JansjoFromIkea

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by JansjoFromIkea 4mo ago
contemplated getting one of these a while back opted for an m3-8100Y Surface Go 2 instead because they were far easier to find and much cheaper. Managed to find one for £70 with the keyboard. Nowhere near as powerful as the Minibook X but d
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by JansjoFromIkea 4mo ago
Potentially worth looking into old Surface Go's; from what I know they run Linux fairly reliably now and can be gotten suprisingly cheaply (the Go 2 with m3-8100Y processor seemingly being the sweet point of often appearing on ebay for
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by JansjoFromIkea 6mo ago
I do often wonder with this kind of thing whether an unspoken aspect of it is about not depleting the country's fossil fuels From what I understand Ireland has very little natural gas, very little coal and a not particularly large amou
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
The gap between 2025 and 2009 is massive for smartphones but I'd say it gets drastically smaller around the midpoint. If it wasn't for it no longer being supported by iOS I'd still be using a 2016 SE and the only things I&#x2
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I think there could be a market for a small reliable Android phone. The main issue is that it'd take years to build up a model's reputation and it'd have to be reasonably low price. As it stands the kind of people who want a
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I really like this, it looks great! Did you investigate using a MiniDisc player at any point? I could see a minidisc player with some kind of shell and a DIY inline remote working with relatively little. Never actually used one enough to kn
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I find Bluesky better but I've had to be pretty aggressive about blocking centre-left types. I don't even disagree with most of what they're complaining about, after being away from twitter for years that whole style of disco
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
did you have the regular battery or the larger one? Maybe it was something about the larger battery flagging some kind of screening process they have. I was surprised too, I've brought far weirder and dodgy looking stuff through securi
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
Do you ever have any trouble at airports? The one time I ever had grief at an airport was a few years ago travelling with an X230 with the larger battery pack. Security seemed extremely suspicious of such an old laptop and I got stopped aga
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
Bought an X220 years back and it unintentionally became my main laptop for a few years. Sold it on in much worse condition (I kept the keyboard) at a profit and got an i7 X230T instead, which has also somehow gone up in price since. the X23
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I've often wondered why there aren't devices that have all network operations bundled into a removable module; that way you could get both people who want some level of disconnect and those who want a more thorough level of discon
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I don't disagree. I think POVs in forums are often much more about framing a thing to justify your beliefs than actually hitting at your own personal implicit values (it's plausible the poster believes leisure is a waste of time a
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
Don't know how school funding operates in the US so this is a guess: Parents cover the fees and give the kids an allowance for the rest; either the kids budget poorly or the allowance fails to really account for just how expensive the
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
Pearson make great money charging obscene amounts for books. In many subjects they'll have some online component so if you thought you could get away with using a second hand copy of last year's edition they'll make you have
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
> At least for me, it's not that reading bores me - there just isn't enough time and benefit to it, especially for novels and literature. Literary books aren't going in my CV, nor providing any insight into how to write be
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I'm a bit mixed on all these kind of tirades. I imagine a big chunk of most literature undergraduate degrees are people who like the idea of being into literature much more than the kind of work it involves. At the same time, as someon
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
Wasn't Build Back Better meant to be roughly the same kind of objectives, maybe the stated means were different (and less vague) but roughly the same? I haven't paid that much attention to either, mind. This whole thing feels more
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by JansjoFromIkea 1y ago
I'm not too keen on the Stanley Parable and enjoyed the Beginners Guide. It's definitely something that could be called pretentious but I feel like it's a lot more interesting with how it does it. There's less of a fixat
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
Ah yeah but that's always the case. Was mostly just surprised my response to 27 number ones was "really, only 27?!" Looks like the hot 100 is more confusing than I thought; I see I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys only
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
Things like this aren't about economic growth, they're about reducing the reliance on foreign services
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
surprised Max Martin only has 27, looking through his list there's a lot of songs I assumed must have been #1s that weren't
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
> I've also heard of an acquaintance that they cancelled plans because their (Garmin™) Body Battery was too low. This sounds like someone who just feels like they need to provide tangible evidence for their reason being "I feel
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
I meant in terms of what people expect this kind of service to be. If his vision is a privately-ran for-profit contracted agency he's not resurrecting anything.
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
Thanks for this, wasn't exactly looking for something like this but it fits a bunch of projects I have in mind!
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
An opportunity to provide value to the government by replacing their own service with an inevitably more expensive one which can be recontracted out to whoever suits the interests of a specific administration with minimal pushback. It'
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
Where did he mention voluntary charity in his tweet?
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
yeah I had to step back from this when I saw it* on my feed because I was so disenchanted by how positive the replies were. Not even sure what their issues with DOGE are if they think this is a great solution... ETA: I'm on about his
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
It's not even our current system, they made it at the exact time that large parts of our current infrastructure was being established. Zuckerberg is in a lot of ways a pretty impressive outlier to get into the club as late as he did an
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
I wouldn't get too hung up on downvoting online, ignoring deliberately malicious actors the range of reasons for downvoting can go from "this person posted a hate crime" to "other people already posted something close en
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by JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
I can't find the source now but I recall reading about some game that was heavily impacted by it. I don't think it was this one but here's an example I found just now https://kotaku.com/steams-two-hour-refund

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