[-] alonely0@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

Nope, not that close to the edge, and especially not in this laptop cuz it must have them firing down. It's the hall effect sensor of the lid.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

The actual fuck.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Document intentions and decisions, not code.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah it's because they ship the same OS image for everyone, be it US on a carrier plan or otherwise. Google services has complete control over your device (more than just locking it down), and that's what you should be upset about. For you that app is just harmless bloat, what's actually spooky is google play services as a system app. Do yourself a favor and install grapheneOS.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What you need to do is clean the dust off of your fans and ventilation filters (check guides or figure it as you go, but make sure to disconnect the battery and the fans from the mobo as soon as you open it). Then, repaste it with good thermal paste or some liquid metal if you're feeling confident. I have liquid metal (thermal grizzly condoctonaut) on both of my laptops, and one of them which had overheated since day one, doesn't anymore.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have a second-hand Thinkpad T480s that I love, I bought it for 250$ on ebay and replaced its battery because it was fried (+40$). I use it for school and it works flawlessly, around 8h of battery life in a well-configured OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. According to the specs sheet it shouldn't be, but for some reason it is noticeably lighter than a friend of mine's MacBook Air 2021.

What I really love about it is the ThinkDock Ultra (iirc 30$ on ebay), which lets me place the laptop on my table, and by just sliding a piece of plastic, it connects all of my peripherals in a second. I love this laptop so much that I'll use it until it dies so hard that it can't be fixed at all.

laptop, cover laptop, open dock, no laptop dock, I/O laptop + dock

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 31 points 9 months ago

Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I'm here.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 75 points 9 months ago

A publicly traded company is legally obligated to be evil.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

I have completely stopped using reddit as a social media and deleted all of my content; I only use it for if I have to research something, and I make sure that they get no money because of my visit.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

That's only the ones you're aware of.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

It's called ArXiv.

[-] alonely0@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

You're not really changing anything, you're adding functionalities. Also, it appears that apple has limited their capabilities and doesn't even recommend them anymore, so it wouldn't be crazy if they just deprecated them in favor of system extensions, which sadly they don't call sexts. On the surface, kexts appear to be basically userland ioctls, which you have on windows too.

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