Dekks Herton

@drahardja@sfba.social rubyists should be embarrassed & say not our values, makes me wonder to change.

@stephenharlow@mastodon.social have'nt bought a new pc in 12 years, ex lease machines 4 or 5 years old are always in reasonable supply on the likes of ebay, with careful looking some that must have sat their box in some cupboard the whole time are easily found.

@witchgirls@woof.tech welcome to the church of #emacs but make sure you have a plan of what you want emacs to do for you & do it one step at a time. its too easy to be like a kid in a candy store

@anon98@infosec.exchange 2/2 Next come the Think-pads which don't have the rugged-ised shells of the previous models but are fine for hard office environments & factory shop floor. I've used Think-pads since 1998 in paintshops & assembly lines across the world & treated them poorly at times but they just keep going & used to have a lot of user changeable parts but they caught the apple glue n clip assembly methods in the early 2010s but are now building the workstation models thicker with better cooling

@anon98@infosec.exchange cant agree at all from my pov

@anon98@infosec.exchange at the top are Getac which is used by the military BUT you pay 2K USD higher prices next is the Panasonic Toughbook rugged laptops with a 500 -1000 USD premium & the rugged-ised Dell Latitudes again a premium product. Both these 2 ranges are not cutting edge tech usually being a year or so behind i've used Getac & Panasonic & they are very durable for field work in rugged conditions with poor weather & rough terrain / handling. 1/2

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @gettingcomputey@beige.party @Binder@petrous.vislae.town <> the Harvard MBA free market brigade HATE any free market as margins are lower than cartels

@bulldoggirl300@brain.worm.pink get the service manual for the model off the lenovo website, there will be a section detailing those tuned error messages

@witchgirls@woof.tech its not so much tinkering as emacs is infinitely customisable, so its best to have completed 1 thing before you find another. otherwise your gonna be shaving your yak ;)

@kinderstampfer@mstdn.social tbh remembering my x280 #Thinkpad i wouldnt even think of running any photoshop/darktable/indesign type program on an intel iGPU model you might get away with a AMD Ryzen 7 iGPU machine but your looking at a minium of 16GB RAM & a modern dGPU if your working with large files. if my memory is correct the x280 RAM is glued in place & is thus not upgradable, it already has SSD?

@zyd seeing how the tech bros scraped llm trainng data off the net regardless of licences ultimately any vide code is potentially tainted so will it ever be accepted?

@anon98@infosec.exchange given their history for poor quality they have a big hill to climb to match even modern thinkpad standards.

@ploum@mamot.fr The facts its hundreds of miles to the other side of the state in most cases always sharnk their world view

@Sar@masto.ai Gotta get it done before March 2nd :)

@Sar@masto.ai You given up on WoW?

@Sar@masto.ai What you make of midnight, the 3rd expansion rising from the corporate pit that was Shadowlands which was maybe the worst expansion ever?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @_elena@mastodon.social obviously the techbros have their fascist claws in it already

@stephenharlow@mastodon.social yup & most in class A condition if you pick a good refurb reseller

@hanspetermeyer@mstdn.ca @hnom@fedigroups.social then the majority of kids will play football & the canadian teams will all bar montreal probably die out slowly, hockey a forgotten sport

@kinderstampfer@mstdn.social how much RAM do you have?

@kinderstampfer@mstdn.social Look at refurbed ex-lease machines such as T15 or P15 Thinkpads with discrete GPUs & 32GB of RAM