How often do you ask questions the answers to which you care about but don’t show it?

Thank you guys I’m now humming it.

@retoor My brief experience with Android Studio was… unpleasant, to put it mildly. I was once naive but curious and wanted to try Android Studio to see what it was like.
I… installed it.
Took a while to open. And my laptop was already showing subtle signs and I should’ve paid attention.
Opened an empty project: basic blank app.
And I clicked build.
And that’s the story of how my T470 froze for the first time ever.

Sorry please educate me... what is Accu? Battery?

@retoor SD card… Okay you win this round. (Unless it’s a RPi.) Yes VAIOs were incredible. Actually Sony makes nice things. It’s just that they make so few of them. Actually applies to a lot of things from Japan. (I did buy myself a ton of goodies on my recent trip. I hoped to find some rare Sony things but I didn’t have the time to find those shops unfortunately. And believe me… there are stores you will get lost in.)

Did not know about the Bento inspired design. I mean I get Bento boxes all the time from my local Wasabi so that’s about the extent of my knowledge.

@retoor Well same about display mine is only a 720p (barely). I don’t care much for high end displays. But 20 chrome tabs! Now that is impressive! Those are real numbers, right there. I can also see the love.

I did consider XFCE but in Uni my Sony VAIO hard drive was damaged so for almost a year, I used my laptop booting out of a USB with Lubuntu because it was extremely lightweight still with a GUI and easy to setup. Yep you heard me right. Did all my work out of a USB. Wake up, boot from USB, do work, save work to persistent partition of USB, turn off. And I fell in love with it. So just stuck with LXDE since.

Anyway, it’s a shame there aren’t ThinkPads these days which are like that.

@retoor Haha. Let me take this opportunity. The T470 is my baby it’s got two batteries too. One internal, one external. I recently bumped up the external one to 72WHr so it lasts forever using Debian LXDE. It’s also got an additional M.2 slot. So I added in an SSD in addition to my HDD (could’ve also added another module like a cellular card because this baby has a SIM slot too). It’s got all the ports you could possibly need including an SD card reader. I think this is the last good laptop made my mankind.

Also you did salvage the parts right?
Why did you get so many 270s? 😂

Oh dear. Let’s see if my T470 survives. I’m sure my NuPhy will though. Also, thank you!

@retoor We don’t have mechanical keyboards for nothing. Ten keyboard clicks is way better than one point and click. Obviously, duh. I’m no emacs ninja but I make do with vim. I didn’t know for a long time that hitting a number before any command just repeats the command. So I think the important thing at this point and the key takeaway is that you give me this app.

@retoor 🎉 Now it’s simple. You just have to repeat this every time you want to get there.

@retoor I tried it on desktop Google after reluctantly enabling microphone permission to Firefox which is now disabled. Yeah go slow. I’m sure one or two of my colleagues saw my face sticking into my laptop shouting “tea” into it.

@dimsumexception I see what you mean.

Although after a few sodiums, I managed to get tsoding out of Google Voice search by spelling each letter in it. If CC is using the same engine (it probably is) it might work for you but it’s not the solution.

(I mean it actually shows the programming channel tsoding in the results instead of showing results for “t s o d i n g”.)

@retoor I don’t know much about ChromeCast but if it supports running any app, then I’d recommend NewPipe which is not available on the PlayStore but on F-Droid which is for FOSS apps. I can’t even remember the last time I had to open actual YouTube or the last time I saw a YouTube ad.
You can also download the audio/video albeit not at the best quality.

@retoor Yes I saw your references but I’m talking specifically about quoting GPT. I’m saying when we ask GPT something, we better also get the references out of it.

@retoor Dear god. You’re quoting GPT? At least ask it to back up it’s output with references and if you’re not bothered to read the references yourself, then at least post them so others more inclined can read those instead. May we be saved when the path to well researched references ceases to exist.

@jestdotty Yes there is a point of diminishing returns to being overly scrupulous about the rules of the language.
We live in a society now so I think language goes slightly beyond just a means to communicate. It’s become the very form of thought.

The hardware of Macs is top notch, superior without a doubt.
Software is a hit and miss for me, mostly miss, so I try not to leave the terminal or the browser too much.

My FrankenDebian LXDE on T470 is great. But this on Apple’s hardware would be perfect.

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Stay away from Windows.

@SoldierOfCode I was hoping it’d be something like this instead.

@retoor What’s a matrix dottii?

No. I write C.

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@donkulator Ah that’s perfect. Thank you!

but in reverse

@Demolishun That reminds me of another book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons. XD

Have you read Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks by any chance? There’s something called a neural lace with once implanted, grows in the brain and in months, gains full coverage of it. And using that, we can achieve what you’re describing and a lot more. In fact, that reality control is one of the subjects of the book.

If we can achieve fine control of the location and intensity of electromagnetic radiation, then we can do that non-invasively too. Along with a ton of other things. I don’t know if anyone is researching it.

Also, how do you represent such realities? I mean how would you specify or store them?

Don’t know about universally.
Maybe globally.
Probably.

@Demolishun Interesting thought. Do you mean visually like being able to see a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? Imagine seeing the 3MHz to 6GHZ part. Depending on how sensitive we are, some radios might blind us.

Now that means you can slack off for seven years.

I don’t need another bag. I can fit everything in this bag.

That bug will never be hit so no need to worry about it.

I’m the best at everything. I’m the master of the world. Soon I will win the Nobel prize, then transcend this physical plane and live forever.

I will find my lost GameBoy from twenty years ago.

I cooked this so it must be good.

People actually care about this list.

It’s okay. Play a different game.

Box or Gaussian?