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The WiFi issues plaguing my Thinkpad T490

 INTRODUCTION For two-thirds of the time I've owned my ThinkPad T490, I have had quite an experience using it. For a long time, nothing went really wrong on it, just a little scary here and there. That was just for VMs, some booting issues on the occasion, and then random virus popups in the Windows install. Ever since I've installed Ubuntu on this, and began daily driving it, there have been two big issues that come to mind when I think of it. 1, the graphics card can sometimes think it's melting at 57 degrees Celsius, and throttling itself to prevent that. Or now, the issue of today: number two! The WiFi cuts out just as it pleases!  Now, you might think that this is some weird specific Linux bug that only happens on Linux. Well, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but despite Linux' maturing ecosystem, and recent progress, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes, you DO have to be on your toes, and fix something that breaks just because "fuck you...

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