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Skelectus, (edited ) in Can I mod my Thinkpad Keyboard to work in another laptop?
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I’m sure it’s feasible, with enough knowledge and effort. How does the connector of each keyboard look? Do you have an oscilloscope or at least a multimeter to poke the keyboards with? And you’ll be needing that Arduino, either for translating it to the builtin kb port or to USB.

Physical fit is out of the scope of this comment.

simple, in can I be a Free Software advocate but still use non-free software??

Assuming this isn’t a troll post, why wouldn’t it be possible? Not everything has an open source alternative that’s nearly as good. I use Linux, I like open source, but I still use Discord and google services and occasionally a bunch of other closed source apps like Steam. Not everything ever made has to be open source.

subignition,
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this is so obviously a troll account that it's painful to see no one else questioning it

01adrianrdgz,
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ok thank you, I understand!! What matters is promoting libre software!! ^u^ By the way, Richard Stallman doesn’t say open source.

WhiteOakBayou, in can I be a Free Software advocate but still use non-free software??

You can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

nyakojiru, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.
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Windows

BroBot9000, (edited )
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If I wanted windows I wouldn’t have asked the Linux community, genius. 🤦‍♂️

woelkchen,
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I’m guessing that was meant to be a joke.

aodhsishaj, in Can I mod my Thinkpad Keyboard to work in another laptop?

You could ssh to your clevo from your thinkpad, or get a bluetooth keyboard, the keychron or royal kludge are great and can be had for under a 100, or you could desolder the keys on the clevo and replace them with scissor switches like in this article tomshardware.com/…/kailh-laptop-switches-scissor-…

Pantherina,

Hahah the point is that my Thinkpad is not trustworthy as the firmware is garbage and not updated since forever. Like, this is a security nightmare?

Pantherina,

Interesting project, but desoldering keys? That sounds like a hell of pain…

just_another_person, in Can I mod my Thinkpad Keyboard to work in another laptop?

You’d have an easier path just modding the existing keyboard to something more like you want. You’re likely not going to fit any other keyboard in your machine for a long list of reasons.

Pantherina,

This is so sad. I was pretty sure this is the case. Fuck proprietary keyboards. Thinkpads kinda suck but they have great chassis and keyboard

humanplayer2,
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Get a bigger ThinkPad.

Pantherina,

Still proprietary garbage Bios and a VEEERY shitty company behind it.

Try to get free support for a product you paid. Bot possible. They dont even answer a question like “Windows doesnt want to install, you support Windows, how the hell do I do that”.

humanplayer2,
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Get an older ThinkPad.

Pantherina,

I have one. But its too slow

humanplayer2,
@humanplayer2@lemmy.ml avatar

SSH into a stronger machine.

Pantherina,

Thats not the purpose of a laptop haha

humanplayer2,
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It’s the purpose of the laptops where I work :D We run everything on development servers, so the laptops just run your editor of choice, basically.

just_another_person,

Look up replacements for the key actions bits and such and see if there is anything out there that gets you closer. Laptops are made to be portable, but not very customizable. Good luck 👍

Pantherina,

True, I should probably leave the tech of the keyboard alone, and “just” replace switches etc

llothar, in A symptom of linux past traumas

If you have a choice - use Onshape. Fully featured CAD system, on par with SolidWorks and such, works perfectly on Linux out of the box.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

FreeCAD

BastingChemina,

I will try it.

It’s more expensive than Fusion360 but if its working well I might be interested.

captain_aggravated,
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I’ve seen Fusion360 in the Snap store.

llothar,

There is a free tier with limitation that your designs are open for others to see. Not ideal, but perfectly fine for tinkering.

warmaster, in NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance

One step closer for the FOSS drivers to be a real alternative.

Titou, in This Threat to Free Software is Worse than I Thought...
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They think they can really took aways our privacy

noddy, in NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance

Next goal then would be vulkan 1.3 such that DXVK would work.

jbrains, in A symptom of linux past traumas

This reminds me of my first week running Mac OS and searching increasingly frantically for an uninstall script for an application I’d installed.

Oh.

Drag to trash. Really? OK.

spark947, in A symptom of linux past traumas

FreeCAD is a lot more okay than people give it credit for. Perhaps I just remember back to the early days when it was basically unusable.

BeardedGingerWonder,

It kind of is, but also kind of isn’t. Don’t get me wrong I love FreeCAD to bits and it’s basically the only CAD program I use these days, but also the recommended workflow is not how any other CAD program works and is a crutch for the topo naming problem. Hopefully it’s a whole other world once topo naming is sorted.

spark947,

Yeah, it definitely still has a long way to go. I remember back in 2012 it felt impossible to even do basic 3d modeling, but that was more than 10 years ago.

arthur, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.
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@BroBot9000 cool. Thanks @alt for the link to Jovian, this might an opportunity to tinker with NixOS... Do you know how nvidia cards is supported ? (nouveau driver is ok for my kind of use).

@flashgnash thanks for reminding me the Pop_OS option... do you know if you can configure Steam to start on big picture mode to start on boot ?

alt,

I don’t own any devices with an Nvidia GPU. Therefore, I can’t share my own experiences but only the ones from the community. If my memory serves me right, it should work. However, as usual, expect some strange behavior at times. Thankfully, getting back to a working system shouldn’t cause you any troubles on Jovian-NixOS. Nonetheless, it’s something to keep in mind.

arthur,
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@alt thanks for the reply. I might try this at some point. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia seems to indicate some support.

heyoni, (edited )

I’m on NixOS using the beta drivers and it does everything as far as I can tell. DLSS, ray tracing all work and performance is the same as windows with the same settings. I don’t think I ever need to go back to windows.

FaeDrifter, in GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

This is suuuper cool, but looks like having linux+amdgpu limits me to the cloud option.

I supposed this is bc we don’t have a DirectML equivalent yet.

pantherfarber,

I got it to work yesterday. Have to go into the python venv it installs, remove torch and install it the way it describes on the comfyui GitHub.

wim,

There have been some efforts to run pytorch and StableDiffusion on ROCm. Not sure if that could be combined with this.

warmaster,

Crap, I was hoping to try it. I wonder if AMD will announce something in their FOSS / AI event.

wewbull, (edited )

It works today. Only problem I have is the memory management is pretty poor, and it’s pretty easy to run out of vram.

Rx7600 8GB + 5900X Rocm 5.7.1 Pytorch 2.1

wim, (edited )

Interesting! Got any links that explain how to set it up?

I just got a laptop with an RX 6700M 10GB ans am eager to try it :)

wewbull,

Not really. I’ve had to do quite a bit of experimentation.

My setup that I’ve settled on:

  • Rocm system libraries from Arch Linux
  • PyTorch nightly for Rocm pip installed into a venv (see instructions on pytorch homepage)
  • Set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION to 11.0.0. This is just for the RX7600 and it tells it to use the RX7900 code as the pytorch version hasn’t been compiled with 7600 support.
  • Start software.
wim,

Thanks!

byteseb,

Hmm, that’s weird. I was able to run Stable Diffusion locally with Linux + RX6600.

Probably because I used Easy Diffusion. At first, I couldn’t get the GPU acceleration to work, and I was constantly running out of RAM (Not using VRAM), so my system always froze and crashed.

Turns out it was a ROCM bug, that I don’t know if it’s fixed by now, but I remember “fixing it” by setting an environment variable to a previous version.

Then, it all worked really good. Took between 30 seconds to 2 minutes to make an image.

gunpachi, in A symptom of linux past traumas

Assuming that you are dualbooting from a single storage device - If you have some money to spare go and buy a second ssd. Keeping both OSes in separate storage devices will result in far lesser chances of screwing up.

Holzkohlen,

Though take heed for windows will always find a way to mess up your bootloader.

BCsven, (edited )

install linux After Windows and with its own boot partition. if it has foreign OS probe it finds windows and adds a chainloader grub entry. Set linux as default in bios. Windows never knows it is chainloaded and leaves your linux boot alone

BastingChemina,

This is what I did, I prepared a partition for windows on the second ssd and it went OK.

The only issue was that I needed to manually add drivers on the windows usb for it to be able to recognized my ssd. It was a bit of a pain to find this information online

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