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Linux on old School Machines?

Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...

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totally doable. But if you yeet the bloat, windows 10 will be more than fine. My dad runs windows 10 on a i5 2430m all in one. My old school computers had i5 2400s and 4 gb of ram and they ran windows 10 without too much issue.

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

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Zelle is a thing with my banking app.

My sister has a credit union bank account and her app has it. I have PNC.

notthebees,

They can. Idk about the availability for all banks but we have something called Zelle.

Smallest Security/Privacy Focused Distro Help?

I’ve been doing some scouring and my search results are coming back confusing. Usually either incomplete information, or some kind of sales spam, so I’m reaching out in the hopes of recommendations for actual linux users and fans. I am looking for a very small, tiny even, security/privacy focused distro. I don’t mind doing...

notthebees,

Maybe try something with openbox? Bunsenlabs linux is a good example of what you can do with a window manager. I run it on a pentium m laptop (1 core) with 2 gb of ram. It’d be doable. (It originally had one 1 gb and I don’t think I even enabled swap).

Basically arch plus mimicking their UI would be a good starting point.

Or just use bunsenlabs 32 bit if your software has 32 bit versions. It will be a bit lighter from a memory standpoint.

notthebees,

Tested or listed specs? I would recommend at least using the 32 bit version in other distros as well. It will be marginally lighter memory wise.

And I just remembered that my pentium m laptop has a dgpu. It’s very weak but just enough.

notthebees,

Would openbox count?

80% of the full UI of a proper de but with 30% impact on really slow hardware.

notthebees,

All of them would be fine, also what wireless card and does yours have a gpu. Iirc the 580 had an option for an mx150 so I wouldn’t be surprised if the 480 had one.

Intel wireless cards are well supported, others not so much

notthebees,

They came with dual cores or quad cores but yeah basically anything would be fine.

notthebees,

Either a high end PC or a thinkpad x220 with coreboot for the FOSS warrior.

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Gives +5 in rust proficiency.

notthebees,

Yes. High end pc

What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?

notthebees,

My sister has a T580 with the 7th gen i5-7200u. Full tilt it runs at 60C after a repaste. My own pavilion x360 with the same i5 runs close to 90C. Let’s not talk about the 8th gen i7 version of said x360.

The 8th gen i5 and i7 CPUs just run really hot.

As for build quality, it’s fine. It’s no r500, but it’s built pretty well. Her laptop has been dropped a few times and the only issue it has is a fucked USB c power port (my only gripe is hard to replace USB ports).

notthebees, (edited )

Might depend on who Lenovo used for the displays. Either the specs are different than listed or it was modded.

My own example is HP, I have 2 identical laptops (same model and seller). One has a 100% sRGB panel and the other has a 60% sRGB panel.

The 100% sRGB panel is LG and the 60% sRGB panel is Innolux.

Also maybe battery capacity over time? Istg batteries have way more degradation now than before.

Edited for clarity.

Edit 2: while some HP laptops might have had different color accuracy display options for the same model, this one is just straight 768p or 1080p and nothing else. The site says 45% NTSC but my own experience shows they had some good panels and it was just luck of the draw. Fwiw the PC is a HP pavilion x360 15-br095ms. It had an i5-7200u, Radeon 530 2GB DDR3, 8 gb of ddr4 and a 128 gb m.2 sata ssd. It’s been motherboard swapped with an 8th gen i7 version, same gpu on the new board and has 24 gb of ram. I’m using a cs900 240 gb 2.5 in ssd for now. I plan on getting a better nvme drive for it eventually but I have none on hand that i could use.

notthebees,

The keyboard doesn’t really flex on my sister’s laptop but good God it’s awful to type on. It’s weirdly mushy. Idk if her laptop is defective or if it’s something else. The keyboard is clean but compared to both of my pavilion laptops, it feels like my old dell multimedia keyboard in terms of mush. And yeah they trackpad is awful. My friend had a w530 and it was about the same honestly. But that was a then 6 year old laptop.

Fwiw the 11th gen i5 is actually garbage. Cpu is strong and the igpu has no business being as good as it is, but it is not power efficient at all at lower tdp. I cannot for the life of me get my old 11th gen i5 laptop to run any lower than like 1.8 GHz or something ridiculous. Just babying a laptop that’s less than a year old gets me maybe 3 hrs of battery life. It’s had really bad degradation, with 80% capacity left on a 40 wh battery but swapping in a Ryzen motherboard got me another hour of battery life. Also weird ass stutters, holy shit it’s bad. If I typed too fast, my computer would lock up entirely. It’s just a thing that it did.

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/cc1ae3fa-d910-4edd-8790-d42a997b192c.png

This is me on monkeytype when it locked up one day.

notthebees, (edited )

The seller was some dude on Amazon, but both machines were new in box and were purchased in 2018 and 2019. The model is 15-br095ms for what it’s worth. It’s a Microsoft signature edition laptop so “less” bloat than other machines. Basically it didn’t have McAfee or norton.

At least for that line of HP machines, you had a 768p panel and a 1080p panel. Both are 1080p.

Also the 11th gen i5 is weird. Idk if mine was a dud or they all ran like this but mine was super power hungry. 33wh capacity and I got like 3 hours of battery life. When the battery was new (40wh) it was like 4-5 hours if I babied it. When I swapped in a new Ryzen motherboard, it ran cooler and more efficiently. I get 4 hours of battery life if I do normal stuff and it can run fanless. And yes I’ve repasted it when it had an i5.

For context, that old pavilion 15br laptop I was talking about had a motherboard replacement and I put a 15-br158cl motherboard in it so an 8th gen i7 and a Radeon 530. Not a particularly efficient gpu and an old cpu. It gets the same battery life. It’s got 2 drives, an older battery and it still beats the newer one. I could get that old i7 to sip power. I can’t get the new one to do that.

notthebees,

Also reliability, hbm2 cards seem to have a higher rate of dying

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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Mine was wiping my vps while backing it up. Luckily for me I only lost some files that I could easily replace.

notthebees,

For the love of all things holy, can we stop using mediatek for SOCs? Getting any sort of custom rom running on a mediatek soc is a hellscape.

notthebees,

NCR: spread too thin, no full ability to rebuild, just barely survives, doesn’t seem to learn the lessons of their predecessors.

Legion: safer roads at the cost of everything else, extreme misogyny, slavery,

House: ability to rebuild, is only focused on rebuilding the strip, basically a corporation running things

Do you take pictures with GPS tags on?

Hiya, so quickly wondering wether you have enabled this or not. Obviously it’s not great for privacy, but it also seems very nice to have for image cloud solutions, so that images can be sorted based on location. Are there any good solutions for this? I’d like have it enabled, but also afraid of sharing images with sensitive...

notthebees,

I do. Most sites strip metadata from images anyways. If you’re super worried about it, you can just remove the metadata in windows (or your other os) or prior to upload.

I keep it on because I use my phone for geotagging trees on campus for labs.

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...

notthebees,

I use bunsenlabs on old PCs like this. I have a Vaio A series with 1 gb of ram and it worked perfectly. This was a single core laptop from 2004. Mind you this was 32 bit so ram consumption might have been a bit lower. The idle was like 150 mb.

Bunsenlabs is debian based and uses openbox for it’s window manager so it’s lighter.

notthebees,

It’s not really the same though. It’s reliant on a host PC.

https://i.imgur.com/7EwIwpc.jpeg

notthebees,

I have 100% done this. I have a picture somewhere of my old ass p3 laptop with an rgb keyboard. So not showa era crt, it’s heisei era LCD (more appropriate considering it’s a Sony vaio f series)

notthebees,

Kde connect on my phone (iphone) and laptop.

notthebees,

They do actually. It’s just Android only. I’m also on windows as well

FOSS alternatives to document scanner

I need help finding an alternative for a tool like Adobe scan to scan documents and make PDFs out of them. I’ve tried out OpenScan, while it is decent, the scanner doesn’t recognize the page boundaries that well, and adding new pages requires quite a few clicks, which makes scanning long documents cumbersome. Any help is...

notthebees,

I think naps2 is a great scanner software. I use it a lot.

notthebees,

For me it’s Skyrim. If need a game to play just to be immersed, it’s Skyrim

notthebees,

I used to play ets2 to relax, then I discovered truckersmp

notthebees,

Not the “sfx: scamper”. 100% fanscan

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GIMP is somehow worse than Photoshop and I have no idea why. Inkscape and paint.net exist. Hell Corel paint shop exists.

notthebees,

Satire has been exhumed, cremated, and had the ashes stolen and sold in an auction on accident.

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My question is why is lockpicking so unresponsive. Fallout new Vegas and 4 handle it way better.

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