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I've been using my Framework 13 as my main computer since 2021. Best computer I've ever owned. It's currently running a 13th gen Intel motherboard.

I'm weighing upgrading the motherboard again, this time to a Ryzen AI 300. But I have a few questions:

1. How significant an upgrade would this be, compared to 13th generation Intel?
2. Does the motherboard support USB 4/Thunderbolt on all four expansion card ports? (If I remember correctly, Framework's first AMD motherboards only had full speed on the back two ports.)
3. How would battery life and fan noise compare to the 13th gen Intel boards?

Thanks!

Anyone know the spec of the Olight IR2 Pro's o-ring? Mine has become annoyingly sticky. The flashlight still works well otherwise, so I'd like to replace the o-ring. I think I can probably pull it out and over the body of the flashlight without breaking it.

I know I can get o-rings at hardware stores like Home Depot, but I don't know the specs of this one. Anyone here know what size I need, or tried replacing one yourself? Thanks!

I'm trying out Audible on iOS. Maybe I'm missing something that should be obvious, but how can I turn off the "badges" misfeature? I don't need a "night owl" badge notification to remind me I'm staying up past my bedtime.

The badge notifications are silly and irrelevant to my listening experience, and if there's no way to turn them off I'll probably end my Audible trial and switch to Kobo, where I get my ebooks already.

I had a vaguely positive perception of Islam prior to October 7, 2023. To be honest, what I perceived as the community's response to that attack—and especially what unfolded prior to Israel's military response—left me shocked.

I later learned in a Pew poll that 37% of American Muslims have a favorable view of Hamas. I also saw how, for example, numerous Muslim organizations stepped out to defend the Australian nurses who were criminally charged for threatening to murder Israeli patients.

In a nutshell, I currently have an extremely negative view of Islam's relationship with terrorism and of its general compatibility with Western liberal values. But I'd genuinely love to be convinced otherw

I'm considering switching my custom domain's email from Fastmail for the encryption. I heavily use Fastmail's masked email feature—randomly-generated aliases that can easily be individually "turned off" if one gets spammy. My masked aliases are on a separate custom domain; each one looks like "[email protected]", where I control example.com, and I have 30 of these.

How might I move these to ProtonMail? I'm aware of passmail.net, but that doesn't support custom domains, right? (I also intend to keep using 1Password as my password manager.)

Would ProtonMail let me configure my alias domain ("example.com" above) with let's say 60 individual aliases, separately whitelisted? Either e

Thought I'd share two (very inexpensive) stands I've found that work well with my Kobo Libra Color, aside from Kobo's folding sleep cover which unfortunately doesn't have a place to store a stylus.

No affiliate links or other conflicts of interest, just what I've found that works for me.

Why?

I like the Libra Color stylus case, but unfortunately it isn't available with a folding (built-in stand) option akin to the non-stylus version.

I looked for third-party covers that might both hold a stylus and offer a built-in stand, but I only found one, and it wa

I just upgraded to a Libra Color from my old Libra H2O. I'm very happy with it overall, especially the faster screen/CPU responsiveness and the stylus functionality. The lower contrast (darker background) is a slight downside, on the other hand: It doesn't make it less readable, but it means I have to keep the backlight powered in more situations than I would otherwise.

So I'd love to see a non-color Libra 3 or Scribe 2 with otherwise the same performance and functionality of the Libra Color. Any chance that will happen?

Despite that downside, I'd still recommend the Libra Color to any H2O users who still consider page-turn buttons a requirement, as I do. The difference in responsiveness a

I borrowed a book from Overdrive, read it on my Kobo, and returned it ahead of its due date. Today that book is on sale in the Kobo store, so I'd like to buy it at a discount.

Despite having returned it on my Kobo, and the loan no longer appearing in Libby, the book still appears in the Overdrive section of my Kobo account online. And I can still open it online for reading.

That's strange enough, but the problem is that because Kobo's store thinks I currently "have" the book, it won't let me purchase it and take advantage of today's deal. (And even if this zombie book sticks around my account forever, I want to be able to download the purchased .epub.)

I've tried archiving the book from m

Since about yesterday, Standard Notes has been displaying the message:

Your subscription expired on Sunday, Dec 28, 2025, 06:11 AM

Checklist is in a read-only state.

(Note the future expiry date.)

This prevents me from editing at least checklist-type notes. I emailed [email protected] yesterday but haven't heard back yet. Anyone else running into this, or found a workaround?

Termius lets me generate SSH keys in Apple's Secure Enclave Processor. This has two benefits:

1. The key would be very difficult to exfiltrate even under conditions of iOS/iPadOS compromise.
2. I'm prompted for Face ID each time the key is used, so I can be confident it isn't being abused by something on my device even without being exfiltrated.

Does Working Copy also allow the user to create hardware-backed SSH keys? If not, is this feature being considered?

I'm a big fan of Sam (wouldn't be here otherwise), but I think he goes a bit over-the-top on certain topics, and Ep. 395, "Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents", provides a good example.

It's a great and nuanced episode overall, but he concludes by saying:

Anyone who uses the phrase Russiagate, or the "Russia collusion hoax", is guaranteed to be wrong about what the Mueller Report actually said. The truth is, you have no idea what was in the Mueller Report, and don't care.

This is silly, and I'm a personal counter-example. I've read the Mueller Report, as well as Volume 5 of the 2020 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report. I know and and am concerned about what they say, i

I have an HP Prime G2 that I'm running in RPN mode. I'm familiar with older HP graphing calculators, but new to the Prime series.

The calculator has some functions, such as NORMALD_CDF, that accept variable numbers of arguments. However, even if I put multiple arguments on the stack and evaluate the function, it'll only take the topmost value as an argument. How can I specify multiple arguments to this or similar functions in RPN mode?

I've long used Yubikey 5's with OpenPGP as my SSH keys. I'd like to switch them to FIDO-backed keys, now that those are widely supported in OpenSSH, as it's simpler and Windows clients support it natively.

I'm hitting a roadblock, though: With OpenPGP, I'm able to configure gpg-agent so that on first use I have to both enter my PIN and touch the key (providing some protection in case a key is lost or stolen), but then only require a touch on subsequent use while the key remains online (preventing headache).

With FIDO SSH keys, however, I don't see a way to do this: I can either generate the key with -O verify-required, in which case a PIN is required on each use; or without, in which cas

I'm gonna buy an Instax Mini for my niece. Any recommendations on the Mini SE vs. Mini 12 or 11?

From Walmart in the US, the SE is cheaper and also comes with some film. On the other hand, the Mini 12 is smaller, has a selfie mirror, and requires fewer batteries. I'm having a hard time finding info about the SE online, though; are there any other big differences I should be aware of?