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"NA" == North America, one of the seven continents on our planet. I figured I'd mention a broad geographical boundary since shipping within a singular landmass is often more economical than shipping between disparate continents.

For anyone still running these older ThinkPads, where do you get new batteries from? I've not yet replaced any of mine but the aftermarket world for these seems rife with super-sketchy knockoffs that I'm certain will not be trustworthy. Any recommendations for known-good manufacturers of batteries for X230-X270 era? I'm in NA but I don't really care where I have to order from, I just want batteries that actually even vaguely resemble OEM reliability.

Edit: Ohh I see someone started a thread on this already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340218

Very nice, I've got an X220 with an i7 and, agreed, the keyboard is so good. No generation since has been as good, though the xx30 ones are a close runner-up. Downhill ever since IMO.

Ah no way! I figured it might be an old ThinkPad, but coincidentally it's the exact laptop on the desk next to me at this very moment! In my case running OpenBSD rather than Linux, but still. Oh and I've got i5-5300U vs. the OP's i5-5200U. 8GB as well which as OP says is plenty. Good times :) My only real criticism on this machine is the display, a bit low-res at 1366x768 and just not the nicest to look at, but definitely gets the job done. To be fair I like the look & feel of the X230 better, but those are just really feeling the age even on a more efficient OS and lightweight GUI (i3 ftw).

Yeah I find the Pi's of that era have pretty poor wifi reception, has been a constant source of uncertainty when I run things on them sadly

That was really good! Thanks for sharing. <3

Yeah, I know multiple people who have irreversibly lost their Google or MS account. One day everything you had with them (emails, files, etc.) is just gone forever. Don't use them as a primary storage service (work the "may disappear at any time" risk into your backup/storage strategy)

I imagine you were being sarcastic, but comparing my internal "homelab" services to this page[0], literally everything I run has better uptime lol

[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/

I meant to comment earlier, but.. it's off the mark to frame their lifestyle as abandoning society. They are very much involved in the community and in fact, probably more social than many. Everyone finds their own way in the world and the one 100r have chosen is absolutely not a "dead end" of any sort. Strange that such a framing ends up as the top-voted comment on this... Heck, I'd argue that they live better within society (and more socially-conscious) than the average person because they actually consider the ethics and externalities of their everyday existence, unlike the majority of us who consume and extract with nary a consideration for the rest of the planet or other life forms -- all the while giving back to anyone who is interested, via creative acts and an interminable philosophy of sharing and inclusion.

Who knows? At least a YT video puts them in the direction of getting a proper evaluation after potential decades of struggling and not knowing "what's wrong with me", etc.

I re-read your message a bunch of times to make sense of it and finally realized what you might be describing -- is it like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQuXE6gRUA (Lorn - ENTROPYYY)

nitpick: typo "Vulnerabile" :)

The difference is the intent - calling CQ is the protocol for seeking a contact to communicate with. It's not broadcasting because you're trying to establish comms with someone, and not disseminating information "one-to-many". Running a net inherently intends to engage in contact with numerous stations - by definition not "broadcasting".

The only thing I watch on youtube.com is music stuff (electronic, industrial) and occasional tech stuff like some retro computing stuff or such. I very rarely use it. I just went to the home page to see an example because I was curious. One of the recommended videos about 3 rows down? "Donald Trump Recruits Rambo To End The Iran War". It's AI slop. I watch NOTHING about politics or similar on here. Nothing about the US or war things or anything. "The algorithm" is doing exactly what your quoted snippet indicated, scarily enough.

Seriously. Gaming today is like...

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I find myself thinking the phrase "what could possibly go wrong?" very often these days -- this topic being one that I think it about the most frequently :\

I was just talking about that one with someone a few days ago! Amazing hahah XD I still remember the song and was singing it while laughing profusely at how obnoxious that site was!

Yeah, I bought an NVIDIA Shield, took it back to the store after I got it home and found out you literally can't use it without signing into a Google account (and this wasn't mentioned on the outside of the package).

I'm not sure that site is the best one to link to give a balanced explanation of the situation. The Wikipedia page on the topic seems pretty thorough and reasonable as a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad...

it's AI slop, same as everything posted by that user (look at their comments)... :\

"RISC is good" :)

Why using Discord for comms? Is there anyone who hasn't hit the max 100 "servers" years ago? I've been [lightly] using Discord since 2015 - I'm at the point where I just simply won't even consider trying to narrow down which "server" I can leave so as to join a new one, unless it's something pretty important to make it worth that time sink.

Interestingly they recently brought back the old version (I think from Season 3 or so?) as "League of Legends Classic"

Yeah, it does seem pretty excellent! Even if it's a relatively small room (105 square feet or something), if it's right in your back yard with all your own stuff (and no strangers immediately outside the room), that's pretty awesome. No commute, no monthly/annual fees or lease etc... Plus it can be repurposed for other stuff if needed (guest house? kids' play space? etc.)

Yeah! CoMaps was actually what I used for my very first contribution to OSM! Nice lil gateway to an awesome ecosystem. Mega kudos to the CoMaps devs for doing such a great job with it.

in the post:

> I had tried coworking spaces but didn’t love the vibe or the idea of spending hours in a phone booth.

Bye Reddit, thanks for working so hard to entice and capture as many communities as you could possibly manage, and then closing the doors to everyone who doesn't sign up. The ultra-predictable social platform lifecycle. Rinse & repeat.

That's pretty insidious. I was wondering why I'd get literally ~three search results on DuckDuckGo and then thousands+ of results on Google, and this clearly explains at least one of the causes of such blatant discrepancies!

That's interesting to know (thanks for calling it out!), and makes me feel extra glad I've worn a mask during the entire flight on every flight I've been on since 2020 (not that I've been on many)... turns out I was avoiding a lot more than just COVID etc. heh >_<

Yeah, maybe! I def don't frame it as "happiness", because I don't expect to be especially happy, but hopefully content or accepting of what my life "is". I actually have worked throughout my life to accept bad/difficult things, and just "work with what I have", because there are always some pretty bad things in life, and I know the badness level will probably increase as I get older (already had numerous friends pass away, family members, etc.)