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  • Though if you’re good with using Ubuntu then new ThinkPads and Dells and some others generally work well as you get the enablement patches before they’ve rippled through to the mainline kennel. However you still often have a happier time waiting for others to iron out the kinks, not to mention better hardware prices by getting clear out deals for outgoing generations.

    After years of ThinkPads I joined a company that gave me a Dell Inspiron and I am unimpressed in various minor ways. Crap keyboard is the big one.













  • sping@lemmy.sdf.orgtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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    1 month ago

    Isn’t that crazy efficient? I seem to remember about 0.3mm²?

    Way back of you asked Google “38 mpg in mm^-2” it would tell you.

    I love that it’s the size of the thread of fuel you would consume as you drive down the road.

    Edit: oh no, that’s about right. It’s a diameter of about 0.25 mm. I think that’s what I was thinking of.






  • I don’t recognize this myself. I’ve never had trouble with incompatibilities or degradation etc.,

    Especially these days my OS can remain very vanilla, as many complex things can be containerized. E.g. I run syncthing and an nfs server and sometimes torrenting over vpn, through docker-compose; I’d never install all that on the host with all the extensive dependencies. Same with some heavyweight apps like darktable - spin them up from Flatpak.

    Ubuntu does it very well with minimal fuss. I see little to dislike.