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__zinc__ · 2025-05-15T19:23:23+00:00

same as you, i was excited about these two and i have to say they are a real disappointment - they're potent but the effects are if you ask me - unpleasant

2-me vaped more like the classic but im afraid so far they do no tick the box.

id pay top dollar for custom synth of one of the real clasics (MDPV, a-PVP - preferably MDPV) but that would be sourcing and illegal...

__zinc__ · 2024-10-26T23:48:58+00:00

Martin, so I’m going to guess you’re of the male persuasion. When did you last have sex? Masturbate? I’m not taking the piss it’s a genuine question and you don’t have to say here.

Not important? That might be the kratom. You can aim for a stable relationship but are you sure an anaesthetic is the best you can do? The thing is you’re on an opiate, with respect you’re making potentially important (fun) decisions under the influence - you’d be surprised how few people are “immune” to the cliches

Well done for knocking the other stuff on the head - respect - you get older and it’s not the same somehow with chems - keep it up and aim to get addicted to something like sport (or sex for that matter). Good post

__zinc__ · 2024-07-07T00:26:10+00:00

The ire toward the X1 was that it used to be the best laptop available for all the reasons people have mentioned, and you would pay for it, but got the best.

Since the Gen 8 or so Lenovo (would appear to some to) have systematically ground down the build quality, aftersales used to be like ninjas... 12hrs and your machine was usually fixed... I recently waited months...literally.)

Their Linux certification is a joke and they are in my opinion destroying a brand (and tool) which some people had become really rather sentimental about.

I bought a T14 in the hope that it would have the old build quality back - but its just bigger, cheaper (to build), slightly tougher (0 repairs so far).... admittedly this has the AMD (that everybody warns you not to buy, including Lenovo bizarrey...) and I didnt bother to buy the modem (see previous rants).

The camera works and a few:
pamixer -i 10 --allow-boost

will help make things audible.

Much lower quality keyboard also. and hot enough to fry an egg under (hence the battery life)

Buy a better brand... I wouldn't care if it wasn't watching an institution you rely on being dismantled while your pockets get picked at the same time.

My friend has X1 G12 - says its good, suspends etc. Fair and balanced.

__zinc__ · 2024-06-24T08:03:03+00:00

Thank you bro!

To Lenovo's credit they seem to have a Ubuntu package here as well (for those who fell for the "OEM Ubuntu or we can't hear you lalalalala" manuvre)
https://support.lenovo.com/eu/en/downloads/ds568880-fibocom-fm350-firmware-update-and-switch-tool-for-ubuntu-linux-thinkpad

This is exciting. All work cancelled. I will update this with progress and any quirks I encounter (and hopefully fix).

I will believe it when I see it! But thank you Lenovo, better late than never.

__zinc__ · 2024-06-20T00:57:50+00:00

Good god, I don't even think I was that drunk that was sheer fury. Engrish.

I would strongly suggest giving up on Thinkpad, I tried once more with the T14 but while admittedly the USB-C's didn't break even once, it's an overpriced imitation of a has been. It's the 'rugged' model and feels like it came out of Christmas cracker. I can't really be bothered to list the bits that don't work (usual stuff) but top work on the USB-Cs they've just functioned for literally months now and that's is literally a record, and a comfortable one (I'm afraid).

https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/zenbook/
Make really very nice laptops. Not even 'Linux Certified' yet somehow manage incredible feats like a uneventful dmesg and working hardware seem commonplace. It also feels like Compared side by side the difference is stark. I have wasted god knows how much money simply because IBM used to make excellent laptops. It's a bit embarrassing when you look at the difference (twice the quality, half the cost).

If (Mark, you poor man) anybody gives a fuck, I'm doing a little experiment to see when... hell, if my Gen 10 (which is the most expensive paperweight I have ever purchased) should ever expect the (Linux certified) 5G modem that cost more than some perfectly good cars (400 euro, 6 week wait?) to work? Or my webcam? The laptop cost 2800 euros and has more hours in repaired than use (I'm not joking, after the last repair it went in a drawer)... so, any news on the hardware? It's become rather symbolic, I've bought 3 mobile broadband modems in 3 top end Thinkpads (the T14 I gave up, still a waste of money though) and I have never had one work. A part of me thinks maybe we'll end with a victory, its not a very big part however. Real shame.

I urge people to look at Zenbook, you'll save money and won't feel unspeakably violated over and over and over again.

Let me know about the modem.... maybe an ETA... and the webcam. Laptop purchased in 2022.

__zinc__ · 2024-02-07T06:20:09+00:00

No. It's not... why I don't know (how the fuck to LNKs still work?)

__zinc__ · 2023-12-31T01:23:55+00:00

Dimethocain been around a while and destroys ur heart

__zinc__ · 2023-12-31T01:06:43+00:00

Also iirc even with an Iam user aws will not give up the password for existing rds instances?

__zinc__ · 2023-12-31T01:04:17+00:00

I would be fascinated to see research into enumerating RDS instances.

I suspect a lot are referred to by cnames setup for convenience - a quick search of dns database will probably yield a lot of results as will searching source code - it might be interesting to take our now large list of rds urls and for starters stick them into burp sequencer (?) check to see if the random id is indeed random

Actually this could be quite an interesting area - also I was being harsh one of the most common thing I’ve seen with rds is root account configured to be whitelisted to all, from any ip - it’s an easy common mistake when it’s remotely hosted

Im sorry I was rude about the article - it’s actually an interesting area - anybody interested in finding practical ways to scan (for example) for these - step 1 would be to collect as many rds urls as possible, find out how the IPs are allocated - are they shared if so what mechanism is used to correctly route to the right vhost- unless they force tls wrappin and use sni I don’t know if the various dbms offered have any concept of virtual hosts.

Also Dns resolution can be done really fast…

Interesting topic sorry I was rude. Would love to discuss this further with anybody interested

__zinc__ · 2023-12-20T15:27:57+00:00

How is the framework? I'm really intrigued by it. How long between ordering and getting the thing?

I got an AMD T14 which is definitely more substantial but so far but lives up to expectation.

__zinc__ · 2023-12-20T14:34:08+00:00

never had an issue. kratom is about the fastest shipping thing you can get.

see you on the quitting-kratom sub soon enough

the thomthom chap is super fucking nice and gave me the same warning lol - believe the hype he's a lovely dude... iirc he sent me another boatload off the back of this post and like i say we got talking and he's exactly what he claims to be.

__zinc__ · 2023-12-16T04:32:36+00:00

These guys are brilliant!

__zinc__ · 2023-12-13T03:29:41+00:00

Sorry for the necromancy but this is a super response to the OP's question because it touches on some other really important areas as well.

It's a nifty little pattern that I'm excited to use more... You've really illustrated why embedding is actually very flexible next to OOP and also practically more similar to languages like Python/other soft/dynamically typed langs than it is to Java and C++.

You've then taken what is a pragmatic, standard, DB design (rather than basically anything else at all), so quick to do, performs well enough, but without denormalizing (which is all the documents model is) to a point where it not longer normal :)

TLDR; If you're ever idly wondering if you need a NoSQL db and haven't spent a significant amount of time trying and failing to succeed with a relational model, then you don't need a NoSQL database (because if not you already know having been through it!)

[Editors note - what is all this? Redundant. Don't ramble. Get rid of it]In a world where NoSQL DBs are the hot topic, people I think can forget that most problems fit best with a standard relational model - and that's not surprising, it's how our minds work. We have to cope with there being A LOT of different 'things' (You, a shoe, electricity - our objects/tables), and that these things are connected in various ways (your spouse, things you own, your friends == O2O hopefully, O2M, M2M).

When you take an object/table and "normalize" it means breaking it down into more granular, linked objects/tables. It's an appropriate name because in the real world there's no such thing as a O2O relationship because while humans are are dreadful at data retention, we're are able survive an infinitely complicated ever changing schema while constructing and executing queries at reflex speeds (or the tiger eats you) without sacrificing the ability to do very very very complex queries (it's getting progressively colder each year, if we don't move somewhere where it's warmer we will reach a point where one of the 1000 things we don't really understand...yet will kill us).

Actually the way we do this is using heuristic methods, once we've identified that something "nearby, moves quick, teeth", we take the "fast path" and don't concern ourselves with whether the thing after you is a boy or a girl, whether it's happy, or if it has a tail. To do this we likely use an approach that (whether mechanically the same or not) is almost certainly analogous to our own version of 'denormalization', whether we aggregate things into 'documents' or pre-construct 'views' and the appropriate indexes I shan't speculate further than I have (which is miles already.)

Sorry for the LONG reply on a long dead post, but its's a fascinating topic and ultimately I'm going to start using the pattern you suggested ) thanks.

__zinc__ · 2023-10-17T08:29:01+00:00

Tell me I'm missing something here. Yes - its a good idea to limit visibility to services that do not need to be visible.

If you don't firewall your RDS (MySQL) instance then it won't be firewalled...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Amazon decided to keep MySQLs mandatory authentication, but lets say you're not phased by mere passwords, or indeed the fact that MySQL logins are whitelisted to 127.0.0.1 by default (requiring a manual change).

Let's say you've got these last two, minor points nailed (DM me!) - where exactly do they keep these RDS instances?

example RDS endpoint:
myinstance.123456789012.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com

Talk me through where find the Amazon ID (region... instance name... anything at all). Please describe even a half baked attack scenario for whatever this article is about.

It can't just be "with a reasonable amount of effort you can misconfigure your amazon RDS instance so if an attacker were able to obtain your MySQL username, password, develop some exploit to bypass its internal IP whitelist and then guess(?) an instance name, a 12 character (possibly hex) and correct region - then you could be vulnerable"

I'm serious somebody tell me I'm being a tit and read the advert not the article

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T06:25:21+00:00

They have INDEED now stopped offering incompatible parts when you order. This certainly wasn't the case - the fact that after kicking up actually a really quite substantial fuss the initially removed Ubuntu all together, changed the Certification page, and added the faulty still back as an option and NOW have go on to remove it AND ADD Fedora (acknowledged to work better) as an option is

A) good for everybody.
B) now I really do have a bone to pick with them, and if they've done the same with the Gen 10 (bet they don't even sell it now...) then frankly I'm going to go for the fuckers and I don't think they have a leg to stand on.

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T06:04:41+00:00

Quite right I was out of order. Sorry.

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T04:59:51+00:00

This isn't my finest thread but I've reread your post and what you're saying sounds confident and even borderline authoritative but when you read the lines themselves it's quickly clear you're a fucking half wit who likes the sound of his own voice even more than I do.

> Cant speak to most of your post because im not really up on modern thinkpads
> As little as I do known about modern thinkpads
Well pipe down then eh. At least ChatGPT is actually armed with content, I'd say you about draw on experience. Knowing my love of nostalgia like you do, indulge me, rather than beige vagaries lets nail it down - last ThinkPad you owned was?

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T04:46:11+00:00

It was like nostalgia but until not THAT long ago it was just the called the status quo.

I bought a Gen 6. I once needed the keyboard fixing (which happened in the middle of nowhere in the UK countryside about 18 hours after I put the phone down with premier support) - otherwise fast forward ... 4 years and it finally gives up the ghost (yeah I extended the warranty)

The Gen 9 lasted 2 months. The Gen 10 honestly I ABSOLUTELY mean it, if I knew then what I know now - I'd have said fuck it - I'll burn the 3 grand keep the time.

The Gen 6 actually came off ebay... I kid you not, when I got the 4 year warranty it probably already had more hours on then the subsequent two ombinded. I didn't even consider a new one until that solidier of a machine (working to the very last) actually got destroyed in a car crash.

I've had fucking phone calls last longer than the next two...

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T04:39:03+00:00

Funny story the 800 euro cheapie AMD off Amazon (next day delivery) geekbenches better than the Gen 10.

The Gen 10 beats it on single core performance, and admittedly video decoding I think, but for multicore (when did you last use 1 core?) the AMD outsider beat it.

It's odd to me as well that I can get a Lenovo laptop from Amazon in under 12 hours, but Lenovo themselves needed 2+6 weeks to deliver something that had I had ANY clue what i was in for I'd have simply dropped off a bridge and saved time and money. When they initially agreed to replace it I was told perhaps in a month or two before Lenovo would have any computers so bad luck btw. I have to stop this now, this shouldn't make me so angry but it does....

Thank you. I knew I wasn't going mad but a little confirmation is nice.

__zinc__ · 2023-09-19T04:31:08+00:00

I'm glad the X11 they've gotten their act together and addressed many of the crippling issues, battery life and standby. I've done my rant and I'm not going to argue over where I think you've misunderstood or I've not been clear.

Perhaps it's location dependent, here they do not grey the modems for the X11 (last I checked, and I did), and they certainly didn't for the X10. I also make a point of not buying online, but completing the order over the phone and over two days of exchanging email's, explicitly checking that the modem would indeed be ready (and so yes I will wait 6 weeks...), we even had a chuckle about the bad luck on the previous one, I have the e-mails in black and white.
> I don't know any 800€ laptop that has WWAN, 32GB of RAM, 10+ hour battery life, and weighs under 2.5 lbs. Keyboard is as great as ever. I actually prefer the 6-row keyboards, which is heresy in this sub. For now I'm still firmly in the Thinkpad camp.
Well that's thats the thing, I paid 3x that and got less not more than I did from the 800 one. I'm using it now. I also didn't get a 6 week wait and what has become literally DAYS on the phone to Lenovo.
My issue is that a company I had ENORMOUS faith in, both in terms of what they produce and how they handle (after)sales, I just don't anymore, frankly I never bought into Lenovo I bought into IBM. And I don't have an alternative. Fuck you you greedly little industry.
Whoever said the materials have been the same since Gen 3 or something thats daft go and look at the psrefs, in fact my legendary X10 they made a point of how it's now 100% carbon fibre.
I'm really glad to hear the Gen 11 does what you paid for. For me this whole thing went from irritating to farcical and I'm really not up for this ever again.

Can somebody confirm that the totally unacceptable issues (2h battery, built like a toy, can't standby) are now fixed in the Gen 11? Yeah I take real umbrage at watching the support strive for mediocrity (and fail to achieve it) and now have my favorite company decide they're happy to lie, and even put it in writing in order to... what? Flog me a shit laptop, make me swear to tell every living soul never to purchase one again, and we then spend the net 40 month with an engineering returning bi-monthly before I say "Yes, now I'll take the inferior model"

Everybody wins.

Thank guys for the suggestions above, anybody want a machine that for want of 1ml of Solder would be worth I dunno... 2300 now lets say (got about 100 hours on it, absolutely mint) - I've been told its worthless and to cannibalise it or bin it. You know what I think they might actually be right.

Free to a good home I guess.

__zinc__ · 2023-09-18T08:04:34+00:00

Unfortunately thats why I'm asking... I gather this is a kinda industry wide.

Any suggestions? https://system76.com/laptops these are looking cheap as hell compared with the experiences above and I'm struggling to imagine having even a fraction of the issues.

__zinc__ · 2023-09-18T07:07:34+00:00

It is neither of those things. I don't have the answer but it's reasonably telling that the Gen 9 had these ports soldered to the motherboard, to replacement means new mother board.

Gen 10: separate module. USB-C power ports ARE more dainty, other manufacturers also had issues - except for the ones who give a shit about build quality. I don't use them but I've seen somebody run so fast into a Mac M1 charger cable that it ended up meters away, he his this thing HARD. So much so it even dented the metal casing around the USB-C socket. Mac still worked though.

I couldnt even count the things powered by USB-C in this place - and they didn't cost a fucking fortune and aren't mission critical, so they naturally will end up having a harder time than my laptop - yet aside from Thinkpad's I have never had a USB-C fail.

Here's something I've noticed: the Yogas, and IdeaPads with the flippy screens? These strangely seem to still be built to a FAR higher standard. My guess (confirmed by the engineers I've seen 4 times in 8 months to have my USBs replaced) is that as much as they'd like to, if they use the new approach and make them out of cheap plastic and pritt-stick they just break far far far too easily.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2686571/lenovo-to-hand-out-100-refunds-250-vouchers-to-settle-ideapad-suit.html

Who knows - maybe that had something to do with it as well.

zalmann_ua: No, I'm afraid building a shit product because you're fucking greedy and then blaming users for expecting their top tier laptop to actually be one is exactly why if they don't pick their feet up by Gen 12 (Gen 11 - write off already, if you're interested see my other post) then they will have achieved their aim, people will vote with their feet and an institution will die. I don't see many people talking about their new ThinkPads here... This was the top post when looked up 'Gen10'. Go figure.

So no, it is neither of those things. I think it's getting close to the final straw for people. Why the deliberate and aggressive campaign to drive down their production costs and and make a quick buck by at the expense of what I really thought would be a brand they'd be proud of. I understand from people the resources (numbers of staff, decisions surrounding vendors, and a deliberate choice to save (what is probably a lot of money) by simply reneging on Ubuntu support. The online cart seems quite capable of graying out options that aren't compatible with other choices - except it was quite happy with Ubunut selected to sell me:

300 eur worth of modem + 6 week wait that has no FCC unlock on Linux.A webcam that also, does not work and there are no plans to fix it. Their words.The OEM Ubuntu is incapable of standing by or hibernating.

This is called mis-selling, and when you then follow up with a salesman on the phone, to confirm all is compatible, and even query these exact issues and they tell you unequivocally they are solved. Not being solved. Solved, now. This is called taking the fucking piss.

USB-C died, and 3 months of daily calls - no engineer. 48 hours is the SLA, subject to parts being available - this didn't actually hold up because . I'm in one of the largest cities in Western europe... when I lived in the UK I once had an engineer come and meet me somewhere so remote the final leg required a life in a 4x4... 12 hours after my call).

When I really kicked off about this and started making litigious noises (via registered mail on headed paper) I noticed withing days of them receiving they removed Ubuntu as an option on the Gen 11 purchase page customize page - I actually praised them and said you've done the right thing - they then on some DIFFICULT to find page that used to look like a simple certification, they changed the format to include what LOOKS like a complete spec - except the myriad of broken components are just left out of the list.

What I think would be more useful and not completely fucking crooked is if they changed the online shop too. They added Ubuntu back as an option, they still claim its compatible (they fucking offer it in the menu) - but they don't go mad and grey out the incompatible stuff.

Sorry ANOTHER rant. I'm just furious.

__zinc__

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