Ah - my attempt at doing this was almost there, except for the few bits that kept erroring out because I didn't mount the proc,dev,etc. mountpoints correctly :) Something to give another whirl on. At the time, I wanted something simple without docker to store everything development-related using different libraries. This is where debootstrap+chroot comes in - to build against various versions of libraries in Debian (if I remember correctly - it's been awhile.)

The worst for me was also my first one, T570. Two motherboard changes because of a flex-y body that put too much pressure on the hard drive connector. I had to use it for a few months because my main computer had to be fixed. I thought I can get more time out of it - nope. That flex-y body probably put too much pressure on something else and after many attempts (for some reason) of resetting the CMOS battery and using it a little, the thing would go right into a boot loop. I bought a new T480 (can use the battery from the T570! :D ) and this is soo much sturdier. Also have a T470p -- besides my screen issue, that thing is a really sturdy.

I have a P14s Gen 3 (so basically a T14s with the power-hungry GPU :D ) from work. I don't think the fit and finish is great, but it properly feels sturdy at least.

Just think what the 19th century craftsmen were thinking! :D (i.e. they were right, but really good stuff is hard to make at scale)

I bought a few. Only one was decent and still use it. For one of them I had, it never calibrated correctly and I think it was surging the motherboard (backlight on my screen just stopped working one day, but the computer just would keep turning off with it, leading to a lot of 'hold the power button down to clear the capacitors') ... the other one just doesn't charge past 65% anymore. Maybe that's a calibration issue; it sat awhile.

I am going to look at another vendor. Maybe GreenCell?

iFixit also sells batteries although I have no idea how good they are. I thought their toolsets were decent value for the money though (and they'll probably be around as a company for awhile).

Same here - can also buy 2 or 3 T480s for the price of a new framework even if they did deliver :D

... or that the marketing and sales department is the real scaffold for enabling computing for those without university access.

I don’t remember any tracking or adverts on computers when windows 95 came out (there were adverts for computers, I used to jay money to receive them in the way if computer shopper.

the first real annoyances were Spam and Punch the monkey, both parts of the advertising industry.

Click the link and put in the fifteenth word in the third paragraph, then click "about" and put in the fourth word in the second sentence.

The good old days before cookies and trackers...

The average Windows 95 machine was loaded with bundled software all asking to pay for a full license. ISPs were advertised in connection wizards built-in to the OS.

Heh - I was looking for examples of 6502 Forth. I did fine fig-forth, but this looks interesting too now. This always happens on hacker news - I have some interest, and I see it on the front page of Hacker News soon after.

There was a Forth IDE for the Commodore 64 by HES, if that's of any interest.

There were plenty, I have a small collection of them! Most of them, including HES’s “64 FORTH”, are heavily fig-forth based. The thing I really like about 64 FORTH is the SOURCE word, which shows you the source code (at least the portion of it that is forth) for each word, so when I mess with forth on the C64 I mostly use that one.

My job gave me an expensive high-specced laptop with Windows on it. This is the first time I am stuck using Windows daily. It's W10. With Windows Defender and a bunch of windows, it starts to slowly become unusable. Today, it blue screened for me just fixing again (and again and again) the bluetooth headphones never gets automatically switched to when I turn them on. Forget about having Visual Studio open on it for an extended period of time.

Meanwhile, my 7-year old laptop with Fedora on it I type this is wonderfully snappy and stable. I started to get tempted to actually switch back to a Mac just to get some predictability and stability, but I have avoided macs for years. (And - never having to deal with constant line ending issues)

All I hear from other co-workers is how their perfectly specced laptops lag with Windows. It's freaking Stockholm Syndrome here!

oof I re-read this comment. I would only switch to the mac because the company didn't setup any of the required security rigamarole to run on their internal network, but otherwise, nah. I dropped that years ago - expensive, disposable machines to run emacs, a terminal and a browser ...

Sure, but the audience for 'being aware of DNA privacy' is not the police, but normal citizens, particularly a good number of people who, despite the abuse, are a general good in society.

How did you build that experience? It's speculative now if people can develop equivalent experience when you're job is now to constantly guide an LLM to do the right thing. We can speculate that you see patterns and seek to correct them, but the type of hands-on experience and muscle memory is threatened to be atrophied (very much like just relying on stackoverflow for answers can atrophy your ability to seek core knowledge.)