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StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Does anyone here run any of these OSes on any of the offered screen densities and resolutions? I have questions. - Surely not every old program available from the repositories will work with display scaling, will they? I've never had to use it, maybe Xorg has some hack to scale certain windows at 2x so you don't need support from individual packages. I'm also thinking of things like Burp Suite, which have window-like…

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Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Soldered ram is pretty unfortunate. They're also charging a ton for storage upgrades (e.g. $300 vs market rate of ~$80 for 1TB pcie 4.0 ssd).

As usual. Not sure why this is, they could just charge for the labor that it actually costs them to put a different SSD in plus material cost, but no, they always mark up ridiculous amounts. It basically forces people to buy a dummy SSD with the device plus a loose one and then put it in yourself... at least that's what I do for myself and family whenever it saves more than 50 euros and takes me 5-10 minutes (usually…

I have literally never seen a restaurant anywhere in the world that charges for tap water, and I eat out constantly. Is this a thing now somewhere?

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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You need to find a better company with a better corporate culture.

Those are in much shorter supply than you seem to imply.

I've never previously encountered one so perverse that choice of laptop is basically tantamount to a fashion choice and causes ridicule.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Honestly as a business customer I can’t justify buying this unless there is an option to unbrand it. (Actually if you had a unbranding option we could sticker it with our own company logo and that could be pretty cool) Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile busin…

I don't think MBAs are the market they're targeting. Unfortunately, an MBA is often the one who'll have to sign off on the expense.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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I emailed System76 in 2013 asking them to accept Bitcoin. They said no, and continued to say no every couple of years when I emailed to ask again. Glad to see Starlabs is accepting crypto, but a little puzzled by there's no option for stablecoins like USDC. In any case, I'll take it.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Who is this targeting besides the 100 or so hackernews commenters who will actually go through and buy it. Why would I buy this over a lenovo for instance. Okay so privacy nuts who think that removing their webcam and microphone protects from the perceived spyware that is next to them on their desk in the form of an iPhone. I see nothing good about this. Inexperienced company, inexperienced in manufacturing and hardw…

It’s one of the only laptops that ship with core boot, Fully up-to-date with upstream commits to work flawlessly with their hardware. Their support has been extremely helpful, and the build quality is amazing. Fully custom hardware, which is extremely rare for Linux computers. I am just a happy customer, no other affiliation.

Re: StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop

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Honestly as a business customer I can’t justify buying this unless there is an option to unbrand it. (Actually if you had a unbranding option we could sticker it with our own company logo and that could be pretty cool) Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile busin…

> Can you imagine the backlash if there’s some IT issue and someone realises that it’s not a Dell or Lenovo (why didn’t you just buy from big 2?), or how embarrassing it might be to go to a profile business meeting with an obviously random and non-corporate laptop (oh that looks like some random cheap overseas brand, uhh ok, are you sure you can afford us)?

So your proposed solution is to... remove all branding? How does that help anything?

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