Eh, on my Latitude(5290) - 2018, i7-8350u and my shitty home network (still better than my grandma’s ADSL but not by much), zypper dup (with some unnecesarry shit) takes an hour. I assume emerging the upgrade would be at least 10 times longer.

I assume I’d be forced to use Gentoo if I eventually switch to a snapdragon laptop, so fuck me then.

My grandma has a Phillips CRT tv. It’s way better than any of my family’s LCDs I hope I could inherit it and not let it go to waste when she dies (but hopefully she lives longer than the TV - since it’s indestructible).

For the love of god. I just started repairing a Huawei P10 for my own use (was my mom’s). I had to ADB pm uninstall --user 0 a bunch of Huawei shit and play services. The (last) 2021 upgrade made it so it redownloads some apps I removed occasionally (Facebook, Instagram, Petal, …) fuck this. Why does it keep doing it?

I think I also uninstalled something too much since it doesn’t pair to bluetooth devices anymore.

And why can’t I just unlock the bootloader and replace the os (well, I could with PotatoNV, but i could only get a GSI, so I lose most features and the camera quality). And it’s also stuck on Android 9 - somehow (the phone is from 2017).

Still more usable than my Redmi 4x (4+64) with some motherboard issues, and cheaper than the decent grapheneos compatible phones on ebay (300 - 400€ in EU).

I wish I had time to use Gentoo, but I barely have time to upgrade my Suse TW and Artix systems (to be fair, suse’s packaging system is shit compared to arch/artix, but it is more stable if upgraded after a long time).

How do you manage to upgrade it regularly? Do you have an extremely powerful PC or just the T430?

Wow, a 2000 corolla has a remote. My mk4 golf (2002) with decent equipment doesn’t have that (but to be fair, it also doesn’t have a CD drive radio - well I could add one for ~100€ but I won’t since it costs money and the original radio works).

It’s extremely reliable (especially the TDI engine). After 178000km, the only problems are the surface rust, (my grandma who owned it before me) had to replace the fenders - which rusted away and I recently had to replace the rear axle. And some trunk door water leaks I still had to fix (and some weird sounds coming from the wheels when steering to the right). My mom’s 2014 golf mk7 is in way worse mechanical condition than my older car.

Also: how do the 10 year olds not know how batteries work (I did basic electronic repairs back then and help my dad wire lights ) and have you thought about reporting their parents for child neglect

Well, could be genetic. You figure out when the main bone cracks.

Buy a different thinkpad (an older gen T/L/E 14) (but check the upgradability), there is too much demand for it for it to be normally priced.

I wanted one in ~2023 and couldn’t find one under 300€, I then bought a Dell Latitude 5290 with the same CPU (i5-8350u) as the T480. The Latitude is working well enough, Dells (Latitudes and Precisions) are also a great thinkpad alternative - keep in mind they don’t have a trackpoint (since 2018).

ThinkPad - of course (especially T and P series).

Yep, he’ll probably sell it in a laptop I put it in. I’m kinda skeptical about an ONDA laptop with a 4-core Celeron selling. Might as well keep it, give it away or something.

Yes, I have to complain about this laptop. It’s worth less than just the SSD.

Should have thought of that before reinstalling the OS. Thanks, will remember for later.

Cool, thanks for the info. Will remember that.

Cool while others informed me I don’t have to do it, I will remember for future uses.

Wait, HDDs retain data after deletion? I thought only SSDs did that.

How is rj45 legacy? And why do the laptop manufacturers hate it so much?

Well, I’m not saying the tech is bad, but why not also keep the old ports?

I think everything USB C is stupid. Bring back the A and A to C cables. Do I have to upgrade literally everything to use a laptop normally.

More info: https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-to-kill-a-nation

The tech is good. But the pushing of encryption in email services disables the use of other mail clients on free accounts (where the bridge doesn’t work), while the encryption is useless when communicating with any other mail service (with email you mostly communicate with corpos anyway). It just seems like it’s a cash grab, but it might be useful for activist groups.

I’m still looking for a free, private (at least as much as it can be) and open email service which is way harder than I expected.

I have a protonmail ACC (not using it as I need a powerful mail client, Infomaniak (very capitalist lately), which I also don’t use much.

Screw, you.

Yes, I denied a genocide. Can I finally experience it as well so I won’t have to talk to idiots anymore. Most people deny genocides and don’t give a shit. Fucking with a person who just said he actually believes in genocides doesn’t make a difference.