knot126

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Shit, I think I've not Actually Posted in a long time. I'm boring. Oh well.

I still am using a lenovo yoga c630 (arm) as my main PC. It's a fine laptop, and I like arm (more than x86), but it's not a good PC for actually using a PC. It can't run linux. They say it will run linux, but it won't, because you could have gotten one of two types of LCD panel and I got the one linux hates and refuses to boot with.

But there is some bespoke debian for it. It's stuck on kernel 5.11. As I said, regular arm kernels, which should work since the c630 is (semi-)mainline, don't boot or do boot but don't set up the backlight property or something.

Oh, and any signed kernels? Crypto seems completely broken in grub and crashes the system for some reason. So you have to install an unsigned kerenel to even try booting. I kind of doubt anyone even knows this is a bug since I don't think developers would sign their kernels just for testing!

I should have known better than to try using this as my main PC.

And I didn't have another laptop (let alone an x86 one). Until some luck happened and I saved (maybe "stole" for Internet Points but not really) a dell vostro 1700 from the trash. It's slowish. It's from the vista era. It comes with Dell MediaDirect. And not the Windows Media Player ripoff version, it's something different and seemingly more boring since you can't even Ctrl+Alt+Delete and laugh at the fact task manager shows up.

But it's a laptop. 3 GB RAM (for some reason). Core 2 Duo T5670 @ 1.8 GHz. It runs linux. Wifi doesn't work out of the box but it seems like it should be able to work. I'm wiping the disk now, because I'm a Good Foxxo, and I'll try installing stuff after it's done.

Hopefully, I can use it for now. Or at least save it from the trash, because it is a really nice machine despite being 15 years old.

(Side note: I do technically have another laptop that could be used, a lenovo ideapad n585, but it's broken to shit.)


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