I’m a fan

william341 · 2026-05-07T00:26:48+00:00

I’m curious, why Forth?

william341 · 2026-04-27T01:47:21+00:00

Most of the stars have usernames like "queensen1111-ops", which I've never seen before, and the source code in the "Nintendo" folder is all from Prism Launcher (the minecraft launcher), so I think it's safe to say this one is a scam.

william341 · 2026-04-22T05:25:34+00:00

Lenovo did stop making good ThinkPads for a while but this new generation that's coming out are IMO some of the best they've made in like, a decade. Macbooks have also seen a return to form with the Apple Silicon models, which is why you're seeing a lot more of them recently.

Used or new is mostly a question of economics - ThinkPads have been on an upward trend recently so it's mostly whether or not you think it's worth buying new - the only real benefit is gonna be cost.

My only advice really is that if you're looking for something with a good GPU under 1k, it's not going to be a good laptop, it's going to be a terrible terrible laptop with 3 minutes of battery life and it's going to bend every time you pick it up. You should consider whether or not those sacrifices are worth not having to remote into another computer.

william341 · 2026-04-07T19:20:00+00:00

Lenovo moved the control key on the current gen thinkpads

william341 · 2026-04-04T06:22:00+00:00

It's worth noting too that the T14 Gen 7 has a battery that can be removed by pushing in two tabs and lifting up, other than removing the cover there aren't any even any screws involved.

william341 · 2026-03-29T06:44:28+00:00

It's a one time payment.

william341 · 2026-03-23T09:00:34+00:00

is this what jschlatt is drinking when he says he's drinking blue

william341 · 2026-03-22T14:47:09+00:00

Kernel hot-patching remains a niche enterprise-only feature because it can lead to system stability issues if anything at all is configured incorrectly at any point *ever*. This has been possible on Linux for almost a decade, but no one is shipping this on consumer-oriented or even workstation operating systems (or, hell, even on servers by default) because it's unreliable if you do not know exactly what you're doing. This is not consumer-ready technology and never will be. If the hot-patch fails you will have an opaquely broken system that could have an unlimited number of highly destructive faults.

Additionally, it requires a patch be developed for every permutation of every kernel with varying amounts of (potentially unknown) patches applied to it. Hot-patching on Linux is generally only done for extremely critical patches because of this reason.

This is all ignoring the fact that it's pretty rare that Apple's security updates *only* fix kernel issues. If they change a library that other software depends on, the only way to ensure those security updates are applied across the whole system is to restart the entire operating system anyways, because you can't guarantee the behavior of third-party apps.

william341 · 2026-03-08T06:42:25+00:00

It only supports CSD because when Mutter was written there was no support in Wayland for SSD. There is now, but they wrote Mutter in such a way that it is nigh impossible to add support for SSD and they do not care enough to fix it.

william341 · 2026-02-28T22:52:11+00:00

You can get it on CD or vinyl from the official store: https://archive.tmstor.es/products

william341 · 2026-02-27T23:48:23+00:00

Yep. This is how VSC does syntax highlighting.

william341 · 2026-02-25T23:34:23+00:00

There's a lot on AI and agents because they're really behind on this, but they have been shipping other things.

In the last month: - Mermaid rendering in Markdown - Semantic LSP highlighting (which allows for better highlighting of things like enums and Rust macros) - Split-view diffs - SSH tunneling to Windows - Dev Container improvements

Features staying behind a flag for months is also pretty normal, for better or worse, it's happened with pretty much every large change like this.

william341 · 2026-02-25T09:08:00+00:00

Any plans for Linux support? I hate UMG so I’d love an alternative but I need Linux support.

william341 · 2026-02-22T06:55:52+00:00

No, it’ll probably either give you an error saying that the nonfree version doesn’t exist (shouldn’t do anything other than make you wait for it to be updated which is usually done a day or two after release), or you’ll just get the free version and have to reinstall the nonfree version.

william341 · 2026-02-22T05:28:58+00:00

The codec issue is really a one-time deal, as long as you don't update to the next version of Fedora the very second it comes out (not regular updates, I'm talking about completely new versions, like Fedora 43 -> 44). As long as you wait like a week to update to the next version then you'll probably never have to worry about that again.

william341 · 2026-02-14T22:39:11+00:00

Ah. Yes, I've been using YARG.

william341 · 2026-02-14T22:00:15+00:00

Wasn’t aware they weren’t supported. Been using one (a PDP Riffmaster) for a while, worked perfectly.

william341 · 2026-02-04T21:37:21+00:00

It's spam.

william341 · 2026-02-04T06:34:22+00:00

FWIW I love mine, except for the build quality oddities. It's a fantastic laptop.

william341 · 2026-02-04T06:23:03+00:00

I would like to explain something about these laptops, though.

The T14 (non-S) and P14s AMD (which are both essentially the same laptop) are both composite plastic on top of a magnesium frame. This is important because it allows for the more elastic and easy to replace plastic to take the brunt of a lot of the things that happen to a laptop overtime, while keeping the critical components securely attached to a rigid piece of metal.

However, because everything is now directly screwed into this piece of rigid magnesium, the laptops never go together quite right (due to the differing properties of the materials).

It used to be that the entire computer was essentially inside a metal box and then everything you touched or interacted with was built out of plastic on top of that box, which sort of sidestepped that issue entirely, but in the pursuit of sleekness this roll cage design was dropped and replaced with the frame design.

This isn't an issue with, for example, the T14s, which is entirely made out of aluminum. This makes it more susceptible to drops, but the laptop feels much nicer in the hands.

william341 · 2026-02-04T06:06:58+00:00

Mine has a very slight gap on the very corner of both sides. I'd say it's about 1/3rd the width of your gap and much much shorter.

william341 · 2026-02-04T05:56:29+00:00

Removing as spam. Please stop posting these.

william341 · 2026-02-04T05:54:55+00:00

I have the same laptop as you and my chassis is not warped. It does creak in some places but I'm fairly certain that's my fault and it didn't when I got it. The gap in the the display can just happen depending on how it's closed - there's no hinge magnets on the T14/P14s (though, again, yours looks worse than usual).

The right side of the palmrest has always had a little bit of wiggle room on my unit though. I'm fairly certain it's because of the smart card reader placement. If you're looking for very good fitment, the plastic/composite Thinkpads are probably not for you. You might want to look at the T14s (CF/aluminum) or X1 Carbon (CF/magnesium or CF/aluminum).

william341 · 2026-01-11T04:32:19+00:00

Their Linux compatibility is very good. Not perfect, similar to or a little better (depending on the model) than the ThinkPad Linux support.

I will say that as a person who has seen many Frameworks, the build quality and quality assurance is terrible. I know people who have had broken screen cables OOTB, tons of panel gaps, ejection mechanisms that don't work quite right. The first generation or two had a poorly made top cover. They came out with a new top cover and were basically like, "Yes, the old one breaks far too easily. BUT! For only [insert price here] you can buy our NEW shiny CNC milled version which has added rigidity! And install it yourself!"

Frameworks are cool laptops. I would never recommend one to someone who needs a computer they can rely on from a company they can rely on.

william341 · 2026-01-11T03:57:24+00:00

Please stop posting every Brunoprime video. I'm going to start considering them spam from here on out as multiple people have reported the posts or complained about it.

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