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Post by edoceo »

CyanBird wrote: post #294
edoceo wrote: post #38

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Should call it avocado-ware. Almost ready when you buy it, perfect the next day(update1) but then mushy-shit the next (update2). Also, store them in the fridge

> Also, store them in the fridge After you open them, yeah In Chile at least, when we buy not quite ready avocado's we wrap them on newspaper, it helps them mature and become softer faster, people have done this for at least since I have been alive and it works well

My issue (NW USA) is they arrive ready and ripen too fast. The fridge makes it slower.

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Post by ac29 »

fomine3 wrote: post #270
imwillofficial wrote: post #269

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^ Absolutely not true. I even got Linux running on an decade old 12in PowerBook G4. There is even a browser made for PowerPC, although the name escapes me.

Do you know what's happened on M1 Mac?

Linux is being ported to M1: https://asahilinux.org/

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Post by varelse »

lokedhs wrote: post #290
varelse wrote: post #218

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You mean a laptop in 2021 that still only supports 1920x1080 resolution without a docking station? Or did they finally fix that nonsense?

I have the T490 bought a couple of years ago. It came with a 1440p screen. I guess some models still have lower resolution screens, but I didn't look at then when I was evaluating the various options.

The laptop screen is fine, it's the HDMI out limited to 1920x1080 that's problematic. Carrying a docking station around defeats the portability of the laptop IMO. And it's not like there aren't better options than Lenovo...

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Post by ac29 »

Bud wrote: post #244
kcb wrote: post #237

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>Yes, you can run the latest Linux. Linux now has native M1 support. Lets not promise the moon here. The M1's Linux support is far from complete and definitely not ready for general use.

Thanks for the correction; it does have kernel support for the latest Linux kernel, but yeah, it's not a mature port yet. I do expect that it will have full support very soon, however.

Until the GPU has reasonable OpenGL and/or Vulkan support, some things are going to be pretty painful. I dont think that's happening any time soon.

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Post by cwkoss »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #159
cwkoss wrote: post #90

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I wish there was a good legal way to punish people who make bad ads. Maybe we need some sort of consumer collective to organize boycotts?

"Bad" isn't the issue. It could be a perfectly "good" ad (whatever that means), and I still don't want to see it. Stop shoving it in my face. (If you define "bad" as "in a context where ads should not be", I think I agree with you.)

Yeah, I mean both in content and context.

If people could organize to they extent that one of the worst offenders' businesses would be metaphorically burned to the ground once a year, I think that would have an effective deterrent effect.

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Post by Brian_K_White »

mschuster91 wrote: post #293
Brian_K_White wrote: post #76

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fdroid does let you see and install previous versions perfectly simply. One day SlimSocial broke. I pulled up the app in fdroid only exoecting to see a changelog for some recent update, but was pleasantly suprised to see this perfectly obvious and convenient Versions pull-down to install old versions. I used it, and it worked.

Sure, but there is no way to have, say, a v1 branch and a v2 branch with the same app ID.

I think that is an OS limitation not an app store limitation, and still disproves the claim that no appstore not even fdroid allows installing old versions or makes it easy. fdroid does allow it and even makes it easy.

For branches, lots of app developers just make a new app for that, and those can be installed concurrently. You can't do it conveniently yourself as an end user, the app developer has to do it. But they would probably have to publish branches too, so nodifference.

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Post by sneak »

elric wrote: post #169
sneak wrote: post #152

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I’ve never understood the next-business-day-on-site warranty thing people seem so keen on. Apple products (top case stickers notwithstanding) are fungible: just buy another one from any Apple store in the universe and restore your backup, and let AppleCare deal with the busted one on their own schedule. There’s nothing special about your laptop except the data. The factory pumps out bazillions of them.

> I’ve never understood the next-business-day-on-site warranty thing people seem so keen on. I need my laptop to work. If it doesn't work, I can't work. If I can't work, I'm not getting paid. That's why "next business day" is important. My laptop contains sensitive data. Data which is encrypted at rest, but which I'm nevertheless not going to ship to goodness knows where, for goodness knows how long. That's one reaso…

> I need my laptop to work. If it doesn't work, I can't work. If I can't work, I'm not getting paid. That's why "next business day" is important.

I'm the exact same way, which is why I have 4. Next business day is way too far away.

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Post by sneak »

DocTomoe wrote: post #162
sneak wrote: post #152

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I’ve never understood the next-business-day-on-site warranty thing people seem so keen on. Apple products (top case stickers notwithstanding) are fungible: just buy another one from any Apple store in the universe and restore your backup, and let AppleCare deal with the busted one on their own schedule. There’s nothing special about your laptop except the data. The factory pumps out bazillions of them.

This strategy does not pass "the car test" - we would not accept Ford to tell us to "just buy another car and let insurance figure out how to reimburse you for the busted one".

The Ford dealership will frequently give you a loaner while your car is being repaired by them.

So will the Genius Bar. (If they don't, Apple has a 14 day return policy, so you can borrow anything they sell for free for two weeks.)

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Post by qwerty456127 »

varelse wrote: post #303
lokedhs wrote: post #290

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I have the T490 bought a couple of years ago. It came with a 1440p screen. I guess some models still have lower resolution screens, but I didn't look at then when I was evaluating the various options.

The laptop screen is fine, it's the HDMI out limited to 1920x1080 that's problematic. Carrying a docking station around defeats the portability of the laptop IMO. And it's not like there aren't better options than Lenovo...

> the HDMI out limited to 1920x1080

Well this really sounds nonsensical. I wouldn't believe if someone else told me but I feel like I can believe an HNer on such a subject. Thank you for letting us know. I would otherwise not imagine this can exist and wouldn't check when choosing a laptop. Now I wonder if my laptop supports higher resolutions on HDMI.

> Carrying a docking station around defeats the portability of the laptop IMO

You are not supposed to carry them, they are meant to be put on your table and stay there, already connected to external monitors, power supply and other devices, waiting for you to bring the laptop and connect it to just the dock.

Nevertheless small and lightweight "traveler docks" also exist.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

cwkoss wrote: post #305
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #159

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"Bad" isn't the issue. It could be a perfectly "good" ad (whatever that means), and I still don't want to see it. Stop shoving it in my face. (If you define "bad" as "in a context where ads should not be", I think I agree with you.)

Yeah, I mean both in content and context. If people could organize to they extent that one of the worst offenders' businesses would be metaphorically burned to the ground once a year, I think that would have an effective deterrent effect.

That's inadequate. You're just burning to the ground a corporate shell from which the profits have already been removed. Instead, jail the person behind it.
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