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AI coders are carrying half-open laptops (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Can't you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

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[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've been running Ubuntu on laptops for a lot longer than five years and the last time I had real WiFi issues was over a decade ago.

[โ€“] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 21 hours ago

could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don't remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github