An Australian Reddit Refugee.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Baah. KBIN just ate my reply.

    Point form since I forgot to save to clipboard first.

    Tried mint - booted to black screen
    Tried ubuntu - got silly crashes like in the post trying to install stuff. It also wanted me to sign up for some sort of support package with 5 free devices to get updates or something. Also, trackpad scrolling was uncontrollable. Would scroll up half a screen or more as I lifted my fingers off.
    Tried fedora - only 100% and 200% zoom option, and no right click.

    Managed to fix the fedora issues with some command line found on Google and a gnome customising addon.

    n00b here, just playing. Can’t migrate fully as I need VBA and Playit Live etc.






  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldelders
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    10 months ago

    My 2014 Toshiba i7 still chugs along. Technically it’s two laptops in one as the first one if it was rebooted while hot the GPU would go all 1024x768 in the top left corner. The replacement mainboard I got ended up being an AMD one but if I enable the AMD chip in device manager it simply dies so it uses the onboard Intel HD graphics instead.

    1GB SSD, plus 2GB HDD in an optical bay adapter.

    It’s on its third battery - works for about an hour but jumps to 7% within a minute of running on battery, so if I put it to sleep etc it won’t go again without power.