I got a refund for the Slimbook Executive 16 that I sent back. Although they refused to pay for the transport which, form what I read online, should have been covered by the refund. It was around 20 euros in total and I didn't want to "debate" over it anyway. They were generally nice over email and I also removed their stickers from the laptop and perhaps I should not have done that. So it is ok.
Am happy that I returned it because I want to test other laptops. Now I am convinced I will order (to test) the Dell Inspirion 7620 2 in 1:
It has a 16inch screen at 16:10, something I fully love.
I has a good keyboard it seems with no nonsense numpad:
It is very well built I've heard. Fully aluminium. A bit heavy at 2kg, but because it is really sturdy I'v read. My laptop is 3kg....and shitty built :D
It is also a convertible and has a touch screen + fingerprint reader:
Not that I'd use these much, but it is a nice bonus considering that I tweak TROMjaro for touchscreens too, and now I can directly test it on my machine and not rely on the old tablet that we have. I would also love to add a proper fingerprint reader support to TROMjaro, so now I can test it.
As for the internals, I will go for the i7-1260P CPU and perhaps the MX550 Nvidia GPU combo. Not as powerful as the Slimbook, but a lot more than my current laptop. The advantage is that this combo consumes a lot less power than what Slimbook had under the hood. Which means much better battery life (they say it lasts all day) + a much slimmer and usb-c power adapter that you can buy for like 20 Euros from any tech-store if you need to replace it.
So in a way although the Slimbook is half a kilo lighter, its charger is massive so....this Dell with such a small charger despite being heavier I would like it to be like that.
Another cool thing about this laptop is that it has dual channel RAM slots that you can upgrade. For a 2 in 1 this is quite unique. They say max 32GB in total, but I've heard you can put 64GB and I will try that. As for storage unfortunately it only has 1 m2 slot and they say that it supports up to 2TB, but again I've heard you can add up to 4TB. I will compromise to 2TB of storage if this laptop is as good as I read it is, but 4TB would be perfect for me....will have to try and see.
Actually the entire laptop seems quite easy to fix and upgrade:
And being a bit popular you can already find components despite being released just a few months ago. They have a detailed
manual about how you can replace and upgrade parts.
Speaking of that, the awesome Framework 13.5inch laptop that is marketed as very repairable (and it is) clocks at around 1.400 Euros with the same CPU and no GPU. This Dell clocks around 1.300 Euros new via ebay and around 1k second hand via the same ebay. So it is much cheaper overall, seems very durable, much larger screen, yet still relatively easy to repair/upgrade.
Oh and I've read that the speakers on this Dell, 4 of which, are one of the best out there. Same goes for the webcam that even has a camera shutter for privacy.
Overall the laptop (in theory from what I read and see) seems quite slim, very robust, very powerful, decently upgradable and repairable, amazing screen, good keyboard, great speakers and good webcam, great battery life. At least in theory, let's see in practice.
I will likely buy it second hand since this laptop is a very new model and so second hand units should be barely used. Getting it much cheaper allows me to buy a 4TB m2 and even some 64GB of RAM, if the laptop can handle all of that.
For now I will continue with the work on TROM II but I plan in February or so to order it and test.
Massive thanks to Roma and the few others who donated for my laptop campaign. Basically Roma made this possible.
The laptop is my sole enabler of everything you see TROM-made. Websites, video editing, TROMjaro and all of that. Therefore it is the most important piece of technology in my life, and thus I want to choose with care. Basically I would love to just have 1 laptop and that's all.
Anyway, I am sharing these in case it helps others too.
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Also @kdenlive team should be proud that their software is capable of creating such massive projects. A 4h+ documentary made on #linux using #FOSS programs, wow!
#kdenlive #documentary
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in reply to frdbr ๐ฅ๐ณ • •It is based on the book: The Origin of Most Problems . In essence we argue that the world in which we live, from China to USA and anything in between is simply a world based on "trade". A simple and old action that evolved into a huge and damaging monster making us all destroy ourselves and the world we live in.
So, cryptocurrencies, money, ads, data collection, or the bad influence of big social networks, oil companies, billionaires and the like, or climate change, pollution and so forth, are a result of this trade environment. It incentivizes humans to only care about what they are trading and not much else. And we cannot do any significant change unless we understand the system of trade itself and move beyond it.
It is difficult to summarize it that well since it is a huge topic and the book is a thousand pages long.
But the documentary is also more personal, showcasing where we grew up, what influenced us as humans part of this system and culture, and more. We talk about many things, even the fediverse.
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in reply to frdbr ๐ฅ๐ณ • •I would highly recommend either to watch the documentary or read the book it is based on, as I mentioned in a previous comment. But I can try to summarize really briefly, however this is a big and fluffy subject and needs more than a summary.
My argument is as follows: if you understand "the problem" you'll come up with solutions eventually. In that regards, it is more important to understand what the problem is, rather than having any solutions, since solutions always follow. I give 2 big and different examples in the book: germs and proprietary software.
Germs killed hundreds of millions of humans over thousands of years. Humans tried many theories and methods but with no success. Why? They had no clue that tiny organisms exist and they make people sick. So their "solutions" were not working. As soon as they understood the problem (detected these tiny organisms), they came up with many solutions and we are still creating new as we speak. From washing your hands or boiling the water, to vaccines and all sorts of therapies today.
Same with proprietary software, a
... Show more...I would highly recommend either to watch the documentary or read the book it is based on, as I mentioned in a previous comment. But I can try to summarize really briefly, however this is a big and fluffy subject and needs more than a summary.
My argument is as follows: if you understand "the problem" you'll come up with solutions eventually. In that regards, it is more important to understand what the problem is, rather than having any solutions, since solutions always follow. I give 2 big and different examples in the book: germs and proprietary software.
Germs killed hundreds of millions of humans over thousands of years. Humans tried many theories and methods but with no success. Why? They had no clue that tiny organisms exist and they make people sick. So their "solutions" were not working. As soon as they understood the problem (detected these tiny organisms), they came up with many solutions and we are still creating new as we speak. From washing your hands or boiling the water, to vaccines and all sorts of therapies today.
Same with proprietary software, as soon as it was regarded as a problem, people invented this "open source" software model that evolved into many licenses, practices, and types of software today, and eventually started to leaked into the hardware world too.
Now, if I argue that trade is an environment that creates a lot of misery, regardless under what system it is enforced (communism, capitalism, socialism, free markets, communities, you name it) then my "hope" is that we can come up with solutions for it. I have proposed a lot of them, under the umbrella term "trade-free". I would say that we have to create trade-free goods and services to eventually phase out the need for trade. In other words, if we had access to more and more trade-free goods/services, we would not only not need the trade-based ones (buy, inject ads, collect data, etc.) but it allows us to create more of these, like a positive feedback loop, since we will have more free time to engage into these. We showcase how many orgs around the world provide these sort of services already via our directory here. And we provide some too. See tromsite.com/ and tromsite.com/tools/
I think we cannot sit down and propose this or that system, the same way no one sat down and proposed a world of open source software or a world-wide solution for dealing with the germs.
Thus, I propose that we understand why trade is the origin of most problems first, and if we agree, then we can work on all sorts of solutions for this.
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