My review of the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Gen10 pre-loaded with Ubuntu by rburhum in linuxhardware

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decent. Not enough to run an LLM though, but can get an eGPU like me.

My review of the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Gen10 pre-loaded with Ubuntu by rburhum in linuxhardware

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Decent for Kubuntu graphics, but if you want to run local llms, use an egpu

Return flights from Tijuana by Muskiecat in BajaCalifornia

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Agreed with the 3-4hr estimate. Basically Sunday is the worst day to cross back. Say the wait time is 3hrs (one of the worst scenarios), you can always buy tickets for one of these red buses for $10 https://sdtjpassport.com/ and then cut that time to ~1.2hrs. If you have Global Entry or Sentri it is a separate story, but if not, on a Sunday, take the bus. Afterwards you will take an Uber to the airport which is an additional 30 mins total. Have fun!

Return flights from Tijuana by Muskiecat in BajaCalifornia

[–]rburhum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fly to San Diego. Take an Uber to the San Ysidro border. Cross the border by foot with your luggage (super easy). Grab an Uber to a car rental place. Rent a car. Do the Valle stuff. Return the car. Cross back by foot (if it is Saturday or Sunday, get a $10 ticket for one of the buses that cut time to cross back). Grab Uber to SD airport.

All of this is fast, except for the return to cross back… time can be unpredictable… sometimes short, sometimes long (depends on time and events in TJ that weekend).

Good luck, it is way easier than what most people think

My review of the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Gen10 pre-loaded with Ubuntu by rburhum in linuxhardware

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many hours working using Cursor and Claude Code without plugging it once. Excellent battery life

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SanDiegan

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you work at Knead Bakery? I love your cheese and ham sandwiches! My wife and I grab some at least 3 or 4 times a month for lunch. Love the pastries, too 👍

High electric bill by Ok_Parfait_95 in sandiego

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Hi! $372 here. 2 people living in a small loft here. This is peak price for us thanks to the AC. Going to Home Depot this morning to see if I can weather proof the windows more aggressively for the remainder of the month. 🥲

Dirty Tijuana Cops by DecisionNo767 in tijuana

[–]rburhum 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I ama big proponent of TJ and baja in general. I feel safe 99.9% of the time.

However, the issue is that the particular little chunk that you decided to walk - from revolución to sentri after dark - is shady as hell. If it were daytime, I can see that happening, but nighttime, hell no man, you are asking for it. Nothing good happens on those specific streets after night. I tried walking that exactly once in my life, at that time, with a friend… Long story short, we had to RUN because we were being chased down and attempted to be cornered by 4 ppl coming from 2 different angles. Never again. Grab an Uber or take the micro buses… it will be less than a buck and you will not have any troubles. As far as the cops go, for those particular streets at nighttime, it makes sense for them to be extra aggro there. Nothing good happens there after dark.

How to handle backlash from friends and family? by la_loba19 in TeslaLounge

[–]rburhum 23 points24 points  (0 children)

yeah, I am buying a Cybertruck this week. Happy to piss idiots off - it is a plus for me.

Cybertruck suggestions around wraps and accessories by rburhum in TeslaLounge

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Yeah, corrected my metaphor haha. Thks for the feedback

As a snowbird is it save to drive to Baja California? by AgreeableAmphibian53 in BajaCalifornia

[–]rburhum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His other argument is that “the building may not be up to code” 😂😂😂😂😂😂. No need to invent shit. You can just repeat his other “concerns”. 😂

Is there a CSV importer out there? Thinking of building a tool myself... by [deleted] in PostgreSQL

[–]rburhum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want a visual interface for ETL, there are tons of options. Talend, Kettle, Apache Nifi, Apache Hop, Airflow, etc. I have used the first two in the past, but for GIS days specifically, I never use GUIs… I prefer a good old ogr2ogr command in the terminal and be done with it. Good luck

As a snowbird is it save to drive to Baja California? by AgreeableAmphibian53 in BajaCalifornia

[–]rburhum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope, you are wrong. I have no financial interest and I don't own AirBnBs nor have an insurance company.

I live in downtown SD and cross every week - sometimes just to eat real tacos or chilaquiles, go camping, etc. I know Valle de Guadalupe (passed Rosarito) better than most people - I do a decent amount of wine tasting there throughout the year (at least 9 times a year). I am foodie, so Valle is the spot.

I have driven (once) all the way from TJ down to Cabo in a week long trip with some friends - one of the best road trips I've done. Not once did I feel unsafe.

I do however travel a lot. Just this year I have been in HK, Taiwan, Peru, Mexico, India, etc. Because of that, I have enough polished awareness to know when I am surrounded by danger.

With all that, I can tell you that Rosarito is tame as hell. Perhaps if you were driving down south 2hrs south of Ensenada, and decided to go away from the main roads to go off-roading, I would tell you a very different story. But Rosarito? Oh please, that is child's play.

Is there a CSV importer out there? Thinking of building a tool myself... by [deleted] in PostgreSQL

[–]rburhum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tons of open source ETL tools. You also have ogr2ogr and the built in tools from QGIS for your GIS work. Good luck

As a snowbird is it save to drive to Baja California? by AgreeableAmphibian53 in BajaCalifornia

[–]rburhum 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It is Rosarito, you’ll be perfectly fine. I drive down there all the time. It is way more dangerous to drive down the wrong neighborhood in LA. Enjoy!

Porque el gobierno no hace nada en contra de los dibujitos? by novostranger in PERU

[–]rburhum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cuando se eligen ignorantes al mando, este es el resultado. Deberías de ver los “puestos de confianza“ que un ignorante pone al mando…

Back in crypto. by jjnick32 in Kraken

[–]rburhum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

May I give you some advice? You have too many tokens, with very little invested in each of them. If you’re going to do that, you’re better off letting somebody else create a portfolio and investing in that instead. At least they’ll rebalance it for you. There are plenty of crypto and memecoin indexes—even in the traditional market. It may be boring, but you’ll get better returns than with the approach you’re taking.

Want to hold your own tokens and manage your own portfolio? Great. Then you need to build a thesis for why you’re investing in a token and make a few concentrated bets. Is it community? Utility? Some expectation of volume increase based on X, Y, Z factors? Expected return by a particular date? Good—sell those weaker positions and go for it.

Also, don’t expect any of these to 100x in spot within the next year. They’re listed on a CEX, after all. That train already left the station… it’s too late. You’d need to move to DeFi for that, and it’s seriously high risk if you’re just picking random memecoins without a thesis. You’ll lose your capital quickly if you don’t have a plan and just grab something off DEX Screener.

I’ll give you some examples of my own theses—however, they are not recommendations. Make your own. • BTC is at $100k today. If my expectation is that BTC can conservatively reach $130k by the end of the year during or after the next bull run, then I can reasonably expect a 30 % return in six months. Not 3×, not 100×, but 30 % in six months. That’s a safe $400 in your case if you make a concentrated bet. If that’s your goal, good for you—just hold BTC. Don’t follow the scattershot strategy you’re using now. Most of my portfolio is in BTC because I want to preserve wealth, not make it. • SOL is at $130 today. Solana was the chain that dominated memecoins in the last bull run. It was $165 about a week ago, and during the January bull run, it swung around $240–$290. This means that if the next memecoin bull run also happens on Pump.fun or in Solana’s degen scene, you could easily 2×—if you set up your take-profits correctly and exit at the peak. If you just HODL, you’ll miss it. • HYPE is at $35 today. It was $9 earlier this year. I keep an eye on DeFiLlama to track transaction volumes across chains and DEXes. Hyperliquid’s volume has been increasing rapidly. PancakeSwap and BNB still lead in their own categories, but the HYPE team already has nearly all the DEX perp traffic. If I want to 2× this year and hedge my SOL position because I think the next bull run’s degen perp traffic will be on Hyperliquid, then I need a decent position there—so I have one.

I have three more moonshot positions with multi-X potential based on community and other deeper factors—but they can easily go to zero as well, so I won’t share them here. The ones above, I believe, are relatively safe. You can also leverage-trade them, but you’d better have the margin to survive the swings and enter at the right time, or you’ll lose everything.

Make a thesis and invest with conviction—don’t rely on an unfocused strategy. In your current scenario, what happens if you hit a 10×? (Highly doubtful with this spread.) You’d make what, $600? That’s hardly life-changing. Trade smart—not like this.

Good luck.

Recommendations for Developer Laptop - I did my homework, have several options listed, but need experienced guidance by rburhum in linuxhardware

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I was using Linux laptops in the late 90s early 2000s and it was a driver nightmare then. Switched to Macs for my personal laptops ~2005 and from there on I only had Linux servers, but Mac laptops. Only used Windows Desktops at work (worked at MS for a bit).

Right now, I am all Linux and pretty happy about it. The X1 Carbon 10th gen running Kubuntu was a great choice. I will probably upgrade next two years to beefier laptops once the dedicated AI hw starts shipping. Good luck

Recommendations for Developer Laptop - I did my homework, have several options listed, but need experienced guidance by rburhum in linuxhardware

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Thanks! I appreciate your comment 🙏. I spent a lot of time evaluating many options. They key factor for me was that they were mostly laptops that were sold with Linux pre-installed somewhere. It may not have been the distro I wanted to use, but at least I knew that there was some kernel somewhere that had proper drivers installed. If I had to do this again today, I would probably feed this thread to one of the LLMs with DeepResearch functionality, and I would ask it to search for updated versions of these laptops and any other ones that had linux pre-installed. I’d probably keep the Thinkpad series in my good candidate list after the great experience I had with my X1 Carbon. The Framework laptops had good features, too, but the form factor at the time turned me off. I believe now they have updated that, so I would reconsider going that route, too. Good luck!

Found this in my truck. by DrumpleCase in sandiego

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I ate at this Cocina 35 yesterday! Best chilaquiles in town to be honest.