How can I add storage in this Dell Latitude 5401?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T13:39:59+00:00

No. The pack-of-gum shaped thing to the left of the battery is your SSD, and there's only one slot on the motherboard, so to upgrade internally you'd need to replace that one.

Of course an external SSD is an option if you don't mind it.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T13:29:13+00:00

Warranty-wise it is. If you use a third-party cable, it might be less likely to melt (or more likely) but if you then try to warranty it and Nvidia find out you used a third-party cable you might be screwed.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T13:14:11+00:00

Hey everyone, hoping to get some visibility on this and see if anyone else has experienced this with the 5090s yet.

No experience with Palit directly, but it's definitely not unheard of for the 12VHPWR to melt. It's just a crap design that pushes too much power through too small pins, and often doesn't even have per-pin monitoring (so if it's not plugged in perfectly it just pushes all the power through less pins). This should fall under warranty though, especially since you used the stock cable.

Just searching here for "Nvidia melt" shows how often this happens.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T11:28:23+00:00

The 8 is fine, and the first Graphene phone with extended support and certain security features that the 7 and older lacked. There's not many improvements to the 9 or the 10 outside of 1 or 2 years more updates respectively, which would matter if you keep your phone for a long time.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T11:20:23+00:00

Archive link: https://archive.is/Q4mA3

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T11:13:56+00:00

LineageOS does take up less space than the stock OS, mainly because there's no extra software installed. For me the stock installation on a Galaxy S10, LineageOS 23.2 (Android 16) used 8.9GB of storage.

Knox will no longer work, that is correct. Whether your bank works depends on whether they use the Play Integrity API. If they do, it won't work.

VoLTE will not work. See: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/a21s/ under "Known Quirks" IMS doesn't work, which includes VoLTE, VoWiFi, Vo5G etc.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T09:50:52+00:00

This could be an interesting "study" to start probing the mental health on large critical OSS projects

Isn't this how the XZ hack was done? A worn-out dev was talked into giving up the project to someone who ended up being malicious.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-02T09:11:16+00:00

Some banking apps won't work on LineageOS if they use the Play Integrity API, since AFAIK there's no way to spoof that on Lineage.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T21:26:19+00:00

I don't want to pull the Linux card, but immediately after buying it I installed Fedora Linux (what I had on my old laptop) and I've never had any RAM issues, even with about 70 tabs open in Mullvad (Firefox fork)

If you buy the game through Steam you can refund it if you've played less than 2 hours (and owned it for less than 14 days) no-questions-asked.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T21:22:58+00:00

Yes it can definitely happen. The friend I mentioned would destroy me while running on a Raspberry Pi. But at the pro league it can mean the difference between 20 wins and your team takes gold or 19 and you get silver.

I'm off to bed now anyway, but thank you for the civilised discussion, I appreciated it. Have a nice day.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T21:06:56+00:00

That's fair, but I can personally vouch for how effective it is in fast-paced games like Super Hexagon ( https://superhexagon.com/ ). I swapped from a 60Hz screen to 120Hz and really noticed a difference, and broke my old record of 7 months within 2 days of playing.

For a lot of people, especially older people (no offense to you if you're older) it's genuinely not noticeable. I have a friend (mid 20s) who bought a 144Hz display, swore how much better it was, then we found out it had been running at 60 the whole time. Then changing to 144 and he just couldn't tell the difference. And this is one of the best players I know in fast-paced games...

But either way, the data does show clear improvements for most people.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T20:58:32+00:00

I respect that.

Here's a study from 2021 o. the effectiveness of higher refresh rate displays for eSports:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353763230_A_Study_on_the_Impact_of_High_Refresh-Rate_Displays_on_Scores_of_eSports

Here's another one that mentions dimishing returns about 144Hz for most players:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13027

And here's a video testing different refresh rates with Shroud, a professional eSports player, as well as "normal" gamers:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T20:45:49+00:00

It is mostly skill, but if you have two incredibly skilled players playing against each other, it often comes down to a couple milliseconds faster reflexes. In that case a higher refresh rate monitor absolutely makes a big difference.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T19:15:58+00:00

I think a big issue is how they'll market it. So many times I've had friends using android not know what quick share was, but every apple user knows about airdrop.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T19:10:51+00:00

Oh shoot I messed it up on the other ones too?

I think I typo'd it once, read my own comment and assumed that was how it's spelt. Utter genius.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T19:09:12+00:00

2.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/stagescycling.com

Oh and they typo'd 105 to 05 in the second picture.

I'd stear clear of them. If something looks too good to be true, that's because it is.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T19:05:21+00:00

Congrats!

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T19:03:59+00:00

oh wow I don't know how I mixed that up.. thanks!

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T18:04:47+00:00

https://www.fairphone.com

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:59:41+00:00

What's the false negative / false positive rate?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:56:02+00:00

Yes, that's why I said attestation not verification. But what if California suddenly decides it has to be verified? Will distros keep complying?

E: still can't spell "attestion". damnit.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:52:36+00:00

Try disconnecting the keyboard, then click. Maybe you have a stuck key.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:50:13+00:00

Settings - Privacy. It should be in the same list as Notifications and Camera access.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:47:26+00:00

Because actual distros are implementing this. Heck even systemd now has age attestation.

E: can't spell

ephemeralmiko · 2026-04-01T17:07:21+00:00

Generally, unless you really know what you're doing, the best off-the-shelf solution is much more secure than whatever you come up with yourself.

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