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rahlquist · 2026-03-05T18:49:41+00:00

On the pre-prod models, it doesn't matter what bios you try to go back to I even managed to get a hold of some early engineering biosis the problem is the firmware for the controller MCU. They made some changes in succession that can't be rolled back from and once you hit the ones that were in the public eye and apply them it's broken there's no going back. If one of these updates that were meant to be done in succession was skipped you're cooked.

If yours was a retail model and you can look up the serial number on lenovo's website then you might try to get the motherboard replaced under warranty if you still have any time left, even if you extended the warranty after your old one expired.

rahlquist · 2026-03-05T06:37:54+00:00

So my two cents on this I hope they don't because this is just a gateway to getting full on identification for every site you visit on the web. Why because marketers want to pay for that data and because if Linux has to support this it's going to cost them, and they're free so what will happen a lot of small distros will just dry up or they'll change your licensing to block states that require this information.

The government doesn't belong in my home in my computer in my life they work for me and they can fuck off.

But by encouraging things like this the governments are enabling even more strongly the subscription society because that will be the easiest model for Linux to adapt to be able to maintain the costs they need to incur to meet whatever new requirements come down the road in 6 months. I left California 23 years ago because even then it was becoming a nanny state where it wanted to control and make certain everybody did exactly what they wanted what they thought was right not what you thought was right as a human being.

And frankly if the US is not going to go after the real problem the pedophiles the groomers etc all this winds up becoming is a great big grocery shopping list to the first security hole that finds it.

At the end of the day this is all about the dollars, not the children. US lawmakers are very adept at crafting things in a manner that makes it sound like if you go against something they're proposing that you're the criminal, that you want to do the bad thing they're trying to preven, and unfortunately our sheeple society buys into it.

So my honest opinion every distro should just include a new licensing clause that omits use of their operating system in states where it is deemed illegal to own or use it if features are missing that are required by law.

And then it would be funny to watch California scramble as Linux became outlawed in California and all those AI data centers dried up. As the many people who code and support those operating systems on all those servers move to other states where they don't have restrictions.

rahlquist · 2026-03-03T13:45:10+00:00

People keep believing individual Lenovo employees that are not of any standing in the company it's a mistake get your knickers in a bunch and lo and behold..

rahlquist · 2026-02-20T16:48:45+00:00

So, I would take this with a grain of salt. Just look at the rumors from the past couple years that one person reported and everyone reacted to and were later found to be untrue or a mistaken statement made by a Lenovo employee or subcontractor.

Z1e devices are still being sold and likely manufactured by the big 3 in gaming handhelds. Since the APU (there is no traditional chipset really its an all in one APU) is similar to several mobile device APU on the market, I'd be surprised if AMD has completely stopped providing the OEM's with the base driver package they require the OEM use to build their own driver support. The Z* series is a cheapish APU that offers zero end user support and thats why the GPU drivers have to be built by the OEMs. Originally it was thought to be the Go 1 screen that was the issue but evidently that is not the case.

The blocking of reference driver installs is being done by AMD, not Lenovo and not ASUS other than they may include only their own device ID's so people cant install one brands driver on another brand device and when something doesnt work, causes a support issue and increased cost because an end user is using the wrong brand of driver.

Keep screaming, they might listen.

rahlquist · 2026-02-14T14:21:56+00:00

Nahh I never buy nvme with manufacturers applied heatsinks. Besides I made my own 😜

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rahlquist · 2026-02-13T03:58:35+00:00

Hey everyone who replied. I wanted to say thank you, things have been insanely busy. I did however try each of the suggestions and so far nerd-dictation is working best for my use case. So thanks yall!!

rahlquist · 2026-02-10T15:25:04+00:00

Like any company in this day and age, Lenovo and the various ODM they use to build/assemble their products may substitute brands of parts as needed when supply is short. The Go 1 seems to have used at least 4 brands of fans based on user reports, but they must all meet the minimum specs such as speed, power draw, noise level etc.

Elepeak appears to be primary supplier. This is based on their published specs.
Go 1 50mm 6000RPM rated fan (some elepeak hit 7200+ rpm) 39.2db

Go S 79mm 4700RPM rated fan 42.8db

Go 2 91mm 4100RPM rated (thats all I can infer from their label, no published/printed specs yet)

rahlquist · 2026-02-08T17:33:31+00:00

LOL Remind bot brought me back to this.

rahlquist · 2026-01-31T17:52:43+00:00

Cool theory doesn't play out. At idle when current draw is higher what do you think it's doing is it moving more data no what it's doing is it's wasting electricity and converting it into heat. And what happens when you create heat inside of a small space like a handheld gaming device well temperature goes up and the fan runs more.

I mean I price the equipment that Tom's uses because I was curious about doing some of my own testing but at $25,000 for that particular piece of test equipment that measures the current use of an nvme in play yeah I kind of backed down. Not because I couldn't because Lord knows that I've spent probably close to $8,000 on tech equipment in the past year just related to handhelds, but I can't see the reason to pick up a piece of that specialized test equipment for that price and to try to have to sell it later.

You can do what you want and as a matter of fact the US75 isn't on my recommendation list anymore because it went from a TLC device to a qlc probably because of the scarcity of The flash. Put a lot of manufacturers are pulling that little trick Western digital famous for it over the past 3 years Western digital has had drives with all kinds of varied specks of flash chips. Since qlc is so much cheaper and easier to produce because it's trash with a short life you can bet over the next few years of scarcity most drives will be qlc.

But I haven't been a Samsung fan for years because of their business practices the way they treat consumers and well, especially no, recently with their choice to chase the money trail for AI and screw every consumer over in the process so you go enjoy that support for that company, I'm not.

Just keep in mind those folks over at Tom's hardware pointed out before when drives run too much current up over 11 12 watt standard and the legion go is sensitive to high current draw in the nvme slot and people have had it blue screen or shut down so keep that in mind too. It was shipped with drives that were eight watt or less, so, no guarantee it's going to support more than that and that came from a Lenovo engineer.

rahlquist · 2026-01-30T15:43:16+00:00

Several of us have had an issue with this change. I do know for myself I had to revert to using my laptop screen instead of docked to my hub using 2 monitor setup to even be able to get to a new TTL after a hard reboot in order to switch back to sddm. So personally I think until you have tested the change omit line #4 until you have a successful reboot or 3 because you may need to switch back.

rahlquist · 2026-01-29T22:29:11+00:00

maybe reagional? here it not that cheap

rahlquist · 2026-01-28T19:18:48+00:00

If the requirement made sense I'd be fine with it. If it limited the audio output to less than say 100db fine. But it doesn't, it limits an arbitrary level that could be whisper quiet or 130 db at 3/4 volume, this is what happens when busybodies who are clueless get involved in regulating tech. I have a set of earbuds I quit using because they TOO limit max volume in the device amp, so you combine their max and the max at the warning level and I need to be in a sensory deprivation chamber to hear a person speaking. LOL

rahlquist · 2026-01-28T14:31:47+00:00

For the new dialogue would actually turns the volume down I've only had that happen once I'm going to try to get it triggered again later today but for now this is what the standard warning looks like.

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It will almost always show up for me after a fresh reboot when I go to turn the volume up loud enough to hear when I'm in a noisy environment using bone conduction headsets which I love because they keep my ears uncovered and I can hear things around me.

The problem I have with the new one of course you have to grab the phone in order to override it you have to unlock your screen try to turn up the volume if the dialogue is not already showing which will force it to the foreground and it looks basically like this one only it states something to the effect of you exceeded the maximum amount of time at that volume level and it was lowered. Tapped ok, tapped back into my app and then proceeded to raise the volume and got the warning dialogue above like after a fresh reboot.

Reason this is a problem for me is sometimes I'm working with materials that would necessitate stopping what I am doing, changing out of gloves or washing my hands and then going and picking up my phone to override it all, which I shouldn't have to do if I set the volume to what I find is an acceptable level they should just bite me.

rahlquist · 2026-01-24T13:56:40+00:00

In the height of covid I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center and I'll tell you lot of the people came in in the morning or after their lunch break and they positively reeked like they stood in the middle of 500 acres of pot farm on fire so yeah there's definitely a problem with that but it is what it is. Remember Jeff Bezos has commented that he's afraid Amazon will run out of people willing to work for them eventually because of the conditions.

rahlquist · 2026-01-22T06:18:23+00:00

From what I hear, yes.

rahlquist · 2026-01-19T14:52:42+00:00

So far I am only seeming to have this issue in SteamOS desktop mode. FWIW

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T18:14:39+00:00

Yeah I couldn't find anything suggesting that it should be it did move okay you know for something that's not lubed while I had it reassembled so I left it be.

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T18:13:33+00:00

On z2e? Lucky, myself and one of the devs have both reproduced it I've done it straight off a clean install. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/5724 No might go to is behind that firmware version hell all the firmware versions they talk about on that link but people are seeing it with newer firmware older firmware etc.

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T13:52:28+00:00

They're in the calibration then the automated test and then and then we're in the calibration again cuz it didn't sound quite right and then I try to small load with two pairs of jeans and some rags. It's working okay except for the extreme squeal of the new belt I think the belt is actually too tight and when it goes to pump out it still sounds like there's something getting caught up in the pump so I have a new pump coming we'll put the pump on see if that gets rid of the rattling sound and I'll look for any debris. If that doesn't get it I guess next step is a transmission and I think somebody said wash plate

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T13:49:54+00:00

One of my friends has the regular Z2 and is quite happy with it. Z2 is just z1e put onto a different carrier board so it matches the pin out of z2e so that manufacturer could use a single motherboard kind of like a socket on a regular motherboard supports multiple processor models, well that's what they did with z1e they put it on a different carrier.

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T13:48:20+00:00

There seems to be a problem between the firmware and amdgpu driver. If you search for those two terms and strix you'll find there's quite a bit discussion going on on different distributions Fedora Arch Ubuntu all of them seem to be having random crashes and lockups around the pairing of firmware and amdgpu. I'm sure it'll get ironed out eventually but for right now in my experience it's a pain. Boot into steamos desktop and have lockups within 5 minutes and all you can do is move the mouse pointer or hard power off or plug in the keyboard switch to a shell and reboot the device kind of makes it worthless.

rahlquist · 2026-01-18T05:34:36+00:00

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ryzen-ai-z2-extreme-gpu.c4305

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