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| | ncona.com
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| | A family member told me her computer was very slow and asked me if I could do something about it. Her computer was pretty old and was running some version of Windows, but since she used it mostly for browsing and storing photos, I told her installing some light version of Linux might help it run a little faster. The machine has an AMD 64x2 processor and 1 GB of RAM. Looking at the requirements for Ubuntu, I found that it recommends 2 GB of RAM so I decided to try Lubuntu, which uses a lighter desktop env...
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| | I've had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I've used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible. But this time I'm pleasantly surprised. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz) GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (integrated) RAM: 32GB DDR5, soldered SSD: 1 TB NVMe Display: 1920x1200 resolution Two USB-C ports Two USB-A ports HDMI out A full-sized Ethernet port!
| | eran.sandler.co.il
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| | Fixing NVMe Drive Detection on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 with Ubuntu I recently got a used ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 off eBay. It came without a storage drive, probably because it used to belong to some company and they pulled the disk before selling it. I picked up a Samsung 980 NVMe at a good price and installed it. The BIOS saw it right away, so I figured I was good to go. But when I booted the Ubuntu installer, it couldn't see the drive.
| | www.lieberbiber.de
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| Das Linux Professional Institute hat die empfohlenen Preise für Prüfungen auf 150$ erhöht.