Wtf??Gosh this Lemmy universe is so much different. Doesn’t feel extremely micromanaged lol

Man I get stingy and always have to go for the nicer products, even if I dont need them lol I’ve been eyeing thinkpad, dell, anker, and pluggable docks mostly. There’s a brand called wavlink too that has great deals but can seem to find much info on them

Thanks a lot for this info. Even after getting one usb c port replaced on my dell xps 13 9310, but still, the sensitivity of usb c has been so frustrating! Its like the slightest little jerk or bump of a plugged in usb stick will cause it to disconnect or just the slightest movement of a charging cable will disconnect, it ughhh its annoying. I really need one nice, fortified usb type c connector cable to plug in and just leave it plugged into the dock. Then no more using the shoddy usb c ports on my laptop! But determining just exactly what cable would be best for the link from laptop to dock has been difficult for me to determine. I’m thinking a ugreen right elbow cable. I feel the 90 degree elbow would help in reducing strain and allowing a better connection

My laptop does support thunderbolt 4 and I have heard about alt mode but haven’t quite dug in enough to understand it yet. Thanks

Thanks, I just dont quite understand this data rate portion of these cables. Is that strictly just transferring files within your network to other devices?

Thanks a lot! So to be clear, the cable that links my laptop to a dock isn’t as important as I’m thinking it may be? Or are you saying I’d be best off investing in a nice thunderbolt 4?

Ahh ok so you connect your laptop to the dock via thunderbolt? Thats sorta been the idea I’ve been thinking; just focus on first getting one great cable to link the laptop to a docking station

I’m sorry this went over my head, but what do you mean by this?

Not sure if snark or sincere? But thanks? Its so hard to get a feel for this placecomparesd to reddit, its mostly nasty, snarky individuals

Also I’ve read 5A is the better choice too, do you agree with that? And also, these cables down too right?

Never looked into that log, I shall give it a shot

Hey I don’t even own a thunderbolt cable, so I can always disable that in my bios. But I’m wondering, is there a specific log I should be looking at that would most likely give me some input? Idk which logs are for what and definitely don’t know how to filter and manipulate the output to find what I’m looking for, but always willing to learn

Ahh so dmesg pretty much only collects info regarding kernel crashes or whatever? Do they usually retain stuff from the prior day or two? I haven’t used my laptop much today, so no new crashes

Thanks a lot. I have a few assumptions just based off what little I could interpret from the logs… When I check htop for CPU and ram usage, nothing really stands out as abnormal. Of course whichever browser I’m using is always the most ram hungry program. Now if I just did a reinstall of Debian 12, should that hypothetically fix the issue if it is an OS problem (which I believe it may be)?

Well then… I shall check it out

Right in the middle of a freeze right now, but the cursor still moves and the sound went muted. I’m pretty sure I saw errors before regarding pipe wire, pulseaudio, and I think another related program

Oh no, it came with windows initially but I never used it. I’ve had this laptop for like 3 years I believe?

Not a fan of the design at all… Well obviously now lol think they’ll eventually come loose off the motherboard and be useless. They’re almost there anyway. Maybe time to start planning for a budget, emergency system

Ahh I gotcha. Its most likely caused by me, NGL. I’ve been trying to experiment and explore a bit with computing and networking and the likes, so I probably have something conflicting or broken. I mean I’ve seen plenty of errors using journalctl right after a hard reset so that I could go backward from there, but none of it makes sense. Do you know anything about log analyzers? But then again analyzers can overcomplicate things too ala netdata lol I set that up and holy god I didn’t know what I was looking at lol I also have suspicion that mullvad might be playing a role in this. But again its difficult for me to put pieces together with limited knowledge about logs

Wow man that’s all very interesting. I do not think I can figure it out though. Its more complex than I thought it’d be.