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$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by BikiniPrince »

zozbot234 wrote: post #63
TrainedMonkey wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For many large companies or even teams, there exists a class of bugs / issues / features where dropping 5-10k on a bounty is extremely cost efficient compared to working around the issue or internal development. That might not fund development outright, but at worst it would point out the features people want and serve to inform what to work on next. I think there are a couple reasons why that is not prevalent. Most…

Most larger companies would probably find it way easier and more sensible to contract with some outside consultancy to work on these issues than just posting a random bounty, even if the latter might potentially be cheaper. See Google Summer of Code projects for a very practical example of how "just pay randos to work on issue X for cheap" can quite often end up in failure.

Yes, when my org needed a very specific feature from an open source project the company reached out to the authors. I don’t know the terms, but they dropped a chunk of cash. No strings either on the new feature and everyone benefited in the end.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by ValdikSS »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #10

I wish there was an actual thriving business model like this -- just fixing most annoying bugs, for a price, of commonly used desktop software. Why proprietary software companies cannot or do not want to provide this service is over me. Perhaps I'm too much used to consulting.

There is some—VueScan for example, where the developer reverse-engineer scanning protocols, re-implement and sell it.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by johnisgood »

qingcharles wrote: post #112
BobbyTables2 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if one person spent a month on this, they’d be making about $10/hr. Makes StarBucks barista pay look good… Of course, if they can churn this out closer to 2 days, maybe there is something there. Such a talented person would probably prefer a more certain and higher income.

For a lot of people in the world $10/hr is a fantastic wage. And you get to work at your own pace, probably from home.

And for a lot of people it is fantastic to have one slice of bread per day. What is your point?

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by yeasku »

m101 wrote: post #123

I heard from a frontier coder at deepmind that Gemini, whilst not great at novel frontier coding, is actually pretty good at debugging. Wonder if someone is going to automate a bug bounty pipeline with AI tools.

If this ai coding things are so good why nobody is capitalizing on it? Why are they selling this studf to developers instead of taking contracts and making billions?

Are they stupid or is just all a big lie?

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by blablabla123 »

Wow... one solution is of course to deactivate these. Which is what I did for my Legion 5 Gen 10. Speakers don't seem to be much in use these days anyway.

Still, I didn't expect this amount of custom configuration for my new laptop. Most importantly Bluetooth sound and getting Nvidia driver support. For Bluetooth I ended up writing my own tiny daemon. While driver support exists there seems to be a race condition somewhere between Pipewire, systemd and the bluetooth drivers. And for Nvidia drivers I ended up using the CUDA driver repository which is curiously only available for Debian 12.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by LgWoodenBadger »

firesteelrain wrote: post #76
fragmede wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and yet, Microsoft Teams is a total trash fire full of bugs that users hate. So something is broken (Teams. It's Teams that is busted).

I have used it every day for past 3-4 years. What bugs? I don’t love it but I don’t hate it either. I don’t understand the Teams hate

It asks me a quality survey after every call even though I have surveys off.

It shows unread messages for a chat that has the focus and the “unread” message is visible.

When using the keyboard shortcut to create a new message (Command-N) it drops the first character of the recipient unless I introduce a noticeable delay between shortcut and recipient.

I’m sure I have more, but these are just from memory.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by espdev »

toast0 wrote: post #92
espdev wrote: post #80

There is a common problem with Realtek ALC3306 on Linux (Kernel Bug 213159). This affects many Lenovo laptop models. For example, my fairly old Legion S7 15IMH5 laptop also does not work. I'm not willing to pay $1000 for a fix (it's easier for me to buy a new laptop that will work with Linux), but $100 is probably okay. :)

$100 gets you a usb sound card and $90 for something else. It's not a good solution, but it's easy.

The sound only does not work from the laptop speakers; wired headphones work perfectly. Sometimes you want your laptop speakers to produce sound. So an external sound card does not solve the problem.

It's funny, but for as long as I can remember Linux (20+ years), there have always been some problems with sound.

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