Yeep there are quite a few of these that get them into the hands of disadvanteged people or underfunded schools and such.

How did you solve it?

This is a great joke tho. I also assumed this was a morphmoe type thing, but i think this is funnier.

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

It doesnt really feel “slow” to me but just buggy and like its trying to do too many things at once.

Thats just 14h tho, not too bad.

They have a page about that: https://watchy.sqfmi.com/docs/battery-life

With only time keeping, Watchy should have a battery life of 5-7 days, while with fetching data over WiFi, it should last between 2-3 days. These numbers can be extended through further optimizations (e.g. sleep during off hours, waking up only on motion/tilt, etc.).

By default it wakes up the CPU and updates the display every 60 seconds, but you could totally change this to make it only update on demand (the most efficient would be by button press) which should extend the battery life waaay beyond 7 days.

I havent used it yet, so cant really say much, but ive been looking at watchy. https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

ESP32 based with a epaper display

If just this one OS, that i havent even really heard of, hit 100k downloads in two days, then there must have been like 100M downloads in the last week or so for all linux distros combined. Now i wanna see someone try to aggregate all download numbers from the major distros into a time plot to see if there is a noticeable change.

The lenovo is super cheap (sub 100€) and peobably does most things you usually need yeah.

There is privacytools.io aswell

I would have thought that ubuntu does proper stability testing before pushing out updates. Well im glad you were able to get it working again.

I would generally never update to the latest driver with an nvidia card. On some distros it might work out, but i have always had less issues by just staying one or more major versions behind. If your system auto updates to latest, then thats kinda bad design by the distro devs imho. What distro are you on?

Ooh i see. That was kinda missing from the post for me to understand it. Do you just not wanna spend any money or why keep that card? You could get a used AMD card that is 10-30 times as powerful for like 30-50€

Im all for extending hardware lifetime as much as possible, but after 10 years i feel like its okay to upgrade.

Maybe im missing something here, but why do you need to use such an old driver version? Trixie ships with 550 if you enable non-free so why not use that? Considering you tried the official installer i would think you dont mind non-free drivers.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nvidia-driver

This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity.

Well it doesnt fucking matter what “makes sense to you” because it is working…
Its being deployed by people who had their sites DDoS’d to shit by crawlers and they are very happy with the results so what even is the point of trying to argue here?

Its just android with the termux app open…

I did NOT expect to see ENA lewds today but im not mad either.
The second image is pretty cool too:

The clothes dont match the original but whatever.