bigpeopleareold

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by bigpeopleareold 2mo ago
I introduced myself to this space a couple of weeks ago with a PineTab2. I bought it for reading but some tinkering. I am running Plasma Mobile on it. It's rough, but OK (and can't expect much from the hardware.) I don't know
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by bigpeopleareold 3mo ago
I have been developing a collection of rather poor AI slop describing something technical, but nothing lately has been coming up on my feed! As an aside, something that would get posted on LinkedIn from an external source of some salespeopl
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by bigpeopleareold 3mo ago
... or Ada.
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by bigpeopleareold 4mo ago
The first time I heard about this was last week when I was listening to the economic issues that the article mentions on NRK "political quarter" (NRK is the national broadcaster) with the word "waste" being thrown around
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by bigpeopleareold 4mo ago
In my employment from the last 3 years, I saw twice that there were two migrations from internal systems to GitHub. I would think that companies are doing this for cost-cutting measures. It's not like something I am going to research b
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by bigpeopleareold 4mo ago
I know you are being facetious that there are a few that are a little bit too persnickety with old ThinkPads, but if they used a known distribution on the said 13-year old ThinkPad (that would probably be in the T430 territory), would it be
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by bigpeopleareold 8mo ago
While time consuming, I would gladly use my otherwise underused but decent enough handwriting to carefully write out job applications. Can get really good pens to do it too. However, given my own network, that's probably not necessary
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
Whatever I might agree or disagree with, this is annoying to look at, but his stuff keeps coming up in my YouTube feed. Even it looks slightly interesting, I know it will be some rant involved about a thing not related to technology, but so
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
I'll add that my P14s (gen 3) keyboard sticks up in one place. It's not the biggest problem, but this an odd fit problem I never saw on my older ones. Typing on it is not as great either than my other TPs or external, which at lea
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
I got mine just for the Trackpoint too :D I just use it on my desk though. But I am waiting in the mail for the new Shinobi. There are very few other keyboards on the market with this feature. There is the HHKB Studio, but it's much mo
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
While my projects have not touched agentic AI yet and the type of code I have been writing is produced like back in the day (read documentation, write code, read documentation, write code ...) I expect that my next project will tether me to
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
Whoops, looked him up. Growing a big moustache out and changing my political affiliations as I write this.
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
I appreciate all the innovations that him and his team brought to the ThinkPad, since this is my main set of laptops. Lenovo, on the other hand, has been a hit or miss for awhile. I had a T570, which was horrible; one problem after the next
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
Everything I see on this topic involves gaming. The last game I played in a long while was Cities Skylines on my laptop (which was taxing, but ran it fine). I used to use Macs, but for a long time, until up to 2013, I decided that since I l
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by bigpeopleareold 9mo ago
Technical: - Just anything more programming-specific stuff at work. When I get to do something, it's a stress-relief, because the typical day involves dealing with meetings, people, etc. and I can't have that much anymore, now wi
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by bigpeopleareold 11mo ago
Free Pascal with better tooling?
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
I have read HN for years ... on my profile it says my account was made 11 years ago but I followed it much longer than that. It has been a continual resource of things that I would have never thought of looking into or spark interest in thi
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
"I still love my Framework, despite its flaws. I will just keep it plugged in so that it’s ready to go when I want to use it." That sounds like a plan! I suppose that if I was distant from an outlet for a long enough time, the bat
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
Used KDE for years now. It is stable and just works. It's not important enough, but I wish there was a function like in macOS that switches between applications fully on Alt-Tab, where all windows would show (I have it half-way there,
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
A quite delicate taste of leather on my soft palette.
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
I started to think that these type of articles posted on Hacker News are a bit excessive. This and the AI stuff. This is one American company (high-profile, for sure) that might or might not be having retention issues. It's up to them
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
This is exactly what I have been thinking lately, starting with looking at Oberon. It seems to me that writing a simple GUI should be the same as writing a simple text-oriented script. GUIs have their own challenges, of course. However, doi
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
I have become slightly more interested in the software, that is, the GUI, the operations, etc. I miss some of the simplicity of classic mac, and the silly ideas I had trying to program it (which I sort of understand better now.) The hardwar
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
I only toyed with Lazarus/Free Pascal. There was some things I couldn't get used to. Maybe time to toy around again :) I feel like mentioning a few things that helped in the past: fpcdeluxe for installing a build of fpc and lazaru
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
They might as well load the rest of Windows at startup if that is the magic bullet of how many performance issues their OS and software has. It still shocks me that my cheap 8-year old laptop with Fedora on it feels all around snappier and
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
Lucky I don't. It's my employer that takes the big risk. But I guess they take larger risks than their Microsoft-only strategy.
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by bigpeopleareold 1y ago
Ah - my attempt at doing this was almost there, except for the few bits that kept erroring out because I didn't mount the proc,dev,etc. mountpoints correctly :) Something to give another whirl on. At the time, I wanted something simple
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
The worst for me was also my first one, T570. Two motherboard changes because of a flex-y body that put too much pressure on the hard drive connector. I had to use it for a few months because my main computer had to be fixed. I thought I ca
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Just think what the 19th century craftsmen were thinking! :D (i.e. they were right, but really good stuff is hard to make at scale)
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
I bought a few. Only one was decent and still use it. For one of them I had, it never calibrated correctly and I think it was surging the motherboard (backlight on my screen just stopped working one day, but the computer just would keep tur

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