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What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?
  • I have a T480 that I'm very happy with. With shipping I paid a little under $250. It came with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD (which I replaced with a larger one).

  • How fast is Plasma on old hardware?
  • I've used KDE on a Thinkpad T60, it's about 17 years old, has 3GB of RAM, and a Core Duo. It ran surprisingly well. Replacing the HDD with a SSD can also make a noticeable difference, so you should consider that if you haven't already. I also turned off a lot of the animations and effects for better performance.

  • Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat
  • I live in Florida (unfortunately). Cows are pretty common in my region.

  • Which programming languages do you know?
  • I took a programming class in highschool, so I know some BASIC. Not that I've ever used it since then.

  • Question on updating dependencies in Arch from a newbie
  • In my experience, it's idependently unless updating breaks a version dependency on another package. In that case pacman won't update anything until the issue is resolved. I think I've only ever had this happen with AUR packages.

  • Favourite Retro games that can be found on Steam (Linux)
  • Jet Set Radio

    It's through Proton, but the game runs flawlessly. Do note that you're really going to want a controller for this one. Playing this with a keyboard is a miserable experience. Another thing is that there's an unofficial tool for importing images over your custom graffiti, but it's for Windows and I've never tried it with Wine.

  • Games like Mother
  • Someone made a flowchart on what to play after finishing the series.

    If you're willing to check out non-RPGs, then I highly recommend Star Tropics (which is on the flowchart). The best way to describe it as a cross between MOTHER (setting) and The Legend of Zelda (gameplay). An interesting thing to note is that Star Tropics is a first-party Nintendo game that's never been released in Japan despite being developed there.
    Another thing is that there's a point where you'll need to get a password off of the Internet. The game originally came with a letter from the protagonist's uncle that contained the password, which would only be revealed by dipping the letter in water.

  • I'd live to the ripe old age of died during childbirth
  • I would have probably died at birth. The story I heard was that the doctor's pregnant mistress showed up, they got into a fight, and he was so pissed that he left in the middle of his shift. He eventually came back, but by then I had already swallowed amniotic fluid. I ended up spending a few weeks in another hospital after that.

  • Open source e reader
  • The closest I can offer to what you're asking for is that there are some e-readers that use Android. I own a Boox Page, which is one of those, and I'm happy with it. Boox products are a bit on the pricier side, but they do offer features that can be difficult to find on other manufacturers' offerings, such as a micro SD slot.

  • What is your most watched movie, and how many times did you watch it?
  • As a child (like 3-4) I would watch the same movie every day for months. I assume this is an autism thing. In other words, I've probably seen Space Jam over a hundred times. Other movies I've seen way too many times include Babe and Toy Story.

  • To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?
  • My sister uses her second monitor maninly for Discord, but sometimes it's art references or game guides.

  • Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!
  • There's a homebrew app called ftpd that you could use, but it only works on a hacked system and that requires an SD card reader to initially setup.

  • New details revealed from FAA audit of Boeing’s 737 MAX production. Dozens of issues found
  • From what I know, what's going on now is entirely a Boeing thing.

  • Fifty people treated after ‘technical problem’ caused ‘strong movement’ on Latam flight from Sydney
  • It might be something like Qantas 72 where a fault in a component that supplies vital data to the flight computer caused two uncontrolled drops which resulted in over 100 people getting injured.

  • German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
  • "The average person gets 3 vaccines a year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person gets 1 vaccine per year. Vaccine Georg, who lives in Germany and gets 89 vaccines a year, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted.

    I did the math. He got an average of 7-8 vaccines per month, which came out to about 89 per year for the 29 months he's been doing this.

  • Anon flies air Chad
  • In case anyone's wondering, this was British Airways 009.