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u/BillyMooney

▲ 3 r/Ubuntu

Ubuntu on Lenovo Thinkpad absolutely crawling since Friday

I've been running Ubuntu on my Lenovo laptop for more than a year, and it has generally worked well for me. Most of my work is web-based, with some editing and management of high resolution videos too. My technical skills are a little outdated, so I bought the second-hand laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had no major difficulties with this over the year, and I was certainly happy to see the back of Windows.

However, it suddenly started crawling for me at some stage on Friday. I don't recall any particular software updates going through, though they could well have done so. I know have a very noticeable lag for almost any operation, 10-20 seconds to refresh and redisplay a Reddit page, for example. If I open and play one of my videos in VLC, I hear audio, but the video is either frozen or just overlaid with grey splodges, which VLC sometimes does when overwhelmed.

VLC Player screenshot

I notice that the screen is dimming after a couple of minutes, which I don't recall it doing before.

I've tried disabling my Proton VPN, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I've been looking in System Monitor for any runaway processes, but there's nothing obvious there.

https://preview.redd.it/f88eqihd1p1h1.png?width=1852&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd20a9b9b5ee4bd6ed1d8766df1331fa6a4ef7c4

Here's the Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo ThinkPad T570 W10DG

- **Memory:** 32.0 GiB

- **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-6300U × 4

- **Graphics:** Intel® HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)

- **Disk Capacity:** 1.0 TB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** N1VET64W (1.54 )

- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 46

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.8.0-117-generic

Have you any advice as to how I can get back to having a usable machine please?

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u/BillyMooney — 5 days ago
▲ 286 r/eejitsparking

Why won't Bloody Cyclists use Bloody Cycle Lanes?

Because of the cars and vans parked in them, forcing cyclists with kids in cargo bikes out into traffic.

The van is parked at a brand new development - Charlemont Square. Do the not have a dedicated loading bay or delivery dock?

u/BillyMooney — 10 days ago
▲ 17 r/eejitsparking

Council must have been only joking about the timed no parking restriction with the single yellow line at Balally

u/BillyMooney — 11 days ago
▲ 1.3k r/CrappyDesign

New bike rack at local Supervalu shop - does this mean you can or can't park your bike?

u/BillyMooney — 12 days ago
▲ 87 r/eejitsparking

Corduff Travel coach delays hundreds, if not thousands of bus passengers to pick up St Mary's students in Rathmines

Sure, what can we do? said the nice Garda.

Give them a ticket or something? said the nice man.

The Garda laughed.

u/BillyMooney — 13 days ago
▲ 0 r/irelandsshitedrivers

Unfortunately, my dashcam didn't save the footage of the 2nd lad giving me a big finger as he sailed through on a red light.

u/BillyMooney — 18 days ago
▲ 3 r/eejitsparking

The father cycling in hiviz with his child was unable to maintain sight and supervision of his child because of these selfish gits. Other vans delivering to this pub manage to do it by stopping on the road around the corner, up towards the Garda station. For a while, they had the van door open blocking the entire width of the footpath.

https://preview.redd.it/n6av7ra4hzyg1.png?width=449&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9de3505385d75bcb62cc3593ce88d0b8d784d46

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u/BillyMooney — 19 days ago