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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

gigel82 wrote: post #24

Lenovo left a sour taste for me after they pushed a BIOS update through Windows Update on my daughter's Flex that bricked the device (in the middle of a school-week, while she was doing online school). There were dozens of reports of the same problem from other owners of that model, yet they refused to acknowledge the issue was theirs or offer any self-serve option (I remember most laptops nowadays can re-flash the B…

Lenovo also possibly sabotages SuperIO chip when the charging port breaks and pins come in contact or standard repair diagnostics is attempted[1]. Considering this is not widely spoken about, I guess this is limited to lower end models available only in developing regions of the world(which makes it altogether more sinister if done on purpose).

[1] https://youtu.be/kdQXSYUlUTw?t=615

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Post by qwerty456127 »

varelse wrote: post #218
qwerty456127 wrote: post #203

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> will never purchase another Lenovo product again. Even a ThinkPad?

You mean a laptop in 2021 that still only supports 1920x1080 resolution without a docking station? Or did they finally fix that nonsense?

I also bought a HP laptop that only supports 1920x1080 resolution in 2021 and it seems the optimal (for a laptop size screen) resolution to me.

As for docking stations - AFAIK today a docking station means a cube attached to any laptop with a USB-C cable. Lenovo probably expects you to use this: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/dock...

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Post by mschuster91 »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #76
mschuster91 wrote: post #27

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I somewhat understand Samsung a bit. The amount of never updated Android devices that could be updated is immense, and support calls for long-banished issues that could be solved by a simple update are pointless and a waste of resources. The problem is that users suffer from "update fatigue" because they have to be (rightfully) afraid of entire UI overhauls or even more bugs after updates since no one does QA any mor…

fdroid does let you see and install previous versions perfectly simply. One day SlimSocial broke. I pulled up the app in fdroid only exoecting to see a changelog for some recent update, but was pleasantly suprised to see this perfectly obvious and convenient Versions pull-down to install old versions. I used it, and it worked.

Sure, but there is no way to have, say, a v1 branch and a v2 branch with the same app ID.

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Post by CyanBird »

edoceo wrote: post #38
mschuster91 wrote: post #27

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I somewhat understand Samsung a bit. The amount of never updated Android devices that could be updated is immense, and support calls for long-banished issues that could be solved by a simple update are pointless and a waste of resources. The problem is that users suffer from "update fatigue" because they have to be (rightfully) afraid of entire UI overhauls or even more bugs after updates since no one does QA any mor…

Should call it avocado-ware. Almost ready when you buy it, perfect the next day(update1) but then mushy-shit the next (update2). Also, store them in the fridge

> Also, store them in the fridge

After you open them, yeah

In Chile at least, when we buy not quite ready avocado's we wrap them on newspaper, it helps them mature and become softer faster, people have done this for at least since I have been alive and it works well

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Post by deergomoo »

acchow wrote: post #81
gigel82 wrote: post #24

Lenovo left a sour taste for me after they pushed a BIOS update through Windows Update on my daughter's Flex that bricked the device (in the middle of a school-week, while she was doing online school). There were dozens of reports of the same problem from other owners of that model, yet they refused to acknowledge the issue was theirs or offer any self-serve option (I remember most laptops nowadays can re-flash the B…

This is an invisible advantage that Apple has. Because Macs don't have a long tail of combinations of hardware, BIOS, firmware, etc they can actually recognize bugs and acknowledge them. This gives a better customer experience.

> they can actually recognize bugs and acknowledge them

Unless it’s a hardware flaw and then they will usually ignore it until it looks like they may be legally compelled not to.

GPU failures, display flex cable issues, insufficient heat dissipation, the fact that the 16” MBP GPU pulls 100% power when connected to an external display, the fucking butterfly keyboard.

Don’t get me wrong I like my MacBook as much as the next guy, but if there is a hardware problem in a MacBook you’ll be lucky if they even acknowledge it.

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Post by breakingcups »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #165

I recently bought a Galaxy Tab S7+ and was surprised by the amount of bloatware that had been rammed into it. There was nothing as egregious as forced ads though. After an hour with adb I'd managed to uninstall almost all of the crap (particularly Bixby), but it really shouldn't be necessary to resort to such measures. Anyway: adb -d shell pm uninstall --user 0

Note that this doesn't actually actually remove the package from your device, it just disables and hides it from your user profile.

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Post by Jenda_ »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #193
Syonyk wrote: post #166

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Alternatives certainly exist - I've been moving myself rapidly in that direction after my nearly 20 years of Apple use has come to an end (at a remarkably low sysadmin-hours-per-year level, that's going to go up substantially). Unfortunately, most of them aren't quite ready for standard daily driver use. I've been daily driving a PineBook Pro, and despite some custom kernel hacking I've done, I still don't have relia…

You're right... But we don't live in a vacuum. I can try to live without WhatsApp but literally everyone in Europe uses it. It's just unavoidable. And that's just one example. So, I still go the trouble to bend the ecosystems to my will... Like Matrix bridges. It's a lot of work I'll give you that.

I run WhatsApp in an Android-x86 VM and use their web client from browser. (calls don't work, though)

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Post by mhb »

fomine3 wrote: post #242
mhb wrote: post #240

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Can you give me a pointer to an X2xx that has a comparable keyboard and trackpoint to the old ones?

Nope. But X2xx/T4xx features still decent keyboard and TrackPoint compared to others including X1. Also you may know ThinkPad 25, that based on T470.

Well yeah. I have an X220 and the keyboard and stick are great. I just wish there was an upgrade path to have those along with the nice display and audio of the X1.

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Post by only_as_i_fall »

908B64B197 wrote: post #2

Does anyone actually buy Lenovos after what happened with SuperFish? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/superfish-to...

No. Used to only buy Lenovo and then super fish happened and I haven't bought one since.

I'm sure it doesn't bother Lenovo one bit though as people who actually care about this stuff are a fraction of 1% of their market.

Frustrating for sure...

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Post by jonathantf2 »

sneak wrote: post #109
morpheuskafka wrote: post #4

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ThinkPads are still the name of the game for enterprise laptop deployments. AFAIK, they don't contain any preloaded stuff beyond the OEM app (Lenovo Vantage). Some enterprises prefer the more stripped down Lenovo System Update instead, although I think users may need Vantage to change some hotkey, etc. settings. Still, for a business with stricter security standards, it would be ideal to do a clean reimage of all new…

> ThinkPads are still the name of the game for enterprise laptop deployments. I suppose startups (where but everybody is on a Mac) are not enterprises, then? > Still, for a business with stricter security standards, it would be ideal to do a clean reimage of all new laptops regardless of vendor, and specifically add only the necessary drivers, etc. There were some Lenovos that had vendor crapware in the EFI partition…

>I suppose startups (where but everybody is on a Mac) are not enterprises, then?

Mac computers are not enterprise computers. They're first and foremost consumer machines.

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