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Don't forget the USB3 of X230
i7 version of the x220 has one USB3
True, and my X220 has a cheapo USB3 card from AliExpress that gives it a few more USB3 ports. Cost about $5 or something.
The laptop that won't die
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Re: The laptop that won't die
#322No, I will - of course! - not create a medium account. What a $hi++y obstacle to hit right in the middle of the posting.
It's worse than that.
I have a Medium account. I still couldn't read it. It doesn't just need a Medium account, it needs a PAID Medium account.
Re: The laptop that won't die
#323My 2009 Macbook still works fine, thanks. The battery is a spicy pillow and the Superdrive is dead, but it works, albeit slowly. It's mostly running Debian nowadays (the last supported MacOS release, 10.12, doesn't even run a modern browser nowadays). I also have a 2007 Sony VAIO in a cupboard running Ubuntu 20.04 just fine, as a backup. Its battery is only good as a UPS nowadays, but the computer works fine.
I have a 2009 MBP.
Its battery still runs for about 2h, its optical drive worked the last time I tried, and it runs 10.13 which means the current Firefox ESR still works.
I am planning to try OCLP on it and see if I can get Big Sur working. That's the last macOS that doesn't want a GPU that supports the Metal APIs, and it should run the latest Firefox and Chrome for a few years yet.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had this from another medium post I tried to access today. Have they locked down everything recently? Sounds like possible enshittification.
That’s a choice the author makes.
That's incorrect, and at this point, it seems like you either don't know Medium or are engaging in gaslighting here. The Medium paywall is not always a choice, as Medium has placed many stories behind it without the creators' consent and doesn't pay everyone either. Furthermore, you guys display those paywall ads on all articles now. I'm not referring to the OP's case but speaking generally. Although it does seem that Clive, being a blogger, is apparently under a secret contract with Medium to write premium content for the website.
Re: The laptop that won't die
#325And we have a bunch of 15 year old Macs in the basement that outlasted any PCs we ever owned. What’s the point of these personal anecdotes? Lenovos build quality went down the drain in the last 10 years and their service is awful.
Agree to disagree. Lenovo Thinkpad are quite well built, other models are horror shows. I'm using a E480 that does not come with an SSD, yet I can still run Windows 11 smoothly with all the required stuff for development.
Re: The laptop that won't die
#326I just had my T420 die on me the other day. It simply will not power on. I do have some spare parts but I think I'll finally cave in and buy a new laptop.
Leave it rest a couple of days. Maybe it can turn on again, I got that once on my T470
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> 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…
>(If you're in charge of maintaining a web server, please consider allowing unencrypted traffic on port 80 (rather than unconditionally redirecting to HTTPS), unless the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests[1] is present. Coupled with HSTS[2], it allows these "living museum pieces" to stay alive, while not compromising on security.) So we kneecap the security of the general public in favour of the convenience of a few hobbyists…
Read my other reply in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262103
I agree with your stance on every single count but one. If your request already hits the plaintext 80->443 redirect, you've already lost; there's nothing the server can do to guarantee security, and refusing service altogether does not complicate the task for an intercepting proxy, because they can still make an upstream HTTPS request and serve it back over plaintext. That game was always lost, which was the original motivation behind HTTPS, and then HSTS.
This scenario is not hypothetical; it's literally what you must do if your hardware is not capable enough (my G4 struggles along, but older CPUs are the true test of patience). I wrote TLS-stripping, HTML-rewriting proxies for fun, and every HTTP client that trusts the web server with redirecting to HTTPS is vulnerable. If this affects you, the problem is that your web browser is likely more ancient than mine - HSTS with preloads has been a thing for like a decade.
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#328I'm so happy with this post. I needed to buy a cheap laptop for a family member and I went so all in on Mac a decade ago that I really don't know the lay of the land when it comes to Windows. I'll just get a Lenovo Thinkpad second hand :)
Avoid the T480S It has 2 internal batteries, and with older batteries, they can fail to switch from one to the other when they reach 0%. Models with a removable battery are a bit bulkier, but I think of greater value.
I've got a $150 T480s. It only has one, non hot swappable battery. Though it can be easily replaced. The T480 non s has 2 batteries. One external and one internal. Unless you count the cmos battery, which can be replaced on either. The build quality on the T480s is also higher.
Re: The laptop that won't die
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s a choice the author makes.
That's incorrect, and at this point, it seems like you either don't know Medium or are engaging in gaslighting here. The Medium paywall is not always a choice, as Medium has placed many stories behind it without the creators' consent and doesn't pay everyone either. Furthermore, you guys display those paywall ads on all articles now. I'm not referring to the OP's case but speaking generally. Although it does seem tha…
The paywall is definitely always a choice and the choice is only available to people who get paid.
Re: The laptop that won't die
#330I did not read the article on purpose at first. Because I KNEW it would be ThinkPad!
PS: guess what I'm typing this on :D