E30 325i has a really nice body for that. E12 is also quite nice, so is the E21. I also love the Datsun Sunny and Bluebird - both of them look so damn good. Audi Quattro, Renault 5 Turbo, and the Toyota Corolla TE27.

And let's not even go into the Dakar rally cars. Those suspensions, and their monstrous ground clearance looks so damn good. Reminds me of RSQ e-tron. And the Fiat 131 Abarth, another rare beauty...

Pimped consumer cars are so lovely, right?

The only laptop I had broke down.

The "Ich" sound is confusing - I am having problem reaching that sound. Is it "ick", as in icky, "ich" as in sandwich, or "ish", as in feverish?

I know, Google bad, genocidal scumbags, but I guess this counts as a small victory for our people.

Unicode 16.0 is on the way, and the scripts will soon be out on every device. Fuck Kannada imposition.

I've been trying to find Thinkpad laptops with specifications equivalent to, or better than my old Ideapad with i5-8265U. So far, I've only been using Ebay. Unless explicitly mentioned, all prices are without shipping charges. This time, I've restricted myself to the following rules:

• Assume +100$ for all product (international shipping)
• Look for 8th, 9th and 10th gen Intel processors, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen AMD processors.
• 8 (assuming SODIMM is free for another 8GB)/16/32GB of RAM
• 256GB (if device is cheap, I can upgrade it myself)/512GB/1TB
• Pick devices with 8th gen Intel processors under 200$
• Pick devices with 9th gen Intel and 1st gen Ryzen processors under 250$
• Pick devices with 10th gen Intel and 2nd/3rd gen Ryzen processors under 300$
• Assume an extra 50-100$ for workstation dGPU
• Do not buy anything higher than 450$ (with shipping price included)

However, to my surprise, 8th gen devices are still being sold around 250-350$, 9th gen devices and almost every Ryzen-based devices are non-existent, and 10th gen devices are surprisingly the same or lower than 8th gen, but their prices get inflated after auction - perhaps by shill bidding bots.

I also can't figure out this - why are there no listings from Europe or Middle East? Shipping from America is too expensive (although way cheaper that the local listings here).

How can I get better for finding used/refurbished/renewed Thinkpad?

If most of you are aware, I've resumed applying to jobs. Well, most of them were rejections, but today, I got a response. The pay of the job is ₹60,000 per annum. Yes, you read it right.

And what's the message I've received?

Hi /c/velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml,

Are you flexible on your salary?

Is ₹5,000 per month not already low enough? Even school-dropout blue-collar workers make more than me at ₹25,000 per month. Rent of a room alone costs around ₹7,000-9,000. I am so done with this.

I had to replace the display cable from another broken laptop, and thankfully, it was compatible with mine. Also changed the screen from AUO to Innolux, so I'm loving the matt display - but the tint is now a little yellowish. I would've increased the RAM, if not for the DDR3L vs DDR4 modules not being compatible to each other, so I'm suck with just 4GB. And also switched from normal swap to zswap with lz0 compression and zpool of type zsmalloc. I can't fold the laptop anymore, but well, it works decently for now.

Pardon me if I get this wrong - but I'd assume that if one were to return packages back to a online shop (Amazon, Ebay, etc), they would have to:

• print a label, package the box and then return to a post office, right - maybe also pay a little fee?

• return to a designated locker/warehouse

• initiate a label-free return to a nearby supermarket

Perhaps this is how it works in North America and maybe Europe, right?

Well, I wanted to talk about the system set in India used by every online shops (including Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Puma, etc). Here's how it goes:

• if you want to return the product, you access the homepage, and initiate a return

• you'll get a message ensuring that a delivery agent (assigned by logistic companies like DTDC, Blue Dart or Delhivery) will be by your house by tomorrow, or day after tomorrow

• you're not supposed to re-package the delivery box, because the agent will come to your door, check the contents briefly, and then carry the product with them

• after a few days, or maybe a week, the team at the warehouse will inspect the product properly, and then immediately initiate a refund

Sure, it is convenient, but I can't help and think of how exploitative this is to gig-workers. Am I in the wrong to feel this way?