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I can’t even bear to look at a low DPI screen for more than a few minutes. Anything under 150dpi just looks so awful to me at this point. Basically ruins all older laptops from my perspective.
Yes. In some ways I wish I had never seen a Retina display. There is no going back now.
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If modern encryption is that big of a performance drag, would using a proxy that deals with the encryption sidestep that issue? With hardware that old and power-hungry, I'd expect a proxy hosted on a modern single-board computer in the local network to be essentially a rounding error on the electricity bill in comparison.
That would kinda kill the last hope of using one as a portable device. You'd either be chained to your home network, or have an extremely inconvenient dongle hanging from the side. (Unless you'd do the TLS termination e.g. on your phone.) But that gave me some ideas. While the G4 PowerBooks are recent enough to be officially blessed with WiFi capability (via PCMCIA), Macs that are even older have to resort to communi…
I had a T420 in college. One day in a CS class, I bumped my (uncovered) cup of coffee and it spilled into the keyboard. I knew the laptop had ducts to drain water out, but never tested it (for obvious reasons). I blotted up as much coffee as I could with some napkins and kept taking notes on the soaked keyboard. Worked like a charm. After drying it out, a few keys stopped working so I bought a replacement keyboard fo…
I had an X220 in university (same keyboard part as the T420).
I did wash my keyboard multiple times using dish soap and normal tap water and I only killed a single keyboard (when I didn't wait enough for water to dry out).
You could have most likely just washed the keyboard in warm soapy water, as long as you had enough patience to wait for it to be properly drier (2-3 days at least imho, depending on temperature in your home/area).
This is another Thinkpad festival post? Let me just cold you down a bit by telling you that a 12-year-old laptop still kicking isn't that big of a deal. I have this DELL Studio laptop released back in September, 2009, and it can still kick very well too if I decide to recruit it back to my "workforce". I retired it just 3~4 years ago because I got a T480. Heck, some of my code (old versions) for the same project that…
> a 12-year-old laptop still kicking isn't that big of a deal. I have a 20yro TiBook. Both the RTC and the main battery are dead, and there's a tiny screen defect, but the machine is otherwise perfectly usable (if relatively slow). And by usable, I mean the desktop experience of Mac OS X 10.5 often feels more polished than that of some of the modern OS's... The big bummer is that the modern web keeps raising a wall t…
So we kneecap the security of the general public in favour of the convenience of a few hobbyists? No. Nothing is stopping you from using a newer browser such as one of the many forks of Firefox, some of which exist solely to fill that need.
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I get stuck in a captcha redirect flow.
If you’re using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) that’ll be why: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
$ host archive.is 1.1.1.1
archive.is has address 192.210.214.166
$ host archive.is 8.8.8.8
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ah well funny, the only dell studio i saw couldn't operate more than 6 months without requiring surgery (motherboard, dvd drive, keyboard)
and the first thinkpad I bought died 2 days after the warranty expired
This is another Thinkpad festival post? Let me just cold you down a bit by telling you that a 12-year-old laptop still kicking isn't that big of a deal. I have this DELL Studio laptop released back in September, 2009, and it can still kick very well too if I decide to recruit it back to my "workforce". I retired it just 3~4 years ago because I got a T480. Heck, some of my code (old versions) for the same project that…
Earlier this year I got a Dell Latitude for work. Both laptops are comparable. But the Thinkpad plastic seems cheap an "bendy" while the Dell just seems higher quality. I had never bought dell before but loved the finish, and so far it's been good. A glad extra is that i was able to choose Ubuntu and save the Windows tax (as I use Linux as my daily work desktop)
I had a T420 in college. One day in a CS class, I bumped my (uncovered) cup of coffee and it spilled into the keyboard. I knew the laptop had ducts to drain water out, but never tested it (for obvious reasons). I blotted up as much coffee as I could with some napkins and kept taking notes on the soaked keyboard. Worked like a charm. After drying it out, a few keys stopped working so I bought a replacement keyboard fo…
Until I left it in my basement for a few weeks, i.e. in a slightly cold and humid environment.
Now, the keyboard is broken: I need to press multiple times on each key (it's better now that it has dried a bit, but not perfect).
The trackpad is also broken: only hard-clicking works.
Next step is to open and clean it up but I don't have much hope.
That is nothing, I am still using my lightweight ENIAC from 1951. So far works perfectly and I only sometimes have to replace the power plant that runs it.