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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?

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X1 for ultra portability.

Otherwise, T14 or T15.

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OnlyOffice Desktop Editors...

Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.

Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.

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They don't have boats and really don't care for going to the beach.

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Step 1. Don't.

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Common courtesy is to not even link to paywalled articles... The publisher has already made it clear they are not interested in public awareness of their content.

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Good news everyone! We all DO have this problem... It's just most obvious in China because they industrialized and urbanized more rapidly than anyone else AND had this stupid legal policy.

Industrialization, urbanization and improving healthcare also significantly drops births, to below the replacement rate of 2.1. The whole world is on this path, with China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Russia leading the way.

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Watched it live and I kept waiting for him to yell "Get off my lawn!"

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Maybe 3.5k and a pizza party.

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I see one sponsor link, no other ads.

Choose your browser extensions, choose your browsing experience.

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Copy the file and paste it into anywhere you can enter text... you get the path to the file as text.

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Didn't they find parts from an Electra in the surf on the edge of a South Pacific atoll several years ago, with no other Electra ever reported lost in the area, and signs of decades old brief human habitation on the island?

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I'm honestly surprised that the US cares about it... There's near zero economic or strategic concerns left in that region for the US.

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How ironic.

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They're called Zoomers.

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And the outlets don't make the connection that their readers are telling them to stop shoveling AI-generated garbage at them?

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It's hard to feel sympathy for people giving money to companies like Ubisoft, Epic and EA. It's not like them being assholes that constantly screw over their customers is a new thing.

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Travel between worksites is on the clock.

We've demonstrated for years now that home is a worksite.

I'm happy to drive in to the company office from my personal office, so long as my commute time is on the clock.

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Should probably have dictated the ultimatum first, before firing anyone, so they could self-select the departures. Then, if it's not enough, cut some more to get the final numbers the manglers want.

Amazon taps SpaceX for satellite launch even though Jeff Bezos has his own rocket company (www.cnn.com)

Amazon just inked a deal with chief competitor and Elon Musk-helmed SpaceX to launch internet-beaming satellites — a move that comes even as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pursues his own space dreams with his own rocket company, Blue Origin, and as SpaceX builds its own internet constellation....

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It's not enough to just own a rocket company... the rocket company also needs to have rockets.

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To real hell? Or made-up hell?

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...exactly the way you used to do it when you went to work at the office every day.

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This... I recently took a fully-remote position, but my wife is hybrid so we're still tied down.

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Eroding that boundary can also be in your favor... I can step away from the desk for a few minutes to start my laundry, prep something for dinner, or even just go to the grocery store during "lunch" because I can bring the food straight back home since I'm not far away from home at an office. Working remotely is giving me back time. And this isn't time "lost" from the employer's perspective... I'm just doing something useful with my break times rather than wandering down to the water-cooler to chat with other employees.

The trick is to allow only the erosion that you find acceptable. That's a matter of personal organization and self-control, and each person has to set up a system that works best for them. I use a spare bedroom as my office, and I only go in there during working hours. Everything work-related stays in there.

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The charged particles that affect our electrical and electronic systems have mass and therefore cannot travel at the speed of light... We can see the visible light effects of a flare and know that the slower-moving particles that will cause actual damage are on the way.

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They flew the plane just fine...

It was the landing where they struggled.

But, to be fair, it was on a short runway (for the plane) in heavy rain and with a 15 knot tailwind (the maximum allowable).

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Brave essentially has done this all along.

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I wonder if they started eating something else.

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I am Spez's raging bile duct.

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Could be worse... AIG

Cheap and good mini-PCs for gaming?

Hello, everybody! I want to have a little mini-PC for gaming that operates like a console. I don’t want to have a big, clunky case in the back or front of the TV. Furthermore, I don’t play many AAA titles from recent years, so the hardware doesn’t need to be high-end. It would be nice if I could run Scarlet Nexus, Nier:...

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I do exactly this with a SteamDeck and USB-C docking station... with the added bonus that I can pull it out of the dock and take it with me to use as a hand-held when I travel.

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WTF is up with the random preview images anyway?

Fatal shooting of University of South Carolina student who tried to enter wrong home 'justifiable,' police say (www.nbcnews.com)

The homeowner who fatally shot a 20-year-old University of South Carolina student who tried to enter the wrong home on the street he lived on Saturday morning will not face charges because the incident was deemed “a justifiable homicide” under state law, Columbia police announced Wednesday....

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Also hard to shoot somebody breaking in to your home with violent intentions when you don't have a gun.

And the only way to find out what the intruder's intentions are is to wait until it's potentially too late to defend yourself.

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When you choose to get drunk, you've also agreed to accept the responsibility for your future drunken actions.

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Not being allowed to defend yourself until the intruder finishes breaking in to your home and attacks you simply means self-defense isn't allowed, because at that point you're probably already dead.

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New computers are the ones more likely to fail.

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The wording of 14A doesn't require a trial and conviction. It was used extensively in the past without convictions to keep former Confederate officials out of Washington.

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Film at 11

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I use traditional packages and Flatpaks... with "user apps" being preferred as Flatpak. This is potentially safer as the OS itself can't be affected by installing or removing these applications, and also can mitigate dependency hell as apps that require different versions of the same dependency can coexist peacefully, with each one using its own bundled version of that dependency.

I also have a couple of appimages that aren't available as a Flatpack, and I'll simply find an alternative to anything that is only distributed as a Snap due to the performance issues, mount clutter, and proprietary nature of the Snap distribution back-end.

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It's a very rough town with a nice coat of paint in some places.

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It doesn't say "convicted of...".

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The facility now identifies as Jail Force One.

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discourage drinking and thereby decrease the likelihood of handgun-carrying

correlation ≠ causation

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He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.

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Flying out of Moscow and the plane goes down... what are the odds?

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Assuming the maintenance crews haven't already been mobilized and sent to fight in Ukraine.

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There’s no way to read them on company time so I typically read them after work or on weekends don't read them.

Company tasking happens on company time.

Don't simply accept abuse.

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An abusive culture doesn't make abuse acceptable. I'm happy to hear you got out.

I do read books for professional development, but while I'm sitting in my office during project lulls. I even keep them on my bookshelves, with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* prominently displayed where I can point to it when I need to make a statement.

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The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan is an amazingly informative and entertainingly written examination of how and why the US got to where it is without even really trying. This and his later books also discuss the rise and now beginning decline of globalization in a destabilizing world.

The guy (and his research team) has a pretty good track record of predicting geopolitical trends and even specific events that are coming 5 or 10 years down the road. I don't necessarily agree with or accept all of his ideas and analysis, but he definitely makes you think.

Wall Street Journal review: https://archive.ph/dFe6u

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