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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.

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[–] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I am most intrigued by this concept of frustrated users crowdfunding pledges for bug bounties that bother them

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    New hardware manufacturer quality metric: Number of frustrated user pledges per time since market introduction.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Would a lot of people wanting to use the hardware but the drivers sucking be indicative of a good company or a bad company?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    As a quality metric, "bad company". If you can differentiate between hardware product and drivers, you can separate those metrics. But usually, and for most people, using the product also means using their drivers.

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    • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Nice.

    Maybe I should start one so that Rustdesk / anydesk connections from Debian 12 don't scroll uncontrollably for a second after I remove my two fingers or edge scroll finger from my track pad.

    Trying various things like turning off acceleration, inertia, fiddling with xinput etc, to no avail.

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    • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Idk it sets a dangerous precedent for manufacturers

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    [–] 81 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, $2k is about okay for a month of labour in much of the world

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  • [–] 77 points 11 months ago

    First of all, it says it took a month of time from when he posted the initial bounty, not a month of labour... Maybe it took less. Anyway if someone has this sort of skills, they should make good money anywhere.

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago

    True, but the guy who fixed it is an EU researcher in CS in Canada. I highly doubt he did it for the money. He seems to be into puzzles. It sucks that Lenovo did not compensate him though.

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    • [–] 13 points 11 months ago*

    I'm a little perplexed by this I have a bash script that fixes this (I have this laptop) I never needed to compile a kernel or follow all these steps. Ran the script once and it just works, across all updates no issues yet...

    Update: Realised this is for the 7i 10th gen, I have 9i 9th gen (nevermind my ramblings)

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I have an ASUS laptop that maps its multiple speakers incorrectly under Linux, it's been killing me for months and I'm now considering it. I was not prepared for the realization that the Linux path forward would be to just pay by the bug fix.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    You could always try using hardware vendors with better support and customer service.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    No.

    I had that laptop before I tried to move it to Linux and I'm not buying a new one. It does work under Windows.

    This is not my laptop not supporting Linux, this is Linux not supporting my laptop. Because I already own the laptop. If people weren't trying to cheerlead for their preferred OS for other reasons than... you know, whether it's good or not, this wouldn't even be a discussion. In fact, half the "Windows sucks" angles these days are down to "Windows 11 doesn't support specific pieces of pre-existing hardware". Which, you know, is the exact problem I'm having here.

    Now, would ASUS finally paying attention to the ecosystem make it easier for a whole bunch of people to move over? Sure. Of course. But that doesn't contradict my previous statements.

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    • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    So what was the fix? Where's the link to the repo?

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