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HamalaKarris May 2, 2025

Looking for advice buying a laptop - lists of requirements inside

Looking for advice buying a laptop - lists of requirements inside - Lemmy.World

Hey everyone! I just bought a Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen2 and I am greatly disappointed, after installing Arch on it it’s overheating a lot even when I only have Firefox open. During my research buying this laptop I also made the mistake of not checking if the RAM can be upgraded and now I’m stuck with 8 GB of soldered on, non-upgradable RAM. Anyways this is why I’m turning to you, I spent hours upon hours researching trying to find the perfect laptop to buy before settling on this one, and since the result was so catastrophic I figured why not ask around in the community a bit. I was only going to buy a used model since my budget isn’t that big. The laptop is intended for browsing and some (Java) coding, so it doesn’t need to be extremely powerful. The main use case is for a small laptop that I can use on my lap on the couch or in my recliner to browse or do some coding while using Arch Linux. My MUST have requirements are: - 13 inch screen (max 14 inch) - Touchscreen with at least Full HD (1920x1080) resolution - Good/ perfect Arch Linux support - Good cooling/ doesn’t get super hot Ideally the following requirements should also be met: - Touchpad buttons with dedicated middle-mouse-button - Backlit Keyboard - Bright screen - Upgradble RAM or alternatively 16 GB RAM version available I intend to spend around 300€ max used, for reference I paid 190€ for the L13 Gen2 with 94% battery health. I would prefer a laptop that isn’t older than 8th/9th Gen Intel and equivalent AMD. I would be open to models with Intel and AMD chips. I am so grateful for anyone who sees this post and comes up with some suggestions, after hours upon hours of research I am a bit exhausted and desperate for some community suggestions. Have an awesome day everybody! :-)

HamalaKarris May 2, 2025

Looking for advice buying a laptop - lists of requirements inside

https://lemmy.world/post/29030085

Looking for advice buying a laptop - lists of requirements inside - Lemmy.World

Hey everyone! I just bought a Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen2 and I am greatly disappointed, after installing Arch on it it’s overheating a lot even when I only have Firefox open. During my research buying this laptop I also made the mistake of not checking if the RAM can be upgraded and now I’m stuck with 8 GB of soldered on, non-upgradable RAM. Anyways this is why I’m turning to you, I spent hours upon hours researching trying to find the perfect laptop to buy before settling on this one, and since the result was so catastrophic I figured why not ask around in the community a bit. I was only going to buy a used model since my budget isn’t that big. The laptop is intended for browsing and some (Java) coding, so it doesn’t need to be extremely powerful. The main use case is for a small laptop that I can use on my lap on the couch or in my recliner to browse or do some coding while using (Arch) Linux. My MUST have requirements are: - 13 inch screen (max 14 inch) - Touchscreen with at least Full HD (1920x1080) resolution - Good/ perfect (Arch) Linux support - Good cooling/ doesn’t get super hot Ideally the following requirements should also be met: - Touchpad buttons with dedicated middle-mouse-button - Backlit Keyboard - Bright screen - Upgradble RAM or alternatively 16 GB RAM version available I intend to spend around 300€ max used, for reference I paid 190€ for the L13 Gen2 with 94% battery health. I would prefer a laptop that isn’t older than 8th/9th Gen Intel and equivalent AMD. I would be open to models with Intel and AMD chips. I am so grateful for anyone who sees this post and comes up with some suggestions, after hours upon hours of research I am a bit exhausted and desperate for some community suggestions. Have an awesome day everybody! :-)

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HamalaKarris Sep 23, 2024

In my mind at least this would be solved by the “vault” needing to be decrypted with a password every time notes are accessed saved with the password acting as the key? I’m not terribly well educated on encryption though.

HamalaKarris Sep 23, 2024

Oh thanks for the heads-up! Will look more into it then.

HamalaKarris Sep 23, 2024

After some more research it seems that Joplin only E2E encrypts notes at transport and not at rest[1]? e.g. it only stores plain text files on the harddrive just like Obsidian does? This sadly makes it not viable for my use case :/

[1] discourse.joplinapp.org/t/…/15145

Requesting encryption of local Joplin data (at rest encryption)

The only previous topic I could find by searching for "encryption" and "encryption at rest" is this thread: "at-rest" encryption on the local database where there's only 1 dismissive answer, tessus saying it was discussed "many times" but without saying where or what was the outcome of those discussions. I could not find any of those old discussions he references. So let's have a new discussion. The problem Joplin locally stores your notes in a basic SQLite db (basically an Excel file for the...

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HamalaKarris Sep 23, 2024

Selfhostable notes app that encrypts the files on Disk?

https://lemmy.world/post/20102888

Selfhostable notes app that encrypts the files on Disk? - Lemmy.World

Hey everyone! :) I am currently looking to replace Obsidian with a self-hostable alternative (that preferably also uses Markdown) but instead of storing the files directly on disk has a way to have all the files within in an encrypted vault / binary format. Reason being I have very very sensitive data that needs to be stored (employee & medically related). I read that Logseq used to support this feature but it has since been deprecated, some light googling didn’t surface any results other than that so I would be delighted if anyone had any suggestions! Thanks so much in advance for any and all help! :)

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HamalaKarris Aug 5, 2023

If that isn’t AI generated I will eat my left shoe.

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HamalaKarris Aug 2, 2023

Extremely level headed take - it’s hard not to love the guy!

HamalaKarris Aug 2, 2023

Considerations for a homeserver thats open to the internet? (Jellyfin / Nextcloud)

https://lemmy.world/post/2515218

Considerations for a homeserver thats open to the internet? (Jellyfin / Nextcloud) - Lemmy.world

Hey guys, after reading up on selfhosting for weeks now I finally decided to take the plunge today and tried setting up my own nextcloud & jellyfin instances. For this purpose I am using a mini PC. (similiar to an Intel NUC) Now I would like to make both services available to the internet so I could show images to friends while I’m at their place / watch movies with them. The problem is I am currently not very educated on which security measures I would have to take to ensure that my server / mini PC doesn’t immediately become an easy target for a hacker, especially considering that I would host private photos on the nextcloud. After googling around I feel like I find a lot of conflicting information as well as write-ups that I don’t fully grasp with my limited knowledge so if you guys have any general advice or even places to learn about all these concepts I would be absolutely delighted! Thank you guys sooo much in advance for any and all help, the c/selfhosted community has been nothing but a great resource for me so far!!!

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HamalaKarris Jul 27, 2023

I have been using windows exclusively for 20 years now but just made the switch to Linux (EndeavourOS - an arch distro) 1 week ago and I couldn’t be happier!

99% of all applications that I use work just as well (including games) and for the very very few that won’t work (like Valorant) I am using a dual boot setup. The reason that I made the switch was that I got anxious with W10 EOL approaching since I would rather stop using windows altogether than using W11.