My Dell XPS 13 7390 is getting old creaky, and at nearly 4-years, it
isn't new, but how annoying, it has been a nice machine.
This morning it was dead, I had left it plugged in, running, with the
lid closed. And this morning its battery was dead. It has been
complaining about disconnects, so maybe there is an intermittent in my
cables.
Reboot, look at log files, see nothing interesting before the messages
from my powering it up. Then a while later, as I unlock it the dialog
asking for my password went away, the background of the lockscreen
refreshed, and the mouse pointer froze. Trying to switch consoles didn't
do anything. I forced a powerdown.
Looking at logs it looks like it saw me plugging and unplugging power,
closing the lid, and pressing power button.
I ran a memtest and it passed.
I installed an unrelated-looking Dell firmware update it has been
wanting for a long time:
FW 22001070 Device Update
Dell 2200 NVMe SSD Firmware Update
*Fix the "Drive not detected" issue reported by the Dell ePSA tool in
some rare
cases.
Reboot and things are slow: Login and my desktop sits dark for sometime
before painting my background picture. That sites blank for sometime
before drawing my desktop icons.
And now I think I am noticing funny delays here and there, hard to be
certain.
I'd willing to be suspicious of my upgrade from Debian 11 to 12, but
that was nearly a month ago, rebooted several times, and all seemed to
be working well.
Grrr. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a new computer right
now. But the battery is supposedly only 57% of what it used to be. The
trackpad doesn't like to click in the location where I like to click and
is only slightly more agreeable in other places. One of USB-C jacks
seems grumpy (not noticing things I plug in) and the others are maybe a
bit odd, not sure.
God I wish everything weren't so damn disposable.
Let me see what https://frame.work has in stock, their computers can be
repaired, even upgraded.
Do I want an AMD Ryzon 7040 or an Intel i5-1340P? Is one better better
supported for Linux for these days…?
Grrr.
-kb, the Kent whose incremental backup just finished, time to do another
on another disk.
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