[PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Speaker for May General Meeting?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Interesting.  It's a surface studio 1 - the biggest thing it has going for it is the 4500 X 3000 display resolution hitched to a Nvidea Geforce TX 965M
Other than that the CPU is a rather anemic (by todays' standards) Gen 6 i7

The only reason I still screw with it is because of that screen.  I really dislike multiple monitors hanging off 1 display card even though that is the standard
Way these days to achieve that kind of resolution.  Even a typical 4K monitor does not have that kind of resolution - yet.

But the camera in it is fried.  For a while it worked then one day I was moving the monitor and it stopped.  I think some of the wires inside of the hinge are broken.  It's a bad design because of that as sooner or later the video cable that runs through the hinge will fray.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG <plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Eldo Varghese
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 3:15 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Speaker for May General Meeting?

Highly recommended:
https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
My bil has multiple old surface devices, it's fun getting various distro running on it.
-Eldo

On 5/4/26 15:12, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: PLUG <plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Loren M. 
>> Lang
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>> Generally, the install doesn't add new root keys, although firmware/BIOS updates can update the keys in the UEFI firmware variables. These are generally signed by >the PK that the BIOS vendor embeds in the firmware to begin with.
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> That is the part I missed.
> 
> One of my machines at work is a Microsoft Surface Studio.  MS 
> distributes BIOS updates directly for this via windows updates.  I 
> just went through reinstalling windows on it (since it's CPU is a 
> generation 6 core i7, thus not "orficially supported for windows 11, 
> you must reinstall every time they release a new build)
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> The Secure Boot key in the BIOS was NOT updated.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> 
> I guess MS's policy is "if it's not gen 8 or better then FU even if we manufactured it and you are running our crappy software on it"
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> Sigh.
> 
> Ted
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