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  • I use the T14s G6, running Fedora Silverblue, as my only PC. I bought it mainly for its AMD 880M iGPU, which just hits the performance I need for the few games I still play, as well as its mobility so I can blender on the go (and because I got fed up with the seemingly endless hiccups from my ASUS G14).

    It’s good. No issues I know of. The display is a bit slow even for a 60Hz panel, but the battery life is stellar (probably also because of the slow panel).

    However, if it’s static, as you say, I’m not sure if a small desktop PC wouldn’t be the better choice overall. After all, modern ThinkPads are pretty expensive.





  • I propose the body temperature of an average opossum as the fixed point for 100 because they are cute as heck. We shall call this unit Possigrade. And anything above 100 Possigrade should be called the ‘rabies zone’ and 0 Possigrade should correspond to 8°C, as this feels very cold when dressed inappropriately. In addition, there is now the Bakers Possigrade, where 100 corresponds to 27°C, as this is the temperature at which sourdough bread rises by about ⅓ in 5.5 hours.

    But seriously: Celsius is fine. On Earth, we are primarily interested in water at atmospheric pressure. Too many things contain water (pipes, food, paint, etc) and they react differently at 0 °C than at 4 °C. For this reason, we deliberately avoid using water in applications that are regularly exposed to sub-zero temperatures. Water is simply everywhere, so 0 °C and 100 °C are important tipping points for general use.


  • The more I know about specific topics, the more I distrust DF on their framing. They don’t lie outright, but they tend to strike a very industry-friendly tone in their reporting.

    I know a fair bit about panel technology, but not enough to completely dismiss them outright on this. However, I don’t trust the “perceived” clearance here. Especially not quantified as “4x” (the detail, lol). Not from people who promote temporal anti-aliasing or GI and generated frames.




  • I once had a problem with an ASUS notebook. I think it was the touchpad. So I looked in dmesg and found something like:

    “HID something something was configured with flag 1. If this is incorrect, try the command blah blah flag=0.”

    Ran the command and it was fixed.

    I’ve never seen such a beautiful error in Windows. And I really lost my respect when I tried to calibrate an external screen on a Mac because that felt like Linux from 2016.


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    7 months ago

    This is just hackerman posting.

    You’ve got the paint mircophone thing, which requires someone to physically be at (your) location and install hardware, but not encrypted DNS, or not - you know - just posting your current whereabouts to social media?

    Someone being physically near you and installing specialized hardware is quite a threat level.

    Fucking: “Cars will collect telemetry locally to be shared when you visit auto repair shops.” DUDE. They have mobile data in these things. I can’t even. Your list is so thoughtless.

    And what’s second hand clothing gonna do for you, if the people surveying you have eyes and object permanence?









  • Once a user came into our office on the verge of tears. Her notebook wouldn’t boot and she thought that meant her thesis was lost.

    Didn’t make a backup either.

    But luckily it was the mainboard that quit and not the SSD. So we were able to decrypt it and get her up and running again. After we told her to make a backup next time, she was so happy that she wanted to give us money. We refused.

    Come next day, she stormed in, without saying a word. Just threw a pile of candy and a handful of soft drinks on our table and ran off before we could do anything about it.

    Fuck you, boss. That’s our candy now.