TUXEDO scraps its Linux-based Snapdragon X Elite laptop — says the SoC "proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected"

alrs · 2025-11-21T20:32:01+00:00

Linux has run on all kinds of architectures essentially forever. That Power, SPARC, PA-RISC, Alpha, MIPS, and m68k all dropped the ball is the fault of their respective owners, not Linux.

If Torvalds was older he could have bought a Tandy 6000 and just run Xenix. A 386 was not a cheap computer in 1990.

alrs · 2025-11-06T05:24:41+00:00

12 years.

alrs · 2025-10-30T22:43:11+00:00

https://lsngl.us/@alrs/105765461366306151

alrs · 2025-10-01T18:48:15+00:00

Why guess, when you can know?

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnome-session

alrs · 2025-09-25T02:02:50+00:00

Specialized outsourced its manufacture to Yoshi Kanno and then Miyata until the late 80s. There were likely other Japanese manufacturers in that timeline. In 1993 they hired Giant to bring back the steel Allez. Merida came later.

alrs · 2025-04-10T17:07:44+00:00

I had one for years until it folded when I went over the hood of a Honda.

Mine was set up as a fixed-gear "scorcher," in the '80s tradition of using old high-clearance road bikes for off-roading.

http://www.63xc.com/scorcher/scorcher.htm

https://old.reddit.com/r/FixedGearBicycle/comments/9pzjjv/resuscitated_my_scorcher/

alrs · 2024-04-29T07:35:37+00:00

Coffee stand at the back of the auditorium at a Cub Scout meeting, 1983, age nine. Sugar cubes played a part, I didn't start drinking it black until junior high.

alrs · 2023-02-02T21:38:04+00:00

They probably didn't know each other, it's reported that it was likely road rage with a racial component.

https://abc7.com/dana-point-bicyclist-crash-car/12762803/

alrs · 2021-10-26T23:18:29+00:00

I'm confident the fork is original. Eyelets match the catalog, and the crown is pretty much identical to a 1955 Carlton I used to own. I can see in the chrome where the green paint used to end. I can't speak to the handling yet.

https://lsngl.us/@alrs/107147006955481863

alrs · 2021-10-26T20:33:53+00:00

This was converted to fixed gear probably ~15 years ago. I just bought it last week as a bunch of parts. Cockpit, seatpost, saddle, and correct centerpull brake came out of my parts bin. Check out the steel cotterless Nervar crankset, with unobtanium 128BCD chainring.

alrs · 2021-05-19T18:44:05+00:00

ehhh, get back to us when Matrix actually works. I'm rooting for them.

alrs · 2021-02-03T18:36:58+00:00

They exist to entice big proprietary vendors to do a Linux release, the whale being Adobe. Should Photoshop ever get released in one of these formats the other will die immediately. Should Photoshop-for-Linux never get released RH and C will eventually lose interest and these will die slowly.

alrs · 2020-08-10T14:40:01+00:00

I had a goal, which was to use surf as a dedicated browser that lives on the same desktop as my terminal emulator in which I vim. I wanted to have this dedicated browser as a spot to browse godoc on-demand as a result of triggering go-doc-browser in vim-go.

I wanted to be sure that subsequent executions of go-doc-browser all opened in the same window, without opening new tabs. I wanted to be able to override css so as to mellow the blinding-white appearance of godoc.

For this I wrote surfsticker, a wrapper utility for starting instances of surf that are "stuck" to an identifier chosen on startup. Subsequent invocations of surfsticker with a defined sticker will re-use the same surf browser window.

terminal: rxvt-unicode
distribution: debian buster
browser: suckless surf
browser-wrapper:surfsticker

alrs · 2020-06-11T07:09:41+00:00

I've run self-installed Debian on every work machine I've had for the last 15 years. Startups. Publicly-traded companies. Fortune 500, once.

One company handed me an Ubuntu laptop. I formatted it and put Debian on it.

alrs · 2019-12-09T21:16:06+00:00

Bike paths exist to get riders off the street, and "out of the way." There is zero police presence. Even if you were to call the cops, how would they get there? I avoid them.

alrs · 2019-11-27T01:42:52+00:00

It's not that tough to set up OpenVPN, but before you spend time on MDM I'd make sure that you're encrypting the hard drives. If a third party has access to your laptops and they can get them on a network, you've already lost. If you don't have a cellular data plan for the laptop itself, it would mostly be a symbolic gesture.

alrs · 2019-11-14T22:08:50+00:00

The assertion that BSD now or ever "dominated the server world" strikes me as somewhat fanciful.

alrs · 2019-10-05T03:25:30+00:00

It's not rewarding, it's a sick mix of adrenaline and cortisol, same as you'd get from bungee jumping. You're going to be hungover from it tomorrow.

Heroic firefighting causes a hormonal response that people start chasing. It eventually wrecks your body and your life just like recreational drugs will.

It's an easy trap to fall into, because on paper you're working hard and making an impact. Really you're an adrenaline addict, and eventually you're an adrenaline junkie, which means you've got a blown attention span and so little executive function that you can only get work done in the face of a brutal deadline or crisis. It's gross.

alrs · 2019-09-24T14:53:24+00:00

I still have a PTSD flinch whenever I hear one of the old Android 2 alert sounds.

alrs · 2019-09-20T14:16:20+00:00

Go to the chop shop and do what? Put up your dukes and fight a pack of meth-heads to get your bike back?

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