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I'd like to host lemmy on my LAN and I'd be the only user, no registration open. I would subscribe to communities on other instances and my instance would get the posts and comments. would that work? I don't need it to be accessible from the internet.

snagged one for $60, busted screen AND torn out hinges, guess someone was having a really bad day... honestly, was hoping for just the board to work so I can turn it into a ghetto AiO.

however, everything works - i5-8350u, 8 GB soldered + 1 empty slot, 93÷ battery health, keyboard and touchpad work, unlocked BIOS, super decent condition... I guess I'll restore it instead.

need to get me a cheap nvme and 8 GB expansion. I reserved a panel for monday (found a basic 250-nit model) and then check if I can repair the panel's housing or get a replacement.

edit: guess jerboa ate the bottom part of my post... so I'm looking for an alternative panel, preferably one with 300+ nits and/or 8-bit color (stock ones are 250 nit and 6-bit) specifically ones that can be sourced from junkers (people who disassemble laptops to sell parts); ordering new panels from Ali or wherever is not an option for me.

as to the display housing, I'm not sure this would be solid, even if I could glue this together with epoxy or something similar, it seems superflimsy... anyone been down that road?

edit 2: so, apparently this is a well-known issue with T480s specifically; the T480 have plastic display covers whereas T480s have some carbon mix that is layered and is prone to crack if the hinges are too tight.

in other news, covers from T470s and T490s should fit as well, so I have that to fall back on if my epoxy attempt doesn't succeed.

edit 3: clean and repaste

edit 4: added 8 GB DDR4 3200 (running at 2400) and a 1 TB NVMe. dirt cheap, works fine. ~~only bummer though, the memory runs at single channel. fuck you very much lenovo, this ain't a $200 budget netbook, you couldn't spend the extra 13 cents for this!?~~ nope, runs dual channel; the disinfo is from Lenovo UEFI diagnostics and that's a known issue.

lubed the hinges a bit, don't want to overdo it. going to get the panel mañana and then attempt the epoxy patch job.

edit 5:

epoxy holds, cured in like 10 minutes. with the lubed hinges it feels solid, doesn't look like it's coming off.

the new screen! well, new to me, came off of some unknown donor. was super-scared because of the specs (250 nit, 6-bit) but in use it looks gorgeous, angles are good, colors OK, brightness has a sensible range, no complaints here.

routing them cables, what a chore though... and the antennas on the wifi card, madonn' - took like half an hour.

as to optics - honestly, looks like shit, especially with the lid closed. but this is a temporary arrangement until I can source a display cover for normal money. some local junker is asking $40 for a "slightly" used cover; by his metric I'm slightly not a teenager. even if it's an accurate description, I'm not paying that for a piece of plastic.

the final product! everything works, sleeps/wakes, fan turns on rarely... haven't dicked around with tlp yet, let's see how it works without it. presently runs debian 12, plasma desktop with flatpak apps.

~~I'd like again to extend my sincere fuck-yous to lenovo for making this gorgeous thing single-channel only. this is why nobody likes you, you hacks!~~ wrong, as stated above.

like, if I send the QR code to someone I want to talk to via email, anyone intercepting this message will at the very least know my SimpleX address; same thing if I send it via messenger.

edit: let's assume we don't have an established and trusted channel. furthermore, they're not expecting this info.

apologies if this community is just for news, feel free to remove.

anyhoo, having trouble getting my WD19 dock to display 4K@60Hz. the laptop is a Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1, it supports DP-Alt over USB-C (no Thunderbolt) and a direct connection from the laptop to the screen works. however, attaching the monitor to the dock via DP, and then connecting the dock to the laptop with its USB Type-C cable with PD yields 4k@30Hz max.

Dell has a bunch of newer WD19 models (TB, S, etc.) but I don't have those.

it is possible that my hardware is faulty as I've sourced it nth-hand, but before I start replacing it one-by-one, maybe someone got it to work? thanks.

or is it possibly due to my shitty phone (low RAM)?

I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF (Zen+) and 2x 8 GB DDR4 3600 HyperX. when I select XMP1, it says 1.35V in the profile. however, when I boot Strelec WinPE USB (I'm on Fedora, I really don't want to install windows just so I can run HWINFO), install all drivers and launch HWINFO64 it says 1.2V. so I enter BIOS again, go to Voltages and enter 1.35 manually instead of auto. no change, still reads 1.2V. the BIOS side screen shows 1.35 after reboot.

I've found an unresolved thread somewhere with the same problem for my board. I'm on latest BIOS.

am I missing something, is there some additional setting I need to switch so it registers? the BIOS setup is hella confusing and borderline stupid, e.g. enabling virtualization required turning on SMP (how am I supposed to guess what that is?!) that's located in the "Frequency" subsection (wtf?!).

ok, so I get that there's a multitude of lemmy instances and they're not exchanging data, in the sense that if there's community jimbo on instance rambo, all comments are stored there.

so if the operator of rambo goes "man fuck this" and shuts it down, the posts/comments are gone? there's no way to replicate them or sync them or whatever?

if there's multiple jimbos on different instances is there some aggregation type of deal or do I have to subscribe to all the jimbos out there? and if I have something important to say about topic jimbo, I just spam/crosspost my idea to all the jimbos out there?