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Tuxedo Laptops? (discuss.tchncs.de)

I am looking for a new computer and am considering a Tuxedo Laptop. Do you know how easy they are to repair and upgrade? I enjoy my Fairphone too much to her an unrepairable Notebook.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

No, sorry. We are playing Age of Rebellion rules during the Old Republic, because the children wanted to be Jedi.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

I second with Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dark Eye, Shadowrun and StarWars RPG in my family. Teach your kids to play and they will never have time or money to waste on drugs. ;)

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100% Keychron Q6 Neo2 (discuss.tchncs.de)

My new custom WASD keycaps with NEO2 legends have arrived. I wanted nicely readable legends for the layers I used most, not for all as the predesigned caps offered. I also had problems with the color coding, which emphasized the wrong layers.

At the beginning, I had plans to turn my own handwriting into letters, but that proved too much of a task for the time I had, so I just went with stock symbols and Comic Sans.

I also considered having black keycaps, but after I studied up on the finer points of laser printing on dark base colors - bright colors require a white underprint -, I decided to go with colors on wite for crisp outlines.

All in all I am very happy with the result. My children begged me to give them a chance, so I hand wrote QWERTZ legends on the sides.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Running a mongo database, an express server in VSCode with nodejs, the Angular app, also in VSCode with nodejs and the browsers proved a bit difficult for my existing (and ooold) refurbed Dell latitude. It might have been the last windoofs update that brought it to bay, too. I don't know.

Thank you for the wargames, I am going to try my hand.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will have a look at used thinkpads or tuxedos. Scratches never bothered me.

You are all very helpful!

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As the title says, I am currently learning to be a programmer, and my tablet does not suffice for the job.

I have already finished a small MEAN-Stack application for learning Typescript, learned some Java syntax (I expect nothing more exciting than a sorting algorithm, but exam language is Java, so...) and the next stop will most likely be plain vanilla C to learn about handling hardware.

Windows I hate with a passion, and I don't know squat about Macs, so I am thinking of getting myself a decently sized laptop for a sensible Linux install.

History (I started my Liux journey with SuSE Linux 4.4.1, way back when) taught me to be very wary of driver issues on laptops, so I thought I could ask you for recommendations that play fair with Linux.

(as an aside, if I could play GuildWars2 on it in the evening and attach my two big monitors when at home, that would be super cool)

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Bench cushion (discuss.tchncs.de)

I was quite tired of having to pick up bench cushions all the time, so I invested a bit into a full sized pad and made a cover out of an old baby wrap. We are all quite nappy with this solution.

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Fairphone 5 renders (www.androidauthority.com)

A first look at the Fairphone 5.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Reddid was / is a lot more lively, with enough posts in a day that I had to turn off notifications. Lemmy has not as many users around the world, and subocribing to a lot of communities does not equal reddit traffic at all.

I feel this is restful, and it offers the opportunity to learn new stuff. Also, by subscribing to different communities on different instances, you mix it up and make everything link together more tightly.

There might be a future when you have to currail your subscriptions, but just now, you are doing everything right.

[-] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ich hätte gern ein generelles Abo quer über die Presselandschaft, in dem ich Leserecht für einen Satz allgemeine Artikel und eine definierte Anzahl in die Tiefe gehende Artikel meiner Wahl bekomme. Wenn das Grundabo durch ist, passende Erweiterungen zum Zubuchen von mehr Artikeln. Ich habe echt nicht die Zeit, mir jeden Tag eine ganze FAZ oder Welt zu Gemüte zu führen. Aber Rosinenpicken wäre für mich interessant. Bei Magazinen sogar noch mehr als bei Tageszeitungen.

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Going uphill has its hazards (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Running a Lemmy instance (discuss.tchncs.de)

I wonder what the stats on running a lemmy instance are.

How much time needs to be invested, how much data storage is needed, what kind of traffic volume is to be expected?

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Do you have any ideas for a password safe that stores its data locally (an encrypted cloud drive is available for synchronizing), offers clients for Linux, Win and Android and has some amenities like filling in passwords in browsers?

My family needs to learn password safety, and I want to make it easy for them.

WenAmon

joined 1 year ago