This is giving me racist dog-whistle vibes.

Yeah, but you can’t get a new one at this price. You’d be pushing getting a used one with this range on the battery at this price.

I hear that, I find I enjoy troubleshooting my work over actually doing it.

Thanks for the tip about ansible and terraform. I’m not quite at the point where I’m looking at getting certifications, mostly learning what I would need to be able to do to get those certifications. I’m 100% self taught with Linux, so I know what I’ve learned and I know there’s a bunch that I don’t know that I can point myself in the right direction, but I’m mostly concerned about the big hole that is how much I don’t know that I don’t know.

You brought back some memories for me. Exiting the sewer for the first time. Setting graphics to full and waiting for the details to slowly emerge. An audible “wow” left my lips, then I set the graphics back down to as low as they could go so I could actually play.

I can forgive the ram decision, they’re producing laptops that can be upgraded in the future to keep them from becoming waste, not upgraded using old equipment now.

I actually do have 2230 ssds laying around. I bought a few used computers on eBay to use as servers that had 128gb versions of these little shits in them that I had assumed were 2.5" not m.2. Wouldn’t use them in a new laptop for me, but it’s plenty enough for a school laptop or device that isn’t storing data on that particular drive.

I’m not going to rag on them for going with this form factor, because they are very conscious about their designs, but it isn’t like it’s hard to accommodate a range of m.2 sizes. You just need a little hole you can screw the mounting…screw into. Like, maybe you can’t fit a 2280 in there, but from what I’ve seen 2242 is more common than 2230.

Tentacles. Yes, in that way.

I’m pretty sure Putin played his narcissistic ass like a fiddle in the attempt to destabilize the US in order to win in Ukraine, and it’s paid off so much more than he ever dreamed.

I’m actually pretty down with that that. We should be able and ready to produce whatever we need in case another country does what trump is doing or something happens that would prevent trade. If China attacks Taiwan, we should be able to produce our own chips. We should be able to function with as little dependence on other countries as possible.

In no way do tariffs fix that. You invest in yourself, slapping your friends because they’re better than you at something is really fucking stupid.

My Xperia z3c from 2014 would be perfectly fine to use right now if Google didn’t absolutely bloat the crap out of their products and it had an easily replaceable battery. If companies would just support their products for longer or release the sources when it’s out of support i probably would have skipped several phone upgrades. But that’s probably exactly why they don’t.

Yeah, that’s what they said, 20 years or so ago

Sure you could. But I’ll offer a different perspective

All honey tastes different from different producers and areas, you’ll be missing out on some wonderful honey flavors if you buy that much in bulk. If it’s purely for sweetening, sure fine, do it. But if you want the flavor of honey, check out a farmers market and see what you’d be missing out on with bulk.

I want to know how much I have to work.

To neurotypicals this sounds like you don’t want to put in the work. A better way to phrase it would be “I’m just trying to see how busy today will be” you can follow it with bullshit like “trying to decide if I’ll be cooking dinner or picking something up on my way home”

Bezos having a say in what news you read or don’t read benefits him quite a bit.

I’ve found that if it’s set up right, it works well for announcements and short discussions around that. But as far as support, it’s absolute trash. It’s nice for slightly quicker communication on updates than than updating a website, and I’ll see all the backlash from users saying “this update broke everything you idiots”, so I know to wait.

This isn’t the same thing, but it certainly looks like it might gave the same function

https://www.wescor.com/translations/Translations/M2551-7A-EN.pdf

I’m using an asus e200ha, which is basically a Chromebook from 2016 but without chromeos, or whatever it’s called. It barely works, has 32 gb of emmc storage (that’s right, as much storage as mid-tier computers have RAM). I’ve been ready for an upgrade for years.

What’s wild, is it’s actually been getting steadily faster and more useful as it gets older, because all the issues it had in it’s younger years are all getting fixed in the Linux kernel.

Did you do the nextcloudpi install?

My biggest gripe about non replaceable components is the chance that they’ll fail. I’ve had pretty much every component die on me at some point. If it’s replaceable it’s fine because you just get a new component, but if it isn’t you now have an expensive brick.

I will admit that I haven’t had anything fail recently like in the past, I have a feeling the capacitor plague of the early 2000s influenced my opinion on replaceable parts.

I also don’t fall in the category of people that need soldered components in order to meet their demands, I’m happy with raspberry pis and used business PCs.