We bought a HP omen 16, has a ryzen ai 9 hx 375 and a laptop rtx 5080 with 32 go of ram.

The USB controller is broken or something, if two slots are used, one of them wigs out and spams the controller with fake devices, meaning it fills the controller and no USB devices work.

The second account can run gtav legacy at a whopping 40 fps and medium settings with tons of stutter while using the gpu. Main account at 200+ at highest possible setting while on a fivem server. The second account is my wife's, and she will be using it more than me.

Tons of little issues, like the network settings getting corrupted at one point. Bluetooth turning off randomly. Audio devices disabling once unplugged and not reenabling when plugged back in. Updates failing without logs.

I wish so badly to install linux onto this but cannot because the games my wife plays requires a real windows account. (Gta, battlefield, ect.)

I did a little digging and found very little help regarding these issues. Anyone else have these problems?

Edit: A friend helped me out. We Uninstaller the USB drivers, updated the bios and swapped the bios graphics to discrete mode and it runs flawlessly. Seems so simple but how in the heck could a multi thousand dollar laptop ship in a near unusable state like this? Cooperation are wack yo.

Saw this in Hallmark today. What are your best captions?

My wife and I are currently driving cross country (US), and earlier in the day we stopped at a Pilot gas station in Tennessee.

I exited the vehicle, tapped my card on the thing to authorize my card and pay, got about 30 bucks of gas, then went inside and paid for a drink and snacks with a different card.

300 miles later, we stop at another gas station and while we do we check our cards and notice a 150 dollar charge on the same card used for gas at that exact Pilot. Strangely the 30 dollar charge for the gas was there too. We immediately call our credit card company and they say its a pending charge and cannot do anything about it until its went through, so we pause the card.

I call the gas station itself and spoke to a manager, and was told its an authorization charge and will go away. 150 dollars is a crazy amount for an authorization charge and makes little sense to me, has anyone ever experienced this before? Is it normal?

(Meta: I didn't know where else to put this, but wanted to ask my fellow Lemmites, is that okay?)

Update: The charge has been removed from our account, so alls good. This is the first time I have ever seen an authorization charge so big, so it scared me, thanks to everyone for informing me on these charges, I'll know to keep my eye out in the future and not worry so much!

Just saw this, I know its a bit pedantic, but damn is it really so hard to make sure your numbering is right for your distro? This is the main one 25.04, the one that the 'download' button downloads.