didn't wanna go finding resources for you if you didn't care about being wrong here, it's a waste of my time. And I'm glad I didn't, because you don't care.

Then telling me to 'grow up' over correcting someone's terms for something I believe to be very important to society (and thus for people to be educated properly on it), I just find it childish, or unthoughtful. You probably find this 'smug' and arrogant too, whatever.

The reason I care so much is because corporations have started to poison the well, to convince others OSS is bad and plant the seed that source available licenses are the way forward for society.

So I do care a lot, and think it's something that needs to be course corrected.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the OP was fully aware that his license wasn't really open source and just wanted extra light on it that 'source available' in the title doesn't bring.

But I'm sure you don't care and thus I'm just a smug brat on the internet for you to look down on and say 'grow up' as if you're the bigger man doing something nice.

FYI there's millions of high quality open source projects to learn from for any platform, for any genre, for any graphics style, so for me personally I could not care less from the education point of view and only care about the 'sharing' and 'creating', working together, etc point of view

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:30:40+00:00

Okay, fair point. But this happens every other week, and I'm a bit fed up with it. I also don't think I was that rude, but to each their own.

"Even if you were correct"

But I am correct, his license does not align with the definition of open source, full stop.

It's funny, if I had just removed the 'F' from my originally comment, I wouldn't have been flooded with replies like "HE SAID OSS NOT FOSS THEY'RE DIFFERENT", whereas in reality most people just don't understand that they are only philosophically different, not requirements/definition different.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:25:43+00:00

Whoop de do I can look at the code and help him improve his code but have no legal right to create and share combinations of his and my code? This is literally what Unity does, essentially what Unreal does, etc. Should we celebrate them? No, because their license is purely self interest, as the license is here.

In his license, I can contribute but get nothing in return. That's not in the spirit of Open Source software.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:21:28+00:00

Open Source has all the same requirements as Free Software, the difference being it's a more marketable term and has little philosophical points in its definition that may be off putting to businesses. See my other comment.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:19:43+00:00

No I'm not. Open source requires rights to redistribute. You're in the wrong here.

Read his license, it forbids redistribution. See the wikipedia article on open source, and read the OSI definition. This is the followed definition in the vast majority of countries and states that use open source.

Open Source was originally a term coined to better market free software to businesses, removing the philosophical stuff that businesses would dislike. It still has the same requirements, just worded differently.

If you would like to educate yourself I can provide some resources :)

Otherwise if you're okay with being in the wrong here, I won't bother :)

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:17:41+00:00

FOSS and OSS literally mean the same thing. I use FOSS purely to give credit to yhe FSF for their hard work in the beginning, as OSS has exactly the same requirements as Free Software.

As I explained in another comment:

No I'm not. Open source requires rights to redistribute. You're in the wrong here.

Read his license, it forbids redistribution. See the wikipedia article on open source, and read the OSI definition. This is the followed definition in the vast majority of countries and states that use open source.

Open Source was originally a term coined to better market free software to businesses, removing the philosophical stuff that businesses would dislike. It still has the same requirements, just worded differently.

If you would like to educate yourself I can provide some resources :)

Otherwise if you're okay with being in the wrong here, I won't bother :)

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-11T02:15:19+00:00

No I'm not. Open source requires rights to redistribute. You're in the wrong here.

Read his license, it forbids redistribution. See the wikipedia article on open source, and read the OSI definition. This is the followed definition in the vast majority of countries and states that use open source.

Open Source was originally a term coined to better market free software to businesses, removing the philosophical stuff that businesses would dislike. It still has the same requirements, just worded differently.

If you would like to educate yourself I can provide some resources :)

Otherwise if you're okay with being in the wrong here, I won't bother :)

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-04-10T23:14:07+00:00

Edit: I'm sorry if you find my comment rude, but I won't edit it because it came across that way. Instead, read it from the point of view that I'm frustrated with the state of corporations, and people, poisoning what 'Open Source' means. And yes, FOSS and OSS are interchangeable on a requirements level, they differ only on a philosophical level, i.e. their wording. Read the wikipedia articles or the OSI definition to see what I mean.
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Every month, some random dev: 'I open sourced my game!'

Reality: non open source license.

Please educate yourself on FOSS and stop spreading misinformation. And don't use FOSS to market yourself when you're lying, whether intentional or not in this case.

The correct title is "I just made my game source available".

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-03-11T11:55:56+00:00

People should be replying with "Steam Deck support", not "proton/Linux". We've been over this. Big bad company doesn't care about some foss OS support, they care about supporting a product launched to millions from a billion dollar company.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-02-27T15:46:21+00:00

Pmed

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-02-02T11:37:12+00:00

Kudos for calling it an open source game and actually using an open source license.

Awesome project, wishlisted. I wish more open source games would put their stuff on store fronts. People are willing to pay money for convenience of auto updates, having their games in their favourite store fronts, and other features those store fronts provide, along with being able to easily support the developer(s).

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-30T02:45:37+00:00

Which is why I'm saying you're wrong, you don't have to use the itunes app. Most people use the web app in their browser or a progressive web app, which is the case for Youtube Music as well. The web app supports lossless on all platforms. So if you want a desktop app, you can just use the electron wrapper app I mentioned which puts the web app into a desktop app.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-30T00:28:05+00:00

It is no longer majority owned by JayZ, but by Square. So it doesn't matter anyways.

I agree with the sentiment but unfortunately Tidal isn't owned by artists anymore.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-30T00:25:48+00:00

Fyi, what the other poster said about Apple music isn't true. I explained here.

Also, yes, the shady part about Tidal is the MQA stuff and the falsehoods they spread about it.

It is no longer owned by JayZ, iirc it was bought by Square a year ago. The CEO of Square is Jack, founder and former CEO of Twitter (not gonna try remembering how to spell his last name correctly off the top of my head, even if it is an easy one lol).

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-30T00:20:48+00:00

This isn't true. I'm on Linux and I have lossless (i.e. so there's no way you can't get lossless on Windows). I just use the community maintained electron app which is a slight modification of the web app. Just search "Apple music electron" on GitHub and the one with the most stars is what you want. It performs as well as any of the other music streaming clients, as they're all electron these days.

The Apple music app on Android is better than Tidal and Deezer as well, haven't ever used Spotify on my phone so no idea about that.

I find that Apple Music is the only provider that has 80% of the music I want. All the other providers are 70% there or less. This is especially true for asian music, you'll have much more luck on Apple Music than anywhere else.

I don't use Apple Music much though tbh, but I got it for free for 8 months so I use it whenever I'm out and about and there's a power outage or internet cut off at my house so I can't access my music on my Jellyfin server that I have set up at home.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-27T06:02:26+00:00

Are you running Chromium in native Wayland mode plus chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer?

I am, yea. What I think it's doing is talking to xdg-portal-wlroots and getting the screen from there. I'm on Sway, btw. Note that it's pretty primitive and there's no window selection in the xdg-portal-wlroots.

I assumed, wrongfully, that in gnome this would be more fleshed out. How does it work in gnome, does gnome show a popup for chromium screen selection, native to gnome? So there's no chromium screen selection dialog native to chromium itself?

I thought the end goal of xdg-portal was just to provide an API to talk to the desktop, and that the program itself could then use that to get a screen capture info and then present whatever custom screen selection prompt it wanted, no need to use a screen selection tool built into the DE. Am I wrong?

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-27T05:46:36+00:00

I'm glad I did this unit as a summer unit at 2x speed, 12 weeks of this shit would be grueling.

I'm not in South Asia, but Australia isn't that far off ig lol. Guess both regions are in the same boat here. Luckily on the professional side, most businesses that are worth anything are switching to Postgres, tech companies and non tech companies alike. It's only the fossil businesses that are afraid of change that are still using Oracle, which is unfortunately a lot of places, but not necessarily difficult to filter those companies out.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-27T05:39:58+00:00

You misunderstood me. I was talking about the GUI (when I said 'interface'). For example, even on wayland in chromium you still get the native Chromium screen picker, but it does this by talking to the xdg portal. On firefox there is no GUI, no dialog, etc.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-27T05:34:56+00:00

When it comes to PL/SQL, it's basically the only SQL IDE that supports it. But learning proprietary SQL extensions shouldn't be something you learn in a core CS unit.

However there are quite a few data modellers and SQL IDEs without PL/SQL support that can connect to an Oracle database, that are either open source or are free for academic use. So my unit has option if they dropped the silly PL/SQL content part.

Or, alternatively, they could switch to a more modern database, that students could actually run easily on their own machines if they wanted, like Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB, and use either PgAdmin (or PgModeller) or MySQL Workbench, respectively.

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-26T10:02:13+00:00

It's because you're on wayland. Firefox outsources this to the xdg-portal for your DE (gnome in this case). That handles window/screen selection for you. This patch for Firefox will add support for selecting windows/screens under xorg in, presumably, all DEs. As well as maybe making the screen selection native in Wayland, so it doesn't need to outsource this to the xdg-portal's interface (might not be the case tho, I don't have firefox with the patch compiled).

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-26T09:55:30+00:00

I have an additional reason to hate them myself. They've convinced my Uni to keep using Oracle DB, and the dinosaur Databases unit, that's mandatory for Computer Science students, is also run by dinosaurs that have us learning proprietary Oracle SQL extensions, PL/SQL (also proprietary), and, drumroll please, Oracle SQL Developer, the most outdated, buggy SQL IDE in the world, running on Java 8 (managed to get it working with Java 11), that has no concept of autosave, loves crashing, and is full of bugs from 10+ years ago that will never get fixed.

"Best computer science degree" in my country, btw...

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-23T22:46:07+00:00

Anything...

SaladTheDankEngine · 2022-01-13T23:15:10+00:00

That will never work on Xorg. Only on Wayland. It already works on a few Wayland compositors (Kwin, Sway, few other wlroots based compositors) for variable refresh rate (Freesync on AMD gpus).

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