Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Ubuntu 23.10:

glmark2 -b build:duration=3:model=horse

~22K

Ubuntu 24.10: 13 kFPS. Hmm not sure why so much lower than before.

Asked:

On Ubuntu 23.10, under Settings > Displays, Mirror works, but "Join" does not allow to Apply with message:Works on X Window System, it is a Wayland bug.

Related:

~1TB.

Has a separate power cord, not USB powered. Unbelievable. Edit: actually high ends are still like that as of 2023, e.g. at that time, a the max non-cabled was 5 TB, but top of line was 20 TB.

Disk label: wd1t.

Ubuntu 20.04 gnome-disks benchmark, ext4 partition: 37MB/s.

Bought December 2023 for 300 pounds, so 15 pounds / TB. Needs power supply unfrotunately besides USB, the largest one without needing power supply was only 5 TB at the time so not worth it, given that my P14s alreay carriers 2 TB. 10x is a must for the external crap.

www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/external-drives/wd-elements-desktop-usb-3-0-hdd?sku=WDBWLG0030HBK-EESN (archive)

Noise: it has a constant pleasant hum, with a not so nice click every 5 seconds or so. Reasonable, but not amazingly incredible.

The size is reasonable, not megaportable, but definitely reasonable.

Bought: November 2023 during Black Friday sale for £1,323.00 to be Ciro Santilli's main personal laptop.

Six years after, and we are 2x on every key spec (except processor Hz ;-) at about 1/2 the price and 1/2 the weight (though smaller 14" screen for greater portability), so not bad! Customized to max out each hardware spec:

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Log:

2024-01-17: firmware update:Actually fixed performance mode: askubuntu.com/questions/604720/setting-to-high-performance/1343879#1343879

They've been trying to get it to work forever, and it's beeen buggy forever:Became the default on Ubuntu 21.04: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default

The book is very dry, extremelly boring unfortunately. Definition and theorem only for the most part.

v3 LaTeX source code: github.com/OperaMagistris/Opera_Magistris_English_v3

Very unfortunate license "public domain license" with a "non religious" clause, whatever the fuck that is, which completely defeats the point of a public domain declaration:

Bought: November 2023.

March 2026: charger cords is not fixing in very well. I can get it with with a bit of force, but it comes out very easily. I can't see anything blocking the charger port, maybe the pin it got pushed in somehow? Happens on all USB-C cords, though it is slightly better on some than others. What a pain. Later I cleaned it with my Swiss knife's wooden pick and it worked wonderfully, there was actually some pocket lint stuck in there somehow and got it back to normal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQGhSNBsnU Awesome? While taking of the cover however for cleaning I noticed there's a crack behind the phone under the camera. Funny how the screen is bulletproof, even stronger than the body.

Materials paywalled e.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/modelsofcomputation/

Materials paywalled: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/com

Materials paywalled: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/algorithms/