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10 votes
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Google leadership set 2023 as deadline to beat Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud business
6 votes -
Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
8 votes -
How tracking pixels work
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LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion
23 votes -
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired"
24 votes -
We only hire the trendiest
18 votes -
“Join Reddit to keep reading” - an account is now required to read comment threads on the mobile website
54 votes -
What is TCP/IP and how does it work? A simple explainer, suitable for upcoming family tech support time
9 votes -
Fraidycat - Follow from afar
10 votes -
Apps that access Google G Suite services using a username and password (as opposed to OAuth) will be restricted in June 2020, and blocked in February 2021
13 votes -
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
16 votes -
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
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PinePhone: Everything you need to know about the $150 Linux-powered phone
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Keybase cancels further Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency giveaways after giving away 10% of the intended amount, due to abuse
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How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all
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Laptop review of Acer A315-42
So I bought this laptop mainly for web browsing, document editing, note taking and programming with perhaps light gaming although that's not something I've tried yet. So, really just for school...
So I bought this laptop mainly for web browsing, document editing, note taking and programming with perhaps light gaming although that's not something I've tried yet. So, really just for school work.
Specifications
Laptop Model : Acer Aspire 3 A315-42
Laptop screen : 1080p IPS (with matte finish?)
CPU : R5 3500U
RAM : 8GB DDR4 (6GB available because of iGPU)
Storage : 256GB SSD NVMe
Wireless : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377
Wired : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 (According to lspci)
2x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x HDMI port, Audio jack, 1x RJ45 Ethernet port
Battery : 36.7WhLinux compatibility
Everything worked out of the box, gotta modify TLP to not kill the touchpad and webcam. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to being detected, It seems to be a kernel bug, unsure what I'll do about it concretely but rebooting a couple of times makes it work. Nothing to install thanks to AMD's open source mesa drivers. Might need a kernel higher than 5.3 because of general Ryzen 3000 issues but I've not tried, it was already higher than that.
Operating system tested
Basically never touched Windows, directly installed Fedora 31 Silverblue.
My Silverblue configuration is :
● ostree://fedora:fedora/31/x86_64/silverblue Version: 31.20191213.0 (2019-12-13T00:42:11Z) BaseCommit: a5829371191d0a3e26d3cced9f075525d2ea73679bd255865fcf320bd2dca22a GPGSignature: Valid signature by 7D22D5867F2A4236474BF7B850CB390B3C3359C4 RemovedBasePackages: gnome-terminal-nautilus gnome-terminal 3.34.2-1.fc31 LayeredPackages: camorama cheese eog fedora-workstation-repositories gedit gnome-calendar gnome-font-viewer gnome-tweaks hw-probe libratbag-ratbagd lm_sensors nano neofetch powertop radeontop sysprof systemd-swap tilix tlp
Kernel : 5.3.15
Gnome : 3.34.1Body and Looks
The screen back has metal, I believe it feels quite sturdy. The rest is reasonable feeling plastic. The material used just loves to imprint grease / fingers which kinda sucks - the keys being the exception thankfully. There was also stickers on the inside which well, are somewhat standard but I thought they were pretty obnoxious so I removed them.
Typing experience
It's nothing amazing but it's good enough. I'm not really knowledgeable on keyboards so that's as much as I can say on it, really.
Performance
Everything feels quite snappy but I don't game at all on this machine so I'm not pushing it too much other than while I'm compiling or doing other things. The temperature does go up to 75°C and the fans get a little loud but it's not that bad. It's mostly the bottom getting hot so it's not something you notice too much while typing. It also cold boots quite fast, in about 10-20seconds I want to say but I've not benchmarked that. It's my first computer with an SSD so there's that.
Battery life
I get about 5hours with tlp installed doing web browsing, some programming occasionally, listening to music on the speakers and chatting. Personally I was kind of expecting more from this considering it's an APU but it seems to be what other people are getting on similar setups so It'll do.
Conclusion
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this laptop considering how I bought it for 575$ on sale. I made this review mostly because I wasn't finding much information about this laptop on Linux and well, I don't know, I guess I felt like it. If you have any questions, ask up!
11 votes -
Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit
21 votes -
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
14 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
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Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office
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How computers wrote BBC election result stories
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Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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Why electronic voting is still a bad idea
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Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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Angela Sheehan is developing wearable tech with whimsy
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Finland said it aims to teach 1% – or more than fifty million – of all Europeans basic skills in artificial intelligence through a free online course
11 votes -
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data
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Twitter announces "bluesky", an investigation of decentralization standards for social media, with the goal of converting Twitter into a client
25 votes -
An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider
8 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
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Generated passwords, UX and security absolutism
17 votes -
Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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Military grade encryption won’t save you, or your business
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What do you think about YouTube rewind 2019?
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online...
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online video and is more focused on growing into audiences who use the Internet for entertainment and to pander to advertisers and since YouTube is more the, rather than a platform, pretending the entirety of YouTube is or at this point even could be a united community without massive, world-wide changes to society is just incorrect. The list format like watchmojo is probably to pretend they have backpedaled and that they're now unbiased. (Also they have done it in this format before.)
14 votes -
Apple's modular Mac Pro now available to order
13 votes -
TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
Apple’s ad-targeting crackdown shakes up ad market
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Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled
17 votes -
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit
5 votes -
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
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FYI, Wikipedia is discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Hey everyone, I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is...
Hey everyone,
I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is dropping support for anything that can't negotiate TLS 1.2. I haven't seen any articles on it yet online, so just thought I'd holler a mention.
8 votes -
How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies?
5 votes -
Mint: Late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost)
17 votes