Depends on content, sometimes i use GPT to find stuff im lazy for and i know google would waste my time more likely, but generally i still use google, there are a lot of miscellaneous searches where an LLM would do worse than a search engine (currency exchange rate, stock price, quick facts etc..) tho I wish google had an option to block some sites from showing up, some searches are just filled with garbage - and i would like to block the whole domain from ever showing up
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linacica commented on India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops theverge.com/tech/639126/... · Posted by u/hilux
My Asus 1215B netbook from 2009 has served me well, until it died last year.
There was nothing in 2025 laptops that I would have replaced it for, the use cases haven't changed from my 2009 requirements in computing on the go with a cheap laptop like device.
Its replacement is now Samsung tablet with DEX capabilities, which I will likewise use until it dies.
I would like to point out 20 years old it's was in 2005, which isn't very old imo,
linacica commented on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad pilledtexts.com/why-i-use... · Posted by u/Fred34
My school recently (about 1.5 years ago) upgraded all their machines to ThinkPads(laptops & desktops)(11 gen Intel CPUs, desktops with A2000 GPUs), i seen other Thinkpad machines which try to copy Apple's design choices but these don't, they're big, thick, and have a lot of newer features, but also dropped some things which caused issues, for example: VGA port, there are quite few USB ports, if you know school environment you may know it's very rash environment
we have HDMI to VGA adapters they constantly go bad because the cable is heavy & adapter too
linacica commented on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad pilledtexts.com/why-i-use... · Posted by u/Fred34
> enough Thinkpads on Earth to probably stretch end-to-end around the moon and back
LD, average distance between Earth and Moon = 384,399,000 m [1]
C = circumference of moon = 10,917,000 m
R := approximate round trip distance = 2LD + 0.5*C = 774,256,500 m
n = total number of thinkpads on earth <= total number of thinkpads ever manufactured = 250 million [2][2a][2b]
W = width of thinkpad = 0.3366 m [3]
T = total thinkpad distance = n * W <= 84,150,000 m
This is with the optimistic assumption that the total number of thinkpads on earth equals the total number of thinkpads ever manufactured. A more conservative estimate might be something like n = total number of thinkpads manufactured each year * mean lifespan of a thinkpad = (12 million thinkpads / year) * (5 years lifespan) = 60 million thinkpads in good working order for a lunar round trip.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance
[2] IBM sold 25m thinkpads before selling product line to Lenovo. By 2022, Lenovo had sold 200m thinkpads. With linear extrapolation to 2024 that gives approx 250 million thinkpads manufactured.
[2a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad
[2b] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timbajarin/2022/10/05/celebrating-thinkpads-30th-anniversaryan-insiders-perspective/
[3] assume every thinkpad is a T480. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T480/ThinkPad_T480_Spec.PDFWell not the moon, but about 100 times back and forth to ISS
Average distance of ISS 370-460km, let's take 415km,
back and forth so 2x 415km= 830km
84 150km/830=~101
linacica commented on Ask HN: What do you think about Polverine environmental sensor? crowdsupply.com/blackiot/... · Posted by u/linacica
Hello, i haven't seen any discussion here about this sensors, what do you think about it? Is it any good/has anyone tested it?
Sorry for my bad english its my third language
My experience was quite roller coaster with oracle, i have to mention im a student and wanted to try their free tier so i could learn more about enterprise cloud hosted VM’s and networking, signup was good for me, but when i tried selecting an arm instance it would be always out of capacity, and i mean i was on oracle from around 2022 until 2024 first half maybe?, i checked it multiple times but ARM instances would just never be avilable(i was on zurich servers, i thought about moving my account to another location-tenancy but i found out it isnt possible) so i was stuck with 2 single core epyc systems with just enough ram, it was fine to test stuff but i quickly got a big issue: networking is a mess on oracle, i mean i couldnt count how many jumps i needed to go through to actualy enable other services, it may be skill issue, but why have multiple software based firewalls? Sometimes having one software would be fine like iptables? Anyways, i was pretty fed up with not being able to do much and networking being this bad, then it come in first half 2024 an update that they forced 2FA on my account even tho i didnt wanted any of it, i logged in had to set it up and forgot to disable it back because i Dont want 2fa, i just wanna you let me manage my own security please. A month later i lost access to my phone which had the 2fa app(dont buy chinese phones, they die too early, motherboard died in it and i dont have money to recover from such state), i asked the customer support if theres some way to reset it and get back in well there is just i need to go throught some software which was legal age by now, and navigate it with vague instructions, after 2 days of calling them and trying to do it i gave up
If you still wanna learn working with servers, networking etc. i recommend just getting your own server or choosing some other provider, NAT is not an excuse, cloudlfare tunnel helps you out,
linacica commented on Help Finding Unique Companies docs.google.com/spreadshe... · Posted by u/linacica
heyy i understand this is very random but i had an idea of gathering some unique companies on a spreadsheet
they Dont try to dominate the market, only to build their neash and have good products, even tho thier products in almost all instances more expensive than the competition. common ways of how you might find is them being just plain simply nice, comfy, nonaggressive company. Their name holds value. they dont let you down as a customer when something bad happens. also one other requirement: their main product should be something physical and tech for now, idk i might even add some non tech too if you reccommend some very unique companies, also im taking some name suggestions for this spreadsheet, thanks love you all<3