Mouse cord getting caught on things. Makes me want to yank it forcefully.

It’s usually confined to mobile workstation-class ones, which have Xeon processors. The 3612QE was intended for embedded machines and is one of the few i7 variants to support ECC.

This stuff makes me grateful that my bank and your bank still maintain a fully-featured website. I would be quite upset if I were stuck with such an app and no website.

Would like to, but never figured out how to get the TPM 1.2 chip in my X230 to work with cryptsetup. Everything seems to be written for TPM 2.0 only.

same here but with hentai on searx.be

QR code reader and generator on both phone and laptop

• Phone: SecScanQR
• Laptop: ZBarCam and Zint

But I’m glad to have learned about LocalSend here so I’m no longer limited to short text snippets

I miss print coupons. Hearing “get the app” or “there’s an app for it” makes me flinch these days.

Ideally, 256 GB + microSD. 128 GB today gives me ample room for my offline maps, music collection, podcasts, and Kiwix libraries. No gaming, only the occasional video, and one photo per day on average, so 256 GB would future-proof it.

As for a minimum, 32GB. For several years, I had a phone with 4GB of internal storage. Didn’t use the microSD slot since it seemed to drain the battery. Android takes up much more space nowadays, but I wouldn’t be too upset having ~16 GB usable space for myself.

The SD card would be separately encrypted as a portable backup of everything important to me, accessible on-the-spot whenever I need it.

I’m curious, how did you build the BMS with a cheap controller? I won’t judge. I’ve always wanted to build my own battery pack that reports percentage back to the machine, without worrying about killing the BMS if it loses power.

School is where the passion for learning goes to die and the desire to cheat is born

In this day and age, hobbies are the last bastions of passion and curiosity. One who is engaged in a hobby is intrinsically motivated to learn and apply what has been learned in novel ways, just as the scholars of old have done. School, reviled by many a student, has earned its reputation by perverting the concept of learning and exploiting students’ passions. The desire to cheat is most unnatural among students, a telltale sign that one’s passion and curiosity for the topic at hand has been extinguished, replaced with a desire to rid oneself of a burden, the burden of learning only for the sake of becoming learned.

Security concerns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading#Security

Makes me wonder how far the closest alternative, glim, could be upgraded to match Ventoy given the confines of GRUB.

Someone had mentioned that Fedora fails to verify when booting from Ventoy. Now I’m thinking if I could dd the media loaded via Ventoy and compare with an original copy to see what changed.

They sell finished motherboards with the upgrade on eBay and Aliexpress. Nothing newer than Ivy Bridge though.

Is that with the 3612QE or the 3615QE?

TIL what happens when the thermometer maxes out

IMF: Imperialist Monetary Fund

I wanted to see if having a dedicated low power writing machine with “emergency” internet access would help with my productivity. Also a bit of nostalgia as it was one of my first laptops. Nothing too remarkable about it as long as I kept to offline office tasks. But between the short battery life and the profound slowness of google docs (have to use it for work, ugh), I went back to using my X230.

Assuming full GUI is preferable over CLI/TUI/tiling WM minimalism, as it was for me while toying with a 2005 Celeron laptop with 2GB RAM

Hardware:

• Use a native PATA SSD
• Take good care of the T42, it’s relatively delicate as far as ThinkPads go

OS:

• antiX for more packages and less configuration
• Alpine or Adelie if you are more adventurous

Desktop:

• IceWM (default in antiX), FVWM, and wmaker are all snappy enough
• XFCE is marginal and will eat up a good chunk (~450MB) of your precious RAM

Browser:

• Netsurf is workable but there will be sites that don’t work
• Librewolf with Javascript disabled by default (uBlock makes it easy to whitelist as needed) might do, but expect a severe CPU bottleneck
• Security aside, surfing the web on 98 will simply be painful
• I would also remote into my desktop’s browser over LAN with either RDP or compressed X forwarding. YMMV if not over LAN

Productivity:

• Modern Libreoffice unfortunately feels a bit sluggish on old hardware. Writing in plain text and making spreadsheets in Gnumeric might be a better experience, as it was for me

Middle mouse click is indispensable but it seems to be first to fail on my mice

Is DivestOS any better in this respect?