This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and …
Yeah I opted for the Framework 13, even with the less than perfect keyboard and lack of touch. My hope is that touch will be an option in the future. otherwise its a near perfect option.
No but on my 3 in 1 I find the touch screen and pen very useful as a big tablet for consumption, laptop for productivity and gaming, and writing and drawing pad.
I'm constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.
Why do so many computer manufacturers organize their websites around obscure names of model ranges that only they understand, or make you decide upfront whether you want a "home" or "business" or "creator" laptop? Why do they all make it as difficult as possible for you to browse what's on offer? Is it just because they all suck at website design, or is there some other reason?
Probably so that they can restructure the site to push different products as some are heavily backstocked and others are running low without people noticing the changes. If i had to guess.
Home users want cheap garbage with fast graphics for gaming. Business users want consistent reliability at a moderate price. Creators want high res graphics and don’t care what they pay.
Maybe they believe that most of their customers don't really know much about computers beyond turning them on and "bigger numbers = better". They might not be wrong.
HP is probably the worst offender in this regard - their website is almost unusable. Lenovo is a close second, and I say this as a compulsive ThinkPad buyer.
Edit: I think a lot of commenters here aren't reading the article. This isn't about your favourite laptop, it's about why manufacturer websites suck.
I've used a bunch of HPs over the years. Some of them ProBook, mostly Elitebook. Either way, the keyboards were always awful. If you want to be 100% sure each key press registers, you have to press surprisingly hard.
If you've always used Dell and Lenovo, this kind of thing sounds completely absurd. It's something that would never even occur to you. Why would you even think about whether the key presses register with 100% reliability? Of course they do. You press the button, a letter appears. That's all there's to it, right?
Wrong! HP thinks there should be an element of surprise if you type normally. Unless you hammer the keyboard like a wild animal, there's no way to get to 100%. Even if you get the fanciest model, the keyboard still has this HP trademark suckiness.
I have had exactly one HP laptop in my life, which luckily was a hand-me-down so I didn't spend any money on it, but it was enough to convince me to never get another HP product ever again.
20-odd years and the boycott is still going strong lol.
i know a laptop that’s amazing in almost every aspect except that it doesn’t run Linux. the Macbook Pro. to me there’s barely any real comparison to be made unless Linux or Windows or the keyboard layout is a hill worth dying on to you.
i have servers and my gaming PC on Linux, but i wouldn’t trade my Macbook with its unified memory, incredible battery life, best in class touchpad, and top notch screen for anything else. Windows is dying, and chip designers (outside of Apple) seem more interested in cashing in on AI than providing a user experience. i was excited to see what Qualcomm would do, but it doesn’t seem like OEMs or Windows are particularly interested in supporting that platform as a next leap forward, while Intel is bleeding on the side of the road and AMD is constantly side-eyeing Nvidia. i think it would be peak irony for Nvidia to come out of left field with a desktop class ARM processor that’s Linux native, but that’s a pipe dream. what the ecosystem needs is a real competitor to Apple that is more focused on desktop machines than enterprise contracts. maybe RISC-V Frameworks will break out in a meaningful way. but it just seems like anything else these days in a compromise based on some biased preference or moral judgement.
anyway all that said i’m glad there’s an ecosystem of people who are stubborn enough to work on this platform. i have my own stubbornness, but i just don’t have the motivation to apply it here
I agree... I love my Macbooks for how well the hardware works, and I love how I can open up terminal and do pretty much anything I want. What I don't like is how consumer hostile it is when it comes to being able to upgrade or repair. I also don't like Apple's insistence on telling me what I do and do not want in a product. According to Steve Jobs no one wants a touchscreen on their laptop, and even though he's been dead for over a decade and the market has shown otherwise, they still don't have a touchscreen Macbook (and if they ever do release one they'll fawn over how innovative they are for doing so).
I also don’t like Apple’s insistence on telling me what I do and do not want in a product. According to Steve Jobs no one wants a touchscreen on their laptop
Anecdotally, I had a touchscreen convertible laptop before my current MacBook. I even got the pencil for it that let me draw on the screen, which I wanted to use for taking notes. The pencil sucked in practice (this was a >1000€ laptop, not much less expensive than my MacBook! maybe that’s just what I get for buying HP though.) and sooner rather than later I got an iPad for taking handwritten notes, and the touchscreen itself turned out to be a gimmick that I used in the beginning but eventually turned off.
Sometimes, they’re right. For example, kind of the reverse: people wanted floating windows on the iPad for years. I always said this would be incredibly awful to use in practice without a mouse. Now they added windows on the iPadOS 26 beta and I tested it and it was exactly as finicky as I expected it to be. Hopefully they’ll still polish it so that it’s at least as good to use as the old side-by-side view (which they unfortunately removed), but this really isn’t it right now.
People might want a device with all the input methods and the most versatile multitasking, but I don’t think this is reasonably doable in a way that’s as polished as devices built with a main input method and UI purpose-built for that input method. In the past I might have said that Apple are the only people that could do this correctly, and only by investing a significant amount of resources, but after the iPadOS 26 situation… oof.
I have had touchscreen laptops at work, and I've had touchscreen chromebooks for personal use and I love the option of the touchscreen, but it isn't something I use exclusively. Sometimes, while typing it's much easier and faster to 'click' on a link, or new field, by tapping my screen rather than grabbing my mouse or going to a touchpad. I agree that trying to use the screen on a laptop while it is in 'laptop mode' is difficult, but there is a use case where it's preferred, and I end up with fingerprints on my non-touchscreen screens when I forget which computer I'm on.
Yeah using it for quick tapping something on the screen I can see being faster than the touchpad. I don’t know if it’s worth the fingerprints on the display though personally :\^)
Look into Asahi Linux. Its a community driven project Fedora (and other distros) to run on newer Silicon Mac's. I have it on my M2 MBP and its amazing. It may not be for everyone since it runs AARCH64 / battery isnt great (6+ hours). But its my best looking Linux install due to its screen
it’s not worth it to me. the battery life is a huge feature, and it does feel like Asahi development has slowed. i have enough computers to tinker with. i bought my Macbook specifically to be an entry point into my other machines, i.e. from the airport or brewery or coffee shop.
maybe when it makes sense to buy a new laptop i’ll find some time and motivation to contribute, but just using Asahi doesn’t really appeal to me.
I was going to grab an M2 MBP for this reason! Why such a battery life difference? Can you expound upon that AARCH64 reasoning? Does the hardware work as claimed on the project website? Do you have a sense of what the future holds for asahi?
The macbook pro is the perfect laptop except for the Linux hill that I must die on. Every time I look at other offerings, they all fail just like Nate is saying in some regard. Screen. Speakers. Keyboard. Touchpad. Thermals. Battery life. The MBP is truly best-in-class hardware. But I just want to use Linux...
i completely understand. as a Rust developer that uses Neovim, i have some hills like that too. and if i was more of an OS dev and/or had the time i might be interested to help improve the platform. my last attempt was a Thinkpad, but i had to have an external mouse for that thing, the fans were causing me to fail stealth checks, and the battery was basically a UPS.
The article actually shouts out Apple as doing things really well, which was surprising considering he’s focused on Linux which is only barely an option on current Mac machines.
i've found the fw13 keyboard and the thinkpad xx30 keyboards are pretty good, but even the xx30 ones are extremely dependent on the age and manufacturer, so it's basically just luck at this point
I agree. About 10 years ago I had a some unstable dependencies hit in the middle of a major crunch/product release at work. When it was vital I was productive, I was instead trouble shooting my laptop. I moved to mac the next day and was surprised how far the OS had come, and that I could run zsh, nvim etc. Not to mention since apple silicon its rare I need to take a charger with me anywhere.
I still have a linux thinkpad for personal use, and all my personal servers are linux. My heart is linux, but a lot will have to change to take me away from a macbook.
I agree with everything you said, and I use a MacBook Pro for the same reasons. I made a similar comment but you have articulated the points much better.
I’ve been daily driving a framework 13 for like 9 months now. I’m pretty happy with it as a Linux machine.I can and will nitpick here to some of the points made in the article - but I’d buy another / recommended it regardless.
the touchpad. It’s a diving board style. It’s also got a good amount of play in it prior to clicking. The diving board style means it’s tough to click at the top. Tapping works great. The extra play takes a little getting used to. It’s 1000% functional and works well - but if you’re snobby about trackpads, you won’t like it. It’s way worse than an Apple touchpad, but an upper end windows touchpad. The trackpads play also tends to allow “crap” and dirt to fall in there. I’ve had to take it apart once to clean it out (which is super easy to do on a framework, but it’d be nicer if I didn’t have to do it at all)
the price - it’s a bit high for the specs. But that comes with the territory of a non glued laptop
battery life is ok
speakers are kind of crappy. They are fine, but they ain’t wowing anyone.
the keyboard is ok
That’s it. 9 months of daily use, I love it, that’s my complaints list. The idea here is that someday, a better trackpad, or keyboard, or speakers will become available-and it’ll take me 5 minutes to upgrade. It’s a desktop laptop. And for me, everything “just works” on fedora 42.
Framework are nowhere near the scale of any of the large manufacturers, and they've had to spend a huge amount of time and money on R&D, so their laptops are probably always going to cost more. IMO it's worth the price though, given you can keep updating it over time.
I'm curious about this as well. The keyboard flex was always brought up by early reviewers for the Framework 16, and I think Framework said they would make a more sturdy keyboard for it later, but I haven't heard any updates about that.
Thanks, that's good to know. I heard the Framework 13 wad solid; I thought I was replying to a comment about the Framework 16, though. That must have been a different comment. I heard the 16 has a little flex.
Literally zero flex on the keyboard. I just pulled it out and pressed hard on it. No flex of the keys pushing down through the metal (like a gasket mounted mechanical keyboard would do), and zero flex of the aluminum.
I've been getting annoying amdgpu crashes every now an then. I've tried all the various BIOS and kernel params but so far nothing has worked. Next step is rolling back a kernel version, at least that's what I've gathered from all the threads about it. It's bothersome but not frequent enough to be a real pain.
(This is an amd framework 13 with fedora 42 / wayland)
I've had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.
I'm also running fedora 42, but it's Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.
My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it's something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I'm not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it's dead when I need it, which sucks.
Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I've found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I've been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it's been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).
And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I've only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷♂️ That's a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven't needed to 🤷♂️
But still I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.
Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.
The Thinkbook 14+ 2025 seems to check quite a lot of the boxes. Nevertheless, depending where you live you will have some high taxes to pay if ordered from Aliexpress:
The option with the TGX(Oculink) port to use an eGPU is particularly appealing for some.
What I really want is a place that has physical locations that sells linux laptops and will give you something like apple care used to be with apple in the middle aughts. They will take care of anything and you just don't have to worry about it at all. I keep on thinking it would be great for microcenter to partner up with someone on this.
Companies usually handle this by using a hardware vendor with on-site support (like Dell) for hardware issues, and a Linux distro with corporate support (like RedHat) for software issues. Definitely more than a regular user would be willing to pay, though.
System 76 does a pretty good job with support. I've occasionally pinged their support about an issue I was having and they were quite willing to help - and pretty useful as well (no "did you try rebooting?" run-around).
Good keyboard with text navigation keys (Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down) and a sensible layout: delete at the top right, no stupid replacement of normal modifier keys with fingerprint readers or copilot keys, no tiny arrow keys, etc.
Good touchpad that’s precise, doesn’t lag, and allows clicking on most or all of the total area
I don't think these should be that important. Even if one uses a single device for every need in the form of a laptop, one can still attach a keyboard and mouse to it. The worst customizable keyboard and wireless mouse will still be better than whatever the laptop has built in.
Unless the point is to have a single device and not to carry a bunch of peripherals around? "Better" only if your criteria ignores the need to carry it around with the laptop.
Anyone here have a StarLabs laptop (briefly mentioned in the article) and am opinion on it? I'm thinking about replacing my crappy System76 laptop and looking for something with good build quality.
I think it's (one of) the best laptop brands in regards to coreboot support. The build quality of my starbook is great. The biggest + for me is how helpful, polite and friendly the support staff is.
I have a Pangolin 12. While it has great specs and software support, the build quality is horrible, and over the course of two years now, I have had to screw it open and bend the laptop case in position more often then I'm comfortable with. It is the far, far opposite of rugged, which is the main reason I want to replace it. Twice now, it has just randomly decided to not boot for one or two weeks...
Hmm I have Serval WS which quality is top notch. The keyboard feels nice. The screen is 4K 144Hz. All of the elements are aluminium so there is no bending. (Except some parts like probably keycaps of the keyboard and so on).
Sorry to hear that you have this experience. However I think you can count on System76 because they give for their laptops lifetime support.
The Serval WS is also more than twice the price of my Pangolin... and I had a one year warranty, so I'm not sure what you mean with lifetime support. As for the specs (i.e. the screen etc.), yeah, they are great. But the case is very poorly designed on my pang12, and gets bent out of shape, which can cause mechanical failure in the hinge, quite frequently, despite the aluminum chassis. My complaint is just that it is far from rugged, which is problematic for me, as I travel a lot with it. But your mileage may vary.
PS: one more thing that really bothers me is the known problem with the touchepad on the pang12, which regularly fails. Mine also came with a faulty motherboard, which suggest bad quality control. Over all, these issues have caused me to lose faith in System76 hardware.
Regrading warranty I meant lifetime support for problems related to your System76 laptop. The warranty for a hardware is gone I think but I guess when you describe your issues correctly and they won't resolve it maybe they will suggest you something friendly.
And I get your point with the case. Tbh looked like it.
Hmm do you have up-to-date firmware? I had similar issue resolved by it.
Also faulty motherboard sounds like manufacturer issue not yours.
It seems to be getting a little better lately, but historically they just didn't give firmware updates. I went 3 years without a stable bios update for my 12th gen Intel mainboard on linux despite known vulnerabilities since launch (just got its first update last month).
I actually upgraded my mainboard within that time, so I went the full lifetime of the product with an insecure BIOS and none of the firmware improvements that were promised at launch like thunderbolt 4 certification. For all practical purposes, firmware support ended when it left the factory until just last month.
That said, my new ryzen ai 350 main board just got its first update to patch some vulns that were disclosed a month ago. So still not in time for the coordinated disclosure, but a month is way better than 3 years so I'll take what I can get.
Fine, then "more ugly and cumbersome" than it needs to be. I frequently have to hook up laptops to devices that simply don't have wifi (think unconfigured network devices like routers and the like), so connecting via cable is the only option. Having a gigantic, plastic, snag-prone wart sticking out of my laptop certainly wouldn't help matters.
There is no perfect laptop as it is a subjective choice.
I got a MacBook Pro which is the one that ticks the most boxes for me. It is simply a well built and reliable piece of hardware with really nice battery life and performance.
Yes, Apple tries really hard to sink their machines with terrible software decisions and hostile repair policies. But that still does not undermine their machines build quality.
Also, this is trivial, but their website is simple and easy to use. They don’t bog one down with a slew of laptops that are hard to differentiate. I know what I am looking at, and what I will be getting.
The only other machines I own are ThinkPads. But Lenovo loses me whenever I get on their website. It is easier to look at an eBay listing for a second hand ThinkPad than to navigate and search their website for a new one. Also, their newer machines just aren’t as good as the older ones.
I say this as a user of an array of ThinkPads and ThinkCentres to quench my thirst for BSD (and sometimes Linux). I use these machines for writing, gaming, watching movies, and more. But I cannot depend on those machines for any critical or work-related tasks.
Framework laptops aren’t sold here so I have never used them. There is no point in importing one where the whole raison d'être is their modularity and repairability which requires their ecosystem to be present first.
::: spoiler P.S. Using Linux on M-series MacBooks I have contemplated using Asahi Linux on the MacBook Pro, but I am sure I won’t get the best out of the machine especially w.r.t. battery life. Perhaps when the machine is no longer supported by Apple, I will experiment with it. :::
Most companies still change their laptops’ keyboard layouts in random negative ways every year; ship with stupid screen resolutions, woefully bad speakers, and disappointing touchpads; and stuff the most powerful processor and GPU in there and don’t focus enough on tuning the cooling, power usage, and fan profiles.
I don't really get these nitpicks. If you're planning to use the laptop as your daily driver, do what every other power user does and get a set of good peripherals.
The perfect laptop is one that works well with external gpu, then you just max out cpu and everything else positive about a laptop without worrying about cramming a gpu in there while still getting a thin and light laptop with a good batterylife and nice screen
It is even worse when you are on the secondary market. The company's product pages are broken. Trying to compare across different release years is way harder.
I assumed the reason for this had to do with the production systems and supply chains. They can get a certain number of x parts at y price from a factory located in a given location. You get enough parts in proximity to each other and you make it a model.
Its one thing for a small company to have enough components to have only a few models but with the volume dell or HP moves, they would need to really invest in suppliers or actually make the components themselves.
I dont imagine the marketing people have come up with all the options, they're just the ones who have to try to sell want they're given.
Thankfully I have some requirements for laptops that very significantly narrow my options: - It must have a good, ergonomic keyboard - It must have a good pointing stick
It's not what you would normally call an ergo keyboard with a curved / split key bed, but I think they're superior to the majority of recent laptop keyboards, especially compared to the flat square chiclets of MacBooks and the others who blindly copied them. The keys are curved so you get tactile feedback of where your fingers are and the action also feels good to type on.
You seriously can't go wrong with the lenovo thinkpads on eBay. I Got a thinkpad E14 ryzen 7 (7th gen), 48gb ram, 1tb ssd for $400 on ebay with a small hair crack on the hinge.
At the end of the day, a laptop is a laptop, and the cost difference between a $2000 brand new laptop and a $400 used laptop there really is no argument/justification to be made to buy a $2000 laptop in less-intensive tasks. Here's a better instance of your money: find a $400 laptop with semi-good performance (ryzen 3 or intel equivalent) put $1600 to a gaming computer and setup a virtual environment with a radeon or rtx gpu at your fingertips.
Well I say it's no wonder people gravitate towards it but I don't actually like it myself. It sucks that they make it basically impossible to upgrade snything. And that there storage and RAM upgrades cost several times more than they should.
I have a Macbool air (not by choice) and I installed asahi linux a couple of weeks ago. Main take away is that it's really good except for software support. I've had a bit of trouble finding programs that work well on arm even open source projects often don't compile there programs to work on arm.
“If confirmed, I will work to restore confidence and integrity to the Department of Justice — and each of its components,” Pam Bondi vowed during her confirmation hearing in January. “Under my watch, the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end. America must have one tier of justice for all.”
But since her confirmation on February 4, Attorney General Pam Bondi has done exactly the opposite, weaponizing the DOJ against Trump’s political enemies and withdrawing criminal investigations of his allies. The tone was set on her first full day, when she fired off an all-staff memo threatening to fire anyone who raised ethical or legal objections to advancing frivolous arguments in court.
Here is a quick series of frequently asked questions about the X11 session kissing us goodbye. Shoutout to Nate from which I copied the format of the post. Is Xorg unmaintained and abandoned? No,...
cool, it works; for those trying it out, the weston package provides simple colorful demo programs like weston-simple-egl and weston-simple-shm that can demonstrate it, like xeyes and xclock can demonstrate an x11 forwarding session.
idk, I'm perceiving very similar latency and frame rates in either. xeyes doesn't report FPS, but I'm seeing under 4 FPS with weston-simple-egl reaching out to a server proxied by cloudflare
So I'd still go with an RDP solution for any session longer than a few minutes.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”
“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bull——,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social site, using an expletive in his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”
“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he went on.
They are weaklings. Because they are gonna roll over and show their bellies till Faux "News" tells them their opinions. They'll mental gymnastics Epstein Island into Yam Tits being on the lists because he was trying to save those kids.
He's a fucking pedofile and MAGAts are pedo-supporters.
When Berlusconi was rumored to have had sex with a minor most if not all members of Parliament and senators in his coalition voted to certify that a 17-year-old girl was Mubarak's niece and that Berlusconi called a police station where she was being held in order to avoid a scandal.
MAGAts are like children refusing to eat their veggies. They're going to resist with this whole Epstein thing until their Daddy looks at them sternly and tells them to fall in line....or else.
It's performative noncompliance. At the end of the day, when the going gets tough, they'll show their support for a felon rapist (pedo?), because that's what they've always done, without fail.
Not everyone is just spewing talking points, there's a LOT of maga folks who actually do give a shit about this. This is his biggest betrayal by far.
The #1 thing that unites (most of) the left and right is our shared hatred for the rich and powerful. Trump is outright saying he's breaking his promise specifically to protect the rich and powerful.
"Today's inflation report confirms what we already knew: Trump's tariffs are a tax on working-class Americans and additional tariffs would hurt them even more."
"Today's inflation report confirms what we already knew: Trump's tariffs are a tax on working-class Americans and additional tariffs would hurt them even more."
At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in a crush at a food distribution site in southern Gaza run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It happened after GHF guards used teargas or pepper spray on hungry crowds arriving at the centre, Palestinian health authorities and witnesses said.
Fifteen people died from suffocation after teargas was fired at the crowd, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement.
“All of the 15 arrived at the hospital already dead with obvious symptoms of lack of oxygen. You can see blue marks, vomit, blue lips, swelling faces – all symptoms of suffocation,” Dr Mohammed Zaqqout, the director of hospitals for Gaza, said. “We couldn’t save any of the 15 we received because they were already dead on arrival.”
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons has declared that immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally are no longer eligible for bond hearings and should be detained throughout their deportation proceedings, drawing swift rebuke.
Some government officials will be meeting in private during the week for high-level negotiations. Government officials from several countries will all be meeting in closed-door sessions on Tuesday to discuss the Hague Group’s proposed measures. It is unclear what those proposed measures are, but they are likely to be announced on Wednesday morning during the closing ceremony. In Tuesday’s closed-door meetings, Albanese presented her expertise to international officials.
“The Bogotá conference will go down as the moment in history that states finally stood up to do the right thing,” Albanese had said in the lead-up to the conference. She called the formation of The Hague Group the “most significant political development of the last 20 months.”
During the press conference, Albanese stressed that nations should sever ties with Israel and place sanctions on Israel. Regarding the sanctions placed on her by Marco Rubio, she said, “it’s not about me. It’s about the Palestinian people,” adding that it is symbolic. Although Albanese is shaken by the actions taken by the U.S., she said, the sanctions are representative of the ongoing war and U.S. complicity.
A multilateral coalition arrived to Bogotá to take action to stop Israel’s genocide, despite U.S. condemnation and sanctions against the UN and international courts.
Even with no one in charge, army ants work collectively to build bridges out of their bodies. New research reveals the simple rules that lead to such complex…
In the shadowy world of Russian cyber warfare, one name has emerged with increasing frequency since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022: NoName057(16).
Mosul International Airport, which was previously destroyed by ISIS terrorists, is the third most important airport in Iraq, following Baghdad International Airport and Basra International Airport.
The airport became a key military site after it was overrun by the terrorist organization ISIS in June 2014. They held it until the Iraqi army took it back on February 23, 2017.
Following its liberation, Mosul International Airport underwent renovations. By November 2019, demining activities were finished, and plans for a thorough reconstruction were initiated.
I am trying to get rayhunter, but I am confused about a few things. What kind of hardware may be used? The Orbic RC400L advertises itself as being for Verizon network only, which I am not going to use. Does the rayhunter software allow it to work on arbitrary networks?
Furthermore, I don't see a good way to acquire such a device. They aren't sold locally as far as I can tell. On amazon they are available, though expensive. However, that would mean losing any form of privacy. I don't need it to be completely anonymous—someone looking at the location could probably see home and work easily enough—but better than amazon would be much preferred.
Are there any alternate devices that are known to work well in Canada? I will be keeping the device powered off most of the time anyways, (so as to hide my location) but it must be reliable when I need it.
I would be surprised if there are other devices for it. I think you'll want to look at what network bands Verizon uses and see what that corresponds to in Canada. But I really don't know.
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.
I have my bookmarks bar set to only display on a new tab, and my tabs to display vertically in a collapsed sidebar. This is fine except when i open a new tab and the bookmark bar shifts all my tabs down. Is there a way to move the bookmark bar over so it starts next to the sidebar rather than above?
Here's how it looks now and how i'd like it to look.
To paraphrase Mean Girls, "stop trying to make hydrogen happen."
For some years now, detractors of battery electric vehicles have held up hydrogen as a clean fuel panacea. That sometimes refers to hydrogen combustion engines, but more often, it's hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, or FCEVs. Both promise motoring with only water emitted from the vehicles' exhausts. It's just that hydrogen actually kinda sucks as a fuel, and automaker Stellantis announced today that it is ending the development of its light-, medium- and heavy-duty FCEVs, which were meant to go into production later this year.
Hydrogen's main selling point is that it's faster to fill a tank with the stuff than it is to recharge a lithium-ion battery. So it's a seductive alternative that suggests a driver can keep all the convenience of their gasoline engine with none of the climate change-causing side effects.
Setup: - 2x HPE ProLiant DL380 g7 - 1x Cisco 3750 - 1x Random PC as NAS - 1x Edgeswitch POE (for security cameras and AP) - 1x UniFi AC LR - 1x Netgear something (not in use, only use it to hold the monitor) - 1x Senstar A10D Thinclient (Not really in use) - 1x Raspberry Pi as Unifi controller (not for long as I am upgrading from a USG to a UDM Pro) - 1x Raspberry Pi with Flightradar24 stuff - 1x Ripe Atlas Probe - 1x Deltaco power meter
Software: - Running Proxmox on both servers, Truenas Scale on my "NAS"
Usage: - Jellyfin - Frigate - Docker -> Websites, discord bots, fediverse bots, Nginx Proxy Manager (gonna change this to traefik soon), Portainer - VPN (Wireguard) - Immich - Development stuff as I am a developer - I will install LibreNMS soon and PiHole
Network: - UniFi Security Gateway (changing to a Dream Machine Pro) - UniFi AC LR - UniFi AC Pro - Ubiquiti Edgeswitch 8P - Rasperry Pi running UniFi controller - 1 dumb switch due to one port not working on the router and I didn't have any managed available - Cisco 3750 - No VLAN due to that one dumb switch, fixing it soon
Rack cost: 20 security cameras and 2 hours of my time
Issues: - Hard drives on one of the servers are a bit sketchy so that server is currently offline until I get new ones (they also cause the fans to go to 78%) - Need to mount the AP, had a mount but due to bad placement of stuff it got warm air and my 3d printed one didn't like it and became soft and warped......
Future moves: - Getting some more switches soon - Hopefully getting another server soon - Might be going from a 500/500 line with 1 IPv4 to a 1000/1000 with 2 IPv4 if I can, changing ISP so I can get IPv6 - Fiber going straight into router - More security cameras - Setting up Home Assistant and Zigbee - Mounting my AP to the roof again
So this is my small rack, getting more stuff soon I hope
Yeah, I was sure to phrase it "at least", because who knows if there's been other attempts that we don't know about or have been foiled before they got the chance to.
None of the spaces on the left are set up to keep anything like this topical. Even this post is only because of Rosie which is from this week. Next week you'll forget about both.
Have you seen the latest moth Sheeran post though 🔥🔥🔥
What “spaces on the left”? Where? Every social media site is either run by the far right for the far right or is like lemmy and is at best fairly moderate.
The right wants to meddle and they wanna fight you so they can meddle more. The left don't want to bother, they want everyone to mind their own.
Letting meddlers mind their own means they come to you to meddle and you leave to avoid it and suddenly there's Lemmy in an internet full of people that want to kill you for not being them. The left doesn't fight, it allows.
Close. The internet was never leftist -- as in opposing capitalism. It was at its best the ACLU wing of liberal, and at its worst the age of consent wing of libertarian.
When social media exploded, the internet condensed to just a few aggregator platforms. You now had all this traffic and attention that could be more easily monetized than a million small websites and forums, and that's what happened. Your few companies that own these aggregator platforms now have an enormous financial interest in (1) keeping content palatable to advertisers and (2) keeping regulation and taxes at bay. They accomplish the second in part by cooperating with the U.S. intelligence community, to the point of becoming one of the many industries with a revolving door between their corporate governance and the parts of the actual government that deal with the industry.
Of course any significant leftist communities on these platforms get snuffed out: big business and the American government hate the left. Your ACLU-type liberals get pushed right or out as the impetus to make money drives every decision, with their free speech language selectively co-opted to protect the right. Then your most right-wing party starts to become openly fascist around the time a fascist buys one of the major platforms and removes even the nominal guardrails against the most egregious fascists.
Now we're here: with a few small non-fascist corners of the internet populated by a mix of leftists and liberals.
First of all, I'm not even American. Should I really have to remember shitty assassins like John Wilkes Booth? I bet you don't know who destroyed my nations fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. I've given you enough clues though.. Secondly, don't you think the left was just as interested in the very close assassination attempt at the leader that is now black bagging civilians off the street?
The second attempt would be from Ryan Routh, NATO obsessed guy who loved Biden and Ukraine and could summon 10,000 volunteer soldiers he recruited to help Ukraine, if only he got to charge his ult.
Rosie O'Donnell criticized Lord God Emperor Trumpus Maximus and like the true narcissist he is, he has never stopped being mad at her for it. He recently threatened to revoke her citizenship even though she was born in the US to US citizens.
The guy on the right literally tried to assassinate Trump, but he's dead now. Not sure why Trump never mentions him though, other than he's probably satisfied with the fact that he died trying to kill him.
The fact he never mentions the guy on the right is odd because there are a lot of unanswered questions. Two phones, foreign (Mossad) tech used to hack them, never mentioned again. His lone-gunman (CIA/Mossad agent) background is suspect. Yet, Trump isn't digging down into him, or maybe he was told not to by his handlers (Zionist.)
He never mentions the guy because the "assassination attempt" was a poorly disguised hoax, and EVERYONE knows it.
Worse for HitlerPig is that he KNOWS that everyone knows that it is a hoax, so he's keeping relatively quiet about it. Now and then he makes a reference to it, but it ALWAYS falls flat. Even his own followers don't get worked up about it because they know it was a clumsy hoax. If they claim to believe it, then they have to explain the fact that the guy was a hard-core MAGA, another awkward fact they don't want to deal with.
It was a hoax that didn't work, and one guy had his head literally blown off, so best to keep it on the DL.
How can it be a hoax if it resulted in the death of 2 people. You really think Trump hired somebody to fire live rounds at him? I think you're in the minority here, I too thought it was awfully convenient with the timing and the lack of information about the shooter, but I just can't believe Trump would allow someone to take a shot at him.
He talks about Rosie because she's just living her life and not seeing massive consequences from his hatred. The would be assassin got the fury of the state stomping down on them.
Solid-state batteries are poised to transform everything from electric cars to consumer electronics, and represent a transformational leap in energy storage.
The AI tool leverages Bayesian optimization, powered by Meta’s BoTorch and Ax frameworks, and was developed with Amrize and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) to accelerate the discovery of high-performance, low carbon concrete.
Meta successfully deployed a concrete mix that was optimized with the AI tool at a data center construction site. Being open-sourced and freely available, the AI-tool could help increase the adoption and optimization of sustainable concrete mixes in the construction industry at large.
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I think Slovakia has the lowest wealth inequality in europe (measured by GINI index) atleast it did in 2020. And 63% here say they want to tax the rich more.
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Previously were you only blocking via Voyager? If you were maybe it is some kind of sync problem, and now that you blocked via Piefed it forced a sync.
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.
Newly added rule is:
Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.
Translation: “I’m out of my depth here. I don’t know how to help. I would refer you to the right person but I don’t even have a good, professional referral network.”
I have a tongue issues which five different doctors have decided is geographic tongue, and told me “it will go away “in a couple of weeks”. The last two times I heavily prefaced adding “Before I get into it, it’s OK to say you don’t know, but don’t tell me it will go away in a couple of weeks because it’s been over ten years.” Both times as soon as they saw my tongue they cut me off with a “it will go away in a couple of weeks” and refused to discuss it further.
Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial discouraging environmentalists from using generative AI programs like ChatGPT due to their extraordinary energy and water consumption. If you care about the planet, I argued, you shouldn’t use such climate-damaging systems.
Most people responded to the editorial positively, but one follow-up question kept coming up: “How do I get AI completely out of my life?”
That’s a broad question, and it’s a tough one to answer because artificial intelligence has been wrapped into so many aspects of our daily lives, from cell phones, use of Microsoft Word, customer-service inquiries and, of course, search engines.
That last one bothered a lot of you, who complained about Google presenting AI answers to every search, well before any websites that might contain the same (or better) answers.
Now, search results that present AI-generated answers don’t carry quite the same environmental cost as full-fledged generative AI queries — like asking ChatGPT to “write” a full essay — but some research suggests AI search results will use four to five times as much energy as the old non-AI searches we used to enjoy. That’s not nothing, and in the battle against climate change, every watt counts.
Luckily, it turns out there’s an easy way to get AI out of your Google search results. Simply type these three keys after your search term: -AI
(That’s the minus sign immediately followed by the letters AI, with no space between them.)
Here’s an example: I Googled the phrase “why are tigers endangered” and got this result, leading with an AI-generated overview:
I tried it again with “-AI” at the end of the search phrase and got these results, which start with an authoritative source. Google still includes an overview pulled from the pages, but it doesn’t appear to have been generated by AI:
A second example: I searched for information on data centers and noise pollution (another problem of AI) and got this AI-generated search result:
But I added “-AI” to the search and got a reputable source first. Google still included a few lines from that source, but that’s the point: It was sourced in the first place. A lot of AI-generated texts don’t present their sources, so you can’t judge their veracity.
Google is obviously the king of search, but it’s not the only game in town. I tried this on a variety of other search engines and got similar — but imperfect — results.
A normal search on Bing delivered a detailed AI answer from its Copilot AI system.
Using “-AI” on Bing delivered a search result with a space for Copilot, but that space didn’t populate.
A normal search on Yahoo delivered an AI summary.
Using “-AI” on Yahoo still generated an AI answer, although it appeared after an authoritative source. (This earns Yahoo a failing grade, in my book.)
DuckDuckGo presented an AI “assist” on my first search (which, quite interestingly, included a warning about its possible lack of accuracy).
Adding “-AI” to the search on that platform delivered AI-free results. This made DuckDuckGo today’s winner. (It’s worth noting that DuckDuckGo also receives high marks from security specialists because it doesn’t track your search results.)
None of these results are perfect, and these search engines are likely to modify their systems at any time. But as of this writing using “-AI” seems like a simple and efficient way to reduce the carbon footprint of your online searches — which, as a journalist who searches for stuff dozens of times a day, is something I appreciate.
Credit where credit is due: I got this tip about Google from a video posted by ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee. Watch her video below, and her Climate A to Zee series on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQO…
Mass attack hits cities overnight as Ukrainians brace for 50 more days of Russian terror — Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AI — Russian agent caught ‘red-handed’ planting explosives in Rivne apartment bui
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Guests greet the newlyweds Volodymyr and Oleksandra by showering them with grain and candy during their traditional Ukrainian wedding on July 15, 2025 in Ternopil, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)
Ukraine’s prime minister submitsresignation, parliament set to dismiss government on July 16. The parliament is set to dismiss the government on July 16 as Prime Minister Denys Shymhal submitted his resignation.
Mass attack hits cities overnight as Ukrainians brace for50 more daysof Russian terror. In Kharkiv, at least 17 explosions rocked the city in 20 minutes amid a massive Russian drone strike. Explosions, power outages, and mass strikes have been reported in multiple cities.
Trump reportedly asked Zelensky ifUkraine could strike Moscow, White House says he wasn’t ‘encouraging further killing.’ Donald Trump encouraged the strategy so that Russia could “feel the pain” and agree to negotiations, the Financial Times reported, citing its sources.
Zelensky shouldn’ttarget Moscow,Trump says. Trump responded to questions about his reported remarks by saying Zelensky should not attack the Russian capital. He also said the U.S. was not looking to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles.
Kremlin calls Trump’s tariff warnings‘quite serious.’ “This statement from the U.S. president is quite serious. Some of what he said appears to be addressed personally to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Ukrainian cyberattack ‘paralyzes’ major Russiandrone supplier,source claims. “The stolen data includes confidential questionnaires of the company’s employees, and most importantly, full technical documentation on the production of drones, which was handed over to the relevant specialists of the Ukrainian Defense Forces,” a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent.
Smoke rising nearRussian battery plantamid reported Ukrainian drone attack. The facility reportedly manufactures batteries for missile guidance and glider modules, including for the Iskander system and cruise missiles, which Russia has been increasingly using to target Ukrainian cities.
Ukraine passes bill to withdraw from anti-personnelmine ban treaty. The vote passed by 305 deputies, with 40 abstaining, and none voting against.
Russian agent caught ‘red-handed’ plantingexplosivesin Rivne apartment building, Ukraine’s SBU says. According to the SBU, Russian “special services” recruited the 27-year-old Lviv resident who was trying to obtain “easy money” through Telegram channels.
Ukrainian startup says its drones couldwork on their ownby year’s end, thanks to AI. Armed with a fresh round of investment from the West, Ukrainian drone autonomy startup the Fourth Law is showcasing new footage as it aims to become the first to reach the latest holy grail of drone warfare: full autonomy.
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‘How would that even work?’ — experts pour scorn on Trump’s ‘severe’ Russian tariffs plan
“I’m afraid this talk about tariffs will remain just talk,” Andrei Movchan, a Russian-born economist and founder of Movchan’s Group, told the Kyiv Independent. “Like the oil price cap or the fight against the shadow fleet — something may be introduced on paper, but in reality, nothing will actually work.”
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Learn more ‘Russia doesn’t care’ — Trump’s 50-day Ukraine ceasefire deadline dismissed by Moscow pundits
“Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on July 15 following Trump’s ceasefire deadline and tariffs threat. “The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care.”
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Learn more Trump’s big Russia announcement fails to lift spirits in a fatigued Ukraine
Fifty days is a long time in a country that has seen a dramatic and devastating escalation in Russian aerial attacks in recent weeks, not to mention a Kremlin openly stating it intends to capture as much Ukrainian territory as it can in its ongoing summer offensive.
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Such a move, supporters say, could serve Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy goals. Those opposed, however, say that creating militarized formations that often operate in a grey area is a potential security threat for everyone involved.
5 killed, 53 injured in Ukraine as Russiastrikes hospitals, residential areas across country. Russian forces killed at least five people and injured at least 53, including four children, across Ukrainian regions over the past day, regional authorities reported on July 15
General Staff: Russiahas lost1,036,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
International response
Trump says he’s‘disappointed but not done’with Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed a deal with Moscow had been close on four separate occasions.
China pledgesdeeper support for Russiaamid Trump tariff threats. Following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing on July 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that mutual trust between the two countries had “deepened” and called on both sides to “strengthen mutual support on multilateral forums.”
’50 days is a very long time’ — EU welcomes newUS action on Ukraine, hesitant on timeline, Kallas says. “On one hand, it is very positive that President Trump is taking on a strong stance on Russia… On the other hand, 50 days is a very long time if we see that they are killing innocent civilians,” EU Special Envoy Kaja Kallas said.
Denmark, Sweden backfunding US weaponsfor Ukraine. Denmark and Sweden are open to help deliver U.S. weapons, including Patriot air defense systems, to Ukraine via NATO, countries’ officials said on July 15.
France warns of war in‘heart of Europe,’names Russia ‘most direct threat.’ “In the years to come, and by 2030, the main threat to France and Europeans is the risk of open warfare against the heart of Europe,” France’s new National Strategic Review reads.
EU fails to approve new Russia sanctions asSlovakiaholds up vote. “The government coalition rejects the imbecile proposal of the European Commission to stop the flow of Russian gas from 2028,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
Orban urges EU action over Ukraine’sconscription practices. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called upon the EU to take action against Ukraine’s conscription practices in an interview with Origo published on July 15, amid an ongoing dispute with Kyiv over the death of a Ukrainian conscript of Hungarian ethnicity.
Euroclear opposes expanding investment risk forfrozen Russian fundsamid Ukraine aid push, FT reports. The chief executive of Euroclear told the FT that the EU’s proposal would amount to “expropriation” — forced seizure — because if Russia demands the assets back in the future, they would not be available.
In other news
Kyiv court releases Ukraine’s topanti-corruption activiston recognizance as his lawyer dismisses the charges. Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s (AntAC) executive board and current member of the country’s Armed Forces, was charged on July 11 with evading military service and fraud — an accusation he and his team reject.
US-Ukraine minerals fundlooks for manageras critical resources deal advances. The U.S. government’s development finance agency has started looking for a company to manage a joint U.S.-Ukraine investment fund, Ukraine’s Economy Ministry said in a July 15 press release.
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Il 12 luglio è mancato Lucio Russo, figura singolare di scienziato e umanista, proprio perché nel suo percorso culturale i due termini erano indissolubilmente intrecciati. Nato a Venezia nel 1944, laureato in fisica a Napoli e professore ordinario di calcolo delle probabilità a Roma Tor Vergata, ci ha lasciato contributi e riflessioni che vanno molto al di là di un circoscritto settore scientifico. I suoi studi di storia della scienza mostrano una coerenza del tutto particolare anche con gli interventi pubblici sulla politica dell’istruzione.
Costruisci la tua squadra di lancio: il primo passo per ottenere recensioni libro e promuovere la tua opera
Nel percorso di ogni autore emergente, una delle sfide più grandi è ottenere le prime recensioni del libro. Senza recensioni, anche il romanzo più curato rischia di restare invisibile tra le migliaia di titoli pubblicati ogni giorno. La promozione del libro parte infatti da un elemento spesso sottovalutato ma potentissimo: la squadra di lancio.
Cos’è una squadra di lancio e perché dovresti crearne una subito
La squadra di lancio di un libro è un gruppo selezionato di lettori — spesso formata da beta reader, blogger, amici fidati e recensori per autori emergenti — che leggono il tuo libro in anteprima e ti aiutano a generare recensioni nei giorni cruciali del lancio. Questo non solo migliora la tua credibilità come autore, ma stimola anche l’algoritmo di Amazon e delle principali piattaforme, aumentando la visibilità del tuo libro su Amazon e le possibilità di vendita.
Se ti stai chiedendo come ottenere le prime recensioni libro, questa guida è il punto di partenza giusto.
Cosa troverai in questa guida strategica
Questa guida per autori emergenti ti aiuterà passo dopo passo a:
Costruire la tua squadra di lancio libro in modo funzionale;
Trovare recensori affidabili nei giusti canali (social, blog, gruppi di lettura);
Scrivere messaggi di contatto efficaci, grazie a template e consigli pratici;
Gestire il tuo team durante la fase di pre-lancio e lancio libro;
Creare relazioni e un vero network di supporto alla tua attività editoriale.
Alla fine dell’articolo potrai scaricare gratuitamente una checklist operativa in 7 passi, pensata per accompagnarti nell’intero processo.
Se vuoi dare una spinta concreta al tuo prossimo lancio editoriale e iniziare finalmente a raccogliere recensioni libro, questa guida è ciò che ti serve.
Perché una squadra di lancio è importante per l’autore emergente
Una squadra di lancio libro per autori emergenti rappresenta uno strumento strategico e spesso decisivo per garantire il successo di un’opera fin dalle prime settimane. Non si tratta solo di avere lettori in anteprima, ma di creare una vera e propria rete di supporto capace di amplificare l’impatto iniziale del libro. Ecco perché ogni autore esordiente dovrebbe valutare seriamente di costruirne una.
Visibilità iniziale: recensioni che fanno la differenza
Uno dei principali vantaggi di una squadra di lancio è la possibilità di generare un picco di recensioni al momento del lancio, elemento fondamentale per gli algoritmi di piattaforme come Amazon. Le prime recensioni libro autori emergenti contribuiscono a migliorare la posizione del titolo nei risultati di ricerca, un elemento chiave nelle strategie di lancio libro, aumentando la visibilità e attirando l’attenzione di lettori potenziali.
Credibilità e prova sociale
Le recensioni autentiche di lettori reali non solo attraggono altri lettori, ma costituiscono una prova sociale essenziale: chi scopre il libro percepirà fin da subito un certo grado di fiducia e professionalità. Questo è particolarmente importante per chi pubblica il suo primo libro e non ha ancora un seguito consolidato.
Feedback utile prima dell’uscita ufficiale
Alcuni membri della squadra di lancio possono agire da beta reader, offrendo commenti costruttivi prima del lancio definitivo. Questo processo consente all’autore di apportare correzioni, affinare alcuni passaggi o semplicemente validare la propria scelta narrativa grazie a un primo contatto con il pubblico reale.
Motivazione e supporto continuo
Una squadra di lancio non è solo una risorsa tecnica, ma anche emotiva: sapere che qualcuno crede nel proprio progetto e ne attende l’uscita può rappresentare un’enorme spinta motivazionale per l’autore. Questo supporto è spesso ciò che fa la differenza nei momenti di dubbio o di fatica.
Il passaparola autentico
I membri di una squadra di lancio possono diventare ambasciatori del tuo libro, promuovendolo nei loro canali, parlandone con amici o condividendo post sui social in modo spontaneo. Il passaparola resta una delle strategie di marketing più potenti, soprattutto se parte da persone sinceramente coinvolte nel progetto.
Chi cerca si trova: identificare i membri ideali per la tua squadra
Creare una squadra di lancio efficace per autori emergenti non significa coinvolgere chiunque, ma selezionare con cura i profili più adatti al tuo progetto. La pertinenza è tutto: i membri devono essere in sintonia con il genere del libro, con il tuo stile e con le finalità della promozione. Ecco i profili più utili da includere.
Lettori forti e fedeli
Hai già pubblicato racconti, articoli o altri libri? Coinvolgi chi ti ha letto e apprezzato in passato. I lettori forti, che ti seguono da tempo, sono spesso i primi a sostenerti con entusiasmo. Per loro, far parte della squadra di lancio è anche un modo per sentirsi coinvolti nel processo creativo.
Beta reader affidabili
Un buon beta reader non si limita a leggere: fornisce un feedback dettagliato e sincero, utile per migliorare il manoscritto. Se sei ancora in fase di revisione, questi lettori possono trasformarsi in recensori consapevoli, già pronti a parlar bene del libro al momento della pubblicazione, con cognizione di causa.
Blogger letterari e bookstagrammer
Anche con community di piccole dimensioni, blogger letterari e bookstagrammer sono preziosi alleati. Hanno un pubblico fidelizzato, interessato alla lettura, e sanno come presentare un libro in modo visivamente accattivante. Se il tuo libro rientra nel loro genere preferito, saranno più propensi a promuoverlo con naturalezza.
Amici e familiari (con trasparenza)
Può sembrare scontato, ma coinvolgere amici e familiari è utile solo se sono disposti a leggere davvero il libro e a scrivere recensioni oneste seguendo le indicazioni. La trasparenza è fondamentale: è meglio una recensione autentica e ponderata che dieci generiche e sospette.
Lettori attivi su piattaforme online
Alcuni lettori sono particolarmente attivi su Amazon, Goodreads, Anobii o altre piattaforme di recensione. Individuarli e coinvolgerli nella squadra significa aumentare le probabilità che le prime recensioni libro per autori emergenti appaiano in luoghi strategici, dove hanno maggiore peso e visibilità.
Dove trovare la tua squadra di lancio: piattaforme e strategie
Per costruire una squadra di lancio per il tuo libro, è fondamentale sapere dove cercare i lettori giusti. I recensori libri per autori emergenti non si trovano solo tra amici e conoscenti: esistono community online, piattaforme e contatti che puoi coltivare con pazienza e autenticità. Ecco i principali canali da esplorare.
Social media: gruppi e hashtag mirati
I gruppi Facebook dedicati a generi specifici (fantasy, romance, thriller, saggistica…) sono popolati da lettori attivi e appassionati. Anche Instagram, con hashtag come #[url=https://www.magozine.it/tag/bookstagramitalia/]bookstagramitalia[/url] o #[url=https://www.magozine.it/tag/bookbloggeritalia/]bookbloggeritalia[/url], è una risorsa preziosa: molti profili cercano nuove letture da recensire.
Piattaforme di lettura: Goodreads, Anobii, Wattpad
Su Goodreads e Anobii puoi individuare lettori che lasciano recensioni abituali, cercare gruppi di lettura a tema, o osservare chi ha recensito libri simili al tuo. Se il tuo pubblico è giovane o scrivi narrativa seriale, Wattpad può aiutarti a creare legami diretti con chi legge abitualmente nel tuo genere.
Gruppi di lettura online e offline
Contatta gruppi di lettura locali o virtuali, specialmente quelli attivi sui social o nei forum. Offrire copie gratuite del tuo libro in cambio di un’opinione sincera è spesso ben accetto, purché ci sia chiarezza sull’obiettivo: una recensione onesta, non una pubblicità.
Blog letterari: recensori di nicchia
Molti blog letterari per autori emergenti sono gestiti da appassionati disposti a collaborare con scrittori esordienti. Anche se hanno piccole community, spesso vantano lettori fidelizzati e competenti. Esplora il loro archivio per capire se il tuo libro si adatta al loro gusto prima di contattarli.
Lista email e newsletter personale
Se hai costruito nel tempo una newsletter per lettori, quella è la tua base più solida. I tuoi iscritti conoscono già il tuo stile, apprezzano il tuo lavoro e potrebbero essere entusiasti di far parte del lancio. Includi una call to action chiara per unirsi alla squadra e contribuisci a farli sentire parte di qualcosa di speciale.
Costruisci relazioni, non solo contatti
Costruire un network recensori libri efficace richiede tempo. Evita l’approccio impersonale o opportunista. Cerca di instaurare relazioni genuine: leggi e commenta i post altrui, proponi collaborazioni trasparenti, offri valore prima di chiedere un favore.
Piattaforme chiave per la ricerca di recensori
Piattaforma
Tipo di pubblico/approccio
Come usarla per la ricerca
Goodreads
Lettori assidui, recensori amatoriali
Cerca gruppi di lettura, leggi recensioni simili al tuo libro, contatta i profili più attivi
Facebook
Gruppi tematici, lettori per genere
Unisciti a gruppi specifici (es. “Thriller italiani”), proponi lettura gratuita in cambio di recensione
Instagram
Bookstagrammer, influencer di nicchia
Segui hashtag (#bookstagramitalia), osserva chi recensisce libri affini al tuo
Anobii
Lettori esperti, community italiana
Consulta librerie personali e recensioni di titoli simili, invia messaggi personalizzati
Wattpad
Giovani lettori, autori emergenti
Pubblica estratti, coinvolgi lettori attivi in scambi di feedback o recensioni
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L’arte della proposta: come coinvolgere e motivare la tua squadra di lancio
Una volta individuati i potenziali membri della tua squadra di lancio, arriva il momento cruciale: contattarli nel modo giusto. Che si tratti di recensori per autori emergenti, bookstagrammer o lettori appassionati, il modo in cui ti presenti può fare la differenza tra un “sì” entusiasta e un silenzio glaciale. Ecco come costruire una proposta efficace.
Personalizza ogni messaggio
Evita assolutamente i messaggi generici e copia-incolla. Mostrare che conosci il lavoro del potenziale recensore crea un rapporto di fiducia immediato. Cita una recensione che ha scritto, un libro che ha apprezzato o una sua riflessione sui social. Dimostra che non lo stai contattando “a caso”.
Sii chiaro nelle richieste
Spiega con precisione cosa stai chiedendo: ad esempio, leggere il libro in anteprima, lasciare una recensione su Amazon e Goodreads entro una certa data. Specifica se si tratta di una campagna recensioni libro pre-lancio, con tempistiche e obiettivi chiari.
Chiedi sincerità, non lodi gratuite
Sottolinea che la recensione dev’essere onesta, non necessariamente positiva. Questo rafforza la tua credibilità come autore e come professionista. La trasparenza è un segnale di serietà che molti recensori apprezzano.
Offri valore in cambio
Anche se molti lettori sono felici di partecipare per passione, è importante chiarire cosa ricevono in cambio: una copia omaggio del libro, una menzione sui tuoi canali, l’accesso anticipato a contenuti extra, o magari l’opportunità di essere intervistati nel tuo blog o newsletter.
Definisci le tempistiche
Gestire un pre-lancio libro con recensioni efficaci richiede organizzazione. Comunica le date con anticipo: quando invierai il file, quando sarebbe ideale ricevere la recensione, e se ci saranno promemoria. La chiarezza rende tutto più fluido.
Esempio concreto di messaggio per coinvolgere un recensore
Oggetto: Collaborazione per un romanzo [Genere del tuo libro] – Recensione in anteprima
Ciao [Nome Recensore/Blogger],
ho letto la tua recensione su [Titolo del libro recensito dal destinatario] e ho apprezzato molto il tuo approccio [analitico/emotivo] a [specifico aspetto].
Sto per pubblicare un romanzo [genere del tuo libro] intitolato “[Titolo del tuo libro]”, che affronta [breve frase sul tema centrale del libro].
Sto cercando lettori sinceri per leggerlo in anteprima e, se lo riterranno valido, lasciare una recensione onesta su Amazon o Goodreads entro il [data indicativa].
In cambio, offro una copia gratuita del libro (formato digitale o cartaceo), l’accesso a contenuti extra riservati e – se ti va – una menzione sul mio blog/newsletter.
Ti allego sinossi e copertina in anteprima. Fammi sapere se ti incuriosisce!
Grazie per il tuo tempo,
[Il tuo Nome]
Gestire la tua squadra di lancio: strumenti e best practice
Creare una squadra di lancio è solo il primo passo. Il vero lavoro inizia quando devi coordinarla in modo efficace. Una gestione organizzata e rispettosa è ciò che trasforma un gruppo di lettori in veri alleati del tuo lancio editoriale. Ecco come farlo al meglio.
Scegli il canale giusto per comunicare
Ogni squadra funziona meglio se ha un punto di riferimento chiaro. Può essere una lista email, oppure un gruppo privato su WhatsApp o Telegram, a seconda delle preferenze dei partecipanti. L’importante è stabilire da subito dove avverranno gli aggiornamenti, senza disperdere le comunicazioni.
Invia le copie in modo ordinato
Assicurati di inviare il file in un formato leggibile per tutti: EPUB e PDF sono i più comuni, ma chiedi sempre se qualcuno preferisce MOBI o altro. Puoi usare servizi gratuiti come WeTransfer, Google Drive o Dropbox, accompagnando l’invio con un messaggio cortese e chiaro.
Invia promemoria senza pressioni
È normale che qualcuno dimentichi la scadenza. Prepara promemoria gentili, mai invadenti, magari con tono leggero: “Ciao! Solo un breve promemoria: se hai già letto il libro, mi farebbe piacere sapere il tuo parere! La scadenza per lasciare la recensione è il [data]. Grazie ancora per il tuo tempo.”
Ringrazia sempre chi partecipa
Una recensione per autore emergente è un gesto prezioso. Anche quando non è perfettamente in linea con le tue aspettative, ringrazia comunque. La gratitudine rafforza i legami e crea relazioni autentiche, fondamentali per la tua crescita come scrittore.
Tieni traccia dei progressi
Per non perdere il controllo, ti basta un foglio Excel o Google Sheet dove annotare:
Nome del partecipante
Data di invio del libro
Risposta ricevuta
Recensione pubblicata (con link)
Note aggiuntive (interesse, feedback, ecc.)
Questo ti aiuta a gestire meglio le interazioni e a evitare doppioni o dimenticanze.
Crea un clima di entusiasmo e collaborazione
Più che un’operazione promozionale, pensa alla squadra di lancio come a una piccola comunità di sostenitori. Coinvolgi i partecipanti con aggiornamenti, curiosità sul libro, domande aperte. Farli sentire parte del progetto rende tutto più autentico e partecipato.
Oltre il lancio: mantenere attive le tue recensioni
Il lavoro della tua squadra di lancio non finisce con la pubblicazione del libro. Anzi, il post-lancio è il momento in cui puoi consolidare i legami e costruire un network di recensori duraturo e autentico. Ecco come farlo senza cadere nell’insistenza.
Ringrazia pubblicamente e con autenticità
Ogni recensione è un atto di fiducia. Mostra la tua gratitudine condividendola sui tuoi canali (social, blog, newsletter), menzionando chi l’ha scritta e ringraziando apertamente. Non serve creare una vetrina autocelebrativa: bastano parole sentite, un link alla recensione e, magari, una breve citazione del passaggio più significativo.
Esempio: “Grazie a @nomeblogger per questa lettura attenta e generosa di [Titolo del Libro]! Il suo punto di vista su [tema] mi ha colpito in particolare. Potete leggere la recensione completa qui: [link].”
Coltiva il dialogo
Quando possibile, interagisci con chi ha lasciato una recensione: rispondi a commenti, ringrazia in privato, commenta a tua volta. Su piattaforme come Goodreads o blog, questo scambio rafforza la relazione e dimostra che sei presente, non solo quando serve promuoverti.
Aggiorna, ma con equilibrio
Se il tuo libro raggiunge nuovi traguardi (una ristampa, una traduzione, una menzione importante), condividilo con la squadra. Fai sentire i partecipanti parte del percorso, perché lo sono. Ma evita comunicazioni troppo frequenti o auto-promozionali, che rischiano di stancare o apparire forzate.
Trasforma i lettori in alleati
Il vero obiettivo è costruire una comunità attiva e sostenibile di recensori e lettori fedeli. Per farlo:
Offri contenuti esclusivi (es. capitoli inediti, backstage della scrittura).
Coinvolgili in anteprime di prossimi progetti.
Ascolta i loro suggerimenti: sentirsi ascoltati li renderà più inclini a seguirti nel tempo.
Una squadra di lancio ben gestita può diventare il nucleo della tua community d’autore. Non si tratta solo di recensioni libro autori emergenti, ma di creare relazioni vere attorno alla tua voce narrativa.
La tua squadra, la tua rete, il tuo successo
Costruire una squadra di lancio libro non è un passaggio accessorio: è una delle leve strategiche più potenti per un autore emergente. Non si tratta solo di ottenere qualche recensione in più su Amazon o Goodreads, ma di creare una rete viva e attiva che sostiene, incoraggia, consiglia e diffonde.
Una campagna recensioni libro ben strutturata ha il potere di generare visibilità, consolidare la tua credibilità come autore e stimolare un passaparola autentico — l’unico davvero capace di trasformare un lettore occasionale in un lettore fedele.
Investire tempo nella costruzione della tua squadra significa gettare le basi di un network reale e duraturo, fatto di persone che credono nella tua voce e nel tuo progetto. È da qui che parte la promozione libro efficace: non da budget esorbitanti o algoritmi, ma dalla fiducia costruita nel tempo.
Sei pronto a dare una spinta decisiva al tuo libro?
Costruire la tua squadra di lancio è il primo passo. Fallo con cura, coerenza e autenticità. I risultati ti sorprenderanno.
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FAQ: Domande Frequenti sulla squadra di lancio per libri
Come trovo beta reader affidabili? Cerca in gruppi di scrittura online, forum specializzati (come Scribacchini su Facebook o piattaforme come Wattpad), oppure chiedi direttamente ad altri autori della tua rete. Quando li contatti, spiega chiaramente cosa ti aspetti, quali aspetti del libro ti interessa ricevere feedback (stile, trama, coerenza, ritmo…) e quali sono i tempi di lettura previsti.
Cosa scrivere in un messaggio a un potenziale recensore? Sii personale. Dimostra di conoscere il loro lavoro e spiega perché li stai contattando. Sii chiaro su cosa offri (una copia omaggio) e su cosa chiedi (una recensione onesta, entro una data).
Quante persone dovrebbero far parte della squadra di lancio? Non esiste un numero fisso. Inizia con 10-20 persone ben scelte e coinvolte nel genere del tuo libro. È meglio avere pochi lettori appassionati e affidabili piuttosto che tanti poco coinvolti. Col tempo potrai espandere la squadra.
Cosa succede se qualcuno non lascia la recensione? Capita. Le persone possono avere imprevisti o cambiare idea. Dopo la data prevista, puoi mandare un gentile promemoria, ma evita pressioni. Ringrazia comunque e concentrati su chi ha partecipato attivamente: costruire buone relazioni è più importante del risultato immediato.
Dovrei pagare i membri della mia squadra di lancio? In genere no. La copia omaggio è la “ricompensa” per il loro supporto. Se un blogger o un bookstagrammer propone una collaborazione a pagamento (sponsorizzata), valuta la cosa come faresti per qualsiasi servizio di marketing: trasparenza, coerenza col target, e ritorno sull’investimento.
Recensioni, la linfa vitale del successo editoriale
Nell’era digitale, dove l’offerta editoriale è più vasta che mai, le recensioni libri non sono più semplici opinioni personali: sono diventate un elemento fondamentale per la visibilità di un libro online e, di conseguenza, per il suo successo. Per molti autori emergenti, ottenere una recensione può fare la differenza tra restare invisibili o iniziare a costruire un pubblico fedele.
La promozione di un libro oggi passa anche – e soprattutto – dalla capacità di generare attenzione e fiducia nel lettore attraverso i giudizi di altri lettori, blogger, o addetti ai lavori. Che si tratti di una piattaforma come Amazon, di un blog letterario, o di un profilo social, le recensioni influenzano direttamente l’immagine dell’autore, la sua credibilità, e la percezione del suo lavoro.
In questo articolo capiremo perché l’importanza delle recensioni per gli autori è spesso sottovalutata, come esse incidano sulle vendite, sulla scoperta del libro, e persino sulla crescita personale dello scrittore. Vedremo inoltre strategie per ottenere recensioni, analizzando il loro impatto su Google, Amazon e nella costruzione di una reputazione che duri nel tempo. Perché le recensioni, oggi, sono la linfa vitale del successo editoriale.
Il potere delle recensioni nell’era digitale. Oltre il passaparola tradizionale
Un tempo, il successo di un libro si costruiva lentamente, grazie al passaparola tra lettori, librerie indipendenti e critici letterari. Oggi quel passaparola non è scomparso: si è trasferito online, moltiplicando la sua portata e accelerandone l’efficacia. Le recensioni digitali, pubblicate su blog letterari, store online, social network e piattaforme come Goodreads, sono diventate il principale motore di fiducia e scoperta nel mercato editoriale contemporaneo.
Dal punto di vista tecnico, queste recensioni costituiscono contenuti generati dagli utenti (UGC), un elemento altamente valorizzato dai motori di ricerca. Google tende a premiare i contenuti che stimolano interazioni autentiche, e una pagina prodotto arricchita da recensioni attive ha molte più probabilità di posizionarsi in alto nei risultati di ricerca rispetto a una pagina statica e silenziosa. Allo stesso modo, piattaforme come Amazon analizzano la quantità, la frequenza e la pertinenza delle recensioni per stabilire il grado di rilevanza di un libro rispetto ad altri della stessa categoria.
Il passaparola tradizionale, seppure ancora efficace in ambienti locali o nicchie molto coese, non è più sufficiente da solo per garantire un impatto significativo. L’interazione digitale, invece, offre una diffusione esponenziale, raggiungendo lettori lontani, creando conversazioni pubbliche attorno all’opera e generando “rumore” algoritmico che favorisce il libro anche a livello promozionale. Una singola recensione condivisa al momento giusto può innescare una catena di visibilità difficile da replicare con strumenti classici.
Per gli autori indipendenti, questa trasformazione rappresenta sia una sfida che un’opportunità: da un lato, richiede competenze di promozione e networking digitale; dall’altro, consente di ottenere visibilità e autorevolezza senza dipendere esclusivamente da editori o media tradizionali. La chiave è riconoscere il potere strutturale della recensione moderna, che non è solo una valutazione soggettiva, ma un elemento strategico nell’ecosistema editoriale digitale.
Recensioni e algoritmi di ricerca: essere trovati su Google e Amazon
Nel mercato editoriale attuale, la qualità del contenuto non basta: un libro, per avere successo, deve essere trovabile. La capacità di emergere nei risultati di ricerca su Amazon e Google dipende in larga parte da meccanismi algoritmici che premiano l’interazione degli utenti, tra cui le recensioni svolgono un ruolo centrale.
Su Amazon: l’algoritmo A9 e le recensioni come fattore di ranking
Amazon utilizza un sofisticato algoritmo di ricerca (conosciuto come A9) che tiene conto di numerosi parametri per mostrare i risultati ai lettori. Le recensioni clienti rappresentano uno dei segnali più forti. L’algoritmo valuta:
Numero totale di recensioni: più recensioni significano maggiore rilevanza.
Valutazione media: i libri con rating tra 4 e 5 stelle tendono a performare meglio.
Frequenza e freschezza delle recensioni: nuove recensioni costanti suggeriscono al sistema che il libro è attivo e interessante.
Parole chiave contenute nelle recensioni: se i lettori usano termini rilevanti (es. “romanzo psicologico”, “thriller coinvolgente”), queste parole migliorano il posizionamento nelle ricerche tematiche.
In sintesi, ogni recensione è un contenuto che dialoga con l’algoritmo Amazon, aiutando il libro a posizionarsi nelle pagine di ricerca e nelle sezioni “consigliati” o “chi ha comprato questo ha acquistato anche…”.
Su Google: SEO e contenuti organici
Anche al di fuori degli store, le recensioni contribuiscono a migliorare la SEO (Search Engine Optimization) del libro. Quando un titolo riceve attenzione su blog, forum o siti specializzati, Google interpreta questi segnali come indice di interesse e rilevanza. Un buon posizionamento nei motori di ricerca significa aumento del traffico organico verso il libro, maggiore probabilità di scoperta e, potenzialmente, più vendite.
Inoltre, le recensioni scritte su siti autorevoli (come blog letterari di qualità) possono finire tra i rich snippet di Google, ovvero quelle anteprime di contenuto che compaiono direttamente nella pagina dei risultati di ricerca, aumentando la visibilità del libro rispetto ad altri.
Visibilità trasversale: l’effetto moltiplicatore
Le recensioni influenzano piattaforme diverse in contemporanea: un lettore colpito da una recensione su Instagram può cercare il titolo su Amazon, mentre un articolo su un blog può spingere altri utenti a scrivere ulteriori recensioni, creando un ciclo virtuoso. La presenza di un libro in più contesti digitali, alimentata dalle recensioni, rafforza la sua percezione di valore, sia per gli algoritmi sia per i lettori.
La credibilità dell’autore e il fattore fiducia
In un contesto editoriale sempre più competitivo, la fiducia del lettore è uno degli asset più preziosi per un autore. Le recensioni contribuiscono in modo diretto alla costruzione di questa fiducia, fungendo da prova sociale — quel meccanismo psicologico per cui le persone tendono a fidarsi di ciò che altri hanno già validato.
Recensioni come indicatori di affidabilità
Un libro con numerose recensioni positive comunica immediatamente al potenziale lettore che è stato apprezzato da altri. Questo non vale solo per le opere di narrativa, ma anche per saggistica, manuali e testi di nicchia. L’effetto è duplice:
Innalzamento della percezione di qualità: anche in assenza di una casa editrice nota alle spalle, un autore autopubblicato può apparire credibile.
Riduzione del rischio percepito: l’acquisto di un libro è una forma d’investimento (tempo e denaro); sapere che altri lettori hanno avuto un’esperienza soddisfacente abbassa le barriere all’acquisto.
In pratica, le recensioni suppliscono all’assenza di garanzie tradizionali, come la notorietà dell’autore o il marchio editoriale.
Reputazione nel tempo e ciclo di feedback
Le recensioni non influenzano solo il singolo libro, ma contribuiscono a costruire la reputazione autoriale nel tempo. Un autore che riceve recensioni costantemente positive sviluppa un’identità riconoscibile e una base lettori fidelizzata, elemento fondamentale per la longevità nel panorama editoriale.
Inoltre, la presenza di recensioni critiche ma ben argomentate può paradossalmente rafforzare la credibilità: il lettore percepisce un confronto autentico, non una promozione artefatta. La varietà delle opinioni dimostra che il libro ha generato coinvolgimento reale.
La fiducia come leva per opportunità future
Una buona reputazione online basata sulle recensioni apre le porte a nuove opportunità editoriali e promozionali: inviti a festival, interesse da parte di editori tradizionali, richieste di interviste o collaborazioni. Per molti autori indipendenti, la reputazione costruita attraverso le recensioni è ciò che li ha portati a un salto di qualità nella propria carriera.
Cosa fare per promuovere un libro? Le recensioni come strategia chiave
Per un autore, specialmente se emergente o autopubblicato, promuovere un libro non è solo una questione di marketing, ma di sopravvivenza editoriale. In un panorama saturo di nuove uscite, la sfida non è solo pubblicare, ma essere notati. In questo contesto, le recensioni rappresentano una delle strategie promozionali più efficaci e accessibili.
Perché le recensioni sono una leva di marketing essenziale
A differenza di altre forme promozionali che possono essere onerose o complesse da gestire, le recensioni agiscono su più fronti contemporaneamente:
Incrementano la visibilità sui motori di ricerca e sulle piattaforme di vendita.
Rafforzano la credibilità del libro e dell’autore (come visto nella sezione precedente).
Stimolano la discussione online, innescando condivisioni spontanee sui social e nei forum.
Inoltre, il loro impatto non è effimero: una recensione ben indicizzata o pubblicata su un sito autorevole può continuare a portare lettori anche mesi o anni dopo l’uscita del libro.
Strategie integrate: recensioni come moltiplicatore
Le recensioni non devono essere viste come elemento isolato, ma integrate in un ecosistema promozionale più ampio. Tra le principali strategie che un autore può attivare:
Networking letterario: entrare in contatto con altri scrittori, blogger, librerie indipendenti.
Presenza online strutturata: sito autore, newsletter, canali social curati.
Eventi e presentazioni: anche in spazi non convenzionali (caffè letterari, biblioteche, podcast).
In tutti questi ambiti, le recensioni rappresentano un moltiplicatore: rendono più efficace ogni altra azione. Un autore che si presenta con un libro ben recensito parte da una posizione di forza.
Recensioni = investimento promozionale a lungo termine
Molti autori dedicano tempo e risorse a campagne pubblicitarie a pagamento che si esauriscono in pochi giorni. Le recensioni, al contrario, continuano a lavorare per il libro nel tempo. È per questo che incoraggiare lettori reali a lasciare un commento pubblico rappresenta una delle azioni più strategiche che un autore possa compiere.
Le recensioni per rendere famoso il proprio libro. Non solo vendite
Quando si parla di rendere “famoso” un libro, l’equazione automatica con “vendite elevate” è limitante. La notorietà editoriale non si misura soltanto in copie vendute, ma anche nella capacità dell’opera di generare conversazione, di entrare nel dibattito culturale o di diventare un riferimento riconoscibile nel proprio ambito. In questo processo, le recensioni svolgono un ruolo cruciale.
Visibilità e autorevolezza: come nasce la reputazione di un libro
Una recensione ben scritta e pubblicata su un canale credibile contribuisce a:
Accrescere l’autorevolezza del libro attraverso un giudizio esterno e motivato.
Attivare la curiosità dei lettori e dei potenziali recensori successivi.
Favorire la diffusione del titolo anche oltre la nicchia iniziale.
Il libro recensito in più spazi viene percepito come degno di attenzione, e ciò genera un effetto reputazionale che va oltre i numeri di vendita.
Quando la recensione apre la porta ai media
Nel caso degli autori emergenti, è spesso proprio un primo nucleo di recensioni indipendenti a innescare l’interesse da parte di media locali, redazioni culturali o festival letterari. In altre parole, la recensione agisce come una forma di legittimazione pubblica, in grado di spostare il libro da una dimensione privata a una narrazione condivisa.
Notorietà come costruzione progressiva
Essere “famosi” non significa essere virali per qualche giorno. Significa costruire una reputazione duratura, fatta di lettori che consigliano il libro, citazioni che ricorrono nel tempo, inviti a eventi, contatti con altri autori. Tutto ciò nasce spesso non dalla quantità di copie vendute al lancio, ma dalla qualità e quantità di recensioni che accompagnano il libro nel tempo.
Le recensioni come feedback costruttivo. Migliorare scrittura e marketing
Le recensioni non sono solo strumenti promozionali: sono anche specchi critici attraverso cui l’autore può osservare la propria opera con uno sguardo esterno. In particolare per gli autori emergenti e autopubblicati, esse rappresentano una delle forme più accessibili e utili di feedback qualitativo.
Recensioni come strumento di apprendimento
Una recensione dettagliata può offrire informazioni preziose su:
Aspetti narrativi da migliorare (struttura, ritmo, coerenza dei personaggi);
Elementi apprezzati dai lettori, da valorizzare nelle opere future;
Equivoci interpretativi da chiarire nella comunicazione o nella sinossi;
Segnali deboli nel testo che non emergono durante la rilettura dell’autore o l’editing.
Ricevere questo tipo di feedback permette allo scrittore di affinare il proprio stile e di comprendere meglio come viene realmente percepita l’opera, al di là delle intenzioni iniziali.
Anche le recensioni negative sono risorse
Non tutte le recensioni positive aiutano a crescere. Le recensioni negative costruttive, quando sono argomentate e prive di intenti distruttivi, sono spesso le più illuminanti. Offrono una visione concreta su ciò che può essere percepito come debole o poco coinvolgente, e spingono l’autore a interrogarsi non solo sulla scrittura, ma anche sul posizionamento del libro: è rivolto al giusto target? È stato promosso con il tono adeguato?
Un valore anche per il marketing editoriale
Infine, le recensioni costituiscono una miniera di spunti per la promozione: citazioni di frasi efficaci, identificazione di parole chiave che i lettori associano al libro, individuazione dei temi più commentati. Utilizzare questi elementi per aggiornare la sinossi, la scheda del libro o le campagne social significa trasformare la voce dei lettori in alleati strategici del marketing.
Quante copie deve vendere un libro per essere un buon risultato?
Una delle domande più frequenti tra gli autori emergenti è: “quante copie devo vendere per poter parlare di successo?” La risposta, in realtà, dipende da molteplici fattori: canale di pubblicazione, genere, target di riferimento, strategie promozionali adottate. Ma in un mercato saturo e frammentato come quello attuale, le metriche quantitative non bastano più a definire il valore reale di un’opera.
Cambiare prospettiva sul concetto di “successo”
Per un autore indipendente, vendere 300 copie in un anno può rappresentare un ottimo risultato, soprattutto se accompagnato da recensioni di qualità, un coinvolgimento attivo dei lettori, e una presenza crescente nel dibattito online. La percezione pubblica del libro – e quindi il suo “successo” – viene infatti sempre più costruita intorno alle reazioni e alle testimonianze dei lettori, non solo dai numeri di vendita.
Le recensioni come moltiplicatori di valore
Una recensione ben scritta può:
Aumentare la durata della visibilità di un libro nel tempo;
Dare prova della sua capacità di lasciare un impatto emotivo o intellettuale;
Offrire elementi di valutazione per altri potenziali lettori o addetti ai lavori (editori, agenti, librai);
Stimolare discussioni, condivisioni, segnalazioni sui social o in community letterarie.
In questo senso, anche un libro con vendite modeste può essere percepito come un’opera riuscita, apprezzata, con una sua rilevanza culturale – e può gettare basi solide per i lavori futuri dell’autore.
Un capitale reputazionale da costruire
Ogni recensione positiva contribuisce a costruire un capitale reputazionale che va oltre il singolo libro: è l’autore stesso, con il suo stile e la sua voce, a diventare progressivamente riconoscibile. Questo capitale, fatto di fiducia, attenzione e credibilità, è ciò che permette all’autore di accrescere il proprio pubblico e di ottenere, con il tempo, risultati sempre più significativi – anche in termini di vendite.
Strategie per ottenere recensioni
Avere recensioni non è solo questione di fortuna o attesa passiva. È un processo che richiede strategie mirate, relazioni consolidate e una comunicazione efficace con il proprio pubblico e con la rete dei recensori. In particolare per gli autori indipendenti o autopubblicati, ottenere recensioni è una parte fondamentale del lavoro promozionale, tanto quanto scrivere una sinossi efficace o curare la copertina del libro.
Non esiste una scorciatoia, ma esistono buone pratiche
Le recensioni “gratuite”, ovvero quelle ottenute spontaneamente dai lettori o da blogger letterari senza compenso economico, hanno un valore superiore in termini di credibilità. Tuttavia, per stimolarne l’arrivo, è necessario:
Creare una lista di recensori affidabili: blog letterari, profili Instagram o TikTok dedicati ai libri, canali YouTube e podcast che trattano letteratura, preferibilmente in linea con il tuo genere;
Contattare i recensori con un messaggio personalizzato, presentando in modo chiaro e sintetico il proprio libro e offrendo una copia omaggio (digitale o cartacea);
Non avere aspettative immediate: i blogger ricevono molte richieste e devono poter scegliere liberamente se leggere o meno;
Ringraziare sempre, pubblicamente o privatamente, chi dedica tempo alla lettura e alla recensione;
Includere inviti alla recensione all’interno del libro (es. in fondo, una breve nota che spiega quanto sia utile lasciare un’opinione).
L’importanza della continuità
Il vero salto di qualità si ottiene quando l’autore diventa parte attiva e riconoscibile in un ecosistema: partecipa a eventi, commenta contenuti di altri scrittori, sostiene altri libri, dialoga con lettori e lettori-recensori. Questo crea una relazione circolare e costruttiva che, nel tempo, porta a un flusso più costante e naturale di recensioni.
Etica e trasparenza prima di tutto
È importante ricordare che acquistare recensioni false o gonfiate danneggia la reputazione e può persino portare a penalizzazioni sulle piattaforme di vendita. Invece, incentivare recensioni autentiche, anche accettando quelle critiche, rafforza la percezione di professionalità dell’autore e genera fiducia duratura nel pubblico.
Il nostro ruolo nell’ecosistema
Nel panorama attuale, costellato da una miriade di pubblicazioni ogni giorno, i blog letterari indipendenti svolgono un ruolo sempre più rilevante: diventano punti di riferimento per lettori curiosi e autori alla ricerca di visibilità autentica. Non si tratta solo di “scrivere recensioni”, ma di costruire spazi di approfondimento, confronto e scoperta.
Il nostro blog si impegna a essere proprio questo: un ponte tra autori emergenti e lettori attenti, un luogo dove le opere possono essere raccontate e analizzate con cura, al di fuori dei circuiti editoriali più omologati.
Perché puntiamo su autori emergenti e autopubblicati
Crediamo che la letteratura viva anche e soprattutto ai margini dell’industria editoriale mainstream. Spesso, le opere più originali, coraggiose o sperimentali provengono da autori che decidono di autopubblicarsi o che pubblicano con realtà indipendenti. Questi autori hanno bisogno di una visibilità costruita su contenuti di qualità, non su logiche pubblicitarie impersonali.
Attraverso le nostre recensioni approfondite, interviste, video e contenuti social, diamo spazio a voci nuove, contribuendo non solo a promuovere i libri, ma a raccontare chi c’è dietro: il percorso, le idee, le passioni, le fatiche.
Collaborare, non solo recensire
In questo ecosistema, non siamo meri osservatori. Collaboriamo attivamente con gli autori: offriamo visibilità attraverso i nostri canali, suggeriamo strategie per ottenere recensioni e favoriamo l’incontro tra chi scrive e chi legge. Tutto ciò avviene con indipendenza e onestà, valori fondamentali per costruire una fiducia reale.
Un Investimento nel Futuro del Tuo Libro
Le recensioni letterarie non sono semplici opinioni estemporanee, ma strumenti strategici per la crescita di un autore e la diffusione di un’opera. In un contesto dove la concorrenza è altissima e l’attenzione dei lettori sempre più frammentata, puntare su recensioni autentiche, pertinenti e ben distribuite è un investimento sul medio e lungo termine.
Non si tratta solo di ottenere visibilità nell’immediato, ma di costruire un’identità autoriale, una reputazione coerente e una comunità di lettori. Le recensioni contribuiscono a tutto questo: aumentano la fiducia nel libro, lo rendono reperibile nei motori di ricerca, offrono contenuti utili per la promozione e possono persino diventare un’occasione di crescita personale per l’autore.
Per chi scrive, dunque, valorizzare le recensioni significa valorizzare il proprio lavoro, e per chi, come noi, recensisce con attenzione e passione, significa partecipare attivamente alla costruzione di una cultura editoriale più libera, accessibile e dinamica.
Proponiti
In un panorama editoriale in continua trasformazione, il nostro blog si propone come uno spazio indipendente e attento alla qualità, dove le voci emergenti possono trovare ascolto. Recensiamo con cura opere che riteniamo meritevoli, offrendo un’analisi approfondita e una reale opportunità di visibilità, lontana da dinamiche impersonali o automatizzate.
Se sei un autore o una casa editrice e desideri segnalarci un libro per una possibile recensione, contattaci attraverso l’apposito modulo o via email. Saremo lieti di valutare la tua proposta e, se in linea con la nostra linea editoriale, inserirla nella nostra selezione.
A inizio anno una spedizione condotta dai ricercatori del Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution e della Marina Militare statunitense ha localizzato i relitti di due veicoli militari da tempo perduti. Il primo era il sottomarino americano USS F-1, affondato durante un incidente in corso di addestramento nel 1917.
Trapelano le nuove tariffe per copia privata, messe ora in consultazione. Invece di sparire (nell'era dello streaming audio e video non si capisce quali copie private gli utenti farebbero), i compensi aumentano in maniera generalizzata e in particola…
Trapelano le nuove tariffe per copia privata, messe ora in consultazione. Invece di sparire (nell'era dello streaming audio e video non si capisce quali copie private gli utenti farebbero), i compensi aumentano in maniera generalizzata e in particola…
La conta ricomincia – Loro Piana (LVMH), presieduta da Antoine Arnault, è ora sotto amministrazione giudiziaria per 1 anno. Motivo? Subappalti a ditte cinesi accusate di:
• Lavoratori senza permesso
• Paghe sotto il minimo
• Dormitori abusivi
• Turni estremi (notti/festivi, provati dai picchi elettrici)
📌** Perché è sistemico**
È il **5° caso **dopo Armani, Dior, Valentino, Alviero Martini (indagini archiviate, ma gli abusi restano).
Il Corriere: "Loro Piana non ha mai verificato i subappaltatori né fatto audit reali".
Ironia: pochi mesi fa un protocollo anti-sfruttamento firmato da sindacati e big della moda.
I’m thrilled to share my excitement for EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb! After an incredible experience last year and at BSDCan, I can’t wait to reconnect with the amazing BSD and open-source community. This year, Jeroen and I are even presenting our talk, “Lib
Last year I attended EuroBSDCon and it was a fantastic experience. I enjoyed every single moment, and connecting with the people who conceive, develop, disseminate, and are passionate about *BSD and the open-source world was an unforgettable experience. I flooded the Venue with BSD Cafe stickers and attended some incredibly interesting presentations. I wrote about it in an article for the FreeBSD Journal, where I tried, as much as possible, to convey the positivity I felt at the event.
Such a positive experience pushed me, a few months later, to propose a talk for BSDCan as well – an incredible experience itself, which I will write about in more detail later.
Reading this year’s program, I see a problem that I also had to face last year and last month at BSDCan: there are so many interesting presentations that they will overlap. Fortunately, the video team will provide live streams and recordings of the individual talks, allowing us to watch the presentations even if delayed.
In Zagreb, Jeroen ( @h3artbl33d – admin of Exquisite.social) and I will present “Liberating the social web using *BSD” – a 90 minutes presentation where we will talk about our experiences with Exquisite and BSD Cafe – delving into both technical and human details – an incredible experience from both points of view.
I suggest taking a look at the program and, if possible, participating. I can assure you it’s definitely worth it.
The Fediverse is the reclaimed, social web. With federated social platforms like Mastodon and Peertube everyone is able to host their community on the Fediverse, communicating with others on different communities, without borders.
Chi scrive non ha mancato di sottolineare quanto gli ultimi dischi di Neil Young sembrassero più urgenti che ispirati. Bene, con questo Psychedelic Pill – di nuovo in sella ai fidi Crazy Horse dopo il recente Americana – si rientra in carreggiata alla grande... Leggi e ascolta...
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill (2012)
Chi scrive non ha mancato di sottolineare quanto gli ultimi dischi di Neil Young sembrassero più urgenti che ispirati. Bene, con questo Psychedelic Pill – di nuovo in sella ai fidi Crazy Horse dopo il recente Americana – si rientra in carreggiata alla grande. E sapete di che razza di carreggiata stiamo parlando. Sommariamente, si tratta di otto pezzi più uno (la versione alternativa della title track) per quasi un'ora e mezza di caro vecchio country psych ad alto tasso d'elettricità. Ma in realtà in ballo c'è altro... sentireascoltare.com/recension…
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being overworked is bs and shit. on the other hand I rather have work/tasks that I can do well and gets me engaged and is not boring than be given boring BS jobs and tasks.
Hello. On the link below, you can download a free early access alpha version of a 2D dodgeball video game, which is about learning or refreshing your memory on idioms. An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense.
This version is free to play, but proceeds of the game sales will go to help me host more English speaking clubs and dodgeball events in Ukraine, to help people stay active and healthy in a fun way, and to help Ukrainians practice their English speaking skills.
I'm from the USA, but I was in Ukraine for a few months of this year, seven months in 2021 when I hosted a few English speaking clubs and dodgeball events, and a few months before, and I was glad to have the opportunity to help Ukrainian people in these different ways, even if it might only be something small. I have documents to live and work in the Netherlands which requires me to stay in their country at least six months per year, but I'm ready to return to Ukraine asap if the English game project is successful.
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in reply to floofloof • • •Because that’s how people buy them?
Home users want cheap garbage with fast graphics for gaming. Business users want consistent reliability at a moderate price. Creators want high res graphics and don’t care what they pay.
Redkey
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •HP is probably the worst offender in this regard - their website is almost unusable. Lenovo is a close second, and I say this as a compulsive ThinkPad buyer.
Edit: I think a lot of commenters here aren't reading the article. This isn't about your favourite laptop, it's about why manufacturer websites suck.
chaosCruiser
in reply to cygnus • • •I've used a bunch of HPs over the years. Some of them ProBook, mostly Elitebook. Either way, the keyboards were always awful. If you want to be 100% sure each key press registers, you have to press surprisingly hard.
If you've always used Dell and Lenovo, this kind of thing sounds completely absurd. It's something that would never even occur to you. Why would you even think about whether the key presses register with 100% reliability? Of course they do. You press the button, a letter appears. That's all there's to it, right?
Wrong! HP thinks there should be an element of surprise if you type normally. Unless you hammer the keyboard like a wild animal, there's no way to get to 100%. Even if you get the fanciest model, the keyboard still has this HP trademark suckiness.
Random Dent
in reply to cygnus • • •I have had exactly one HP laptop in my life, which luckily was a hand-me-down so I didn't spend any money on it, but it was enough to convince me to never get another HP product ever again.
20-odd years and the boycott is still going strong lol.
chrash0
in reply to crankyrebel • • •i know a laptop that’s amazing in almost every aspect except that it doesn’t run Linux. the Macbook Pro. to me there’s barely any real comparison to be made unless Linux or Windows or the keyboard layout is a hill worth dying on to you.
i have servers and my gaming PC on Linux, but i wouldn’t trade my Macbook with its unified memory, incredible battery life, best in class touchpad, and top notch screen for anything else. Windows is dying, and chip designers (outside of Apple) seem more interested in cashing in on AI than providing a user experience. i was excited to see what Qualcomm would do, but it doesn’t seem like OEMs or Windows are particularly interested in supporting that platform as a next leap forward, while Intel is bleeding on the side of the road and AMD is constantly side-eyeing Nvidia. i think it would be peak irony for Nvidia to come out of left field with a desktop class ARM processor that’s Linux native, but that’s a pipe dream. what the ecosystem needs is a real competitor to Apple that is more focused on desktop machines than enterprise contracts. maybe RISC-V Frameworks will break out in a meaningful way. but it just seems like anything else these days in a compromise based on some biased preference or moral judgement.
anyway all that said i’m glad there’s an ecosystem of people who are stubborn enough to work on this platform. i have my own stubbornness, but i just don’t have the motivation to apply it here
Bob Robertson IX
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in reply to Bob Robertson IX • • •Anecdotally, I had a touchscreen convertible laptop before my current MacBook. I even got the pencil for it that let me draw on the screen, which I wanted to use for taking notes. The pencil sucked in practice (this was a >1000€ laptop, not much less expensive than my MacBook! maybe that’s just what I get for buying HP though.) and sooner rather than later I got an iPad for taking handwritten notes, and the touchscreen itself turned out to be a gimmick that I used in the beginning but eventually turned off.
Sometimes, they’re right. For example, kind of the reverse: people wanted floating windows on the iPad for years. I always said this would be incredibly awful to use in practice without a mouse. Now they added windows on the iPadOS 26 beta and I tested it and it was exactly as finicky as I expected it to be. Hopefully they’ll still polish it so that it’s at least as good to use as the old side-by-side view (which they unfortunately removed), but this really isn’t it right now.
People might want a device with all the input methods and the most versatile multitasking, but I don’t think this is reasonably doable in a way that’s as polished as devices built with a main input method and UI purpose-built for that input method. In the past I might have said that Apple are the only people that could do this correctly, and only by investing a significant amount of resources, but after the iPadOS 26 situation… oof.
Bob Robertson IX
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in reply to codenul • • •it’s not worth it to me. the battery life is a huge feature, and it does feel like Asahi development has slowed. i have enough computers to tinker with. i bought my Macbook specifically to be an entry point into my other machines, i.e. from the airport or brewery or coffee shop.
maybe when it makes sense to buy a new laptop i’ll find some time and motivation to contribute, but just using Asahi doesn’t really appeal to me.
blackbeards_bounty
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in reply to chrash0 • • •ah yeah, that's fair.
i've found the fw13 keyboard and the thinkpad xx30 keyboards are pretty good, but even the xx30 ones are extremely dependent on the age and manufacturer, so it's basically just luck at this point
johnwicksdog
in reply to chrash0 • • •I agree. About 10 years ago I had a some unstable dependencies hit in the middle of a major crunch/product release at work. When it was vital I was productive, I was instead trouble shooting my laptop. I moved to mac the next day and was surprised how far the OS had come, and that I could run zsh, nvim etc. Not to mention since apple silicon its rare I need to take a charger with me anywhere.
I still have a linux thinkpad for personal use, and all my personal servers are linux. My heart is linux, but a lot will have to change to take me away from a macbook.
AusatKeyboardPremi
in reply to chrash0 • • •Hehe.. top notch screen.
I agree with everything you said, and I use a MacBook Pro for the same reasons. I made a similar comment but you have articulated the points much better.
Kongar
in reply to crankyrebel • • •I’ve been daily driving a framework 13 for like 9 months now. I’m pretty happy with it as a Linux machine.I can and will nitpick here to some of the points made in the article - but I’d buy another / recommended it regardless.
That’s it. 9 months of daily use, I love it, that’s my complaints list. The idea here is that someday, a better trackpad, or keyboard, or speakers will become available-and it’ll take me 5 minutes to upgrade. It’s a desktop laptop. And for me, everything “just works” on fedora 42.
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Lawnman23
in reply to Kongar • • •I bought a current gen Framework 13 earlier this year and love it. Fedora 42 has been working great on it.
I would echo all the same points.
dan
in reply to Kongar • • •I've got a Framework 16 and love it.
Framework are nowhere near the scale of any of the large manufacturers, and they've had to spend a huge amount of time and money on R&D, so their laptops are probably always going to cost more. IMO it's worth the price though, given you can keep updating it over time.
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in reply to Kongar • • •I've been getting annoying amdgpu crashes every now an then. I've tried all the various BIOS and kernel params but so far nothing has worked. Next step is rolling back a kernel version, at least that's what I've gathered from all the threads about it. It's bothersome but not frequent enough to be a real pain.
(This is an amd framework 13 with fedora 42 / wayland)
beastlykings
in reply to Kongar • • •Another vote here for framework 13. Love mine.
I've had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.
I'm also running fedora 42, but it's Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.
My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it's something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I'm not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it's dead when I need it, which sucks.
Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I've found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I've been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it's been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).
And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I've only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷♂️
That's a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven't needed to 🤷♂️
But still I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.
Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.
Highly recommend.
typhoon
in reply to crankyrebel • • •The Thinkbook 14+ 2025 seems to check quite a lot of the boxes. Nevertheless, depending where you live you will have some high taxes to pay if ordered from Aliexpress:
The option with the TGX(Oculink) port to use an eGPU is particularly appealing for some.
There is a guide to install Arch on it: github.com/Cyber-Typhoon/Secur…
GitHub - Cyber-Typhoon/Secure_Arch_Install_Oculink_eGPU: Installation Steps for a new Lenovo Thinkbook TGX (Oculink) Security Enhanhed Arch Gnome Wayland Focus
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •I don't think these should be that important. Even if one uses a single device for every need in the form of a laptop, one can still attach a keyboard and mouse to it. The worst customizable keyboard and wireless mouse will still be better than whatever the laptop has built in.
MangoPenguin
in reply to dubyakay • • •Unless you have a laptop with a good trackpad and keyboard, then you don't need to carry around a bunch of extra stuff.
Hexarei
in reply to dubyakay • • •Übercomplicated
in reply to crankyrebel • • •bour
in reply to Übercomplicated • • •The build quality of my starbook is great.
The biggest + for me is how helpful, polite and friendly the support staff is.
Psyhackological
in reply to Übercomplicated • • •Übercomplicated
in reply to Psyhackological • • •Psyhackological
in reply to Übercomplicated • • •Hmm I have Serval WS which quality is top notch.
The keyboard feels nice.
The screen is 4K 144Hz.
All of the elements are aluminium so there is no bending. (Except some parts like probably keycaps of the keyboard and so on).
Sorry to hear that you have this experience. However I think you can count on System76 because they give for their laptops lifetime support.
Übercomplicated
in reply to Psyhackological • • •The Serval WS is also more than twice the price of my Pangolin... and I had a one year warranty, so I'm not sure what you mean with lifetime support. As for the specs (i.e. the screen etc.), yeah, they are great. But the case is very poorly designed on my pang12, and gets bent out of shape, which can cause mechanical failure in the hinge, quite frequently, despite the aluminum chassis. My complaint is just that it is far from rugged, which is problematic for me, as I travel a lot with it. But your mileage may vary.
PS: one more thing that really bothers me is the known problem with the touchepad on the pang12, which regularly fails. Mine also came with a faulty motherboard, which suggest bad quality control. Over all, these issues have caused me to lose faith in System76 hardware.
Psyhackological
in reply to Übercomplicated • • •I understand.
Regrading warranty I meant lifetime support for problems related to your System76 laptop. The warranty for a hardware is gone I think but I guess when you describe your issues correctly and they won't resolve it maybe they will suggest you something friendly.
And I get your point with the case. Tbh looked like it.
Hmm do you have up-to-date firmware? I had similar issue resolved by it.
Also faulty motherboard sounds like manufacturer issue not yours.
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in reply to owlriver • • •It seems to be getting a little better lately, but historically they just didn't give firmware updates. I went 3 years without a stable bios update for my 12th gen Intel mainboard on linux despite known vulnerabilities since launch (just got its first update last month).
I actually upgraded my mainboard within that time, so I went the full lifetime of the product with an insecure BIOS and none of the firmware improvements that were promised at launch like thunderbolt 4 certification. For all practical purposes, firmware support ended when it left the factory until just last month.
That said, my new ryzen ai 350 main board just got its first update to patch some vulns that were disclosed a month ago. So still not in time for the coordinated disclosure, but a month is way better than 3 years so I'll take what I can get.
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •There is no perfect laptop as it is a subjective choice.
I got a MacBook Pro which is the one that ticks the most boxes for me. It is simply a well built and reliable piece of hardware with really nice battery life and performance.
Yes, Apple tries really hard to sink their machines with terrible software decisions and hostile repair policies. But that still does not undermine their machines build quality.
Also, this is trivial, but their website is simple and easy to use. They don’t bog one down with a slew of laptops that are hard to differentiate. I know what I am looking at, and what I will be getting.
The only other machines I own are ThinkPads. But Lenovo loses me whenever I get on their website. It is easier to look at an eBay listing for a second hand ThinkPad than to navigate and search their website for a new one. Also, their newer machines just aren’t as good as the older ones.
I say this as a user of an array of ThinkPads and ThinkCentres to quench my thirst for BSD (and sometimes Linux). I use these machines for writing, gaming, watching movies, and more. But I cannot depend on those machines for any critical or work-related tasks.
Framework laptops aren’t sold here so I have never used them. There is no point in importing one where the whole raison d'être is their modularity and repairability which requires their ecosystem to be present first.
::: spoiler P.S. Using Linux on M-series MacBooks
I have contemplated using Asahi Linux on the MacBook Pro, but I am sure I won’t get the best out of the machine especially w.r.t. battery life. Perhaps when the machine is no longer supported by Apple, I will experiment with it.
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Decker108
in reply to crankyrebel • • •I don't really get these nitpicks. If you're planning to use the laptop as your daily driver, do what every other power user does and get a set of good peripherals.
rothaine
in reply to Decker108 • • •Walk into class
Pull laptop out of bag, put it on the desk
Whip out mechanical keyboard
Mouse, small set of stereo speakers
Pull out a large object wrapped in a blanket
Everyone else watches confusedly
Take off blanket, unveiling a 28in monitor
Whip out power strip
Put power strip on the adjacent desk, no one is sitting there anyway
20ft extension cord
The outlet is on the far wall, run the extension cord between the desks
Apologize to everyone bumped into a long the way
Play World of Warcraft the entire time
dil
in reply to crankyrebel • • •linuxPIPEpower
in reply to crankyrebel • • •I have also been confounded by the situation.
It is even worse when you are on the secondary market. The company's product pages are broken. Trying to compare across different release years is way harder.
I assumed the reason for this had to do with the production systems and supply chains. They can get a certain number of x parts at y price from a factory located in a given location. You get enough parts in proximity to each other and you make it a model.
Its one thing for a small company to have enough components to have only a few models but with the volume dell or HP moves, they would need to really invest in suppliers or actually make the components themselves.
I dont imagine the marketing people have come up with all the options, they're just the ones who have to try to sell want they're given.
Cricket [he/him]
in reply to crankyrebel • • •Thankfully I have some requirements for laptops that very significantly narrow my options:
- It must have a good, ergonomic keyboard
- It must have a good pointing stick
That only leaves Thinkpads for me to consider.
Beryl
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in reply to Beryl • • •solomonschuler
in reply to crankyrebel • • •You seriously can't go wrong with the lenovo thinkpads on eBay. I Got a thinkpad E14 ryzen 7 (7th gen), 48gb ram, 1tb ssd for $400 on ebay with a small hair crack on the hinge.
At the end of the day, a laptop is a laptop, and the cost difference between a $2000 brand new laptop and a $400 used laptop there really is no argument/justification to be made to buy a $2000 laptop in less-intensive tasks. Here's a better instance of your money: find a $400 laptop with semi-good performance (ryzen 3 or intel equivalent) put $1600 to a gaming computer and setup a virtual environment with a radeon or rtx gpu at your fingertips.
pineapple
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in reply to pineapple • • •pineapple
in reply to 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo • • •Well I say it's no wonder people gravitate towards it but I don't actually like it myself.
It sucks that they make it basically impossible to upgrade snything. And that there storage and RAM upgrades cost several times more than they should.
I have a Macbool air (not by choice) and I installed asahi linux a couple of weeks ago. Main take away is that it's really good except for software support. I've had a bit of trouble finding programs that work well on arm even open source projects often don't compile there programs to work on arm.
atmorous
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