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This is the way, you can pick up a Surface Pro 6 for under £250 here on eBay, i7 and 16GB

Do note that you should also check that you initiate the recall from the Anker site matching your location

A lot of great points here, I would be on aboard if phones therefore had two USB-C ports as standard

🥹 it’s so clean and beautiful

It’s a good topic to raise, laptop battery life is definitely still a weak point on Linux. I’m not sure there’s any distro specifically geared towards extending battery life, but maybe choosing one with a light desktop environment would help? I’m no expert myself but it also depends on the device you’re using and it’s platform.

For example, one common power management tool tlp https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html is not recommended by AMD or Framework for my FW13. There are steps you can take, like ensuring your browser is using the GPU/iGPU for videos/hardware acceleration is enabled and working, but Linux as a whole does not seem to have prioritised improving battery life. It’s understandable to a degree, with it being dependent on so many factors

Assume you mean the 13, I’ve had mine for a few months and love it too. Also really dig the refinements they’ve done with the 12 like the pogo pins and even more easily replaceable display

It was barely tolerable, then they gated proper noise cancellation behind some AI privacy destroying BS. Excellent choice, fu Microsoft

Dear gods, the comments in the linked Hacker News thread too. Was happy enough to avoid Ubuntu for snaps, now I’m even more relieved

Great news, been too long since this was a thing

A lot of this could be achieved by turning off notifications/muting them, turning off fitness tracking, deleting social media accounts, etc whilst retaining the device.

Bizarre, I wouldn’t expect issues with Linux on that hardware config. Perhaps try something with newer packages, I have a pretty similar setup like yours except for the CPU (7800X3D) with no issues on EndeavourOS. Fwiw, I have the Powercolor Reaper 9070XT which runs hot and loud out of the box but is pretty good now with a slight undervolt and tweaked fan curve