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I get my laptops from a city bureau.

They sell old laptops of Helsinki public servants. The hard drives are very thoroughly emptied and Ubuntu is installed. It's a kind of a workshop for unemployed people, with the purpose of keeping them used to the concept of work. They get a tiny bit of extra money atop their unemployment benefit by working there.

This has all kinds of weird side effects, like how the actual buying process runs. Once you've decided what you want to buy, they print something akin to a receipt to you, and you need to walk some 100 metres or so to a wood workshop where they have a worker with a permission to handle money. You give them the receipt and money, and they give you back a other receipt to prove you have paid. And then you take that back to the shack made of corrugated metal that works as the computer shop, give the receipt to the guy there and carry your laptop home.

At one point they were selling old laptops of the.fire brigade. They were built so that you could very well use them as a hammer 🐳

Anyway, the shop is on the backyard of the Kyläsaari recycling centre in Helsinki. It closes at 15, so.it's a little bit difficult to visit if you've got an eight to four job.

Thinkpad X280.

And if you tell where the hell my key for the cellar is, I can go downstairs and check what model the Thinkpad I bought in 2017 for 30 €. It's now in my pile of broken laptops from which I should extract useful files some day :P

Something you can buy for 20 €.
Okay, I paid 60 € for mine and it's good enough to play Skyrim and Stellaris :)

But the same shop sometimes sells laptops for 30 €. They come preinstalled with Ubuntu Linux and are absolutely fine for browsing the web.

I'm wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.

But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:

• Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
• Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there's a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.

Both need to always be printed, with kJ first as that's the official standard. But since in practical terms more people talk about kcal, they've required including that one as well. Here's a photo:

(Also, all foodstuff must have the ingredients and nutritional values in the local language, so I wonder how this package of instant noodles made its way into my pantry!)

It's somewhat a wild assumption that the only electronic appliance a household uses is a hair dryer.

Because total energy used is not what matters. What matters for most people is how much they have to pay. And they have to pay according to how many hours they were powering their devices with how many kilowatts.

People are – sadly – very uninterested in thinking about energy being indeed energy.

I have no clue of kcal, because I always read the numbers in kilojoules. And EU is not a part of Australia :) (And we need to mention the kJ because EU legislation is in effect in Finland where I live)

Luckily one of the devices later broke down and was replaced by another one. It didn't come from Sweden, but speaks English instead of Finnish all the same.

Happy to see it's not just one Minneapolis that is standing up against nazism.

Viron uutta kaukojunakalustoa ei ole hyväksytetty Latvian rautateille, enkä ole kuullut, että hyväksytysprosessia olisi edes aloitettu.

Se kai auttaa jonkin verran, että Latvian uudet sähköjunat ovat samaiselta Škodalta kuin Viron uudet diiseljunat, eli on paljon samoja komponentteja.

Yöjunien ajamiseen on sekä Latviassa, Liettuassa että Virossa vetokalusto ja luvat valmiina ja yöjunaliikenne voitaisiin aloittaa vaikka tänä vuonna jos haluttaisiin. Vaunuista osa on myyty esim. Kazakstaniin, mutta saahan ne sieltä takaisin ostettua.

Liettualaisethan juuri pari kuukautta sitten ajoivat yöjunan Vilnasta Tallinnaan ja takaisin johonkin urheilukisaan päästäkseen. Hyvin pelitti.

Sä et ilmeisesti ole ihan hirveästi tuolla ulkona sitten kulkenut? Otetaan nyt vaikka joku rändomi katu jostain Helsingin Pakilasta:

Leveyttä kolmen paloauton verran puskasta puskaan. Kaksi paloautoa vie vähemmän tilaa kuin kolme.

Ja tietty merkityksellistä tuo tilankäyttö on tietysti ennen kaikkea siellä, missä on käveltävän mittaluokan kaupunkia:

Mihin paloautot noita kahta parkkikaistaa tarvitsevat?