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They didn't say that. They said they wrote the first version in a few days, using ChatGPT. Then worked on it almost another year since then. Something of that nature. Pretty big difference.

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 3 AMD as of a few months ago. It replaced my older Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen from 4 years ago, the main impetus being that I wanted 32gb of memory vs the 16gb that my X1 Carbon had. It's only a little bit bigger than the X1 Carbon, but I really like the 16:10 form factor vs the Carbon's 16:9. (Note that this year's Carbon also went to 16:10).

The Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U processor (Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U also available) is performant and the battery life is _much_ better than the current 12th gen Intel processors. The experience with Linux has generally been great. I had a sleep issue initially but it's been resolved. I ordered it with only a 256GB SSD then swapped that out with a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro before installing Ubuntu. If you want at 1TB or 2TB ssd, it's significantly cheaper to do it like this vs getting a bigger one with your order, and you will have a a faster SSD too.

This is really bad advice, about hot water. When I was in New Zealand once, where you sometimes still encounter faucets with a separate hot water and cold water tap, I accidentally ran my glasses through the very hot water coming out of the hot water tap and it completely destroyed the coating on the lenses, it was as if I had run sandpaper over them.

The water only needs to be lukewarm. i.e. rinse glasses with lukewarm water, then get a drop of dish soap on fingers and rub fingers through a bit more water to dilute the soap, then gently scrub the lenses as you describe, and then rinse the glasses again with lukewarm water. Almost all the water will sheet off.

I think being near the lake is definitely nicer in the summer, and probably winter too, as it moderates the temperature. On the other hand in the spring and fall, since the water temperature can be so much colder than the air, it can be quite cold and breezy by the lake, and nice and warm away from the lake.

There is _zero_ doubt that these types exercises can work. I play tennis with a guy that used to wear glasses, with a decent level of myopia (slightly worse than -3), and over the course of several years reduced his myopia to the point he can easily play without glasses (it's something like -0.5 now). The only time I ever see him wearing glasses is at night. He worked off the methods in Bates' "Better Eyesight Without Glasses". I wear glasses myself, and am myopic. I would go through the effort myself, but on top of normal myopia I also have something called Nystagmus (shaking of the eye) of which the net result is additional blurring, so it's pretty hard for me to function without glasses at all (my vision without glasses would be about 20/400, with glasses it's 20/40).

Hey guys, this is Colin, the author of Telix. A friend of mine sent me a link to this thread.

I just wanted to send a shoutout to everybody here. It's pretty cool and gratifying after all these years to see people still remembering and talking about Telix!