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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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Post by aetherspawn »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #87
aetherspawn wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that building custom no-brand desktops is a pretty acceptable cost cutting measure taken by some companies, so you could pitch it something like “we’re working with a company to build custom laptops exactly for what we need”, or if someone asks about it you can explain it ala “yes, we couldn’t get exactly what we needed so we build a completely custom fleet of laptops”. Or ideal scenario, with a brand delete…

That might be an argument for desktops, but we're talking about a laptop.

Any suggestions how you’d sell something like this? Brand delete is all I have.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

12345hn6789 wrote: post #33
japanman425 wrote: post #25

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…

actually agree. Also considering their "kill switch" marketing. Who needs to turn their internet off on a whim who doesn't already have some sort of keybind to do this? Why buy this over framework / other laptop for 25% more money. Don't really understand

Because Framework is only available at, what seems to me like, tablet sizes. I know a lot of people love that size and that's fantastic, but I'm happy to see a ~15.6" option also being offered for those that prefer it.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

saltminer wrote: post #82
lucb1e wrote: post #53

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…

Xorg has a lot of accumulated hacks that make scaling work ok-ish. It falls apart when you have multiple monitors with different scaling, but for a laptop, just close the lid when you dock it and it should be good enough. Wayland, after much feet dragging (why this wasn't a day-1 feature for a supposed Xorg replacement is beyond me), finally managed to cobble together basic support for non-integer scaling [0], so it…

> It falls apart when you have multiple monitors with different scaling

Yeah that's my colleagues! This is why half the monitors in the office are not being used :D. Someone thought it was a great idea to get three or four 4k screens but only one person actually wants them; everyone wants their laptop as a second or third screen. (Personally I'm a single-screen type of person anyway, but what made me commandeer a 1080p screen is the very noticeable lag that my 2018 i5 Lenovo had when trying to drive a 4k screen with or without display scaling. Got a new work laptop now that ought to not have that problem, but I haven't bothered trying yet.)

Anyhow, thanks for the pointers! Especially that 120 Hz AMD thing sounds like a big caveat.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

lucb1e wrote: post #53

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…

> my eyes can hardly read small fonts on that DPI as it is (I'm ~30) and they're not going to get better with age

If you double the DPI it's going to be easier to read those fonts.

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

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Post by philliphaydon »

ETH_start wrote: post #65

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.

I hope places continue to not accept Bitcoin. I can’t wait till it fades away.

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

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Post by philliphaydon »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #74
justsomehnguy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What a strange set of considerations so bizarre they apply to like no one but you Oh, sweet non-corporate bullshit child. People get shown the door for just having non-Apple devices with them.

> People get shown the door for just having non-Apple devices with them. Is this a thing that you've actually personally seen happen? Because I've seen and heard of some fairly messed up companies and that strains credulity. Like, I suppose it happens, because there are enough companies that everything happens, but that feels like the 99th percentile of insane company cultures.

I doubt he can name a company that does this.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

freeAgent wrote: post #90
OptionX wrote: post #50

Back in the old DDR4 people used to say extremely high frequency ram (lets says above 3600MHz), that normally was O.C'd, would make your system unstable. Any one knows if it still happens in these DDR5 days? I'm asking because 6400MHz seems ludicrously high for a guy like me that just last week got some good old 2400MHz sticks for my home server and I'm wondering if it isn't marketing just to show high numbers.

I don't have an answer to your primary question, but I can say that latency has gone up dramatically as speed has increased. I remember back in the original DDR days, CAS 2 was the stuff to get. Now, we see CAS latencies in the 30s and even 40(+?)!

Latency, as in time spent, has not really changed.

Memory numbers are just dumb.

CL32 at 6400MHz (3200MHz doubled) is 10 nanoseconds.

CL2 at 266MHz (133MHz doubled) is 15 nanoseconds.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

japanman425 wrote: post #76
b0afc375b5 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was confused as well. I looked it up and apparently it's a reference to The Last Starfighter movie.

Down voted for not knowing the film inside out, great.

Downvoted for bringing up chatgpt out of nowhere as part of a complaint.
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