Sadbutdru

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[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 months ago
[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Are there any girders in the picture then? Or none, or impossible to tell? I can't see any, by that definition.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I started working at the same company as my neighbour (different office), but haven't managed to bring it up in a normal human casual conversation way. Now I have to worry about him seeing my pass, or other company paraphernalia, or spotting my t-shirt drying on the line, because it'd be weird if that happened before I say something. On top of the usual just trying not to run into anyone and have awkward smalltalk moments.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

My use case: I'm an engineering student, I need something with a lot of storage, hopefully SSD (right not I have MatLab, Anaconda and KiCAD taking up most of my 128 GB HD, and I had to uninstall the STM32 cube IDE from lack of storage), and reasonable processing performance so I can actually run these things at a reasonable rate. I need to stay within the windows/ms office world to simplify collaborating and file sharing etc. I'm not using it for gaming. Don't need a massive screen, or touchscreen or anything fancy. HDMI port would be reasonably important.

I want it to last me at least the next 4-5 years, and I'm hoping to not spend more than about £300.

I know a lot of people reccomend ThinkPads, what's a good model to get cheap at the moment? Or any other suggestions?

Is Windows 11 so bad that I should only be looking at ones that come with Windows 10 installed?

Thanks for any helpful advice!

Edit: Thanks to everyone for taking the time to advise me, I've ordered a refurbished T480 with 1TB ssd, plenty of ram, and a 1 year warranty for £340.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I can't remember the details, and too lazy to search it up right now, but I think it was like Greta and him were having a Twitter argument, and he maybe posted a photo with a background that accidentally disclosed his location, so authorities who were already looking to arrest him were able to act on it.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

2 units (in this case houses) down and 2 across (a perhaps intentional misinterpretation of the original slightly ambiguous statement). Reasonable to assume down and across are perpendicular directions. Let's pretend space-time is Euclidean. How far away is the listener from the sneeze? Pythagoras, our faithful companion, guides our understanding...√(2²+2²)=√8=2√2

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

The choice is more between 'Sally has autism' (some people think this makes it sound more like a disease, more distancing and separate from the person), and 'Sally is autistic' (sounds more like a character/personality trait, a way of being).

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think when you read that article it's important to think critically about how it's composed. I am as anti-trump as the next European "centrist dad", but nothing I read there made me think he went out of his way to tell that story unprompted. I imagine he was interviewed, said a bunch of stuff, and then someone cherry-picked the quotes they needed to support the narrative of the article... You can't just take it at face value!?

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

Hmm, this aged poorly.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The local pharmacist in my parent's village died from accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms ☹️

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Most importantly, there is a massive variation in how sensitive individual people are to caffeine.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, getting older and 'gross' health issues happens to everyone really... Or at least you should expect that it is likely to happen to you...

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