They sell $700 wheels, $1000 for an accelerometer isn't really a surprise.
CalicoJack
joined 2 years ago
They look fine to me. It might be something in your firmware, laptops can be a little fiddly. I'd try the steps here for an alternate boot path first, and if that fails check here for other methods that may apply.
Another great resource is the Arch Wiki category for laptops. If your model has a page, it should help with any weird configuration issues.
My first guess would be either messing up the paths for grub-install and/or grub-mkconfig, or just forgetting grub-mkconfig altogether. Grub should "just work" as long as those commands were run properly and you aren't using Secure Boot.
DDNS takes about the same amount of time to get running these days, something like Caddy + DuckDNS goes together pretty easy. Even for purely personal use, I use DDNS for media access and save the VPN for share access and admin work.
Either way works though.
When I used to play CoD, I did something very similar to this. I'd spawn with a knife (and maybe a pistol), and had to "earn" better guns by grabbing them from kills. Like Gun Game, but more fun since everybody else was properly equipped.
It sounds simple and silly, but it kept me playing those games for 2ish years longer than I would have otherwise.
I've used both and much prefer Proton for sailing the seas. Connecting through France (highest speed + p2p) with port forwarding is the best torrent speed I've had on a VPN. The only slight annoyance is it switching the forwarded port every time it reconnects, but I run it 24/7 anyway.
Just skip the "official" client and run it through gluetun. It's a much better experience.
That was my main complaint with the game. I didn't mind starting limited and building up to full control, but it should have taken half of the time. And some of the early pairings were pretty rough to use without their full kit.
We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it's not our fault they don't listen.
From experience, ignore your instincts and give pure Arch a try. It's a lot more stable than you'd think, and their wiki has very thorough instructions for everything.
It's a bit of a trial by fire on your terminal knowledge, but you'll learn a ton in the process. Worst case, you get fed up trying and just go to Fedora or something after.
It used to be completely busted, but I've heard that support is getting better. Recent kernels and mesa have been updated to support them, but the Intel drivers are way behind what Windows gets.
Non-gaming use could be fine, I'm planning on trying one myself soon.
This is most of it. If they're facing up (typical lamp), they'll last for years. If they're facing down (ceiling fixture), especially with a shroud around the bulb, they won't last much longer than an incandescent. The control chip burns up if they get too hot.
So just put cheap ones in the fixtures that'll kill them. You can get decent bulbs for less than $1/per.
If the computer is modern enough that you'd consider buying it to use, I can almost guarantee that you'll be fine to run the latest distros. I just threw Arch + KDE on a 14ish year old laptop I found, and it runs so well that I may daily drive it for a while just for the hell of it.
At worst, you may need a lighter-weight desktop environment (DE) than some of the pretty ones you see in screenshots. And those are simple to install and try out.