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if you have one, try running sudo fwupdmgr get-devices, if you're on Gnome it's integrated with Software Center and it'll show up like all other updates

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today I learned about fwupdmgr, which handles firmware updates for Thinkpads running Linux

I don't wanna work, I wanna go home and play Flight Sim 2020

in other news MS Flight Sim 2020 is really impressive and it also absolutely wrecks my computer

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turns out flying a plane is really hard

who knew

okay, MS Flight Sim really pushes my computer but it is playable

ooh, this minidisc holder is cute, and apparently impossible to find. I don't think it'd be super hard to replicate, though 🤔
old.reddit.com/r/minidisc/comm

(protip: ms flight sim is in game pass which is 1€ for the first month)

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argh Windows can't handle two drives that are a dd copy of each other because they have the same signature

can't even wipe one

remember when they were trying to push phones with TV tuners

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apparently LG is planning on releasing whatever the heck this is (I'm guessing the top screen swivels over the bottom one?)

also you can set it up like a tiny laptop which is cute

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then again, it's exactly the size and shape of a little paper organizer/ notebook, so maybe this is the return of the PDA, if only in spirit

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I still don't get who would actually want one except for, well, early adopters who want a device that's unlike anything else

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the Surface Duo is so small, thin and shiny that it looks like a fake/ concept device

pulls up at a stop sign
super hexagon voice: super octagon

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