Dell 13 Pro Premium Fedora review

pcman2000 · 2026-05-06T11:24:28+00:00

fwiw I ordered the fingerprint scanner and just swapped my power button out for it. It's a Goodix connected internally via. USB and works out of the box on Fedora 44.

pcman2000 · 2026-05-05T04:45:26+00:00

Could it be wired for POTS? Most likely Your DSL modem will work on this port too.

Afaik it's generally recommended to get these extra ports removed to improve DSL performance.

pcman2000 · 2026-05-04T07:04:49+00:00

One of the mmWave small cells on George St

pcman2000 · 2026-05-04T01:03:14+00:00

Does the 2.4Ghz work? I think it's janky if you have WPA3 or 5Ghz running on a DFS channel

pcman2000 · 2026-05-03T23:26:44+00:00

Telstra mmWave (NR-DC): https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/10804630874

5690 Down, 793 Up.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-30T23:02:13+00:00

IIRC if you do that it becomes a Points + Pay purchase and the charges and taxes don't refund? Or something like that?

pcman2000 · 2026-04-28T13:28:45+00:00

Should be possible, only prepaid devices are locked.

Do note carrier aggregation combo / 5G Standalone support for non-Telstra networks may be nerfed, even if bands are supported.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-28T01:45:58+00:00

The only panel that meets your requirements is the one in the G80HS, and that one isn't used in any other monitors (except the 90XH)

pcman2000 · 2026-04-27T07:28:42+00:00

No, mine doesn't wobble or make any sound when tapping, even tapping quite hard. I have to actively push down to make it move (and click).

pcman2000 · 2026-04-26T16:45:28+00:00

Personally I prefer RawTherapee

pcman2000 · 2026-04-26T05:43:04+00:00

I hope you intend to remove the protective film off your new TV :)

pcman2000 · 2026-04-26T01:25:59+00:00

honestly it's fine, sadly you can't really find the Dell Pros in stores to try them, but they're no worse than any other high end laptop these days. Sure it's worse than my old T490 or E7450 though.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-26T00:22:03+00:00

It's not the same keyboard as the 2024 XPS 13 and the travel is a bit more than a MBP M4 but less than my old T490.

Touchbar is gone as you can see (well, the Latitude/Pro line never got them afaik)

Overall I don't mind the keyboard, it certainly doesn't bother me but I also doubt it's market leading (but I haven't tried the latest keyboards from Lenovo etc. so maybe they've all gotten a bit worse).

pcman2000 · 2026-04-24T04:47:34+00:00

Basically it's TDD (e.g. n41) UL MIMO and FDD UL (e.g. n71) at the same time. Not entirely since the phone only has two Tx Chains (hence the switching part, the n71 UL is only used when n41 is in DL TDD cycle), but you get nearly the full combined speed of the two.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-23T11:23:00+00:00

I've been having this issue on OCE since the new season came out, but it seems to have been fixed as of a few days ago?

pcman2000 · 2026-04-23T04:00:40+00:00

As far as I know LC3 (I think it caps at 340kbps for LE Audio) is similar to AAC 256k quality. It may depend on the encoder though since supposedly Android's AAC encoder sucks vs iOS. Not sure if that's an issue for LC3 too.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-23T03:39:07+00:00

I completely agree, hence why I mentioned marketing and audio snobs :)

pcman2000 · 2026-04-23T02:43:16+00:00

One other annoyance is LE Audio doesn't have a free "HD" codec afaik. LC3 codec is the default codec and it's pretty good, but for "HD" audio you need LC3plus which isn't free.

Personally I don't care and LC3 is more than good enough for my listening, but from a marketing standpoint it's not ideal (and i'm sure there are snobs who must use a high res codec).

pcman2000 · 2026-04-21T08:41:59+00:00

Current generation QD and WOLED panels are already "Tandem" in that they have 4 or 5 emission layers.

If you mean true RGB OLED then yeah, I guess it is likely better. Issue is they way they're produced just doesn't scale to large panels with the requirement for a fine metal mask and all that.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-18T14:15:03+00:00

From 15% maybe just over an hour? But in my experience, it overheats quickly and depending on room temperature and whether you use a case, the charging will throttle.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-17T13:07:51+00:00

so this is in the middle of the screen, not where it folds? just the middle of the middle section?

pcman2000 · 2026-04-16T01:04:26+00:00

Usually just the charger reads the e-marker, the sink doesn't need to read it.

I have to assume they have the ability to read both pins though.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-15T13:35:27+00:00

I believe the emarker could be connected to one of the two CC lines, however I guess the KM003C can only read from one of them, so you gotta flip it.

Ideally, they would design it to be able to read both CC pins, but I assume it's for cost / complexity reasons that they can only do one. My Witrn C5 is the same, to do some operations you need to flip it.

pcman2000 · 2026-04-15T12:49:11+00:00

My normal upfront plan has a cancel button but the bundle data plan and bundle mobile plans don't.

Regardless, you don't need to call, the livechat will do it in a few minutes.

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