That is great news! I hope we will have a few public servers left to play this online.

Is this not very old news from like 5 years ago?

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Mozilla heka. As far as data collection and processing goes, we are still stuck with Logstash after all of these years. Heka promised a much more efficient solution, being implemented with Go and Lua plugins.

Truer words have never been spoken.

I highly recommend this tool. It is no-bs with a good UI and gets the job done across all my computers and smartphones.

I never understand why people are so fixated on battery runtime. If you actually use the device indoors, don't you have a possibility to charge anytime. For me, I alternate between my home office room and the living room. Sometimes I work when on the train. And even less often in national flights and on airports. Except when flying or on very outdated trains, there never is an issue charging.

I like to use my devices without needing to be tethered to an outlet. I don't like having to deal with wires creating trip/pull hazards because my laptop needs charging. Sitting on the porch without needing to run extension cords is also nice.

I always connect to multiple external screens. I cannot imagine having only my laptop screen/keyboard.

I have a problem when the laptop doesn't survive 2 days on suspend... My previous T480 never had a problem, even on a 50% battery... but the newer T14 sometimes does.

This is my biggest issue.

If I close my lid with 100% battery at the end of the workday, I should be able to open it up the next morning and get at least a few hours of work in before the battery dies.

And this used to work.

But with the same laptop, a certain version of windows has basically eliminated any benefits of shutting the laptop hinge.

Heck the worst part is the same thing happens even if you shut down windows. The only reason it’s now become usable for me is because I learnt if you do shift + power off that does a real shutdown, unlike a regular shutdown.

You can thank windows modern suspend for that one

Airplanes

100% this. My daily driver is a 2015 MacBook Pro that I only have one complaint about: the battery life doesn’t come anywhere close to letting me work on an airplane if there’s no 120V plugs available. I mean… most of the time I don’t mind just sleeping but it would be great to take better advantage of the quiet time with no slack messages.

Yeah, I have used that approach since around 2015. In order to create these prebaked images, you will usually want to use a CM tool anyway, though.

I am very excited to have found this. It uses Talos Linux as image and offers tons of functionality. Seems to be a bit rough around the edges, but very promising.

Currently spawning my first cluster with it.

That is very much needed. The situation is untenanble currently.