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This is one of the reasons why I put the Notebook Manufacturers into a sub-forum. I would like to expand other genre's into the forum as many users here have a desktops or simply have opinions they would like to share that wouldnt fit in the purely laptop category. For now if you want to open a thread in the desktop sub-forum just to get the ball rolling then we may have it moved into a dedicated spot after we spend more time figuring out structure :)

It would be one thing if they pointed towards a location that actually made sense. LTT does a lot of good in the pc space but never really earned the credo for laptops, same goes for reddit and/or Tom's hardware. There is(was) only one place for that, it is(was) nbr! 😞

This is a notice of a new rule we're putting in place and enforcing now. "Vendor shilling, whether compensated or not, is strictly prohibited on the forum, including in WNSIB, and will be cause for permanent ban." Using/encouraging users to advertise manufacturers and/or resellers is prohibited. There is nothing wrong with an honest recommendation or having preference, but there is a difference between that and advertising/vendor shilling. All users are encouraged to report this behavior to a moderator. Examples of user-vendor shilling: 1) Repeated unwarranted/unasked recommendation of specific sites/resellers. Examples include "success stories" of sales, phone numbers and/or direct contact with sellers promoted, promotional messages like referencing (discounts etc). 2) "I just bought this from X company" topics Making a thread about a vendor experience only is prohibited. You are encouraged to participate and enrich the community, but we don't discriminate where you bought your machine from. 3) Vendor specific services When a user’s help and support of the community is only offered to specific vendor buyers, this can make said user to be considered as Company Representative and/or Vendor Shilling. This is prohibited. Moderators will review reported posts as well as behavior to determine if the rule has been broken, and in cases will approach offending users when needed.

If I ever meet you guys, goes without saying, first round is on me.

Exactly, it will take time to rebuild but our lot is quite stubborn and we enjoy shining lights on details that manufacturers might otherwise ignore :)

I dont know about a formal migration due to potential legal issues. Without further illumination of the options on the table my best case hope would be to have it included in the official / Owners lounge threads but still being hosted off site.

I'll draw some attention to this @Hiew so he can look at some options (one of which you provided in the OP).

Manufacturers are aligned vertically within the Manufacturers sub-forum, as well as operating systems having their own sub-forums under software. Looking at Software, it looks like there is potential for refinement. The difference as it stands currently is likes also contribute to REP, removing the limit leaves it open to abuse. I dont believe we intend to keep this as is, long term. As we had other priorities that were time sensitive.

Stay tuned for the archives as we were able to capture most of the relevant portions of the forum :)

Been debating a system to give Linux a full time shot, probably helps to have basic support so I dont rip my hair out. I have an XPS 9365 , nice little machine. I have Manjaro on it right now iirc

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A moment of silence for the loss of our old home, NotebookReview. As they have been officially taken down. That is all, for now.

Another detail to add is that its present in dark mode (the thumbs up) but in the default it seems to share the same color as its background for me. Archive is looking to be wrapped up with the end of NBR coming, so we will be able to more carefully look at some elements here on the forum for review.

The fact that I can't operate at higher levels of efficiency over time with only a few hours of sleep bothers me. The other thing that bothers me is also the fact that I enjoy sleeping more than I should. 😕 Gonna take a nap and figure it out later 😄

Announced that this was a goal very early on in this forum. This has been something I wish to emulate as well, but havent been able to do as a function of time and means.

I had edited the forum rules and I thought I had it posted but it seems this was incorrect. For now I have them posted in the same location as the Marketplace Rules until a better home can be determined.

Yep just noticed this, at some point here we will need to make a sub-forum that expands on suggestions for members to formally display how certain elements dont jive or simply dont work. Its good that is also pointed out here, but I fear it could get lost in the noise when a specific function is being articulated.

Your cat exemplifies the level of my human condition at the moment. Lol

Does Dell still officially support Ubuntu or is that systems specific?

I know some of you have been posting that you all dont know who Hiew is, he has been taking some measures to address this and will be posting something relatively soon, as this last week has been terribly timed due to IRL factors, please have some patience in this regard. Thanks in advance, and welcome to the forums!

Good Evening everyone! As most if not all of you are aware, NoteBookReview is slated to be shut down on the 31st. Its 100% the reason why any of you are here to begin with, including myself and @Hiew. There are some tenants of the forum that I would like to announce or further develop. To this end we do intend to launch a series of polls to better gauge the direction that we intend to go. I cant promise we will go with the communities direction all the time, but it will absolutely be the frame of reference in how we tend to certain orders of business. Such matters to look on will be the following: The name of the forum going forward. As we have announced multiple times, efgxt.net is a place holder. In fact the top header used to be NewbookReview as we continued working on the forums here, only to be changed to NBR 3.1B hours before sharing the links with you all. We do fully intend to have this changed going forward. I do ask that you guys/gals wait until about a a week after NoteBookReview's closure to make official changes on that front. Its not quite an issue of the link no longer functioning (as we intend to forward it for some time). This decision was made in order to allow for a respectable amount of time to permit more and more NBR members to trickle in, and have a say in how the name should be made officially going forward. One thing to note is that we will only be polling names that we have already acquired, as sadly we must protect ourselves from bad actors purchasing domains that we projected potential to purchase. Until we make the poll for this change I would ask that any and all name submissions be sent to me or @Hiew via PM, so that we can acquire them ahead of time especially if they are in a price range that we can do that with. If its something we cant acquire we will notify the member that made the suggestion and will leave it to their discretion to share it for forum consideration. TapaTalk, will we support it? A few members have inquired over various mediums to the support of Tapatalk and after some internal discussion can happily announce that we do intend have Tapatalk support. This has yet to be done, but cursory investigations look quite positive. Can we make any guarantees to continuity? Beyond the initial primary functions of this forum, this has been an issue that I want to have squared away. The second question I had for @Hiew after finally asking him if we could make a forum (even if ONLY temporary) was the differing means to focus on specifically continuity of this forum. I believe this to absolutely be possible. The backend functions have been provided by Hiew but I would like for backups to be in the hands of specific people that we trust to do exactly what they are charged to do in the event that we have a top to bottom failure of management to follow through on the tenants that I have already explicitly stated before or in the worst case scenario of me and Hiew suffering mortal wounds and the forum needing to be handed over to the next custodians of this forum. We also have the desire to be as transparent as possible in this regard as well, however, being 100% transparent does introduce inherent security issues so, some elements will not be announced, ever. They will remain in the charge of certain members here that will accept such a charge should the need arise. While I would love to state that there will never be a need, failure to plan is planning to fail. Not to mention, I would like this forum to survive us and at some point be passed to the next generation. Whether or not said members are able to project that role (via a profile badge or otherwise) will be also discussed internally as well as with the community. Does NBR 3.1B own my content? I dont have the "legal" know how to make this proclamation however I can state that I have no desire to own your content. The ones that generate said content belongs to them. This is direct reflection of the issues of being able to post the content from NBR here. If you came up with a great modification, or discovered something that enables better functions, heck even a meme, that content is your own. Please feel free to post here and any other forum! This dictate will never change. If you desire for content to remain here to post elsewhere at your own discretion then I would ask for a disclaimer to better protect yourself from bad actors. Naturally we cant enforce things outside of the forums but internally your content is yours. Funding The issue of funding has come up here and there and many of you have offered donations to which I have refused up to this point. I have a particular personal flaw due to my personal experiences that money always muddies the waters, especially with Friends and Family. In order to refuse that type of scenario here I have asked to please hold on that. We do have some ideas for funding but ultimately it comes down to a sobering point of which I will make here. If no one provides anything at all over time, the forums may likely close. Right now the forums expenses are at a point where me and Hiew can maintain them. However if you wish for this forum to grow or continue to increase its functions then funding will need to come from somewhere. In the age of "social media" where you become the product is now commonplace we would like to make the content provided here the product that over time brings more people. This means that we as a community will need to come together and put our money where our mouth is and contribute. This also means that it is incumbent upon the community to make sure anyone and everyone in management (as of now @Hiew and @Reciever) work towards bringing the best forum possible. I have had some ideas as to different means to support the forum in terms of fiscal contributions. Premium Accounts Donor Accounts Subscriptions One time donations Crypto donations and/or mining addresses I am not of affluent means, and I also am very defensive for when I accept money from anyone. In this regard I wish for, if nothing else, to be beyond reproach when it comes to dealing with money in relation to the forum. Who are you? An interesting question when seriously considered. My name is Chris, currently a technician for a B2B operation in Dallas / Fort Worth area. Introverted loner who enjoys synthwave probably more than I should. My only reprieve is probably NoteBookReview and its community otherwise, the only friends I have are those in Canada of all places. Born and raised in California, having been living in DFW since 2009. Went from the service industry to IT and had been doing various contracting work. An issue that I have (that Im sure some of you had seen in the past) is I always try to thread the needle. Sometimes successful, typically not but I do enjoy the good faith argument. I had been a member of NoteBookReview since 2012, though I dont think I posted as often until after I stopped participating at OCN. Ask anyone in my group and they used to say something akin to "he likes to make laptops run as good as the desktops". @Hiew would often tell me just stop and come to terms with my Ranger being a server, not a personal computer lol. Rules and Moderation I was hoping if this stayed community driven as one group to allow for the moderation team to have the mods continue their roles on the forum. Sadly this did not happen and there are now 3 potential options on the table for everyone to consider. The issue now at hand is that if what I was initially hoping for is seen as endorsement from the "old guard", by extension can be seen as putting our thumb on the scale. I will need additional perspectives surrounding this problem as moderator roles have to be done well. A peculiar problem, as we need passionate people that can also take a step back and objectively maintain order in a heated discussion.

The subject has come up and I have been resistant to it. Perhaps I am inside my own head about the notion, but keeping it on the table for further consideration.

Yeah Ive been stuck on anything in the range of synthwave for quite a while. Mostly started as a means to listen to music to chill out at work without having to worry about lyrics rubbing someone the wrong way.

While it is unfortunate, amongst other things, I fully respect Spartan and years of service to countless members as well as his own customers. For the remaining time left that the forum has I plead for anyone and everyone to make the attempt to keep things amicable. Hey! Happy to have you!

I didnt see this earlier, thank you for the kind words. I do make the effort, threading the needle can seem impossible at times but most of the time I believe its worth the effort even if I have a few more gray hairs for the effort :P And here I am fixing my own mishaps, something to add to the action item list lol