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I have a somewhat old Gazelle 16 with an 11th Gen i7 and a 3050TI. My PC is a MinisForum miniPC, pretty good for what I need, but nowhere near as powerful as my laptop.

Thanks. I’ll check them out. But I was actually referring to discreet GPUs. I think I’ve never seen an AMD laptop GPU before.

Thanks so much. I’ll start here. I really appreciate this.

I’ve been trying to get my Unifi infrastructure force IPv6 addresses to all my devices at home (mainly laptops, PCs, phones and tablets, potentially media devices as well), but it has proven a huge challenge for me because of my ignorance on IPv6 and how it differs from v4.

For the time being, I have disabled everything v6 in my network, including my ISP provided ONT, but that leaves me with only the option of a commercial VPN when I’m not at home to try and block as much as possible (together with NextDNS for some added blocks).

I know I’m currently open on that front, and would love it if someone could tell me where I can go to try and understand v6 so that I can then make an informed implementation across the board.

Thank you beforehand.

Yeah, I’m on GrapheneOS and don’t want anything to do with Google, even via Microg. Plus, I think MicroG doesn’t work with GrapheneOS.

Words of wisdom, for sure.

Because I travel a lot for work. My PC is way less powerful than my current laptop precisely because I spend more time in the road.

I’m not a fan of the bullshit they try to push every now and then, but the reality is that, at least for my use, all Linux based, for work and entertainment, Logitech has the best mouse out there (at least that I’m aware of) with the MX Master 3 (haven’t tried the 4). The way I can scroll down large pages and spreadsheets and the side-scrolling wheel alone make it worth dropping my values and giving them money.

Now, if anyone has an alternative that meets the specs of that mouse from a brand with better values than Logitech (which should be pretty much any brand, lol), I would really like to know about it. I’d rather support a more customer-centric company, but not at the expense of having a worse experience.

I was going to try this, but…

Instant deal killer right there. I guess I’m staying on Breeze weather.

Yeah, this is what I’ve been using for the last, I guess 3 - 4 years. I try new ones every now and then, but always find myself coming back to Breeze.

I’m game for the barebones version. As a matter of fact, that’s what I’m hoping they do, otherwise, I don’t think I’ll get a Steam Machine.

I have a UCG-Ultra driven network infrastructure with 3 switches and 7 APs at home. I wouldn’t use their NAS options though. For NAS I just have 20TB of spinning disks sitting there attached to my ProxMox for all my data, and have all services in VMs or LXCs. I set up an UnRaid (before it was a subscription) in my brother’s house to backup off-site and sync it once per week.

It’s not sideloading, it’s installing, just not from the play store.

This is still a pain point for me. I have been looking for a laptop with an AMD GPU for years to use with Linux, but System76, Starlabs, framework, etc insist on only having Nvidia as a discreet option. Or is it that AMD does not have laptop GPUs? Could be.

That’s a fact. PC gaming vs consoles is to gaming as Linux vs Winblows is to Computers. It has grown over the years, as has Linux desktop, but not enough to make or break an industry.

It’s a weird world we’re living in.

It has to me software/firmware based, right? Right!?

Yup, they’re ‘frikkin’ amazing at locking you in. Microslop is just chasing that with OEMs, and doing a great fucking job too.

Now, is this every single make of laptop out there allowing this at the hardware level? How are they doing it? MoBo firmware? BIOS?

I’m confused, honestly. How can TPMS force you to brand or models of tires? Honest question, I had no idea that was even possible. Can TPMS also know the type of rim? Now I’m concerned.

Absolutely agree, everyone, institutions or individuals, have flaws. I was just pointing out that Valva is not comparable to most, if not all, the big names in gaming in terms of following a more customer-centric culture.

It stands to reason that they want their DRM to be used, otherwise, why even design it, right? The ‘forcing’ part on many factors that Epic and most others resort to is what really grinds my gears.

Encouraging is one thing, and of course any business wants to encourage their consumers to, we’ll, consume from them. However, that is not what Epic does, or Buggysoft, or any of the other giants. They FORCE their consumers into a whole lot of crap to FORCE money out of them. Encouraging and forcing are 2 completely different terms.