I use the battery health settings on my Lenovo laptop and it's been amazing, it wasn't even able to do this on Windows. In fact my original battery turned into a spicy pillow because Windows would just keep it at 100% all the time. I was running with no battery for a while, but finally got a new battery recently.
Now I have it set to stop charging when it reaches 80%, and it doesn't start charging unless it's below 60%. Probably overly safe but I love the flexibility of these controls. The charging control even works while the laptop is sleeping. And the power passthrough works properly too because the battery level never goes down while it's plugged in.
I'm no longer afraid of leaving the laptop powered on and plugged in for long periods of time.
I've definitely noticed #2 and #3, very annoying! They should both show the same text input (not a straight display clone since they might be different resolutions/ratios)
On a side note, I've noticed some Linux installers don't handle multiple screens well or high resolutions. I think Calamares is a big offender here, it doesn't clone to every display so I end up stuck trying to use my sideways monitor. Or on a 4k screen everything is tiny for no reason, it should just default zoom on high resolution.
I much prefer the installers that are just a regular window on a normal desktop, where you can move it, maximize it, easily access the DPI settings and other system settings, browse the internet while it's installing...
On Reddit you'd often see Pixel users gloat over Samsung users about their fast updates, but then you'd see the same Pixel users complaining about bugs in the recent update lol. I think a lot of people don't realize that's the trade-off. And no one knows how long Apple holds iPhone updates internally before releasing them.
I have a Pixel, but I do not install updates immediately when I get the notification. I let them simmer for a week or so, and check Lemmy/Reddit to see if there are any issues before I install it.
Releasing updates as fast as possible is not always a good thing.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of rolling updates, just seems more likely for things to break.
Kubuntu has been pretty good for me, but I think Fedora generally has much newer packages even though it isn't rolling. It might be a good compromise for me. Or maybe Manjaro.
Yeah I've been thinking about this kind of thing recently. It should be possible to make things way more seamless. It could just have an entire emulated C drive in the home directory and automatically run exe files through WINE. Just associate the .exe file extension with the program you use to setup the environment and launch WINE for it.
The December survey was bugged, March could've been similar but never fixed. Before this fix, December had numbers that were adding up to more than 100% so it was a bug not just bad luck, they didn't even redo the survey they just reprocessed the same data.
All medical professionals and curious onlookers are welcome. Be kind and respectful: these are your colleagues. No PHI or hate-speech. Debate is good, blatant misinformation is not.
I use the battery health settings on my Lenovo laptop and it's been amazing, it wasn't even able to do this on Windows. In fact my original battery turned into a spicy pillow because Windows would just keep it at 100% all the time. I was running with no battery for a while, but finally got a new battery recently.
Now I have it set to stop charging when it reaches 80%, and it doesn't start charging unless it's below 60%. Probably overly safe but I love the flexibility of these controls. The charging control even works while the laptop is sleeping. And the power passthrough works properly too because the battery level never goes down while it's plugged in.
I'm no longer afraid of leaving the laptop powered on and plugged in for long periods of time.