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<p>After two years of using my company-issued MacBook for personal things, I'm setting up a personal laptop for personal things, which I hope to be able to do more of during lockdown.</p> <p>Now faced with the choice of distro, I noticed I've never been very deliberate with this. My personal history:</p> <ul> <li>2004-5: Knoppix. Needed a live CD because my family (who were co-users of the home computer) wouldn't let me remove Windows. With 20GB HDD, I couldn't keep both</li> <li>2006-8: Slackware. I had enough time on my hands to do manual package management</li> <li>2009-13: Arch. I didn't want things abstracted away from me because I wanted to learn how Linux worked (but <code>pacman</code> is a time saver)</li> <li>2013-4: Ubuntu (mandatory at company-issued laptop)</li> <li>2015-8: Fedora (<code>dnf</code> seemed like a good package manager, and I wanted things abstracted away from me)</li> </ul> <p>I'm curious what other crustaceans use and care about. How relevant are these things these days, now that so much of the software we run is on the browser anyway?</p>

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Feds said a laptop is simply a "container" that can be searched without warrant.

<blockquote> <p>51nb forums, which is the biggest Thinkpad forum in China is well known for it's mods to Thinkpads. It's user "Hope" (which is well known for modding modern motherboards to old IBM devices like T40, T60 and X-series) had organized a team for designing and testing those motherboards. Those mobos are made in OEM factory near Shenzen based on "Hope's team" design.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Those mobos have firmware support by Hope and those support all urgent Thinkpad features. Naturally, those modern Haswell/Broadwell -mobos doesn't have support for legacy features such as Cardbus and they haven't got dock connector for these mobos (I think Lenovo have somekind of patent for those connectors).</p> </blockquote> <p>via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4vl92m/51nbs_x62_with_broadwell_i7_available_as_complete/d5zhcnz" rel="ugc">nkwsky on reddit</a></p>

Serving Gemma 4 E2B q4_0 through llama.cpp on one laptop, twice: CPU-only and on a 2021-era 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti. Same GGUF, same binary, same prompts, one flag apart. The card takes decode by 4.3x, and needs only 1598 MiB to do it.

Gemma 4 E2B q4_0 served by llama.cpp on one laptop, CPU-only and on a GTX 1650 Ti, rebuilt on CUDA 13.4 and re-measured in CPU, GPU, GPU, CPU order with a temperature gate. The card takes decode by 4.14x, and run order moves the answer by about 2%.

Step-by-step: running Google's quantization-aware-trained Gemma 4 E2B on a 10th-gen Core i7 laptop with a 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti — why bf16 and int8 cannot fit, why the QAT GGUF does with room to spare, and managing it with an MCP server.

Prefix any command with vanish. It runs on managed Linux compute against your live working tree, uncommitted files included, and streams back to your terminal.

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Googlebook pre-orders begin September 21, and they'll be on shelves October 4.

Today at Snapdragon Summit, we introduced the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, built on

A 14-inch student laptop with an AI-Free operating system designed to block AI tools, social media, news, and entertainment.

With tools like a multimodal cursor, smart dictation, and more, Googlebook anticipates your needs to simplify your day.

Continual learning model trained from scratch on 8GB VRAM laptop with batch-1 stream of data. - volotat/mini-AGI

Run agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work autonomously in a safe way.

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, were both more complicated than anyone expected. In the next episode of Version History, David Pierce is joined by The Verge 's Adi Robertson and tech journalist David Imel to figure out why OLPC didn't work, whether there's anything to learn from the XO-1's innovative design, and if this kind of computer giveaway could ever succeed. We're halfway t … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Surface Pro 12-inch Second Edition comes in black, silver, or violet. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon !). While the 12-inch Surface Pro started at $799.99 last year , it's debuting on October 13th at a starting price of $1,149.99. Likewise, the 13-inch Surface Laptop was originally priced at $899.99 , but it's up to $1,199.99 this time around. There's no base 8GB model this time, causing some of the price increase, as both devices launch with a … Read the full story at The Verge.