I can’t speak on which is the best. I haven’t compared them on modern systems.

But what I will say is make sure you’re not artificially limiting your power levels or clock speed too much. Big fat Intel CPUs like that are power hogs when active. They need to reach an idle state. I have a laptop with an i9 11950h which is the same thing. But with the power plan on the lowest I get worse battery life and performance than if I just left it on balanced. But it depends on the workload. If there is no idle then power save might be best. But if you’re browsing the web and not constantly scrolling then balanced might just be better.

the law didn’t even get written

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1043

Current Status: PASSED

Ummm… what?

Maybe by you… Unfortunately.

iPhone: iOS

Main Android phone: grapheneos

Anything else: whatever it came with.

I gave up on custom roms like a decade ago and switched to iOS. Graphene is stable enough I’ll deal with it. Although I hate how annoying it is about locking the bootloader and root.

Any AMD system that’s pretty new gets WAY worse battery life on Linux. AMD does some insane optimizations for windows. But it takes a few years before they make their way to Linux.

I think in the last 6 months there’s been some good work on this. But I have a similar AMD 6000 series system to them and I get almost twice the battery life on Linux.

Note, Windows has a “trick” of defaulting to “balanced” mode

That’s probably what most people want on a laptop on battery. Why would I want my CPU running full tilt for nothing? That’d largely why AMDs battery life on Linux is so bad.

“Better” isn’t what I use notepad for. I just want a place to put unformatted text.

unwelcome AI integration

This isn’t an integration. They’re just using AI to write some of the code.

And yet for games they are.

Wait you air dry your keycaps for a full day?

I just put mine in a towel and shake em for a few minutes after manually towel drying the outside.

Although a bingo roller cage thing and a fan might be a good way to dry them quickly.

RHEL is paid so I guess you could buy that.

No, but you can begin it. Eviction ain’t always a quick process.

New low end laptops have always sucked. I hope more people become open to used and refurbished devices. A 3 year old used business machine kicks the shit out of a new similarly priced POS. New low end laptops are born e waste.

You’re lucky if it’s a 5600g. They still make systems with CPUs based on zen 2. (insert AMDs CPU decoder)

And sometimes even 10/100 ethernet cards assuming they still have an ethernet port.

I can’t imagine how many 1/10ths of a penny Dell was saving on those POS.

I first used dual monitors when I was like 12. I could never go back after that. At work I have 2 4k displays, and at home I have 3 displays.

Also a vertical display is pretty neat as a second screen. I have email, chats, and other stuff that I need to monitor, but not interact with a lot. It sucks ass as a primary display though.

I ran some benchmarks the other day and I was amazed by just how powerful and efficient the M4 Max in my Mac Studio is vs the 9800x3d in my desktop. Not only did the entire system use 2/3 the power of the 9800, while scoring well over 1.5x more. And then the system goes to idle and uses less than 10 watts. Less than just the 9800 at idle.

They’re incredible feats of engineering, only hampered by apples fuck ass software.

3/4 posts surrounding this one were asking for help with Linux.

Also the linux community on lemmy is big enough go have its own dedicated help/support communities.

Chronic case of fanboyism. I don’t like it so therefore there’s nothing good about it.

What in the world is “sluggish” on that computer that woouldn’t be on 10? The new bloated notepad? That doesn’t even take a quarter of a second to load on my current laptop?