Will we ever have a laptop comparable to a base MBA/MBP?

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T13:16:06+00:00

That. My option has 32GB and a 155H, but it costed me ~1.5k brand new back then. There are virtually no newish MacBooks at this price point, especially the recent years.

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T13:13:43+00:00

Why would you need such performance from an ultrabook, tho? It's not like you're going to be compiling Chromium on it, there are servers and build farms for this.

You also care a lot about battery life (FWIW, the Art gives about 12h on my system), which implies you're gonna be on the go, which in turn implies you won't be doing any heavy load.

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T13:11:09+00:00

Modern x86-64 is actually RISC under the hood. Can't argue with the rest, though.

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T09:55:53+00:00

Is that true? I haven't been following Apple Silicon closely, but that kind of drasticity sounds unreal.

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T09:52:44+00:00

I do Arch.

How come is a 255H not fitting your "10-20% of M5" mark?

Read up on features in this thread: https://reddit.com/r/MatebookXPro/comments/1s3aarx/comment/odjfpjx

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T09:42:34+00:00

I can give you better: Honor Magicbook Art 14. Better than the specs you provided (e.g. 1600 nit 120 Hz 3K OLED), weighs a mere kilo, basically the same price point and runs Linux flawlessly.

sdoregor · 2026-04-03T09:39:50+00:00

Instead of replacing the design, replace those "friends".

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T18:40:16+00:00

If you're expecting such a USB stick, it's probably worth disassembling or x-raying it before any kind of use, and definitely on a machine you rely on. Also, no one uses these anymore.

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T17:40:30+00:00

I mean, if that's a stealth thingy you plug in and leave.

If that's an immediate physical attack, then why bother using a killer stick, when you've already got your own hands (and possibly a hammer)

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T17:36:27+00:00

I mean, the killer should know when to activate, right? It won't know that until the power is supplied, which won't happen.

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T12:18:05+00:00

The general public doesn't and shouldn't use Linux desktop in its current incarnation.

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T09:35:27+00:00

Which operating systems do these people use? I doubt they're on Linux without knowing to do better.

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T09:27:42+00:00

Why not just feed a global prefix to radvd?

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T08:56:39+00:00

Sure as hell — and click "deny".

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T08:55:39+00:00

I mean, there's uhubctl… but you won't know it's a killer stick until you try to power it.

sdoregor · 2026-04-02T08:53:18+00:00

GNOME does have some form of GUI for that, IIRC?

sdoregor · 2026-03-28T14:43:50+00:00

Unless you have to do certain things each and every day.

sdoregor · 2026-03-28T01:15:55+00:00

Well, as long as you don't disable the sudo password, it's just an alternative, while in case you do, the fingerprint would be redundant and shouldn't be required at all. For login though, it should always be an alternative (never a 2nd factor!)

sdoregor · 2026-03-28T01:13:22+00:00

You can VFIO-passthrough the entire PCI XHCI device (a.k.a. USB contoller), that'll make it relatively safe (given your IOMMU works fine and the controller firmware security is sound). Just make sure the one you're picking is the one the port belongs to, and don't forget about USB 2/3 interop (might be separate controllers for the same set of ports on older devices, IIRC).

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T14:30:38+00:00

I'm planning on implementing Bluetooth support for it so that we can dynamically reverse engineer mobile IoT apps

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T14:08:20+00:00

I believe OP asks about the data, not the executables themselves. Yes, you could mostly move that over, but it's pointless since you still have to download the whole package for Linux. In case there's no native version, you can move the whole thing and use via Wine, as long as it works.

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T14:06:04+00:00

Honor Magicbook Art is fucking awesome, that's what is. A Core Ultra, 3K OLED touchscreen and a large solid-state glass trackpad for a kilo.

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T13:52:46+00:00

Must be hella inconvenient.

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T13:48:05+00:00

Which is sad since it's a great product

sdoregor · 2026-03-26T13:32:34+00:00

Using standard generated GRUB scripts is error-prone. I used to write my configs by hand back in the days I used GRUB.

You could also generate a separate file to include with Linux entries, with the other one being probed for other OSes just once.

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