I had a ThinkPad X200 (IIRC) that I could literally stand on. Still working (with limitations). I wish things could last that much nowadays.

If you need sturdy, nothing like a refurbished old Thinkpad, but probably the expertise needed is too much for me.

Years. I don’t know how many, but less than 4 or 5, not super bad, but annoying enough specially in the corners. Also by the 5th year the rubber “feet” had started to crumble.

I went with Laptopwithlinux for my last one, I don’t remember the reason (probably the shipping too). I’m quite happy, don’t recall having to do any workarounds to get my distro running.

I’ve also had Slimbook and Tuxedo (when I was living in the EU) and my takeaway is that no laptop is perfect. The Slimbook was great because of the aluminium case, like dialectalraveling says, but the monitor’s light leakage was a bit too much for my taste (same goes for LWL). Tuxedo was great because I have never found such a great power/weight balance, but the case (magnesium I think) took very few years to start chipping. LWL feels like a reasonably priced in-between (but I miss the others’ FlexiCharge, now I need to unplug the charger manually).

You could also try and find the corresponding white label model (TongFang, Clevo…), maybe some Australian company sells them without having to go through customs. Unfortunately I can’t recommend Metabox though: at work I have one, the specs are good but the trackpad and the most used letters on the keyboard started “peeling”(?) after very little time of use (I swear I don’t eat at my desk).

That attitude has no age.

If something gains relevance people are going to shitpost about it. Specially if that something has an inherent shipostable nature,

You’ve been posting Khamenei memes the whole day and this one is too much?

Academic year begins in September and runs through June. It consists of two semesters of instruction. Students attend classes Saturday through Thursday.

The identity of the attorney is not confirmed at the moment.

Being gay or trans is not the accusation.

In my most upvoted comment. I’m hating that typo so much.

The worst was the Col scandal.

(Sorry. So sorry)

Brilliant lol

• Teetotalers: alcohol vegans.
• Straight edgers: drug vegans.
• Recycling: waste vegans.
• Solar power: power vegans.

The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

She’s like the mother of the fediverse, no?

The neoconservative ideal of a girl that is “wife material”: chaste, submissive, adhering to old-fashioned feminine canons, sexist… Summarised under the umbrella term of “trad[itional]”.

I’d say xenophobes are a reality but fortunately a minority and their xenophobia is generally low intensity. YMMV if you are poorer and/or darker, but I think in general you’ll be welcome if you are coming to stay, specially if you make an effort to learn the language. If the place you want to go has a regional language (Galician, Catalan, Basque, Asturian…) nothing gets to most locals’ hearts quicker than a foreigner learning that too (and the regional governments normally offer free courses).

Please don’t come to Spain for that. We have too many people coming for that and they bring more bad than good :(

They are probably referencing the balm.

Yes, met too, sometimes I’m not able to work out the counterexample by myself.