There goes me using laptop as a monitor.
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Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report
Heh, seems it already attempted that itself
That chip with heatsink gets too hot to touch within a few minutes even on open air, and that was fully enclosed in plastic. It also doesn't even cover the entire area, though I am not sure how much that matters in this kind of chip.
So I guess it cooked itself.
It still helps with localization on websites so that I get better results (for me).
But also, my ISP's IPs have such awesome reputation that in certain places I get less Captchas on Mullvad. For example on Google in incognito or reset browser.
Plus it still helps privacy-wise. ISP doesn't know what I connect to, destination doesn't know my (ISP's) IP.
The only thing I don't use VPN for is, ironically, torrents. The only stuff I torrent is legal, and it's faster this way.
Depends for whom.
I got a 2-in-1 ThinkPad L390 Yoga, and for me, that's absolutely awesome. But the S10+ weights only 571g, this ThinkPad is 1.54kg. I personally don't mind the weight though.
And the keyboard is already built in. It kinda sounds like you're basically searching for a laptop.
Originally, I thought I wouldn't even use the touchscreen, I only took it as I heard that the yoga version has better display colors, but oh wow does it make sense on a portable device. Something like viewing a map makes far more sense, it's also better for scrolling and in KDE Plasma I also have gestures for nicer window switching.
And I can also just use it as a full on tablet if I flip the keyboard around.
Never have I thought I'd want laptop with a touchscreen, but now I don't want one without it.
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It seems I almost had a DVD shatter due to drive spinning too fast (probably thanks to low 5V power on external SATA adapter)
(files.catbox.moe)
TL;DR: My particular 5.25" drive started spinning probably a bit too fast when used externally on cheap USB + 12V to SATA adapter.
So I got a 5.25" drive from an old PC that I wanted to use as external with USB SATA adapter. I mean, I have a slim portable one, but 5.25" is cooler, you know.
It seems the controller, laser and tray motor are powered from 5V rail while spindle and laser assembly motors are powered from 12V rail.
In my case, 5V source was USB on laptop and 12V an external power supply with the cheap SATA adapter.
Reading worked, so I tried burning a DVD+RW. Brand new undamaged disc. Unfortunately, it seems the higher power required caused too much voltage drop and it kept failing. The drive states 5V@2A and 12@2.5A max. USB tester looked fine on source side, so probably the cheap SATA adapter's resistance was to blame.
Clearly, looking at the burned area, there wasn't enough power (or something else failed):
Stripes
Well, the failure was interesting. A few times it just stopped communicating and I had to unplug and plug it back in.
But the other one was that it would just spin up from 4x to god knows what high speed until K3b shown I/O error and ejected the disc after a couple seconds.
Last time I tried playing with it. When it started speeding up, I started toggling the 12V power supply. No I/O error, and K3b shown "0.8x", but I got bored of it and it probably wouldn't write anything readable anyway.
So, I turned the 12V back on and let it go full throttle. I/O error, and split second after it started spinning down a faint crack sound. And there we go, the disc started cracking, it would probably shatter soon after.
I also tried burning a Memorex DVD+R at 16x. I put front of the drive into a plastic bag to contain potential shrapnel, and started burning. Nothing interesting. I set it to 16x, it kept bouncing between 5 to 7x and produced nothing readable (just stripes again).
It says post anything, right?
Why waste time by sleeping, right?
Ignore "REM", Mi band 4 doesn't measure that.
Transcription for accessibility:
FOR THE LOVE OF SHINKI-
I WANT TO GO 5 MINUTES
ONE FUCKING WEBSITE
WITHOUT BEING REMINDED OF THIS FUCKING ELECTION is that seriously too much to ask oh my god I just came here for dragon porn.
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