Got a new laptop!
First order of the day: removing the annoying air bubbles. 😭
Laptop screen with protector and air bubbles
After a while I got fed up with it and could not not get rid of the last few small bubbles. What’s your opinion on this: is this screen protector thing even required? I always removed mine from the phones I have, and I don’t think the Apple laptops ever came with it. But then again I haven’t bought a laptop in a long time.
Oh well. I removed mine.
1. browser works, bookmark my blog, and two Mastodon instances: octodon.social and dice.camp
2. install Emacs
3. install git
Currently installed: *HTTPS Everywhere*, *Privacy Badger*, *uBlock Origin*, *uMatrix*. I guess the IceCat defaults are not installed? Also, I can’t install from Firefox directly: HTTPS by default says I must install Firefox, first.
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Things I have noticed:
1. just now the system told me it had upgrades pending and a restart was required – this surprised me, because using `apt` practically never requires a restart
2. after the restart, updates were installed, it restarted again, and I was presented with a white-on-blue dialog where I could choose between memory tests and two options of booting the system – after a few seconds it booted PureOS; I bet that must confuse non-technical people
3. I’m still confused by the keyboard every now and then: sometimes key presses don’t register
Still wondering whether I should practice harder with my external Atreus keyboard. But then everything just takes so much longer.
#Purism #Gadgets #Firefox
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What I’ve seen twice in the last few days, now: at night, I close the laptop lid when the laptop is on batteries, sending it to sleep, plug it in, and the next morning I unplug the laptop, carry it elsewhere and open the lid, and the *ventilators* come on and blow like crazy and nothing seems to stop them except for a complete shutdown.
Reboot and the ventilators don’t come back up, so it really isn’t the heat. It’s a bug somewhere.
– Alex 2018-01-02 09:49 UTC
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The laptop had to be replaced... See 2018-01-04 Black Screen.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-01-23 10:07 UTC
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A review by the Pepper & Carrot person.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-04-23 06:14 UTC
