LevitatingBusinessMan

I don't get this video.

First of all, I thought the purpose of Shortcircuit was to be more unboxing oriented, but to me this video looks more like a budget LTT video.
Neither the title or the thumbnail reveil the product the video is about, which I would expect from a product unboxing.

Secondly this video was so uninformed. The phone isn't viewed as a privacy focused phone but as a general Linux phone. That's cool and all but then don't pretend like it's the only one.
It's almost as if this video was made as soon as the product arrived without even taking a second to google to similiar products.

Linux phones have existed for years, and there are companies who have been making them for years. The experience of this random ass phone is not nearly the same as the experience of a phone that uses more well-known desktop environments like Gnome Touch or Plasma Mobile. I wished the video would at least mention those things.

If you titled the video "Reviewing the Librem 5, a Linux phone" cool, go ahead and review the phone, and your goal should be to review the experience of using that phone. Don't make bold conclusions on the usability of Linux phones when you've only tested one.

Why watch the video if the reviewers knows nothing of the product? I get it, Shortcircuit videos aren't meant to be following a script of some sorts. But at least do some research, and review the product. Don't review the product group, using a single product to represent the rest. It's the same as with the 99$ phone video from a few years back, you can go ahead and review that shit alcatel phone, but don't pretend like it's the only phone in that price range. There's a whole world of budget phones and they bought the worst one and pretended like it was the best. That video got so much criticism that I thought they would remove it, they never even commented on it.

Is there anyone on this forum who has noticed the same thing about videos on both LTT and Shortcircuit where there is just completely no research done beforehand?
The quality of LTT has dropped so much in my opinion.

@Tristerin @mr moose @Leslieann @NZgamer

On 2/24/2020 at 10:46 PM, LevitatingBusinessMan said:

I'd just like to interject for a moment.  What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it.  Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use.  Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.  Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux.  All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

This is a copypasta. The myth goes that Richard Stallman founder of GNU once wrote this in an email.

It's a joke, not meant to be taken literally, I expected the tech savy people on this forum to understand this.
 

And have you guys even watched the video? The copypasta was qouted in the video itself...

It's at 8:18: 

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection

I think the video covered just about everything important. It was a good video.

I think there could have been elaborated on how different Desktop Environments can change the experience with Linux, but that's really the only thing I'd add to the video.
Good stuff.

I'd just like to interject for a moment.  What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it.  Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use.  Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.  Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux.  All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

On 1/30/2019 at 6:18 PM, lyiriyah said:

This post was referencing eDEX-UI. Do YoU evEn clIk LinkZ bR0

I do, and you clearly didn't know what you were talking about before.

On 1/4/2019 at 6:26 PM, lyiriyah said:

This is a terminal based on DEX-UI but is built on Electron.

Here are some screenshots and a link to the binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows.

The first link goes to DEX-UI, Seena Burns project. Then the link to more screenshots and are GitSquareds project. So you don't know the difference. Before you share these kind of things please know what you are talking about, and credit the author

DEX-UI was not made to actually be usable. Inspired by DEX-UI recently a guy called GitSquared made EDEX-UI. This though, is actually very functional. The terminal used can be changed by editing the json like mentioned. If you install git bash you can make it work on windows with a bash terminal.

Since you joined the forum you have literally only made posts about your issues installing Kali (and a post about removing your bios chip ?!?!)

For the love of God stop trying, Kali isn't designed as a desktop OS and it won't make you a hacker

It does look really good 
 

Edit: About the airflow, I have a super cheap case which has the same kind of front airflow, just a little grid to the side of the front panel. But with 3 fans in front and 1 in the back it moves air like a beast.

22 hours ago, corrado33 said:

The article even says "For the record, I don’t think it’s that much of a problem. This device will mostly live in backpacks and on tables, not accidentally bending in pockets."

Read the article yourself, that's a quote from MKBHD. 

Also a lot of people are saying that it shouldn't be suprising for a product to bend so easily, and that if you sit on your ipad it breaking is your own fault. But this thing is a 1000 dollars and breaks in half after the guy put some pressure on it. That thing will bent fast, way too fast. I have used an old iPad which would always be somewhere on my bed for when I wanted to netflix and I probably slept on the thing a couple of times, no problem at all. It sucks having to worry about something you just spend a thousand bucks on to not just completely bend like it's a piece of paper if you accidentally drop your backpack onto something. I know it's not an iPhone and it won't be in someones pocket but I still think a tablet should be able to survive being in the house and not just at the desk

That BitFenix case is actually pretty fucking slick

My username in every place on the internet is either Levitating or LevitatingBusinessMan. Which is based off of this emoji: . Which is dubbed "Man in Business Suite Levitating".
I also use the bahroo happy panda emoji a lot as my avatar currently (the one on this forum right now). 

If you are are willing to take this one, 

get creative!

Edit: If you actually do this I'll probably make some business cards and stickers of the logo, I feel like that should be done

That'd run just about any game on 1080p (I have a ryzen 3 and 1050ti).
It has no SSD though, and I don't know if it's worth the money because I don't know what the prices in the UK are

your link's not working

Edit:

https://www.freshtechsolutions.co.uk/amd-ryzen-2600-1tb-8gb-ddr4-gtx-1050ti-4gb-blitz-computer-gaming-pc.html

18 hours ago, carnex said:

As some other people already pointed out, this video is really bad.

Yes, my problem with the video is mostly that people will take the advice, thinking that Alcatel is your best option around that price point. I have seen videos from ltt where I believe they didn't do nearly enough research/comparison to similiar options on the market, but this one is by far the worst.

CTRL+SHIFT+J open the developer console, you should check if any errors are thrown in it when clicking on play

What the fuck is wrong with those guys. You can buy a lot of decent phones for that price.
I own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5a Prime

specs:

Display: 5.5 inch 1280 x 720 pixels screen 

CPU: Snapdragon 435 Octa Core 1.4GHz 
System: MIUI 8 and above (android 7)
Storage: 3GB RAM + 32GB ROM 
Cameras: front 16.0MP + rear 8.0MP

The thing cost me 115 dollars, and although is sometimes cheaper to buy from AliExpress directly can also be bought on a couple of webshops here in the Netherlands.
This phone doesn't have Android GO and in my experience isn't slow at all.
There is no reason to buy a phone like the Alcatel 1X for 99 dollars if you can buy a lot of redmi models for around the same price which CAN run Android.

Edit:
I'll tell you some more about it. It runs MIUI 9 which is based on android 7. It can be rooted and changed to a different Andoird version but it's a pain. And although I heard people dislike I enjoy it a lot. There is some Mi bloatware but it's really not that bad, and you have to use their app for changing the launcher. But that app does support user-made skins and can also change the look of you lock-screen. MiUI comes with a ram and memory cleaner on it's own and things like a file manager (with even an ftp server built in) and a lot more useful shit. Also smaller things like a QR reader, ability to share a wifi password through a QR code and handy stuff like that. I think the screen looks decent but has horribly dull coloring, the Snapdragon 435 may not be the newest processor but it's not slow at all and can handle a lot. A mobile gamer could certainly play on it. The camera's look like shit even though they should look fine spec-wise, no clue why it seems to just be really bad handling light in any situation. The phone feels really premium, it has an aluminium back and is super light. Oh and last thing if you break the screen you don't even have to buy a new phone you can just buy a new display for 19 dollars from china. The displays already on a frame so any noob can replace it

1 minute ago, Emulele said:

I don't think I can change the order of the screws as they were screwed in the places they're in right now when the case arrived

Oh I thought you already had the bottom 3 screwed in and after that found out the rest weren't aligned... 
Really the board should just fit the I/O opening

Unscrew it and change the order of screws you are screwing in, don't be scared to push it from the side with some force to make them align.

Lubuntu is really lightweight, but I have had issues with installing packages before when using it on a 32 bit machine. Maybe you should consider what desktop environment you like the most.

If you really want to make a 2d game you want an engine.

If you just want to learn how to program and make your own version of pong at some point there are great tutorials for python on how to such. Python is an easy language for beginners and can do almost anything you can imagine.

Edit: Seeing that you have already been using codecademy, its python course is great

I think the windows installer thing only works when booted off an usb. Just put a new version of windows on that usb and install from that, these installations take a while regardless of the usb

6 hours ago, fasauceome said:

he could if the 4460 was overclockable and he had an overclocking motherboard

Oh I am an idiot I didn't even think about that, my apologies 

1 hour ago, HyDdRaZz said:

Hmm idk, i just tested with i5 4460 and did the same issue

  

If you have an i5 4460 you could try overclocking it and you should be able to decrease that bottleneck quite a bit

1 minute ago, 17030644 said:

80+ bronze means nothing, and good quality PSUs usually come with x50W capacities and 80+ gold or higher ratings so...

I meant that if it is a 500W 80+ bronze there's no way that it's so crappy OP has to spend 70 dollars to get a new one with no further reason at all except overclocking.

I mean your advice here has impact on if this guy thinks he has to spend 70 dollars on a psu I'd say he doesn't need.

Just now, fasauceome said:

Well since OP didn't list the model so it might be a craptastic bargain bin supply, GQ would be better than some 7 year old raidmax boi

An upgrade worth 70 dollars? It's a 90 plus bronze it's fine