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>This is awesome though No, it's not awesome. Upgrading ram and disk or replacing a motherboard, screen or battery is great. Repairing a badly designed motherb
by simpaticoder 1y ago
>This is awesome though
No, it's not awesome. Upgrading ram and disk or replacing a motherboard, screen or battery is great. Repairing a badly designed motherboard with a soldering iron is not great. In fact, it's bad. I think there's a good argument that it violates (warranty) law. If a car company sells to you based on "right to repair" and then it turns out there was a design defect in the engine, is it "awesome" if they tell you you need to pull the engine and rebuild it?
Glad your battery life is good. I notice you didn't mention it losing power when suspended. Curious.
- akho 1y ago> I notice you didn't mention it losing power when suspended. Curious. Are you using a kernel > 6.8? It got (much) better.
- simpaticoder 1y agoInteresting. I'm not normally in the habit of upgrading the kernel independently of the distribution, but it's worth trying. Thanks for the tip.
- akho 1y agoOn earlier kernels, `acpi_osi="!Windows 2020"` was often recommended. Though I'm note sure what it does. `nvme.noacpi=1` should be on, too, for all kernels. (all derived from the nixos-hardware repo; I use that)
- simpaticoder 1y agoThanks. I upgraded the kernel (had to turn off secure boot to do it), and set the nvme kernel option, too. So far no unwanted side-effects, but it's too soon to say if it fixed the problem.