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agrue··on Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)
I want to love the frameworks but the modifiable ports being a slot-in usbc dongle feels like such a cheap hack. Last I checked, the only available Ethernet module still sticks out of the case like a Lego brick
agrue··on Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)
That's my current setup. Only 2 pcie lanes on the nvme though. CPU is feeling a bit long in the tooth for some compiling tasks.

The current t14 with the 16:10 screen and improvements to repairability look good. I'm trying to patiently wait for them to start hitting the used market, but I also recently snapped off one of the two usbc ports on the 480.

agrue··on 507 Mechanical Movements
Plugging a yt channel that posts lots of these sort of models:

https://youtube.com/@thang010146

agrue··on High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students
> Basically nothing

You might consider providing a more concrete example if you're going to throw shame around. This answer feels emotionally charged and incomplete.

agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
Thank you, this is what I'm driving at. The conversation includes very little discussion of cause or actual treatment beyond symptom mitigation.
agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
Iron lung use was not 24x7 for all patients. Saying so might be considered by some to be extremely disingenuous or even ridiculous.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-poli...

agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
> The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever

Iron lung use was not 24/7 for all patients. Saying so might be considered by some to be extremely disingenuous or even ridiculous.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-poli...

agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
Thanks for your detailed response, but the things I listed were entirely in jest. I don't think the uvula causes sleep apnea and don't believe a pill would be able to obviate breathing while sleeping.
agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
This is what I was talking about. The patient has apnea type b. The prognosis remains Bad at Sleeping, use iron lung type b with no alternatives.

Most people have type a and use iron lung type a, there are some treatments for this type but most people opt for the iron lung.

agrue··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
Sleep apnea is strange.

Good news! We have a diagnosis, sleep apnea. You're bad at sleeping now, the thing everybody has to do all night long every day since birth. The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever. Many times it's because people are overweight but you aren't.

Is that really all there is for treatment? No throat exercises or therapeutic sleeping positions? No diets? No botox injections for your uvula or a daily pill to obviate breathing while sleeping?

agrue··on Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies
I recently made a purchase at a friend's small brick and mortar retailer using a credit card. He texted me a couple days later thanking me for the support.

Turns out the shop has a Square cash register, and for cc transactions Square provides any email addresses associated with that card, provided the customer has "opted in".

Similarly, I purchased an air compressor at Lowes a few months back. Lowes has been emailing my wife about the air compressor pretty regularly, as she used that card (mine, not joint) for some online shopping a few months prior. Good thing it wasn't a surprise for her.

agrue··on Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before
Tough to consider Microsoft's shift a permanent one until it survives a CEO change or two.

For me, real commitment from MS means Office for Linux. Instead we have Windows Subsystem Linux.

agrue··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
Absolutely.

The Regolith website puts the full iso front and center (for some reason), but you can also just add the PPA and install one of the `regolith-desktop-*` packages - mostly config with dependencies on gnome, i3, and picom. It easy to drop back to vanilla ubu/gnome when the project goes stale or you find something that doesn't play nicely with tiling WM like Unity editor.

agrue··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
You might like Regolith.
agrue··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
MS office is head and shoulders above Libre on Linux. I'd happily buy it.

Not sure on the effort required. I checked GH (not a Microsoft company...) but couldn't find the source code.

People and organizations can act within their rights and still be detrimental other people, organizations, and communities.

agrue··on Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
Microsoft is pro open source when it suits them.

If there were in it for the long haul we would see things like Office for linux. Instead we see WSL.

One or two CEO changes and they'll be back to litigation for patent infringement.

agrue··on Show HN: MStream – the easiest music streaming server
Noticed a bunch of these projects recently, great to see

https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/

https://github.com/epoupon/lms

https://github.com/aidewoode/black_candy

agrue··on Show HN: Black candy – A self hosted music streaming server
Cool, I've been into this sort of project recently.

Similar project: https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/

Also Streamaserver for video https://github.com/streamaserver/streama

agrue··on Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
Unlimited texting as the norm is pretty new, carriers have charged for incoming and outgoing MMS since it became a thing. Same with minutes and received calls.
agrue··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
This has been hitting me hard lately. I'm pretty young at the tail end of my 20s, job is finally stable enough not to worry about money, and have really started to realize how few free hours I can find in a week. Work and its on call rotation, obligations to the girlfriend and social circles, maintenance on the house and cars, bills that don't have an auto pay option.

Last month my auto registration sticker didn't show up in the mail after renewing it. A trip to the county clerk, then the sheriff's office to file a report, then back to the clerk to get another sticker took almost two hours. Stopping by the local bank to change my address after the online system locked my account for two incorrect password attempts took 90 minutes. 6 phone calls after a cancelled auto insurance policy made an auto draft the next month. My coworker has a pile of kids, two with medical issues, it seems like his wife has a part time job dealing with medical billing issues.

Most of these rambling examples aren't the fault of the organizing institution (unlike the Equifax leak at hand), but in the end individuals are bound by those institutions' organizational practices in their pursuit of normalcy. I don't know how it could be implemented or enforced, but at a certain point it feels like individuals should be compensated for suffering organizational incompetence or negligence.