I used to work at a company that bought bulk electronics and refurbished them. Phones, laptops, whatever. Flooded crates of laptops weren’t an issue, nor was human feces.

Anyway, since we weren’t really an official partner of any of the manufacturers, we didn’t have whatever in-house repair guides their own technicians would have. But what we did have was Google. And I’ll tell you what, just google “Lenovo (model name) HMM” (Hardware Maintenance Manual) and you get an excellent official guide, freely available to everyone. For Thinkpads anyway, not sure about Ideapads. Example: Here’s the current gen Snapdragon version of the T14s, on Lenovo’s own website. They seem to keep older ones available too.

But to be fair, HP and Dell also do this for their professional gear.

I suppose Framework will be the better laptop for individuals looking to buy a new laptop, but also business class laptops come with fancy enterprise things like on-site repairs. So I think large corporations, the main customers of new T series Thinkpads, will continue buying them just the same anyway.

I think the people benefitting the most here actually are going to be the people buying off-lease Thinkpads. Those of us who know a quality used laptop is better than a cheapo new one (like a Pavilion or Ideapad), but also don’t want to spring for a brand new laptop (in which case Framework would be the best option - they’d be great used too, but they’re not that common on the used market)

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While I agree with you, particularly in urban areas where it’s easy for transit to make sense, I do still think we need solutions for people not living near cities too. Makes me wonder if there’s any tire technology out there to be developed that would either shed a lot less plastic, or maybe not even contain plastics.

Inb4 “lighter cars” or “just walk”, yeah I know, and I already drive a wagon rather than an SUV, to min/max size versus practicality, and I usually try to walk to town unless I need to carry something heavy or the weather is particularly shit, but there’s a ton of times where I need to go on a long drive, sometimes through multiple urban areas (that now get polluted with my microplastics), and public transit offers me no solution, or the solution is to at least double or triple the time taken by my already long drive. I’m eventually moving from diesel to electric to cut down on my exhaust pollution, but I’d also like there to be something that people like myself can do about the microplastics. Not because I think me alone doing something would change something, but because once something exists, it can be mandated by the EU or local governments.

I bet they did as well, but outside of Donald Trump’s America, most of the world still operates on empirical evidence so the more things are studied, the better.

E.g yes we already knew that tires shed a lot of microplastics, but now that we know that the majority of urban microplastic pollution is from tires specifically, it’s easier for governments to push through either a ban on cars in certain areas, or weight limits, or heavily weight-based taxation (heavier cars = more tire wear), or something else.

Oh I haven’t even watched recent episodes so I wasn’t in on the joke tbh

Best I can do is Strava with a one-time purchase instead of a subscription

Okay if all you want is the gps tracking and simple metrics like pace, I could probably knock that out in an afternoon and put it up for free. But IIRC, Strava does a lot more than that. I haven’t used it in ages though so not too sure.

No way, John Oliver isn’t that negative. When it comes to animals.

And RAM is meaningless without a processor to use it. So I’m saying this MacBook Neo is probably kinda shit for its price, but the Stream is for sure not any good.

For the price of the MacBook Neo, the best device to get would actually be a used laptop. Either an Apple Silicon Macbook Air if you can find one with 16 GB, or some kind of a Thinkpad if you want to have more freedom.

Cheap laptops tend to suck, but used laptops in the same price range can be very good.

I wonder if the reboot will be good. It’s got most of the old team back, including Bill Lawrence who has since created several great shows. Seems to be the kinda showrunner that finds good people and tries to give them new roles when possible too. These kinds of people create some of the best shows IMO.

Aaand as I was writing this I went on IMDb and saw that the first 3 episodes are out and reviews are great. Now I can’t decide if I want to rewatch the original series first, or go straight to the new one

It’s a slow burn and doesn’t get any faster.

Same goes for the main character’s character development. It’s there, but it’s quite subtle.

That Celeron ain’t got nothing on any phone processor Apple’s made in at least the last half decade lol

I’m not sure the Macbook Neo will make sense, but I know for sure that docked tablet doesn’t. They’re also ass to repair, performance doesn’t exist and the screen belongs in 2008.

Don’t think it’s a false flag, he’s personally pissed at them and they’re losing their juicy contract to ClosedAI.

Doesn’t change the fact that they’re an American corporation and will absolutely snitch on you though.

The immigrants aren’t the reason. Not here in Europe either.

It’s well documented at this point that people start having fewer children when medicine and economy develop in a country. It’s no longer necessary to have 10 children just in case a few die in the early years, plus there are social safety nets for the elderly so they don’t have to be entirely dependent on their children to survive when they’re too old to work.

However, while the economy is great on paper, a lot of people are finding life less and less affordable. Since the 2008 crash, in much of the world, buying a first home has started becoming harder and harder. Covid exacerbated things. Food is pretty expensive these days. A lot of people just don’t want to have children unless they can be sure they can provide for them. Now we’re also talking about the threat of being made redundant due to AI, in careers previously thought to be mostly immune to automatization. And let’s not forget the looming threat of climate change.

Really, Japan, and us here in Europe too, have to adapt to a new economic reality. Things are going to be more expensive, and there will be fewer children to cover everyone’s retirement economically - so we’re ALL going to have to make sacrifices in our lifestyles. It’s not going to be pretty, and social safety nets for the weakest among us need to be improved everywhere.

If immigrants have more children, it’s just because they’re from societies where it’s still a necessity, and normal, to have a lot of children. Fairly sure that a few generations in, it becomes normal for them, too, to have fewer children.

I’m sure there will be a quick and peaceful transfer of power to a completely democratic leadership and no civilian casualties whatsoever.

Far as I’m concerned, those two could share a cozy cell.

Literally

I know a person who’s been using it a lot in their writing all their life and now went back to school for a degree in philsophy and got told their work was obviously generated by an LLM. So yay, em-dashes can now ruin your grade.

Foundations of Geopolitics and all that

I think we’re falling into the old reddit trap of just assuming every comment is in bad faith or motivated by cultish support or hatred of a subject, rather than realizing that sometimes people are just uninformed.