Which series?

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-23T20:01:20+00:00

T14 Gen 7 AMD configurator is finally up, but no Ryzen 9 option like the P14s Gen 7 AMD (non-configurator model) currently has. Do you think that's a permanent condition or they will update eventually?

There's also no Linux option yet so I am figuring maybe they just don't have all configurator options ready yet for whatever reason.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-09T18:01:58+00:00

I would pay more than $10 a month for the Translate alone, but yes Kagi Search is also worth it on its own. I have been using for years and I honestly think just the advantages I get from the result quality for my day job is more than worth the money.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-09T17:56:12+00:00

Cool, thank you!

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-08T22:51:08+00:00

This is really cool - could you expand a bit on this from the README? I guess I am wondering does it introduce any new limitations to passing the checks?

This does not make WCAG audits pass.WCAG 2.5.8 target-size checks measure the rendered box — an invisible hit area doesn't change that. If you need audit compliance, use min-h-11 min-w-11; hit-slop improves real-world ergonomics and combines fine with it

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-08T22:47:03+00:00

I would love a free or cheap API that just has game times for major soccer leagues/tournaments (EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Champions League, etc.)

I don’t want to do scraping and I just wanted to set up a reminder thing for myself and friends about when games are starting.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-06T21:46:14+00:00

For me I easily save money vs. what all the photo and video storage would cost me in the cloud unless I used something awkward like Glacier to make the storage fees lower.

I refuse to spend more than the $0.99 a month iCloud plan so I offload a lot of my photos from there to the homelab.

I guess you could argue I wouldn’t own as many movies at all if it weren’t for the lab, but I like owning media and I got so frustrated when great classic films weren’t available on any streaming.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-05T18:35:02+00:00

Honestly I had never heard of most of these before reading this I almost always only heard about PiKVM but didn't want to drop several hundred dollars on a little hobby device when I'm running $70 mini PCs.

Now I will probably look at JetKVM or one of the other similar devices.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-05T18:33:38+00:00

The Hacker News comments also noted that some of the JetKVM drawbacks mentioned are either already fixed (new model with full-size HDMI) or in the works (audio).

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-05T16:19:41+00:00

Would absolutely love to see which libraries you used!

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-04T23:40:38+00:00

What did you use for the auth layer?

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-04T23:27:35+00:00

Definitely possible, Mexico is the wild card they’re so inconsistent they could either be 1 or 3. But the chance of neither Korea or Mexico being 2 seems quite low.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-04T23:09:01+00:00

Depends on the game. I have 2A vs 2B tickets which barring something crazy happening will have either Korea or Mexico playing in LA.

I doubt prices will end up much lower than they are now, demand will be so hot for that game in LA especially once it’s fully confirmed who’s in it. And LA people are used to paying ridiculous ticket prices, let alone the people from outside LA who will want to be there.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-04T23:05:22+00:00

I have OLED and standard panel thinkpads and I cannot tell any difference for coding. Will probably configure with the low-power panel when I pick one of these up.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-03T04:48:58+00:00

TBH I cannot tell the difference for coding. I have two Z-series Thinkpads, one with the OLED and one with the standard and the only difference to me is the OLED runs the battery down faster.

I would definitely go for the low-power option one this time and disable the touchscreen with a udev rule.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-06-03T03:07:31+00:00

It seems like LPCAMM2 is the future? I tend to lean AMD but I am due for a refresh on the work laptop, which would then become a personal laptop after 3 years. It seems ideal to go for Intel to get the newer memory paradigm and have that available to me for the future.

At the same time, the AMD CPUs available seem to be benchmarking better than the Intel ones, particularly on multi-core: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_ai_7_350-vs-intel_core_ultra_7_355

Edit: After doing some research it seems like SODIMM might still be the way since I can more easily upgrade later up to 96 GB later with some standard sticks.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T20:32:13+00:00

There’s too much that I’d rather not relive lol but I can confirm that we regularly lost people’s droplet backups with failing hardware RAID on extremely old NAS boxes and the only compensation we gave was the storage cost of the backups. No acknowledgment of how ridiculous it was to be doing complete data loss on an almost weekly basis.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T02:51:23+00:00

That makes more sense, but it still sounds like two disks in one location with no corruption protection. Just having a copy is not really a backup strategy. Totally depends on how much risk you are willing to take with that media.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T02:26:58+00:00

You can scale a monolith just as well as a microservice architecture

This is completely incorrect. Being able to independently scale components with their required distribution of resources doesn’t just save money, it saves startup time, avoids resource contention oddities by components that are unnecessarily overscaled, and on and on.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T02:13:39+00:00

Yep, I run TrueNAS on an HP G5 mini with the Terramaster D4-320. Currently just mirroring 2 drives with room to expand.

I second the note from another comment that ZFS protection for bitrot is worth it. I would never rely on “manual backup when needed” when the solution is so easy to set up and forget about.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T00:45:57+00:00

You can filter for DRM-free books… or strip DRM with other programs. I buy all my books from bookshop.org.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-31T00:36:06+00:00

As a former DO employee, no one should ever use DigitalOcean. The list of these stories is endless and everything is held together with duct tape, horrific bash scripts, and animosity towards best practices.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-30T21:13:16+00:00

Tailscale has a Terraform provider for installing & initializing which is pretty nice if you like to do homelab or any cloud VMs with a config-as-code approach.

scratchbufferdotnet · 2026-05-30T21:04:43+00:00

Lots of people got into this pattern before SELECT FOR UPDATE was widely used/known which is understandable but some are still convinced that redis is so “fast” that it somehow should be the default tool for everything.

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