yeah these ship from china so whatever that costs where you are.

you can get em new in the box on ebay. the used ones can be sketch.

I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol

I also have four non functional bikes

two that get almost daily use from me:

osmand - maps
antennapod - podcasts

The older I get, the more things seem to be just new examples of things I’ve seen already. But that’s not to say that those things aren’t worth creating. How many times has the word “the” been used? Doesn’t mean we should stop saying it. Works of art are a form of communication too, and reflect the times and contexts in which they are created.

The whole world getting enthusiastic about moving away from oil and gas energy.

yes. but also before quitting nicotine.

coming up on 200k on my 2002 subaru

americans can design garbage, so can chinese. or the opposite.

Could be they’ve improved! I didn’t have much trouble opening mine but I did need a special star bit for the screws, and they tended to fall out without thread lock.

dell is manufactured globally, in china and in other places. probably lenovo too.

I think the thinkpad T14 series is pretty mainstream for linux - except for the Gen6 snapdragon one. Arch wiki thinks the gen5 will work

I had a top of the line Dell (precision 5520) that I bought with Ubuntu on it, so it ran linux very well. But there were quality issues, mainly the battery swelling up and making the keyboard stop working. Then the screws for the case fell out and the hinge kind of broke, and the power connector stopped working, as did its replacement. I think you aren’t really supposed to work on the dells yourself as it had special screws, not plain philips heads.

Maintainability on thinkpads is better, in general. And I like the way the computer feels more - just better design.

The Sergio Leone trilogy with Clint Eastwood arguably gets better. The first one was almost a shot-for-shot remake of Yojimbo - good but derivative. The third movie stood up well against the early ones and the music was maybe the best.

college textbooks. have to have the latest edition for class, but almost nothing is different from the two-years-old one.

that’s why you stiff em the last month’s rent

“have you looked in nubrubs.conf”

The point is old money is not showy compared to new money. New money is Lamborghinis, modernist mcmansions and private jets. Old money is low key, they don’t want to get clocked as being rich. Maybe they drive an old mercedes or wear ordinary clothes, but their friends know they have a controlling interest in a huge corporation, their own private island, etc. So sure, ordinary people can replicate much of the ‘aesthetic’, because its about rich people not wanting to seem rich.

it does nothing. might as well not be plugged in. at this point I don’t remember what killed it. maybe trying to transition to another os.

my pinebook pro has been bricked for at least 3 years now. still dead.

you can tell the difference because of the names