pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

New work laptop acquired, a Thinkpad T14 with AMD CPU and 64GB RAM.

Installed #nixos with Gnome and it's working fine.

Only glitch so far is that the NFC hardware causes a core to spin at 100% with a little IRQ storm, but I don't need that so I just BIOS disabled it and it's all good now.

Configuration based Nix seems easy enough to install everything I wanted... Except...

I need to get two things running to be compliant with corp policies and both lack #nix packages.

The first is Kolide, but it looks like there's a nix flake for that... So I'll need to use flakes even though I wasn't intending to.

The second is fleetdm and I need fleetd, for which there's no package, but fleetctl is packaged and can build fleetd, so I guess that's the route... But it immediately means part of the system won't be managed by nix and I don't know if I like that... I guess it's doable, just dirty.

Overall though... This laptop is nice, the newer gnome is nice, nixos is nice.

@dee which specific AMD, and how's battery? 👀

@kitten spec attached, top CPU with 75kwh battery.

Not used it daily to establish real battery life, but calculated life in various modes over the last day hint 3-4h with constantly building nix things, about 7-8h average browser based use, 14h with intermittent use by the look of things.

I'm traveling next week so won't really establish a baseline for a few weeks

@kitten Using it a lot today... I'm going to guess around 10 hours of internet browsing and basic video conference or two with some compiling of code.

this is good... I didn't want to go thinkpad + nixos and significantly come out worse than the Mac users... and I haven't

@dee sounds promising 👀