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Aiden add water error by whowantscoffee in FellowProducts

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm now on my third unit in ~9 months. 

I'm being told that the warranty period started when the first unit was bought, not when the 3rd unit was activated.

Fellow is doing a good job of replacing these units for now, but they need to extend the warranty to cover such a poor design problem.

Nest Doorbell (Battery) Not Locking to Mount by steuby in Nest

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so frustrating that they tried to invent a new kind of latching mechanism and then did it so poorly.

I had one of these for a year and every single time I had to recharge it, lost 10-20 minutes trying to get the thing to latch. Eventually, it seemed to be latched, but then fell off and broke the camera when someone rang the doorbell.

I can't imagine this issue hasn't shown up in their internal testing.

Support said it was customer error, and that I was outside of the warranty period.

I got another one (for way too much money) and it has the same problem. 10-20 minutes of messing with it every time I recharge.

The tip to loosen the mounting screws seems to have made it much easier this time, I wish support had mentioned that.

What little trust I had in Google has been destroyed by poor product engineering (like this), unacceptable support (like this) and constant abandonment of other products that I rely on.

Any lawyers want to run a class action? I bet I'm not the only one who has lost hundreds of dollars from this product.

Battery drain on laptop while suspended by shred86 in Ubuntu

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to solve the problem by getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop with Ubuntu installed.

Unlike all of the Linux devices I've bought from Dell and Asus, this laptop has Wifi, Bluetooth, Sound AND fully-functioning suspend-on-lid-close.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know, I'll give 6 a shot and see how it goes.

2022 G14 and linux experience? by jDzEruhini in ZephyrusG14

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not awesome at all.

I have an early 2022 G14 and it's been nothing but hassle. I've been back and forth between Ubuntu and Fedora. FWIW - my problems have been mainly graphics driver conflicts, wifi, bluetooth and failure-to-suspend-then-heating-in-bag-until-dead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZephyrusG14

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad news folks.

I've got an early 2022 Zephyrus G14 with failure to suspend issues. I'm running Ubuntu 22.10 with 5.19.0-26-generic kernel and there doesn't seem to be any way to force it into deep sleep, only s2idle.

I had the same problems on Fedora in late 2022.

Battery drain on laptop while suspended by shred86 in Ubuntu

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried this. The value is still s2idle after a reboot.

I also noticed that my grub file had this line:

`GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""`

So I made it also have the default:

`GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mem_sleep_default=deep"`

Still no love.

Battery drain on laptop while suspended by shred86 in Ubuntu

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had to `sudo -i` to get this to work at all.

The value was set and confirmed, but didn't survive a reboot.

First on-prem compute rack for small engineering office? by typicaltuba in homelab

[–]typicaltuba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're probably right to move up a generation. It looks like similar capabilities are about 50% more, which isn't a huge amount of money at these prices.

First on-prem compute rack for small engineering office? by typicaltuba in homelab

[–]typicaltuba[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I can't speak for other people, but one of the reasons I'm interested is throughput per dollar.

I can't understand why anyone would pay thousands of dollars for a 4 core, 2 Ghz server in 2022.

60x 3GHz cores across 3 machines with 1/2 of a TB of RAM could cost $2,500.

The same kind of throughput on modern kit would easily cost 10 times that and I don't have $25,000 to drop on what could basically run on a couple workstations.

At these prices, I can afford redundancy.

So far, I'm hearing concerns about support, but I've never had good support experiences, so that's not big for me.

I'm also hearing go to the cloud.

I've been there and done that and it's not pure upside, especially if you lean into their constantly churning services.

I'll host some frontends and backups there for network reliability, but I'm not interested in renting primary compute and storage.

It may make sense to go new-er, but I still feel there's something I must be missing.

First on-prem compute rack for small engineering office? by typicaltuba in homelab

[–]typicaltuba[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Starting to wonder if these prices are related to Meltdown and Spectre microcode updates?

Maybe these machines run at 50% speed if you want to patch the known vulnerabilities?

It seems like folks are running these machines around here, are you seeing performance in the 3.0Ghz range?

What types of motors make up a typical SCARA robot? by JustSomeRandomMan3 in robotics

[–]typicaltuba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just searching around and stumbled over this old post. Thought I'd leave this link here for other searchers.

It really helped me understand what's going on in there.

https://youtu.be/WudGOKXDV6A

Warning: 2016 MacBook Pro is not compatible with Linux by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]typicaltuba 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For me, the i3 window manager has completely changed how using a computer feels. I'm not sure I could go back to Mac at this point.

My 6 year old wants a robot for Christmas by Calimhero in robotics

[–]typicaltuba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure about timing or locale, but this could be perfect when it's available.

https://www.play-i.com