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As a side note, Qwen3.6-27B is much more capable than Qwen3.6-35B, even though it is much slower.

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF

For coding tasks where you don’t mind waiting, you should be able to barely squeeze in the 8-bit quantized version with 32 GB RAM + 8 GB VRAM and have a pretty competent local model. 4-bit quants work but they have issues with complex tool calls.

If you use the MTP branch of llama.cpp (and a suitable model) you can even double or triple your token generation speed: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/22673

For easier tasks, disable reasoning for instant responses.

Yes, that’s still a bit annoying unfortunately.

Editing the fstab to properly mount a network share also currently has no UI available in KDE and has to be done manually.

but to discover it on my other linux machine is always a chore that involves editing a few config files and just kinda randomly poking around until it works.

What’s your desktop environment? On KDE you can just enter smb://serverhost/path in the Dolphin navigation bar and it will open it.

The first one I think is a fundamental limitation in that display preferences by default is per-user. Maybe this makes it work for you? https://feddit.online/post/1350756/comment/6636228

I don’t really have this problem anymore since I got rid of my projector which advertised a resolution it couldn’t handle. Had to login into the void since the login screen never showed up. Looks like this might be fixable nowadays.

The 24h clock might be similar - check your system-wide locale.

The locale is set to American English but the time format is set to German, something the lock screen can handle but SDDM cannot. I also tried applying the Plasma settings to SDDM a few times but it doesn’t really change anything.

It always chooses the default highest resolution, (which may not work on some devices with faulty EDID), does not respect the Wayland/X11 choice, has a long pause when going from login screen to desktop and does not support 24h clocks.

Just to name a few.

AND per app focus stealing prevention settings.

It does? BRB, putting Steam on the lowest level possible so I can turn everything else back up.

The EU store ships from the EU with warranty, support, etc. for quite a hefty premium. I ordered from the global store which ships from Hong Kong. Paid ~500€ a year ago (including taxes).

The display looks great and mine doesn’t have the stuck pixel or the buggy lines issue you experienced

They have since fixed that.

though I do have very noticeable ghosting artifacts

Unfortunately just the nature of the technology. If you’re just reading, DU4:3 works the best, for manga I use the full G:4 mode with screen refresh for every page flip enabled.

I wrote some custom profiles for each (Default, Book, Manga, Notes, Notes (Landscape) which I have on my desktop, I can send you the scripts if you want.

Couldn’t find a good way to use browsers on it yet since they all smooth scroll instead of jumping in fixed intervals.

I left mine running over night with KOReader open, Nextcloud in background, no suspend and it took 20 hours and 10 minutes to go from 100% to 10%.

As @poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org wrote, there is a pretty significant phantom drain where it loses about 15% per day when suspended.

I have used the same tip for a year and it’s still fine. It also comes with 2 tip replacement and all of the generic pens for EMR screens work on the Pinenote.

Can’t say much about the battery life but I’m going to leave it running once it’s fully charged and report back.

I have one, I wrote a small review for it last year: https://domistyle.gitlab.io/pinenote-2024/ (enable autoplay so the videos play).

You can test Xournal++ and KOReader on any Linux desktop, it’s what works best on the PineNote right now.

They also have an active Matrix group where the main developers are present.

2027/2032 is still some time away.

However, accessibility features provided by third-party applications may be worse in some aspects. Please open a bug report if you have any special requirements that we don’t cover yet! This is an active topic we’re very interested in improving.

Let them know what you need.

Do you use a USB bluetooth dongle?

If yes, add a small USB extension cable between the dongle and the port, a few centimeters are enough.

If no, antennas improve reliability a lot. I swapped my internal M.2 bluetooth module to a more modern one and added magnetic antennas to the side of my case. No more disconnects since then (without xpadneo).

I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?

EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?

It does work via Flatpak, you have to give Freetube the “D-Bus session bus” permission and then put the following in your external player settings (this launches the flatpak mpv):

External player

mpv

Custom External Player Executable:

flatpak-spawn

Custom External Player Arguments:

–host flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv <any mpv arguments you need>

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?

Up until recently, there was no HDR support at all on regular desktop Linux. Now Wayland has HDR support and Kodi is getting it soon.

CoreELEC on Odroid (and many other ARM boxes) is able to switch between HDR/SDR, different resolutions and passthrough all audio codecs. All of which I need for proper media playback in my home theater.

Neat, I might finally be able to use a proper Linux PC as HTPC instead of an Odroid running CoreELEC once HDR switching works.