Can you try the icanhazpdf hashtag on Mastodon? https://c.im/tags/icanhazpdf

X1 Carbons of several generations have been notorious for their Thunderbolt defects, which appear after a while. For instance this or this (sorry for the Reddit links), and there are others related to connecting to screens. Right these days I’m dealing with the Thunderbolt-charging defect in my Gen 9. Luckily still under warranty.

Best of luck with your problem! I suggest you use your warranty if still active (and better with on-site assistance than sending the thing).

Thank you for the vendor names! I’ll check out if they offer anything with stylus.

Re: support, what I mean is driver support.

I agree on your general point, but it also means that they produce OEM drivers that only work with a specific OS version. If you update, then you’re on your own regarding those drivers. This is the case for instance for some touchpad/trackpoint or battery custom drivers available for Ubuntu 20.04 on an X1 Carbon, but not later Ubuntu versions.

The problem I’m discovering now with Linux & Lenovo/Thinkpads is that Lenovo officially only supports one particular LTS version for any given laptop model. For instance, an X1 Carbon gen 9 officially supports only Ubuntu 20.04. If your laptop – hopefully – lasts longer than the long-term-support duration, then you have to choose between (1) staying with an OS version that’s becoming more and more outdated, or (2) possibly be on your own if hardware/firmware problems appear in the more recent OS version.

Personally when my Thinkpad (Kubuntu) stops working properly I’ll go with a vendor that fully supports Linux, including updates.

Ah that’s bad. I eventually managed to try out Wayland in the 24.04 live session, and it doesn’t support my touch/pen-screen: "“Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported”. So I hope future versions will still offer X11 where Wayland can’t work yet. Otherwise the situation becomes like for Windows, that a new OS version means you have to update hardware too…

Indeed that worked, thank you!. It was good to try; turns out Wayland doesn’t support my touch/pen-screen, so I’ll keep X11.

Yes, it turns out one can change session at login! Turns out Wayland doesn’t support my tablet, so I’ll stick with X11.

Thank you. This live USB defaulted to X11 for some reason, but I was able to change to Wayland after the session started.

It turns out Wayland doesn’t support my touch/pen-screen: "“Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported”. So X11 it is.

lack of global hotkeys in Wayland, graphics tablet support issues, OBS not supporting embedded browser windows, Japanese and other foreign as well as onscreen keyboard support issues that are somehow worse than on X11, no support for overscanning monitors or multiple mouse cursors, no multi-monitor fullscreen option, regressions with accessibility, inability of applications to set their (previously saved) window position, no real automation alternative for xdotool, lacking BSD support and worse input latency with gaming.

All things that don’t matter to modern users.

This was a cool chapter from so many points of view indeed!

You don’t solve fascism by bowing down. But of course one can wait for another population to solve it for them.

Check out xremap https://github.com/xremap/xremap

One big, sad problem in machine learning and AI is that many, hopefully not most, practitioners there are largely incompetent in statistics and probability. This is why they often incorrectly evaluate the performance before deployment.

Does it really? sad. I was reading the “invite” process and can’t say I fully understand it.

Papers can always be uploaded to https://libgen.is/scimag/librarian/ Many thanks to all the anonymous users who do.

Yes, though I think I also read it from other sources. But I want to read more and find out further news about those claims.

No, I stand corrected: the summary/snippet wasn’t showing some of the quoted search words, but the page had all of them. Well done SearXNG.

Trying it these past days and I’m impressed!

I didn’t know about this – that may explain the problem.

Nice initiative besides the search service! Thanks for sharing.