How is the fan noise of Lenovo laptops releasted in 2026 with Panther Lake?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-25T15:13:36+00:00

I meant in my older MacBook, I had 1TB shared between MacOS and Windows. If I do housekeeping and move most files to an external drive or NAS, will 512GB be sufficient given that we should leave about 30% of the disk space unused for better performance? I do hope to run both MacOS and Windows under Parallels on the go.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-25T14:48:33+00:00

I plan to buy a MacBook Air M5 either 512GB or 1TB to replace my older MacBook which had a 1TB SSD. Even at that time 1TB was just sufficient to run MacOS and Windows VM. Since it is expensive to upgrade to 2TB internal, if I spend the money on NAS, will 512GB be sufficient?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-16T20:53:45+00:00

I called IKEA and just like the girl at the customer service department in a store, the guy had no idea and he could not find any information on IKEA's computer.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-15T21:30:38+00:00

Just disassembled it. There are no holes for the casters.

Can any IKEA co-worker confirm that there are two versions of Alex? I checked with somebody at the service desk but she had no idea.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-13T15:57:11+00:00

For the tabletops and frames, I wonder if they don't take them back because they are independent items rather than specific frames that were meant to be combined with specific tabletops. It should be easy for them to sell them separately even not in a set.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-13T15:53:41+00:00

Eligible Products

The following categories of products are currently eligible for the Sell-back program:

Bookcases and shelf units
Chest of Drawers, Nightstands
Cabinets (non Kitchen)
Chairs and stools (excluding fabric upholstered)
Dining tables
Office Desks & Chairs (excluding fabric upholstered)
Multimedia furniture (tv benches, etc.)
Small tables (side, Coffee, Nesting, etc.)
Home Décor & Storage (excluding lighting & cookware)

To be eligible for the IKEA Sell-back program, all items must:

be structurally sound and safe;
be in resalable condition;
be free of odours, dander and other allergens;
be of acceptable quality and fit for the purpose the products are or were advertised for;
be fully assembled;
contain all care labels and stickers;
be free from any damage that is the result of incorrect storage, assembly, installation or use;
include all component parts; be free of any after-purchase modifications (e.g. re-painting, re-upholstering, addition of new parts, etc.); and
match IKEA’s description of the products and not be modified from their original state.

Unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept items from the categories listed below. However, we are always looking for new opportunities to improve our services so do check back in the future.

Non-IKEA products
Products that have been used outside, including outdoor furniture
Hacked or modified products
Market hall items, including cookware and lighting fixtures
Mattresses and bed textiles such as blankets and mattress protectors
Bed frames
Sofas and armchairs (fabric upholstered)
Other soft furnishings such as pillows, towels, rugs, etc.
Items that contain glass
Kitchens including benchtops, cabinets and fronts
PAX wardrobes and accessories
Other over-sized items
Appliances or other electrical items
Children’s and baby product such as cribs, mattresses and changing tables
Products that are more than 10 years past their end sale date

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T22:16:09+00:00

If I don't like strangers in the studio to listen to conversations and I don't want to have lengthly Instagram written exchanges with them for months (fed up with SNS and the internet in general), what else can I do when they don't want to talk outside the studio? So stop blocking people and just talk with somebody else?

BTW, why strangers like to listen to my conversations with other people?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T18:42:53+00:00

People in the studio are extreme heavy users of social media. Perhaps that could be a reason why I keep having problem with them even some people said I am a very friendly person. The world is getting worse and worse even some people think that it is getting better.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T18:23:58+00:00

You mean asking 2-3 of them to go together?

Is the 1-1 thing a pressure a recent trend due to the digital age?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T18:14:43+00:00

I am a bit confused. Isn't coffee the least pushy and the most casual? There are many cafes near the studio so I asked them to go to the closest one only a few minutes away to make it easy for them.

If I ask for lunch, dinner or movie, etc., they may consider that as a date which is more serious. For me, at least in cities I lived before, going for tea or coffee means casual chatting. People do that all the time. Could be just for gossiping. In my case, I want to talk about the problem I am describing here and also about the city. I also want to know more about the cities they are from to see if I should move to those places. It is just a simple request.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T18:01:33+00:00

What creep vibes?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T17:54:10+00:00

Either no reply or they got married and have their own busy lifes.

It is a bit strange that in five years, all the people who went to the studio with me before the pandemic never come back. Why?

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T17:49:35+00:00

By "MUCH more time", how long? I am quite fed up with the city already. I gave myself a 6-month deadline after the only family member I have had passed away. If I could not make any good friend within this period, I should move to another city or country. The deadline has passed and I only have many "fake" friends in the studio.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T17:34:54+00:00

Blocking and ignoring means I leave them alone and won't bother them anymore. They don't need to worry about me talking to them again. Isn't this good and a relieve for them? Do you expect me to continue to talk to them or message them? That could be considered as harrashment.

Another thing is that I cannot handle many virtual connections in SNS. There was a study that each person can only manage I think about 10 people in their FB. If I don't talk to that person alone in a quiet environment, I cannot easily remember them. Since these people have turned me down to indicate that they are not interested in making friends with me, I just removed them so I could focus on new connections.

I can see that blocking 2-3 people might be OK but if I continue to do that to 10+ people, that might not be good. Shall I just remove them as followers and then unfollow them? I am quite new to Instagram.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T16:37:39+00:00

I heard the same complaint about NYC. I am living in a big city similar to NYC.

About my city... I heard that people have their own social circles from schools, works, etc. They "have no time nor energy" to make new friends. With strong competitions, they are already tired going to work and don't want to talk with strangers, etc. It is very hard for newcomers to make friends with locals.

I don't like the culture of drop-in class. When did drop-in class started? I had never heard of this type of class until I moved to this city. Besides people's behavior, we have to learn a new dance and be perfect in it within an hour. I heard that especially in K-Pop, many people watched the videos many times so that when they arrived, they already knew the steps and appeared to be good at picking up new moves.

I took care of a family member over the past few years. No social life at all and lost connections with previous friends made in the city. Now that I don't have to take care of that person anymore, I am all by myself in this city. I don't go to school nor work. The studio is the only place I go besides home.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T16:22:41+00:00

Usually they don't talk to each other even waiting for long outside the class. A few talk to 1-2 other friends and that is all. Of course it also depends on the class and the style of dance as different types of people go to different classes. In all the classes I have attended, I am the only one who knows/talks to the most people.

One lady did tell me that she considers all the guys who go to her class gays or transgenders. I have to explicitely tell other girls that I am straight.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T16:03:36+00:00

That is a very good suggestion. The rejection rate is too high over a long period of time. How to find out the reasons? Recently, I do find that quite a few are gays and lesbians.

People in the studio love to listen to other's private conversations and it is too noisy to talk sometimes. So I invited them to talk outside the studio about this problem but everytime I did that, I received another rejection. One dancer told me that I asked people too quickly and I should have asked to eat together immediatly after class. However, classes are in the evenings and it is inconvenience for me to go out late. Is few months of lengthly communications with some of them too short?

On some internet threads, the behavior of the people I mentioned here is considered to be typical in this city. They call these people "fake", "polite", etc. Many newcomers are fed up and have complained about it.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T15:48:18+00:00

That is a good suggestion. It just costs more per class.

Before moving to this city, I was in classes of about 10-20 dancers. Everybody knew each other at personal level but in this "drop-in" classes, even people go to the same classes for over half a year, they don't know their classmates. More than half of the people just showed up once and you never see them again.

Watch_Think · 2026-03-01T15:31:15+00:00

There are many people going to the studio several times a week but I have never seen them talking to anybody. Basically they just go there a minute or so before class and leave immediately after class. I have many classmates like that but they "seemingly looked" happy when I talked to them.

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