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Potentially they are doing some hairpin rules that require specific enumeration?

I think for _most_ people it comes down to this: how much can I cram into the platform. More lanes is more high speed storage, special purpose processing, and networking interfaces.

Not to snipe but there does seem to be (as of this year) some folks doing cargo (e.g. longtail) with Bosch for USD ~4K.

The entire sector needs disruptive pricing on reliable sub-components. What it's been getting is disruptive pricing with unreliable products that fail silently/annoyingly (e.g. firmware) or catastrophically (e.g. fire).

I think adding Pinion, doubt they are dropping Bosch. Pinion has potentially a superior platform in that you have a fully integrated motor and gearbox, but this is a new item in the market. Bosch with Rholoff[0] is extremely well known as a platform, has high reliability and excellent efficiency across a wide shift range.

As a Bosch+Rholoff owner and a Pinion C.12 owner... I'd _loved_ it if R&M were doing Pinion in their cargo line. If something happens to your rear wheel you have to rebuild around your Rholoff. This might be hard to do on a tour compared to buying a new wheel if you had a Pinion. This assumes that your motor and electronics are not at risk of failing, which may be only reasonable if you're using Bosch...

I'm happy to see Pinion being picked up by R&M. I'd assume this is an excellent sign for Pinion as R&M's _schtick_ seems to be the customer experience (e.g. performance and reliability). This obviously signals that they are in some reasonable partnership to support this configuration for a long time. It would have been really nice to see Pinion offered in at-least one of their cargo platform though.

We just got a Load4 and I noticed that the Bosch+Rholoff dual battery configuration lagged in availability pretty significantly behind the other configurations. I presume this probably made R&M product management a bit irritated as the products form Bosch seem to be announced about a year before things are available. Anecdotally I believe I received 725wh batteries on my order when there is open discussion about how these batteries are not even in production by Bosch anymore as they've moved on to a higher density. Seems like with Bosch there is a big lag between announcement of a market disrupting product and when integrators get it on platform. Pinion may be faster?

Above there is a comment about Bosch being a ripoff (e.g. high margins), certainly it is but they are likely the only company you can build a product off unless you're going into race to the bottom price range. Propel has an interesting post [1] about going Bosch only. Now there are major providers in Germany also providing solutions: Pinion, ZF. I believe propel also started a thing called bloom [2][3] where I bet the "after sales support" portion of starting an e-Bike business is often times a discussion of why Bosch is safe.

[0]: https://www.rohloff.de/en/products/speedhub

[1]: https://propelbikes.com/bosch-only/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlexoIDBN9E

[3]: https://togetherwebloom.us/

Do you have a writeup on this configuration?

Thanks for posting this. These new systems that can expose a PCIe slot are extremely impressive.

An advantage here would be people self hosting their own based on this project.

Podman also switched to notify based units in 3.3.3

The consistent transparency has guided many of my acquisition decisions personally and professionally. It also drove me to seriously examine B2, which is used personally and professionally as well.

Would like to encourage your organization to keep publishing these works, and the works like your POD. It’s really spurned on a lot of innovation and sharing.

Per comitter would be ideal, viewing source and interacting via tickets is something that is usually a secondary stakeholder community that is larger than the score development group (in every org I see adoptjng forge style tools)

Toolbox on silverblue is something to look at if you're interested in this style of application deployment.

I'd say that it's worth 30$/year for "family" as well rather than individual. For example, I'd happily pay that fee for my family but I feel like I'd have a hard time telling my family to each pay that fee when "they have it from google already".

not the _identity_ servers currently though.

can you comment on the vision that gitlab as a product would have in the future for integration with gitter/matrix?

We're running a decent sized gitlab+mattermost instance now, we're using mattermost guests to pull in collaborators from upstream. It would be overall a lot easier if we were using something like matrix where it's federated and we can bring people in to our homeserver without having to make accounts for them.

fedora+rpmfusion+flathub

silverblue effectively gives you the ability to have the benefits of a rolling distro and the benefits of a distro that does releases (stability focused).

a bit of a tragic read there.

It'd just be nice if integrators like lenovo wouldn't nerf things like displays. It looks like their lineup for AMD mobile graphics is going to be significantly different than the Intel counterparts.

self hosting gitlab feels completely untenable, gitea is a wonderful project.

what provider, or self hosted software do you suggest as alternative?

systemctl --user mask tracker-store.service tracker-miner-fs.service

one does not need to _remove_ software to make sure it's not impacting you.

xmpp as well (matrix is getting a lot of love right now, but it's also got some warts deep in areas that are not the plushy UX)

we're using VR for some progressive design stuff, do you have a contact you can provide. It might be that we're a good opportunity to test out something as it nears announcement.

beware (if planning to do linux):

- only the thunderbolt dock works, all other docks have complications

- the LTE card will not work (exposed wrong, needs to be on usb)

- the webcam will not work (IR based)

otherwise it seems like a nice laptop

For what its worth the T4x0(s) series has been very good for Linux in general. We've been hopping the odd numbers every other year.

find a VPS provider that supports using KVM properly as a hypervisor. Vultr is a good one to look at first.

One of the things I feel is important is matching your external displays with the internal one, the 1440p in the T470s matches up with all of my displays at every desk I work at. This makes it pretty easy to move around and feel comfortable.

I wrote a bit about this [0] in terms of exploring Dell and Lenovo as options with a focus on Linux. I also quite like using LTE with my development machine, I'm doing so with the T470s and Fi [1]. I feel like for Linux the primary advantage that Lenovo has is the historical RedHat/IBM partnership where many RedHat developers are issued/choose Thinkpad as their primary machines to hack on. This typically leads to the crowd effect in ensuring the hardware has good support.

I think the thing that makes me the most sad about Lenovo and Dell is the two incidents they've had in relation to consumer privacy [2][3].

[0]: https://storrgie.epiphyte.network/linux-on-the-t470s/

[1]: https://storrgie.epiphyte.network/project-fi-archlinux/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

[3]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/dell-...

Is this an incremental rollout?

I like how there is an implied influence (e.g. dockerism) about containers being immutable/ephemeral... meanwhile I've been incredibly happy moving most of my VM deployments over to nspawn because many standards of systems management were anti-patterns in dockerland.

It would be good to know if this was an internal or external recruiter. If the organization has contracted this out to another organization, then it should minimally reflect on Facebook and have maximum, laughable effect, on the contracted organization.

From what I've experienced with Facebook recruitment, they dragnet linkedin pretty hard and have at-least a 5-step process for interviewing that is designed to be implemented at high speed by internal people, but at-least lets you talk with internal people.

I stopped responding to their requests on Linkedin because you start over each time. Although the inquiries are interesting, it's not really fun to have a bunch of "first dates" constantly.