384: Born To Run Fedora

It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

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• Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
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• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Spec (PDF)
• HW probe of Chris’ ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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• Glances — An Eye on your system
• Pick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.