Hardware

Louis recently ordered the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 460 laptop. He's heard that the trackpad has issues with being confused with the palm of your hand when it types. Leo says that Reddit is a great resource, but it can also be a rumor mill. If it is happening, it's called "palm rejection," and Leo suspects any issues will probably be fixed in a driver update. But Leo also says it could be fixed by the actual maker of the trackpad - probably Synaptics. So be patient and don't worry about what is obviously a bug. The driver will be updated pretty quickly.

Cedra dropped her computer recently, and now it's running really slow.  She ran the "chkdsk" utility from the command line, and now it's running a little faster, but not by much. Leo says that the laptop probably has a spinning hard drive, and when Cedra dropped it, her hard drive platter was probably damaged by the head that reads it. However, it's possible that it's "soft damage," which can be caused if the hard drive is being read and the head was jostled, causing the head to write "word salad" on it as it was writing. Both can be fixed, but hard damage is going to be tougher.

Jamie wants to get a security camera for his car.  He's heard of tri-cameras, which look ahead, behind, and all around. Leo says that cameras are cheap and easy to add, but Leo also says they will be included in future car models.  The easiest to get is a dashcam that shows the driver's front angle. Leo has the Owl camera. It went out of business but then was purchased and brought back. But Leo doesn't know if it still has the same great features.  But if it does, it'll record any event and immediately upload it to the cloud.