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  • Those are all expensive, used Thinkpad is below the ground-dirt cheap…$150?!

    My Thinkpad Ultrabook was insanely cheap even with a docking station. I do donate to Pop OS once a year though as a thanks for their work and I recommend the same. It’s like $12 a year on their site and they do great work.

    Trying to get one of their laptops but thats in short order for me, for now.

    Adding on:

    • lack of quick shipping
    • proxied payments like PayPal or apple gpay
    • some use laptop kits that are supposedly cheap
    • hardware different from software if it breaks and there’s no store or big company to ask for a refund from, you’ll be pissed
    • some of the hardware reviews about bugs and their handling of them are damning







  • Gnubyte@lemdit.comtoWorld News@lemmy.mlChina is bad
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    1 year ago

    There’s a twitch streamer I watch and he often says that he feels like he can’t find information about Ukraine, then goes on to elaborate that there just isn’t many sources available to the US to find news without propaganda cooked in. It’s hard to know what to even trust in the first place.

    I feel strongly that applies to reading articles about China as well especially if they’re written in English.


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    Thank you for taking the time to post and add in more links.

    I think both China and the US as well as many other countries have insane financial positions, for quite some time now. The housing market in the US really painted that clearly. As I understand it in 2014ish the US passed legislature allowing companies to legally do the same thing they did that causes the housing market collapse again. According to the movie the big short at least, and some googling with that.


  • Gnubyte@lemdit.comtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlSounds great in theory
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    1 year ago

    Write code to test your code then repl build and run it anyways and smoketest it to see if it actually works

    Sounds like activities for people who don’t have real work to do. These tech layoffs cut deep because there was so much fluff in the industry. I sort of blame these companies that marketed devops too hard and oversold overcomplicated solutions, but it’s also the fault of the tech leads advising managers.


  • I don’t think GitHub is social enough or the right tool to address bugs, talk about issues, or completely missing - ask for expertise. It’s not even democratic enough and done in such a way that makes what to work on clear at times.

    Some code is still more art than work or science but still there is a notion that maybe if there was a better tool than GitHub there would be no need for a discord.