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by ggreer 8y ago
> Still nowhere close to 250. Right, but I was using a little nub on my keyboard. I don't expect it to be as good as a trackpad.
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by ggreer 8y ago
> Linux touchpad scores on par with Macbook touchpad per mouseaccuracy.com testing. As of today, I can consistently score twice as high on macOS (average score 250 with “Hard” + “Small” options) vs Linux (average score ~100). I've n
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by ggreer 8y ago
I buy 3rd party replacement batteries on Amazon. The original batteries have degraded by now, and replacing the cells is a tricky operation: https://hackaday.io/page/247-replacing-lenovo-laptop-lithium...
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by ggreer 8y ago
It’s a joke. That doesn’t actually happen.
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by ggreer 8y ago
That’s what I’m using, not mbrumlow. Also I just upgraded to 18.10 to get a newer kernel and a newer version of the r8169 module. That unlocked PC7 idle states and increased my battery life by 50%.
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by ggreer 8y ago
What an odd setup. I very much want to read a Uses This interview of you. I imagine it would be similar to Joey Hess: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
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by ggreer 8y ago
I name all of my computers after elements. I set up DHCP leases so that the last octet of each host's IP is their atomic number. eg: hydrogen is 192.168.1.1, lithium is 192.168.1.3, carbon is 192.168.1.6, iron is 192.168.1.26, etc. I a
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by ggreer 8y ago
Yes. The previous generation 15" MacBook Pro has a 99.5Wh battery. The 2016 & 2017 15" touchbar MacBook Pro has a 76Wh battery. The 2018 model was upgraded to 83.6Wh. Depending on which version you have, you get either 15% or
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by ggreer 8y ago
Powertop doesn't show any wattage numbers for me. I looked at gnome-power-statistics and saw that my laptop idles around 9 watts. That's all power consumption including the screen. This afternoon I upgraded my kernel from 4.15 to
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by ggreer 8y ago
I'm not sure what screen you got off Alibaba but if you want something better, you might want to try the daylight LED mod.[1] You won't get better color gamut, but you will get insane brightness and better battery life. I did that
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by ggreer 8y ago
I don't lie about battery life numbers. People like to say, "I get 9 hours of battery life." when they mean that they get 9 hours if they do doing nothing but let their computer idle with the brightness at minimum. 4 hours wi
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by ggreer 8y ago
I keep seeing these studies showing that tiny increases in CO2 impair cognition, but I have trouble believing them. The US navy runs their submarines with CO2 levels that vary from 300-11,300ppm.[1] Their own studies show that CO2 levels of
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by ggreer 8y ago
The 737 max has multiple AoA sensors. Having multiple sensors doesn't always help, as failures are correlated. For example, there was an Airbus A321 that had 2 of its 3 sensors get stuck in the same position due to icing.[1] The comput
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by ggreer 8y ago
Here you go: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/
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by ggreer 8y ago
I'm the author of this blog post. Soon after I wrote it, I got an X62 and did the daylight LED mod on it: https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/
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by ggreer 8y ago
I didn't know that. I figured the webcam was removed since the 2nd batch X210s had them.[1] It looks like the 2nd batch chassis is the X201, not the X201s. 1. https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/101977341
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by ggreer 8y ago
It came with the display pre-installed. I think all 3rd batch X210s have the new display.
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by ggreer 8y ago
I've since bought an X210. It's an X201s chassis with: • A Core i7 8550u (4 cores, turbo boost up to 4GHz)[1] • 2 DDR4 SODIMM slots. I put 32 GB of RAM in. • 2x mini PCI Express slots. There's an 802.11/Bluetooth card in
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by ggreer 8y ago
> People were getting their insurance through their unions. Before the unions started doing this, nobody associated health insurance with employment. This made people grateful and happy with their unions. The government, in order to weak
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by ggreer 8y ago
The reason health insurance became an employment perk was because of a tax loophole created during World War II. From A History of Employee Benefits and Taxation [1]: > At the same time, the federal controls on wages was leading to sign
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by ggreer 8y ago
I cancelled my Netflix subscription because of the auto-playing previews. I'm surprised people put up with them, let alone that they increase engagement. Half the time the previews are auto-generated. They have a few clips of the show
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by ggreer 8y ago
Waymo is caught between a rock and a hard place. If they hand the car's video to law enforcement without a warrant, lots of people will worry about the privacy implications and the precedent it sets. It will also strengthen the resolve
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by ggreer 8y ago
I totally get where you're coming from. Though our conclusions differ, I think our reasoning is very similar. I doubt these bans are purely mercenary. The CEO of Patreon seems to be doing this because he believes it's the right th
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by ggreer 8y ago
> Patreon isn't "preventing" the transaction, they are merely choosing not to facilitate it. What is the distinction between these two terms? If Wells Fargo refuses to let me deposit checks because of something I said, are
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by ggreer 8y ago
> What makes you think that their bias is not good for them as a business? Well it caused me to cancel all of my subscriptions. It caused Sam Harris to cancel his account. It caused a lot of people to look for alternatives. I'm pret
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by ggreer 8y ago
Again, what Sargon said wasn't racist. It was stupid, offensive, and probably an impulsive attempt to get more eyeballs, but it wasn't racist. If what Sargon said was racist, then so is Steven Pinker's talk on language[1] (sp
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by ggreer 8y ago
This comment doesn't address my points at all. First, none of those sites are Patreon competitors. Second, I never claimed alternatives didn't exist. Third, in context it's pretty clear that Sargon is trying to insult racists
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by ggreer 8y ago
> Freedom of Speech is not the right to be heard. If people don't like what you have to say, or how you are saying it, they are free to walk away. That's technically correct, but it doesn't get at the core of the concept.
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by ggreer 8y ago
It's almost impossible to demolish structures in San Francisco, because somebody considers each one historic in some sense. A great example was the recent "historic laundromat" in the mission.[1] The concept of property right
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by ggreer 8y ago
Come on dude, I just want to enjoy my long weekend. Please stop bothering me by creating spurious issues on my GitHub repo.

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