Yes. System76 partnered with Clevo to do their laptops, but it's not the exact same hardware as when you buy Clevo directly. E.g. https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1322954964549824512 I recall also discussing this with them when I was waiting for a laptop to get refreshed. There were working with Clevo to get some firmware issue fixed before they would ship it.
Of course, their Thelio hardware is very much not just a rebranded white box vendor. :)
I agree it could be better. It'd be really nice if the Linux hardware vendors had sufficient pull with the odms to get even more Linux didn't designs put together. Buying Windows hardware and putting Linux on it, however--even if you're waiting for some day when the better situation has arisen--, is actively working _against_ that goal.
There may be others that do more. If so, I'd like to know it. Pine perhaps? System76 has done really good work on this and is the best option I know of.
The XPS13 DE could be construed as that, it's only available with Linux, has different hardware than the standard XPS, and is very routinely called "Linux Developer Edition" by the press (though I couldn't say if Dell ever called it that).
I explored the situation on a few dells, and they have obvious bugs in their bios ACPI tables: it's as if they had been written by an intern discovering this technology.
Long story short, on at least a few ones I explored deeply (The 7275 or the 9250 can't remember) the dell just can't sleep right, even on Windows.
What saves the day is Windows proper sleep support, including hybrid sleep, that prepares for the worst (save an S4 hibernation image) and hopes for the best (wakes up time to time to check what's left in be battery, to decide when to give up when the power goes below what's called the sleep budget, to ensure the laptop will be able to wake up)
The beauty of it is when laptops have a wrong bios that just cant sleep, windows hides the bug away.
The sad part of it is that Windows takes the blame (the laptol takes a long time to wake up from suspend to disk, and shows the power has been almost exhusted) for the manufacturer incompetence.
I think this is why they introduced a change early on in Windows 10 that when tne measurements at the beginning of the sleep showed the power was going down with a dangerously steep slope, it was a clear sign Windows was running on a poorly designed laptop, and that it should abandon all hope of s2idle working right, and instead just powed off the poor laptop to put it out of its misery and instead try to do a fast start with the hibernation image the next time
The worst part is that the dangerously incompetent people at dell, unaware of their own incompetence (they couldnt write proper ACPI sleep in the first place) decided to double down on the stupidity and did some weird things to mislead windows and prevent it from giving up on s2idle.... which is why dell latops have acquired a reputation they may catch fire when in a bad.
It's all both funny and sad, so I applaud lenovo for finding ways to make S3 sleep work on laptops like the x10 gen1, which uses a generation of intel CPU where the excuse of manufacturer of 'made for linux' laptops is that S3 can't work because it was no longer supported by Intel anymore...
The default sleep budget on my Dell is 30%. It's willing to spend 30% of the battery doing absolutely nothing useful with the lid closed. Who designed this...
I am quite confident that the NSA does not have a complete image of the encrypted data in my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. With IPFS they wouldn't even have to do anything, if they sometime in the future were able to break the encryption.
I looked at this briefly for a security module for my MSc and from what I vaguely recall they were tapping roughly half of all data going through AT&T on the West coast
There are two major parties in Germany who oppose NATO membership: The far-right AfD and the left to far-left Linke. They have less than 20% of the national vote together. In 2019 there were 54% of Germans in favor of the NATO membership and 13% opposed it. [1]
Can't talk for the other countries, but given that you have no sources other than "I heard someone say that", I'm not inclined to believe it.
Besides the media, who else do you think could be relied on to gain an opinion on this issue? My German friends and associates - I don't know a single German, after 15 years of living in and around Germany and Austria, who wants US bases in Germany any more - in fact the majority of 'common people' that I know, want the USA to remove all of their bases from Europe, take their war machines, and go home.
From outside the American media bubble, it is quite clear to see which nation is committing the majority of crimes against humanity and war crimes today, and they don't speak Russian. They commit these crimes like cowards, hiding in Arizona strip malls, remotely controlling their death robots and raining hell and fury down on utterly innocent people, every single day. Germans know this and care. Americans either don't know about it, or don't care - or both.
I think the fact that the parties that are in favor of leaving NATO have very little political relevance speaks for itself.
And my anecdotal evidence after living my entire live in Germany is, that most people just don't care, and even the people that care and like NATO outnumber the ones that hate them. It's just my experience though.
And if you're so deep into conspiracies, that your only explanation is that "the media" faked the poll (and possibly even the election, wtf) then I don't think there is any value in continuing this discussion.
Seems useful, I'm kinda sad that I can't use it, because I'm one of these psychopaths who like macOS, but dread iOS.
And kudos for not making it a subscription model.
No. The person I replied to wanted a traditional bank in the crypto space. I told them how to replicate it.
If you didn't notice the total crypto market cap is 2 trillion dollars. People are happy with the way crypto works, most don't want it to be like a bank, but for those that do there is ways to make it so.
While there seems to be some disagreement with your position, I just wanted to thank you for being transparent about your involvement at Google. More people should act like that.
