I need some advice, and the amount of marketing spam had made sorting the wheat from the chaff annoyingly difficult. Hopefully you can help.
I've a young daughter, who uses an old tablet of mine to watch netflix etc. unfortunately, it was old in the tooth when she was born, and it's now become extremely annoying to use.
She currently has a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016). The size (10") works well, but it's gotten slow as sin, and only has 16Gb of internal memory.
Preferences wise:
10" screen (±2")
64Gb+ storage.
Long expected lifespan (inc security updates).
Headphone socket (adapters are asking to get broken, Bluetooth go flat)
Decent WiFi (more than just 2.4Ghz).
USB C charging preferred.
Wireless charging would be very helpful but not required.
Lower budget preferred (£200 range).
What would people recommend?
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I've been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don't like the direction they seem to be heading.
I've also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I'm sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?
I'm not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don't want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?
I'm upgrading to a new laptop (unfortunately, a desktop is not viable for me right now). It's a VR gaming machine, with some potential work with machine learning (me learning about it). I've got a system option, but it's into price flinching territory, and wanted a once over, from those more in the know.
Are there any obvious flaws in it, and is it reasonable for the price?
Display: 1 x 16.0" IPS | 2560×1600 px (16:10) | 240 Hz | G-SYNC | 95 % sRGB
Graphic Card: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop | 12 GB GDDR6
Processor: 1 x Intel Core i9-13900HX
Ram: 2 x 16 GB (32 GB) DDR5-5600 Samsung
SSD (M.2): 1 x 1 TB M.2 Samsung 990 PRO | PCIe 4.0 x4 | NVMe
Keyboard: 1 x Mechanical keyboard with CHERRY MX ULP Tactile switches
WLAN: 1 x Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 | Bluetooth 5.3
It prices up at €2,809.31 (£2,484.57 or $3,130.80) including shipping and taxes.
It's worth noting the system comes with an optional external water cooling system, so the CPU and GFX are less thermally limit, when it's plugged in. It also has a proper keyboard, not the normal membrane ones.
What are people's opinions? It is a reasonable price, or am I way too far up the diminishing returns slope?
My Google-fu has completely failed me. I've got an RGB addressable led curtain. It has 20 strings of 20 LEDs in a square arrangement. I initially assumed it had a wire feeding led data back up, to go to the next drop. On checking however, they are T jointed.
Apparently the address is hard coded into the RGB controller in the LED. I've found a few places where others have talked about them. I've also found that adafruit had some available,, unfortunately they lacked any info on how they are programmed, or where to source them from.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4917
Anyone got any info on what the chip name of these is? Even better if you have any info on how they are programmed etc!
Might not be the best place to ask, but nowhere else reliant seemed alive.
My old laser printer has given up the ghost. What are people's recommendations on a replacement. As far as I'm aware, Brother are about the only company both making reasonably priced printers and not playing stupid games. Beyond that though, I'm not up to date on what's good and what's not.
Requirements.
Colour laser.
WiFi
Works with both windows and Linux
No need for scanner etc.
CD/ID card printing nice, but not required.
Photo quality nice, but not required (we have an ink sublimation printer for photos).
I'm UK based, which can mess with availability.
Thanks in advance.
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