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With the existing amount of different Linux distributions LTT can make this a series where they simply show 10 distros at a time and talk about them. I really would like to see more LInux content on this channel. It is always refrehsing to see that there are more options to Windows or MacOS than one might know. Worth mentioning would also be DSL (Damn Small Linux). It also can be run natively under Windows using a bundled Quemu hypervisor. Russia also has its own distro named Astra Linux. I have installed Siduction on many machines and also use Linux at work.

Does the USBvalve also protect the host against USB killers?

Then you never have seen a current gen. Dell keyboard.

The reason those old OptiPlex machines with Kaby Lake and below generation processors now flood the used market is, that large companies or government institutions are switching to Windows 11. Those old machines are not suitable for that OS anymore, because Microsoft does not support those old CPUs or lack of TPM2.0. Also those old machines will not get any modern BIOS or driver updates anymore. From a security point of view this might be a problem and unneccesary liability when those vunerable machines are still in operation. If the warranty contract or lease has expired any repair for those machines might be either expensive and/or taking too long. One big advantage of those prebuilt machines is - as Linus mentioned - one saves a lot of time and effort when deploying those machines to a large number of users. With just dozens of employees in house and hand made computers might work, but if you have hundreds or thousands of employees one might lift some weight off the IT department. With warranty and service options available from those companies like Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. you just call them when a problem with the hardware arises and they will fix the issue for you within that maintenance or warranty period. Those Micro models in a 1L form factor are also nice devices for the average office person that just does some light office, mail and browsing tasks. They don't consume a lot of electical power and don't waste valuable space on the desk. Those old shown devices also make up for nice Linux machines.

Actually the wire gauge and colors can easily be reserached from the USB specificiations which the USB-IF offers to download. Just making any lenght of cable from off the shelf standard cable does not tell the whole story. To comply one has also to respect the voltage drop at rated current for that connection. Using the thinner data lines (white and green) for power is a bad idea. Alex as an engineering person should have known that. I also don't get why they don't use the heat gun also for the heat shrink tubes. Using a lighter leaves that black marks and is not controllable in temperature. As an electroniic engineer myself who tailors many cables myself some things look not right to me.

My Reasons: Full source code available and changable to indivitual needs (Depends on actual license term). Many choices for distributions. Can work well with older hardware where new Windows versions don't work anymore. Central package management using standard repositories. One central instance keeps all parts of system and user software up to date. Powerful shell that fully allows complete system control using standard POSIX and GNUTools. Most servers on the internet run some sort of Linux. System stability. Can run for years without interruption. Ksplice can also patch kernels at runtime, so no system reboot is required. Fully customizable. Available for many hardware platforms and processor architectures. Many Windows/Mac programs are also available for Linux. No need to relearn anything in that case.

I am seriously emotinally aroused after that ciricisim about the TrackPoint. I never thoght that one enineering guy like Alex would complain about the presence of that device. I seriously hate trackpads and I'm glad that I coudl turn the trackpad off in the BIOS of my W520. The TrackPoint is the surperiour input device for moving a mouse cursor around. Every business notebook should have that. I remember the Twitter thread some weeks ago about the trackpoint. It seems the nobody of LLT staff read the replies. FYI my profile picture is set purposeley as it is. Praise the trackpoint! On other topics I agree. 1366x768 pixels and TN panel screens should be forbidden in 2019 and even FHD is too less height these days. I wish the 16:10 aspect ratio would make a combeack on mobile. I seriously miss the 120px more height on WUXGA vs FHD and could use 2560x1600 instead of 2560x1440. 4K with 4096x2560 would be my dream.

Fermilab has many similarites for superconducting linear acceleration technology to FLASH at DESY or XFEL.

Hi, this was an impressing video about that facility. If you ever will be in Europe soon, don't miss out on DESY/XFEL in Hamburg, Germany. See https://www.desy.de or https://www.xfel.eu and get in touch with our PR department. I think they might be interested to show you around. Don't miss out on visiing the actual accelerators itself like XFEL, FLASH, PETRA, HERA and more. I love to see other research institutes seen through different eyes. DM me for details.

It's very satisfying to just lift out the connector from the PCB without using any force.

I think @AlexTheGreatish needs a selective wave soldering machine to remove those pesky DVI connectors without barbaric angle grinding.

It looks like they have put in a FHD or 4K screen in the device. Instead they could have also used a 16:10 WUXGA or QWUXGA panel to get rid of that THICC ugly chin and the unnecessary ROG logo.

Kudos to Dell: Once I had to call the Dell support about a problem with my Dell Latitude D830 which was just 1.5 years old and I have ordered with 36 months NBD onsite serivce. In end of 2009 I had to call the business support here in Germany because the main board died on a Saturday afternoon. The phone lines were already closed at that Saturday afternoon, but I called on Monday and arranged an appointment for Thursday morning after I got put through after max. 10 minutes to an operator. The service technician appeared at my parents home while I was still at work and replaced the entire motherboard of that machine without any questions asked. This machine which I bought in February 2008 is still working today and never had any problems again with this machine. My machine at work (Latitude E7450) needed twice NBD support during it's 36 months period. Both cases were perfeclty addressed by very competent technicans direclty in my workplace. So why is anyone still buying that consumer crap these days when you can really get very charming and competent and well working support for your business grade machines?

Uhm, acutally the liquid metal application almost gave me ASMR. lol.

FYI, the refusal of repair is also summarized in the German tech magazine Heise-Online.