Back in the good days when vim users were vim users and nobody knew you were a dog. When buying a video card could be as casual as a network card.

I guess AnandTech (RIP) had taken over the mantle next to you guys by then if memory serves right?

Supposedly both the display manager and greeters have system-wide configuration for this purpose, however. And the issue with notifications and DE overlays are present post login, too.

Did you look this up?

What do you think is more likely - that KDE Neon does not have a testing version of Plasma Login Manager or that a sensationalistic news headline is not giving you a 100% accurate and complete understanding?

Things I’ve run into:

1. Out of the box, the lock screen comes on after screen unblanking - late enough that when things aren’t snappy you can briefly catch the desktop without reauthing.

2. Sometimes randomly after wake, keyboard input is not recognized in the password field at all. Except for Esc, which in this state appears to crash-restart it and makes it work again

3. With a multi-monitor setup, I have still not been able to properly force the primary monitor. Is an issue because things like notifications and the login input will only show up on a usually turned off projector. This one might be PEBCAK.

I have issues 1 and 3 with XFCE on lightdm, too, though.

Are you able to try it with other SATA drive models?

Are there any relevant BIOS Settings like “legacy USB” that could make a difference? Do you have the latest firmware for the motherboard?

It works. Go ahead, try it.

but is this currently the case

sorry, is what the case?

The expected payout is negative so no, not similar to investing. It becomes the opposite, pretty much.

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I think that might be the same RK3588 chip as the Bananapi M7 which I did a write-up on last year. Trying a different kernel might help with your issue - it did for me.

https://blog.kumio.org/posts/2025/01/bananapim7-hvm.html#kernel-versions

I should probably update the table for trixie.

Terrible headline. Should have just been “Rockchip has…”.

Am I showing my age if I say that Tomshardware used to be decent?

OK?

I think 2013 gear and low-end hardware can still be useful in 2026. And that it can be win-win to give old gear a new home.

But it wouldn’t be honest selling stuff that can’t physically handle what a reasonable user would expect from a PC to someone who is not capable to install an OS themselves and doesn’t understand what the limitations are.

Not too dissimilar to marketing CMR HDDs as “NAS drives”, which I hope we all agree is a scam.

And just so I don’t get misread on that part, “HD” = 720p.

In that case I’d give it away for free. Or sell it without an OS to someone who knows what they’re getting and leave them to figure it out.

Do you get a different result if you replace that :0 with your actual DISPLAY value?

Also make sure you run that in a context that does have access to the x server (i guess keep your display manager running as you do this).

Depending on your setup you should be running such commands as normal user instead of root.

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In the offchance that shenanigans are afoot, some malware will fudge mtimes (but not always ctimes) to prevent detection.

If you get files showing up as changed with -cmin but not modified with -mmin, that’s a bright red one.

Can it play Youtube in HD without lagging?

I guess that would be roughly my bar for what I’d feel OK with passing on to someone clueless.

No one talks about how Alpine has been doing immutable and atomic installations since way before it was trendy.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Immutable_root_with_atomic_upgrades

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I’m curious: What`s motivating you to do that when the memmap param can do the same without patching?

Unless you took a backup I guess it’s not relevant anymore but if it happens again you can narrow down files last changed around some timestamp like so: find /var -mmin +4 -mmin -5