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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I use ThinkPad X1 yoga with Fedora 40 (Gnome)

    1. Enable fractional scaling and install Display scale switcher gnome extension - makes it easier to increase scaling when in tablet mode for easier touch input.
    2. logging in on a touchscreen can be a pain, in particular entering the password with on-screen keyboard. Special characters and numbers are not shown by default. On windows you have the option to use pin instead with a numeric keyboard. If you have a fingerprint reader compatible with linux that might work for login (mine doesn’t).
    3. Linux is very terminal-oriented, but Gnome terminal is unusable on a tochscreen. never mind typing commands - try scrolling long outputs - you can’t scroll with touchscreen, it will just start selecting text (i dont remember how this works in Windows)
    4. Google chrome supports gestures, so you can swipe left/right on the page to navigate back/forward. This does not with Firefox. Chrome also has a more touchscreen-friendly UI you can enable in chrome://flags/#top-chrome-touch-ui (Touch UI layout) although I haven’t noticed a significant difference.
    • while you’re messing with google flags you may want to change Preferred Ozone platform to Wayland - this fixed blurry scaling for me













  • I have been waiting for it to finally dual boot on my main laptop, but it looks like it doesn’t support my ultra wide monitor and won’t allow me to set screen refresh rate higher than 50hz (even with nvidia drivers). Looks like I’m still stuck with windows.

    Edit: i solved the problem by using the correct TB cable! Linux now shows full resolution/refresh rate, and windows started showing HDR and 10 bit color. It seems i was limited to 6 bit with previous cable.






  • Wireless are more convenient for most use cases. I like the compactness of wireless earbuds, no tangled wires, and the charging case. I can even use just one bud at a time.

    However, wired headphones have some advantages in rare use cases that wireless can’t handle yet:

    • connecting two headsets at once so 2 people han watch a movie on a plane. Bluetooth can stream sound to only one device at a time (at least on android). With Jack you can just use a splitter
    • switching between devices easily. Just unplug and plug where you want it. With Bluetooth you have disconnect and reconnect.
    • you can easily plug it into aux without any pairing process, just plug and play. With rental cars i noticed the device memory is often full and i have to remove a device before pairing. Not as seamless as audio jack for once off uses.

    I don’t mind missing audio jack, but at least make usb c dongles interchangeable. Iirc you can’t use the same dongles on samsung and Pixel device. I ordered one that did not work.