Grub by default has like a 3-5 second timer on startup where you can pick between Linux, and whatever options there are.

Usually it’s Linux first, Linux with an old kernels/ safe mode, then finally windows.

In your recovery there should be a backup option. Pick that and back up everything.

Then make sure you copy that backup off the phone in case you really hose things and have to start completely fresh.

You can build one, but it’s going to be everything you don’t want.

Devices like that are only so compact and sleek because every component was built/picked exactly for that spot. They knew what had to fit around what.

A hobbyist building their own thing is stuck picking stuff up off the shelf. None of that will fit as tightly together as the steam deck.

That’s still theoretical speeds, I doubt any drive will be that fast.

Device ships with good emmc storage, it’s all pretty dire. The surface go my friend has got about 150MBps writes and 250 reads. That’s what I’d expect from a “good” emmc machine. I bought some $100 Walmart special a year ago and it gets like maybe 150 reads and 50 writes. Hard drives are fast than this.

Some USB drives are actually pretty good. I have a drive that sustains over 350MBps reads and 150 writes, and bursts almost up to full 400MBps.

That that drive is the exception, not the norm. Those micro center flash drives with white labels? You may get 1 gig of writes in before they crater to 20MBps or less. And the newer black ones? I’ve seen single digit MBps transfers. Putting an OS on there is suffering. Shit just writing the iso on there is bad.

Emmc will be consistently mediocre. If OP had an EMMC laptop then I’m going to guess they didn’t pay extra for a fancy flash drive so the experience is going to be DIRE. If you want to play with the live environment it’s fine.

I’m guessing they’re all just behind an internal hub.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/chipsets/am5.html

The x870e chipset only provides 2 20gbit ports (type c only) 12 10gbit and 2 5gbit ports. No idea how the USB 4 ports fit into the equation, but I think the 2 are mandatory.

Per the article as long as you’re not on pre release firmware it shouldn’t be an issue. When I got the drive it didn’t fail on my write test, nor did it fail the test after updating the firmware so it seems fine.

It’s in a laptop I really don’t care about. Worst case it becomes a Linux only SSD and put the old drive back into that laptop.

I hope that’s the case because I picked up one of these drives for CHEAP on clearance.

I tried to make it fail before migrating my install over but even with over 60 gigs of data copied it had no issues.

My Thinkpad P1’s is soldered :( At least that came with a good Intel Wireless card.

But somehow on my T14s (a much smaller machine) it wasn’t soldered.

But then on the bigger T14 it is soldered. So I have no clue what is going on at Lenovo. At least the machines with good wifi cards are soldered, and the shit ass ones are

There’s no drm on band camp

105c is the max operating temperature. It’s not going to run away the second it hits 106.

Your CPU starts throttling at 104c so that way it almost never hits at 105c for long If it can’t maintain clocks then it drops them until 104c can mostly be maintained.

The key is you installed Kali in a VM. The true peak is installing it on bare metal and then using it as a normal computer.

Seagate has more than bad batches. When every single one of their 1tb per platter barracuda drives have high failure rates then that’s a design/long term production issue.

Why? It’s designed to run up to 105c.

I think it was when AMDs 7000 series CPUs were running at 95c and everyone freaked out that AMD came out and said that the CPUs are built to handle this load 24/7 365 for years on end.

And it’s not like this is new to Intel. Intel laptop CPUs have been doing this for a decade now.

AMDs 7000 series CPUs were designed to boost until they hit 95c, then maintain those temps. 9000 series behaves differently for boosting, but the silicon can handle it.

Not all laptops have replaceable wireless cards. If you have a thinner machine they probably soldered it on. But I can’t find any rhyme or reason to what manufacturers do and don’t solder.

Even the shittiest of laptops a school district would buy new support windows 11. It’s only 7+ year old machines.

We need equality in the gaming space.

We should shame everyone who plays games on phones equally.

That article is a year old and is missing the latest generation of cards. Neither AMD nor Nvidia produce those GPUs anymore. AMDs best GPU from their 9000 series competes with Nvidias 5070/5070ti. The 5090 and 5080 are unmatched.

Nvidia is the only real option for AI work. Before Trump lifted the really restrictive ban on GPUs to china they had to smuggle in GPUs from the US, and if you’re Joe Schmo the only GPUs you can really buy are gaming ones. That’s why the 5090 has been selling so well despite it being 2k and not all that much better than the 4090 in gaming.

Also AMD has no high end GPUs, and Intel barely has a mid range GPU.

Those 200gb games take a while to download, even on a gigabit internet connection.