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by setquk 8y ago
Oh great, the persuit of anorexic computing marches forth. The swappable and dual batteries on my T440 are a killer feature.
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by setquk 8y ago
I built myself a Frankenpad T440 in Jan. Paid £180 for it on ebay (grade A used) about a year ago. Bought a 2018 MBA which was a pile of shit so decided to return that and make the T440 better. I swapped the screen out for a FHD one for £39
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by setquk 8y ago
Actually they do. Only because collateral is a PR nightmare.
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by setquk 8y ago
Microsoft's schitzophrenic management, comedy marketing, internal politics, zero ability to deliver, non existent QA, disrespect for the end user and the migration to a monthly fee wrote it off. A consistent well executed vision is req
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by setquk 8y ago
Exactly. In this circumstance at the lowest I had £12 to buy a week of food. I had to cash advance the rent from my credit card and the £12 was what was left. I also had to maintain a perfect appearance and state of mind and hide all thi
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by setquk 8y ago
I worked for a similarly horrible person many years ago. I was doing on call support for a bunch of Linux machines. Literally it was him and me left because the moment I started the other two engineers bailed. One went to work packing salad
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by setquk 8y ago
I disagree with this actually. I've had a MacBook for a number of years and bought a new one (a 2018 MacBook Air). The keyboard on it was awful and stopped working properly resulting in duplicate key hits. I was also fighting half of t
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by setquk 8y ago
Probably costs more and after the recent cell network outage here, caused by a certificate failure, I think they prioritise availability over absolute security. Huawei seem to produce some half decent stuff aside from the security issue.
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by setquk 8y ago
I didn't know that. Good to hear it was at least a partial success!
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by setquk 8y ago
I think all chances of that being fixed ended with a loud THUD noise :)
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by setquk 8y ago
Fair points and totally agree. I was dumb enough (I would use the same words!) to buy one the first time round so I agree with you.
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by setquk 8y ago
I don't agree with the whole thing but there is a section saying this is fair use: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/3/section/3/enacted 3.4.3a.b.ii
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by setquk 8y ago
Gah. That's just horrible. There should be a minimum supported period of 6 years for all software on smart TVs, the consequences of which are full refund of the initial purchase price of the TV. That'd kill this shit overnight.
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by setquk 8y ago
To be fair this was probably Sony. I bought one of their smart TVs and they canned the YouTube app on it after six months. Plus it was slow as molasses. I’ve only owned a cheap ass dumb bottom end Samsung TV since and life is better.
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by setquk 8y ago
I’m not sure you could make LinkedIn worse if you tried.
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by setquk 8y ago
Government would shut down all the amateur radio operators pretty quickly (you’re on a database). Plus it’s not quite as romantic or reliable as it sounds, especially on HF at the moment. Go do it for sure, but you’ll find trivial confirmat
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by setquk 8y ago
Been there. Had to reboot into windows to download half the missing deb packages, then find out there were more missing ones!
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by setquk 8y ago
I bet that’s shut before May. I genuinely think it’s a great idea but retail is dying on its arse here and that is way too niche.
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by setquk 8y ago
I think I should use /s in here in future.
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by setquk 8y ago
This. I had an X201 for a while that didn’t have a touchpad. That was absolutely on the mark.
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by setquk 8y ago
If that is the case then it’s a sad outcome and it shows political overreach.
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by setquk 8y ago
So basically not lining up with the Daily Express?
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by setquk 8y ago
This does work. I know someone who has done it a couple of times. I suspect that there’s an alarm somewhere that picks out regular abusers though.
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by setquk 8y ago
I ask for no substitutions on Ocado. I haven’t had any missing items on my receipt for months. They seem to be pushing to do explicit stock allocation and actually remove the products from the store front now if they are out of stock. It’s
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by setquk 8y ago
They only do that where there wasn’t enough room to build the home shopping distribution bays on the existing stores.
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by setquk 8y ago
Another LCSC fan here. When I order boards and parts they always turn up and different times though.
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by setquk 8y ago
As an Ocado smartpass customer who is expecting an order today, this appears to just be manifesting itself as a few items out of stock. Slightly disappointed though if I’m honest. This was the future. And now it’s going to be looked down on
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by setquk 8y ago
BBCs reporting is nothing short of dire on everything at the moment. Random people on twitter are better journalists.
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by setquk 8y ago
Goes in the WEEE recycling here and is recycled so the impact isn’t as high as it may be elsewhere. I do agree with you fundamentally however.
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by setquk 8y ago
Also to note that your 1KW appliances need 83 amps in a 12V DC system. This is a huge amount of current and requires special cabling (which has a not insignificant voltage drop due to the resistance of the wire) and special connectors.

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