Midnight Wolf

I dunno, I bought my first ThinkPad, then a used ThinkServer, then advised a family member to get a ThinkPad.

My TP battery dies with light tasks from full to flat in less than an hour; it is shelved most of the time, used for specific purposes, booted maybe 50x in 4 years. The battery was replaced under extended warranty and within a month it was just as degraded as the one it replaced. There is no Linux support, since it has a cellular model, so after a month of testing I settled on Xubuntu. It only has 2 USB C ports, one disguised as a dock port, and 1 USB A port. This machine was $1.5k USD and the extended warranty was a few dollars shy of that amount, too. Buyers remorse out the ass.

The TS, it’s a tower config, the parts are good on paper but they use proprietary psu connectors and, I shit you not, a proprietary cpu heatsink mounting holes, so you can’t replace it with off-the-shelf parts (they drilled the holes bigger, then added retention pegs). Following the bios update instructions to the letter, including a ups, killed both boards (yes, I bought an identical replacement). The case is trash and makes doing anything internally a huge pain in the ass. I recently swapped to a different board and case during an upgrade, it’s so much better.

The TP my father bought at my suggestion (he didn’t want to wait for a Framework) arrived with cooling issues, online forums say it’s a known issue for over a year. I swapped it for an identical unit, but nope, same issue. I sent it back and got a custom build of a different TP family, waited the month for it to arrive, booted it up, no cooling issues… aaaand Windows isn’t activated, no key present. Support wanted to swap the mobo or send it back so I let them do the song and dance with a tech swapping the board. It didn’t solve the problem, of course, so I reach out and say ‘either refund the $200 we paid for the windows license, give me the key, or I want a full refund’. We ordered a Framework the next day and sent the TP back.

I definitely missed the boat on TPs being amazing, because this is utter dogshit.

Ah, a young one. You’ll learn one day. Everyone desires stability eventually, and debian will come for you, too.

You do know that you have full control over what you run on the system, right? It’s not like a loss-leader that has to limit the user’s freedom to recoup losses and turn a profit.

Mmm, tixel pitties

Wait until you experience 5G UW, then you’ll be begging for the stability of standard 5G

Hold on flat earthers, the inverted earth theory just dropped

🌏🏆

Does that mean we all… lost the game?

(le 2008 meme fedora tip)

They say it’s a cup, yet it is clearly participated on a field. And that field is plainly not big enough to house the whole world.

Lies through and through.

Edging: Moo Edition

See my initial comment to clear up any confusion

I have to buy a boat, a truck and a driveway? Look at mr moneybags over here

Tingle me baby

It was, just to the people on the inside

OneMinus

As a disabled dude that gets a quarter of that, 40k is fucking baller money

I’m in a pretty bad way, unfortunately. Stroke ‘survivor’ at 21, with more-or-less the right side of my body as deadweight :(. I wasn’t in very good condition before but since, I’m a burden to everyone around me.

This, + my health is awful (so I’m not going to subject another being to a rerun of my suffering), and 💕 boys 💕

It’s like Jim, our mechanic, but quantumized.

That’s one expensive transition

I have a filter that checks for “Fwd:” and immediately trashes it. If you cant be bothered to format even the subject line, you’re a lost cause. Cut down significantly on useless shit from my parents especially.

I have like 150 other filters that sort messages into folders, trash others, and immediately permanently delete others. My inbox now has 1-5 messages in the morning, and usually 1 or 2 throughout the day, vs the like 25-50 daily. Having unique email addresses for each recipient is great too, since if you unsubscibe from some garbage and it doesn’t actually unsubscibe (fuck you, AT&T Business), you can just blackhole it and it’s gone.

I prefer email to texting or calling, since there’s less expectation of a rapid response, but I got tired of getting so much garbage all the time - and I was already actively trying to keep my inbox clean 15+ years ago.