ZeDoTelhado

Hi there,

I have been recently busy with a xps 15 9500 and the trackpad. For a while, this laptop suffered from erractic behavior that nothing could explain why the behavior. Recently I decided to get a trackpad via eBay.

Installed it, felt actually better than the previous, it looked OK. 10 minutes later, trackpad is recessed and it is in a mode like left click is constantly clicked. I've tried everything under the sun (electric tape on the back, loosen or tighten screws around the battery, apply electricat tape on the wedge where the 2 prongs of the trackpad rest inside the battery, etc). And absolutely nothing works.

At this point I am losing my marbles and just want to throw this bs into the bin. Which is a massive waste, since the machine is still in great condition. But a laptop without a functional trackpad is not a laptop.

Did anyone around here ever had a xps 9500 and managed to solve this issue?

EDIT: I forgot to mention a very important detail. When I am using the laptop and if I put the screen on the desk (meaning, main part of the laptop is now vertical), the trackpad works no problem (left side still feels recessed, but at least clicks normally)

Recently had a question about a game running on the deck, and actually got me thinking since steamos settings were briefly discussed: what are the settings to change for a steam deck, or tools to add? I do not mean more fps or more performance per say only, but more battery life or just better tools for certain aspects of the deck.

Hi,

Lately I've been looking into Usenet, and maybe this time I was planning to try it out (I am aware of Usenet since circa 2000s, so I sort of know what it is).

Still there are some things I still didn't figure out:

• from what I see a Usenet provider and an indexer is required. And from what I gather, both are paid (indexer not exclusively paid but its better). Considering what Usenet is used for, is it sort if a requirement to pay in btc?
• what sort of content is usually Usenet more useful for?
• for what I see, Usenet tends to use SSL like the rest of the web. However, i would argue it gives to the ISP the visibility that you are in fact at least starting/ending connections to Usenet. Is this an issue? If so, does it make VPN a mandatory requirement? Or orbot for that matter
• one thing that bothers me greatly: I've checked the privacy policy for the most 3 known providers (news hosting, Usenet server and euweka) and, first of all, i find incredibly sus that these seemingly 3 different providers have a sort of copy pasted privacy policy. Then, I noticed there is this magic line on it

Communicate with you about products, services, promotions, events, and other news and information we think will be of interest to you.

So I assume they are selling data somehow to advertisers?