Instead of one super chunky battery, how about a laptop with replaceable batteries, in combination with a UPS?
UPS is so you can actually replace the laptop battery with a spare one , even during a power outage. Just run the laptop on AC from the UPS while changing batteries. Or see if you can find a UPS with a long lasting battery. Entry level ones only have like 15-30 minutes of battery life though, since they’re more intended for safe shutdowns or brownouts.
Good explanation! And thanks for the CoreHunt suggestion :)
Probably more what MangoKangoroo and B0rax talked about, that enterprises can opt out of this telemetry, due to compliance or Intellectual Property protection.
So only the commoners get mandatory full-scale surveillance, Ehm I mean “ai enhancement”
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Dogs really are the best people
One way is to make a new “entity”, that’s not actually linked to your previous temperature sensor. I’m not familiar with how to tie them together in a “device” like how ZigBee2mqtt auto discovery does.
So just add a new “sensor”/“entity”
- name: "Sala_battery"
unique_id: "temp_sala_battery"
state_topic: "zigbee2mqtt/temp_sala"
value_template: "{{ value_json.battery }}"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
Use MQTT Explorer to listen to your ZigBee2mqtt broker topic “zigbee2mqtt/temp_sala” to get the exact field name (battery, battery_state or some such)
Woohoo, so glad to see some of these fixes getting backported to 5.27
Shift+dragging windows to custom-tile them now works even if you’ve set your keyboard to do something exotic like emulate the Caps Lock key when pressing both Shift keys together
But who’s this real life space bar heater ? :D
Have you tried X11 yet?
( It should just be a matter of logging out, selecting X11 in the bottom righ corner, and logging in again)
Suffice to say, sluggish performance on your hardware shouldn’t be expected, so something must be wrong.
In KDE System monitor you can try adding a new page to show CPU clock speed , to check if the Dell is not throttling. (Dell laptops throttling on the wrong charger is definitely a thing, but I’ve only experienced on more powerful laptops)
Since you installed pre-release software I assume you don’t mind re-installing, so you could always try Neon Stable with 5.27, Kubuntu 23.10 or another distro entirely, to ensure your laptop is OK.
+2 for KDE Connect, the integration is amazing. I’ve used it on KDE and Gnome (gsconnect), all works very well
I’ve been running Plasma on my Intel Skylake I5-6?00U with 8gb RAM since 2015 and its utterly fine, no sluggishness in plasma itself. It’s still using X11 though, on an old Kubuntu LTS.
Plasma isn’t THAT heavy that it should be expected to feel sluggish on that kind of hardware. And contrary to popular belief Plasma isn’t actually that heavy of a DE in terms of resources.
OP might need to try different compositor backends? I remember years ago testing each before settling on whatever gave me smoothest performance (maybe OpenGL3?). Actually I’m not sure if this is even a setting anymore in modern Plasma, or in Wayland
How much of this is Spotify’s fault and how much is the major record labels sitting between Spotify and the individual artists?
And is there a better place for us consumers to go and vote with our wallet? Ideally somewhere that isn’t one of the 5 major tech giants that control everything
Like taiyang said, SteamOS is based on Arch which is super not newbie friendly, but the desktop modes “desktop environment” is KDE which available on pretty much any Linux distro, including beginner friendly ones like (K)Ubuntu and Fedora (although I’m not sure how beginner friendly Fedora is, regarding proprietary drivers and codecs)
Another good option on Windows is PDF XChange Editor, though I’m using an old version so I can’t vouch for how much or little enshitification has happened in newer versions
That’s brilliant! I always forget KDE Connect also works fine PC <–> PC, not just PC <–> Mobile
I did this too :D I used to have 20 pairs of non-identical black socks, which made matching hard and it felt wrong to wear socks of slightly different type or size. Much easier now
I keep getting socks for Christmas though, which I never wear cause they’d mess up the simplicity
2nd for Kobo! It’s a good device, supports more standards, and doesn’t fund any of the Too Big Tech Giants
I see. It makes sense when you say it.
Yet I only encounter torx on low-medium torque stuff. Applicances, not cars.
What is the reason to use torx over Internal hex (Allen key)? Surely there must be a reason why it’s used
When growing up it used to be that (internal) hex was for high strength but needed exact tool size, and Phillips/flat blade for low strength application with the benefit of any approximately sized tool will work.
Seems to me torx is in this awkward in-between where it’s used for low-strength applications, but require exact tool size. Or it’s used interchangeably with hex, requiring two sets of tools available at the work site (not fun if the work site is 30 meters up some ladders)
+1 for SSH and FileZilla (or WinSCP)
This happens when a small project has 12 developers each scratching their own itch in their own time, not a team of 120 developers getting paid to work on the same itch 8 hours a day.
In the case of FreeCAD they’re actually starting to reign in and focus more now, and there are more contributors.