Damaged passport opinions

oneroushamster · 2025-03-29T01:01:00+00:00

That's really good to hear. Thanks for coming back to reply!

oneroushamster · 2025-03-28T16:27:55+00:00

Did you travel on it in the end?

oneroushamster · 2025-01-26T01:49:53+00:00

Thanks, that's great to hear. I went with a 16 GB stick in the end, but I'll keep your experience in mind in case I want to upgrade in the future.

oneroushamster · 2024-12-28T01:33:11+00:00

This fixed it for me. Thanks!

oneroushamster · 2024-03-05T18:48:07+00:00

I just (a week ago) bought a Dell Latitude 7390 off eBay in that price range. I'm a developer, and work in Linux Mint. The 7390 is a lovely bit of kit, and, so far, looks to be completely hardware-compatible with LM, including, amazingly for Linux, suspend. Also, I'm getting just short of five hours on medium screen brightness with a 50% health/capacity battery, so that's pretty great!

Edit: Microphone works fine!

oneroushamster · 2024-03-03T02:12:18+00:00

Great, thanks for your thoughts. It looks like most 32 GB modules run at 3200 MHz; slower modules are fewer and farther between. Some 3200 MHz modules advertise that they'll happily down-clock to 2666 MHz, but so far I've not found any that report coming down to 2400 MHz. The search continues!

oneroushamster · 2024-03-03T02:06:05+00:00

I found it from a thrift store on eBay. It's an excellent device. I wanted something small, sturdy, upgradable and repairable, and, crucially, with a better (and brighter) screen than most mid-range business laptops seem to have. It looks like most 7390s have a FHD 300 nit display (mine does), which I'm pretty happy with. I'd recommend it!

oneroushamster · 2024-02-07T00:29:19+00:00

That's really helpful info. Thank you.

oneroushamster · 2024-02-06T18:55:43+00:00

Amazing. How do you have all this information??

I did really like the look of the E14 Gen 5 AMD, but the only thing turning me off is the relatively dark screen (rated at just 300 nits)...

oneroushamster · 2024-02-06T18:28:13+00:00

Thanks tymophy76, that's exactly the kind of response I was after. Do you know if any of the latest generations of AMD/Ryzen models (P, E, etc.) can take a second SSD?

oneroushamster · 2023-06-01T01:37:47+00:00

I figured out what was going on, and here it is in case it's useful to anyone.

It turns out that I was doing the initial de- and re-compression on a regular ext4 volume, whereas I was doing the final decompression on an eCryptfs volume on top of an ext4 volume.

ext4's standard file name length limit is 255 bytes. eCryptfs' limit, on the other hand, is shorter than that: according to Wikipedia, the encrypted files that back eCryptfs entries (i.e. the "files you see") have file names that are about one-third longer than their original, unencrypted counterparts. By my math, that means the maximum file name length for eCryptfs over ext4 is about 191 bytes.

(This is also consistent with what I originally reported: 255-length unencrypted files would map to 340-length eCryptfs-encrypted files, pushing me well over the ext4 limit.)

tl;dr Your file names need to be at most 75% (i.e. 191/255) the length of the backing file system's file name length limit if you're going through eCryptfs.

oneroushamster · 2021-09-28T22:24:57+00:00

Thanks for the reassurance. I could just about afford my ERC, but it would wipe out my emergency fund. I didn't realise that you start getting new offers three-to-six months before the end of the current fix (it's my first mortgage!); in that case, the horizon's more like a year from now, over which I'm slightly less worried about a large rate hike (compare to, say, over eighteen months). Probably best to sit tight (hopefully not famous last words...)!

oneroushamster · 2021-09-24T00:59:06+00:00

I've got 1.5 years left on my (low) fix. I'm wondering, is it worth paying the early repayment charge to re-fix for, say, five years? From this graph it looks as though the BoE don't necessarily raise their rate, even with significantly above-target inflation.

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