@bryceac I have a friend with a Lemur and he loves it but I want a slightly larger screen. I have friends with Frameworks as well and would love the 16 if it was a little lighter. After having a 16" MBP for a bit, I'm very keen on the weight factor. I get that I'm unicorn hunting here. I've also found the Tuxedo Infinitybook 15 but I keep reading reviews on Tuxedo and their systems arriving broken. I've never received a broken system before but I don't want to start with a system that was shipped to the US from Germany. Other than the reviews the weight and screen look very good.

@vasya @msbw @thelinuxEXP Tuxedo's InfinityBook AMD looks very nice. Weight and battery life look great by their measurements. Thank you for the recommendation!

@msbw @vasya @thelinuxEXP They seem to have a pretty wide selection. I may have more questions.

@nikatjef I've done that a bit already with some smaller security-related project. I'm wanting to get more acquainted with ML and CV, too.

Every website in 2025.

@nikatjef That's funny. I make the same recommendation to anyone asking about how to learn any new technology. If you are learning it through something that has meaning to you, it's more likely to stick. If you are just working through a book or online how-to, you don't get the same meaning.

Apropos of several things floating across my TL, I just want to say as somebody who teaches college:

Yes, absolutely, politically conservative students on campus end up feeling uncomfortable in their views, constantly challenged. 100%.

So do leftists.

So do centrists.

So do students who attempt to be apolitical.

Nobody gets to hang out on campus feeling comfortable and cushy in their worldview. That is…you know…kind of the point of the place.

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@nikatjef Yep, that's all part of the thought process. I'm considering heading back to school to get a PhD in CompEng or CompSci (just noticed your ACM address!). I'd love to catch up on AI before then and explore the concepts. I've been heavily wrapped up in corporate cybersecurity for about 2 decades at this point and I'm dying to get back to some lower-level. I'm leaning to either using the desktop or an IaaS platform for the GPU intensive stuff, but if it was just as easy to carry that GPU around with little impact, why not.

@nikatjef I appreciate the perspective on GPUs too. I've never had a laptop with a discrete GPU but with all the AI and other GPU computing out there I wasn't sure if that was time to change. I have an older Nvidia in my desktop rig but I mostly use that to crack passwords... legally for work, of course.

@stanley @frameworkcomputer I keep looking at their offerings and yes the 16" is pricey, but nice. I wish PC Laptop makers wouldn't have abandoned the 15" spec, though. Lightweight is one of my top discriminators when deciding what to buy. My work laptop is a 15" Macbook Air and it feels weightless compared to some of the other laptops we buy for clients.

@nikatjef Thanks for the warning away from HP. I'm currently running #pop_os on a scavenged Dell from work and it's fairly good. I don't have any Intel Macs, but I do have the M1 Pro that I'm looking to replace. I'm a bigger fan of Debian-derived distros than Fedora so I haven't put to much thought into Asahi. I also have a Surface, but it's a bit long in the tooth for a first-class desktop Linux experience. I have thought about doing a CB++ or Bunsen Labs on it, though, as a backup. I've leaned to the Linux-first laptop providers more for the full open ecosystem (BIOS included), but I'm not averse to sourcing a nicer Lenovo or Dell. I am shifting a bit to the cloud, but nowhere near the Chromebook level and probably never will be that much.

@mrclark I knew that but I keep forgetting about Lenovo. Thanks! I know they have a huge line of options. I’m in the US so shipping shouldn’t be an issue. I wish I had shipping issues and wasn’t in this shitshow though. I hate being the negative example to the world.

@ljorg For this, it must be a laptop but I do have my eyes on beelinks to replace my scavenged micro form factors that make up my home server stack.

@thibaultmol Ohh yes. I have an eye on them as well. The weight is the only issue there. I love the modularity and repairability of it though. They are on the list though.

I didn't get much traction over on bsky with this, but I'm in the market for a new #laptop and I'm migrating from Mac to #Linux. I'd like something with a 15" at least 2K screen and good #battery_life. I'm leaning to #system76 and the Pangolin, but the battery life isn't all that great. The Lemur looks great, but it's 14" and FHD. I'm also up in the air about a dedicated GPU, so any advice there is welcome.

So, #desktop_linux Mastodon friends, what's out there?

This is an entirely foreseeable self-own. Our national security is weaker with DOGE and the Trump administration.
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/uae-recruiting-us-personnel-displaced-by-doge-to-work-on-ai-for-its-military/

No, it doesn't reflect "uncertainly in the science world." It reflects an anti-intellectual attack on science.

Democrats: Stop Running to the Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzG_TrhyrY&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

For the record, no, I do NOT wish to take a brief survey about my experience with your website. Nor do I want it to use my location. And neither am I interested in allowing notifications from your site.

“You must give your money to people you find abhorrent or we will put you in prison” is a banger of a free speech policy. Fuck these people.