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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 04:17:54 EDT clacke
   Went on a new excursion for a laptop, this time armed with an Ubuntu 18.04 stick instead of a 16.04 one.
   
   The guy in the shop recognized me from four months back! I guess they don't get too many picky Linux people.
   
   Found an ASUS VivoBook that worked well on the first try. No hangs, no crashes, no disabled touchpad.
   
   It couldn't connect to my phone WiFi, but then my 2014 MacBook couldn't either (in Ubuntu), so I'm thinking it might be the messy radio environment. It could connect to the store WiFi.
   
   If there is a genuine problem I figure I'll just get a slim dongle that supports free drivers.
   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 04:25:37 EDT iona 🐝

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      @clacke I'm lucky where I live to have quiet wi-fi spectrum, but my parents' house is in a more affluent suburban area and more people have fancy wi-fi.

      Debian with the iwlwifi drivers on my ThinkPad really struggles to connect there, and I can't figure out why because it works perfectly at home. You might be right in that it could well be a clogged-up 2.4GHz band.