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You used to be able to replace/extend ThinkPad parts quite easily. We'd buy base models exclusively and just add extra stick of ram and flip the CD rom to another hard drive or bat…

I used t490s for a while and that has been my favorite machine since forever. In general ThinkPads are the way to go by the looks of it!

My work gave me MacBook 16" 2020 and probably the worst business laptop I have ever had. The screen is smudgy and glary, the keyboard is awful, touch bar is a meme, no ports and fi…

I really don't get it. How much difference could 8 to 16gb be in terms of price? Is Apple really doing this to save 20$ per machine? Even if you somehow could argue that 8 is all y…

Honestly that doesn't sound so much for a late civilization.

The instant question this title raises: how hard would it be to move a planet into close orbit of the sun? Weirdly enough I never came up to a similar scenario in countless sci-fi …

Se 2016 is 123x58 Se 2020 is 138x67 12 mini is 132x64 S10e is 142x69 So s10e is still the biggest one of "high-end small phones" though it has the best screen ratio by far. I do th…

S10e came out year and a half ago! Unfortunate despite everyone complaining no one bought it and we didnt get s20e. Seriously that has been the best smart phone I've ever used or h…

Seems like you've discovered the philosophy of Accelerationism! Sometimes it does feel that embracing awful system is the best way to topple it.

I've been using various smart watches (currently on galaxy active) and I love them but I still feel that it's only slightly more than a meme. The core functionality is just gamific…

I'm sure it's not a coincidence that one of the biggest western social media apps - Instagram - launched a direct clone of tiktok. So far IG reels are dead but if TikTok gets banne…

> I have no problem at all with Bezos being worth $200 billion Really? You have no problem one person owning so much money? That's around 30$ for _every_ person on the planet, can …

> Microsoft is just selling unopinionated software to all businesses in the world You have to be satirical right? Microsoft is notorious for lobbying everything to this day. Browse…

Real question here is: should the passport number have any expectations of privacy? It seems like such an easy thing to expose as you literally put it down on every document like h…

Is shaving off 1% really justifies such a hack? The web is already so extremely implicit that even seasoned web-developers are lost in it.

Where are people getting the "decade" number from? Looks demand for RISC-V just went up significantly and it's not like it's broken or not-existing, RISC-V "just worked" a year ago…

Exactly, Apple is already straddling the line (and imho way past it) on anti-comp laws.

> Who's going to pay for me to upsize my apartment so I can make a home office? Your company. Offices are pretty expensive, if the company goes remote they have extra capital to di…

I'm not sure if this too offtopic but does anyone know similar applications for languages for young kids?

I really don't get this anti-async mentality on HN. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but async is a complete game changer for me as there just so much IO wait in every project I tou…

The world has also been burned by paying for apps that turn out to be actually shitty and-or ad-infested. 48hour refunds on google play should have addressed this conundrum but it …

Honestly I've never met a person who listens to Spotify's top/trending playlists - they are notoriously awful random mess (like all top hit charts) Spotify is definitely killing to…

You can still browser old UI without any of these issues via https://old.reddit.com AFAIK

I wouldn't say 20 years but pop music has gotten extremely stale. The clubs/bars are playing the same exact songs since I moved here 5 years ago. Something is awfully wrong with th…

I think much of synthwave actually stems from Vaporwave which is probably the most interesting music phenomenon since hiphop imho. Vaporwave - a brief history https://archive.org/d…