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I also have an X13s and it's also the best laptop I've owned... Sort of.

I ran Windows on it up until a few months ago and it was as you said, delightful. Long battery life, fanless, great size, great screen. I put Ubuntu on it (where they've mainlined a good bit of things), and it's still just not very good. Sleep doesn't work (and never will without Qualcomm), certain things still just crash on occasion -- but I do think the webcam works.

I'll likely put Windows back on at some point, which is a shame, because the laptop is great, but Windows is terrible. I simply do not believe any claims Qualcomm has about future support, as much as I'd love to see a newer Thinkpad device with full ARM support.

This! They do _everything_.

In the real world, there are a lot of things you need to run a business: HR, ERP, Financing, Cloud, Compliance, CRM, etc. There is really only one company who can sell them all to you on one piece of paper, and that's Oracle.

I was also hoping they'd bring the Folio back. I've got an old Air that does need replacing and have thought about buying an M2 Pro just to find a used Folio with.

I've got an original Thinkpad X13s that I' picked up about a year and a half ago, used, for a travel laptop. It's hard to hate in the same way that M-series MacBooks are now. The battery life is great, the performance is good, and for what I use it for, the compatibility hasn't been an issue. Firefox works great and I can use WSL with an ARM linux and run IntelliJ inside of that.

I wouldn't move to a Windows/ARM full-time just yet, but, it's not bad.

There's an SAE standard for this, but I _also_ don't want that.

I rented an EV, and had to download an app, use 2fa, and store my credit card, to be able to charge at the hotel I was staying at. This was pretty crummy.

Vehicle-based auth, at least w/ rental cars, sounds like a great way to make lots of money with fees.

I still hate that I can't just use a credit card + pre-auth (or even cash!) at an EV charging station like I can at every single gas station. The data! It's! Important! To! Investors!

This. Or a Yoga style fold-over in an 11" formfactor.

I picked up an X13s (the ARM one) for travel. It's not perfect -- one thing I like about iOS is that the airline apps are kind of required for IFE, but, my X13s weighs the same as my iPad Pro with a keyboard and can do much more. Trying to use Google Slides or Docs on the iPad is a poor experience.

I was an SRE there (even senior SRE!) -- left in 2018 but have still been pretty in-the-loop for the past few years due to friends there. The question was, how long would thing stay up if everything stopped: the answer was <1 week for everything (including ads, things you don't see, etc). Maybe 2 or 3 for most core functionality.

With some of their service issues in the past few weeks (DC stuff that's been publicized), it could be less. To the very best of my knowledge no substantial resiliency work has been done recently.

I do know that a good number of folks on-call for core services were laid off while on-call, so, that bodes well. I feel bad for everyone left trying to keep things running.

This is funny as I was just thinking to myself this morning, "My X13 is the worst Thinkpad I've ever owned". The S3/S5 issues aren't limited to Linux, they exist in Windows too. I've set my laptop to just hibernate whenever I close the display to get around the issue, though it's very annoying.

I also made the mistake of optioning mine with the PrivacyGuard screen, but that's on me. I actually can't wait till I can justify upgrading.

Performance is great on the "original" AMD one, 8 cores, 32GB of RAM!

E603, Research Methods, in the writing department.

Among other things, I learned how to read academic papers and how to think like a researcher.

A fun last day of that course was considering "real world situations" through various research lenses ("If I were an anthropologist, what would I make of this situation?", "If I were trying to understand, using critical discourse analysis, why my roommate won't open the chicken door in the morning") has proven super valuable in corporate-life. There's different reasons for different things ("Why don't we have an onboarding doc?") and it's important to consider all of them and figure out what the best course forward is to achieve your objective.

I miss both Maemo and Meego. I had a Nokia N900 that was great and then an N9 that I loved even more.

Meego did use edge swipes in the OS which felt advanced at the time.

DOCSIS 3.1 has support for 1Gbps uploads.

Yep -- already they do, speaking as someone trying to find a manual BMW Wagon.

The supply is already gone and has been for a while. The other comment in this thread on ever-smarter (cloud connected) cars too means that the market for not-cloud-connected cars is going to continue to increase too.

I think we'll see the opposite -- ICE vehicles are going to go up in price as collectors items.

As an Azlo customer, I'm super bummed.

I think this is the weird case of BBVA closing their sort of B2B Banking business (underwriting?).

What annoys me more is that whatever BBVA has to "replace" Azlo (or presumably Simple) will likely be worse in every way.

"The data indicates you may be at a higher risk for something expensive, so we're going to start charging you more"

Sure, but the management overhead from 1 server to 20 racks scales, at best, linearly. I've seen a lot of places just past the point where a single sys-ad person with a thumb drive is viable, yet they choose to not invest here and instead spend 2-5x on going to the cloud.

This is the same with disaster recovery too. The idea that "oh, our main DC went down, we'll just spin it up in another region" is great until you realize that means you need reserved instances in another zone, that just like another physical DC, you won't be using.

I'm super excited for this! It's a small step, but an important one.

The whole premise of this, as I read it, was that while OBD ports are fair game (and any protocol over them), there is other data that is (often) necessary to diagnose and repair cars that is not available from OBD and is phoned-home. That's simple enough.

What I think is superb is that the law requires data to go _directly to consumers_ as in, car makers would be required to change immediate locations of outbound telemetry such that they can't get it. This is key as I, first, don't want data leaving my car at all, and second, if it does, I don't want the automaker or insurance company to get to it.

I'm sure automakers (Tesla especially, since they pioneered brutally connected cars and data capture) aren't thrilled about this, but I am optimistic to see where it goes. Maybe I'll be able to buy a new car that doesn't phone home (or only phones home to a service I personally own). I can dream.

It's very few and far between. I have a US-bank issues commercial card that requires a PIN. At least circa a year ago or so I hadn't found a personal one that did.

I would love to see this.

On this note, I got the 500nit e-privacy display and it's "fine". I don't love it, it's not quite as good as it sounds, but it's "fine". Viewing angle with the "privacy" part off is still pretty terrible.

In the X13 only the SSD is replaceable. I _think_ it has a slot for cellular too, but I'm unclear if you can use it for anything. Lenovo says that if you want cellular you have to specify at build because of antennas in the display.

The T14S has soldered memory and I think even the T14 does too now.

If you really want you can get the T14s and swap the panel, but it's expensive and a pain, especially on a brand new machine.

I've got an X13 AMD with the 4750U and 32GB of RAM and it just dramatically outperforms anything else I've used. It's crazy. I bought it because I wanted a step-up from Intel CPUs that was worthwhile from a 7th gen i5, and this is over 5 times as fast and feels like it.

This is annoying. I recently got a 3D printer that actually works (as opposed to one that requires endless tinkering) and I've been using SketchUp a lot lately.

Just today I encountered an issue with some bad mesh and I was thinking "you know, I like this product, I might just give them money, at least I'll get a perpetual license out of it".

This makes me reconsider that. I really think JetBrains went the right route here for their subscription/license and I was excited to see Trimble follow in their footsteps, until now.

And also this marketing copy is just a giant slap in the face. Give me the numbers!

My first reaction to this was Sim City 2000's Microwave Power Plant (and the occasional miss of the microwave beam):

https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_(disaster)

I just want them to come out with an external trackpad! There don't seem to be any options for an external "precision" Windows-compatible trackpad.

Dial-up over a cell call? It's called CSD (Circuit switched data), and it tops out at ~9.6Kbps if I remember correctly.

"Promobird" and "Promobird V2" (and so on).