My problem (having moved Win to Lin, Ableton to Bitwig too) is with sound. Latency is one and bad. Getting any sound at all on Bluetooth is also hard, where the latency is even worse. Wish there was a simple "apt install make-audio-work-well-for-daw" I could run on my KDE Ubuntu 24.04...

Hmm. I'm on a stock Arch install and had no latency or quality issues to speak of. Bluetooth works out of the box using `bluez` and `blueman`, though Bluetooth is still Bluetooth, with inherent latency. Some headphones have low-latency modes that can be activated in their respective apps at the expense of ANC/battery life, maybe that'll help?

The apt command you're looking for may be the audio backend, though. `apt install pipewire wireplumber -y`. Won't break your existing pulseaudio setup, but will allow low-latency operations. (I think--I avoid the dumpster fire that is Ubuntu like the plague, so ymmv)

Thanks. I actually have those two. I just never figured out how to get bluetooth working with them. The regular speakers or headphone jack work reasonably well.

HP Zbook Ultra G1a, 128GB RAM. Add SSD to taste. HP supported (Canonical OEM) Ubuntu with KDE. Works great as a daily driver with a UGreen GAN charger.

Interesting, I had never even heard of this laptop! Thanks for the tip!

Excellent idea. I recall that Republicans used to believe a lot in federalism and "state's rights."

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This seems like it is speaking from privilege. I have not even paid the car off, 5.5 years later. I am not going to sell a perfectly working (if not very good IMO) car at a loss. And buy what instead? No, I will stick with my functional but terribly unergonomic car now built by a nazi.

I do too. Combined with progressive lenses and I have significant chromatic aberration issues. Blue and red pixels require different focus, which is sometimes an issue when solid blues and reds are on screen in close proximity. I turn off pure blue colors in my terminal emulator, for example.

That sounds familiar. I also have ever so slight green-brown color blindness. It's only really noticeable in low light (like in the woods in evenings), but that could well all stack up to be a problem.

I also have significant problems with blue LEDs around the house, to the point where I've removed, replaced, or covered almost all of them. They really, really bother me because it feels like my eyes never focus on them and they leave me feeling slightly disoriented.

I could not pass the making sure you are not a bot on an airline flight mid Atlantic. So stupid.

Just change your User-Agent to one that doesn't include Mozilla and you will bypass it. There is a WebExtension that can do that automatically for Anubis sites, or you can just do it more generally.

weird, i’ve passed plenty of these on flights.

I have a Strix Halo 395 128GB laptop running Ubuntu from HP. I have not been able to do anything with the NPU. I was hoping it could be used for OpenCL, but does not seem so.

What examples do you have of making the NPU in this processor useful please?

All the videos I've seen of AI workloads with an AMD Strix Halo with 128GB setup have used the GPU for the processing. It has a powerful iGPU and unified memory more like Apple's M chips.

Also the Copilot button/key is useless. It cannot be remapped to anything in Ubuntu because it sends a sequence of multiple keycodes instead if a single keycode for down and then up. You cannot remap it to a useful modifier or anything! What a waste of keyboard real estate.

If you want a small adventure, you could see which HID device those keystrokes show up on, and they might be remappable courtesy of showing up on a HID device for that specific button. Failing that, they most likely come from either ACPI AML code or from the embedded controller (EC). If the former, it’s not that hard to patch the AML code, and maybe Copilot could do it for you (you use standard open source tooling to disassemble the AML blob, which the kernel will happily give you, and then you make a patched version and load it). If the latter, you could see if anyone has made progress toward finding a less silly way to configure the EC.

(The EC is a little microcontroller programmed by the OEM that does things like handling weird button presses.)

There are also reports of people having decent results using keyd to remap the synthetic keystrokes from the copilot button.

(The sheer number of times Microsoft has created totally different specs for how OEMs should implement different weird buttons is absurd.)