My activities for the month of stardate 20210 are/is

[NinjaPoodle]

I bought a new electric shaver today, A Braun Series 9 Pro+ with a hard charger case.

It's not that efficient takes several passes for a close shave, but the result is okay.

I posting this because I want so extra gay autism points from Smucky.

[Smucky]

I bought a new electric shaver today, A Braun Series 9 Pro+ with a hard charger case.

It's not that efficient takes several passes for a close shave, but the result is okay.

I posting this because I want so extra gay autism points from Smucky.

Why would you buy it after I whined about it already

[NinjaPoodle]

I bought a new electric shaver today, A Braun Series 9 Pro+ with a hard charger case.

It's not that efficient takes several passes for a close shave, but the result is okay.

I posting this because I want so extra gay autism points from Smucky.

Why would you buy it after I whined about it already

Because there are not better alternatives. Panasonic are supposed to be good but I'm not sure about them.

[NinjaPoodle]

Actually I'm pretty satisfied with the Braun series 9 Pro+. It does a decent job.

[Smucky]

Taking the billy goat to the livestock auction. Tired of him beating up my nannies and eating everything. His services won't be needed until October anyway

[NinjaPoodle]

Why goats when you can have sheep?

[Smucky]

Why goats when you can have sheep?

I've thought about it. I think the money is about the same. But sheep are dumb and the Mexicans here pay top dollar for goat meat.

[Smucky]

For today, using zennioptical.com for the first time to get glasses for $150 instead of $330 at the local place

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[Smucky]

Paying medical bills for today

[Smucky]

Not sure why, been lusting after the new Lenovo P14s Gen 6 AMD lately

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkP ... _Gen_6_AMD

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press ... workforce/

I felt like that was the perfect laptop. I waited for a few years for them to bring back replaceable/non-soldered RAM. So now they brought back the slots so you can upgrade your own RAM just like the good 'ol days. But now I see the WiFi card is not in a slot. It is soldered to the motherboard And it is some MT7925 mediatek chipset which I have no idea how linux compatibility will be

[NinjaPoodle]

Not sure why, been lusting after the new Lenovo P14s Gen 6 AMD lately

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkP ... _Gen_6_AMD

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press ... workforce/

I felt like that was the perfect laptop. I waited for a few years for them to bring back replaceable/non-soldered RAM. So now they brought back the slots so you can upgrade your own RAM just like the good 'ol days. But now I see the WiFi card is not in a slot. It is soldered to the motherboard And it is some MT7925 mediatek chipset which I have no idea how linux compatibility will be

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad p14s gen 3. Despite its age it is a good machine. The build quality is top notch and the keyboard is great.

What I do recommend is that you go for the higher end display, the OLED one. I don't have an OLED display but the best IPS option from that day, a screen with 3840 x 2400 on 14" which is wicked but it is great. You will never forgive yourself looking into a washed out bad display.

If you like coding, the machine is dope.

BTW, forget upgradable RAM right now as the trend is everything soldered, especially for LPDDR. You should be happy you get a upgradable M2 SSD.

[Smucky]

Not sure why, been lusting after the new Lenovo P14s Gen 6 AMD lately

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkP ... _Gen_6_AMD

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press ... workforce/

I felt like that was the perfect laptop. I waited for a few years for them to bring back replaceable/non-soldered RAM. So now they brought back the slots so you can upgrade your own RAM just like the good 'ol days. But now I see the WiFi card is not in a slot. It is soldered to the motherboard And it is some MT7925 mediatek chipset which I have no idea how linux compatibility will be

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad p14s gen 3. Despite its age it is a good machine. The build quality is top notch and the keyboard is great.

What I do recommend is that you go for the higher end display, the OLED one. I don't have an OLED display but the best IPS option from that day, a screen with 3840 x 2400 on 14" which is wicked but it is great. You will never forgive yourself looking into a washed out bad display.

If you like coding, the machine is dope.

BTW, forget upgradable RAM right now as the trend is everything soldered, especially for LPDDR. You should be happy you get a upgradable M2 SSD.

For a back story, my quad core T520 with 16gb of ram served me well from 2015-2021. What killed it was I started a new job who's app stack was fully "in the cloud". So to do development locally meant running like 20 docker containers. It worked amazingly well, there was just a script that you used to stop and start everything. But with that number of containers, there were RAM requirements. Firefox at the time could easily eat 10gb if left open for weeks. So with all these containers running, I was out of RAM and stuff was going to swap file and running horrid. The new thinkpads were all going soldered RAM. That forced you into paying $500+ for a 32GB version whereas self upgradable modules were going for much less than $200. The best price hack I could come up with was buying a $800 "new in box" T14 gen 2 AMD on ebay with 16gb soldered ram and an open ram slot. So I paid like $150 extra on newegg for a single 32GB stick and so now I have a laptop with 48GB of ram for less than $1000. Having soldered ram forces you into the OEM ram markup game. Yea you can get a thinkpad with 16gb of soldered ram for less than $1000 still, but if you want the 32 or 64gb version, you got to cough up $1500+.

And about screens, I really have no complaints about 1920x1080, that is my happy place.

[Smucky]

Roasting some coffee

[Smucky]

Now to bed.

[Smucky]

Now awake

[Smucky]

For today, using zennioptical.com for the first time to get glasses for $150 instead of $330 at the local place

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Man crazy. Just ordered those yesterday and they shipped today. None of the physical eyeglass stores around here even have their own lab. If you buy anything from them, they take the frames and mail them to some lens lab somewhere with an ETA of 7-14 days which almost always ends up being closer to 14 days than 7.

[NinjaPoodle]

And about screens, I really have no complaints about 1920x1080, that is my happy place.

You don't understand, I execute judgement on your display and command authority. I demand that you get the highest option display.

I'm the Kenneth Copeland of displays.

[Smucky]

You don't understand, I execute judgement on your display and command authority. I demand that you get the highest option display.

I've never understood the hate for sticking with 1920x1080. I don't actually think any of the 14" thinkpads in the t14 ot p14 series even go beyond that anyway. Going beyond 1920 for me means the text is too small. Sure you can turn on scaling, and that probably works fine on mac or windows, but on linux it is a mixed bag. KDE has decent scaling (I'm told), but non-native kde apps get a mixed bag. And if something bypasses that entirely by talking straight to X11, then there is no scaling at all. Besides, how do you smoothly scale one pixel into 3 pixels, etc? What's the point of going high res if you just have to scale everything? it makes no sense to me

I find a pretty happy spot with my laptop being 1920x1080 and my docking station monitor being the same. That means when I go from docked to undocked, nothing has to get resized. On my T520, I think the screen res was like 1680x900 or some weird crap. So when undocking random windows on the toolbar would get collapsed into groups and windows would get resized randomly. A lame annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless, especially when you got tons of windows open and they suddenly get all shuffled up.

I want to get something from frame.work/ but they are 4k displays,etc. Just can't make myself do it

[NinjaPoodle]

I want to get something from frame.work/ but they are 4k displays,etc. Just can't make myself do it

The 13" model is not 4k, it's 2880 x 1920.

https://frame.work/de/en/laptop13?tab=specs

not even the 16" model is full 4k.

You should just buy a Mac.

[Smucky]

The 13" model is not 4k, it's 2880 x 1920.

https://frame.work/de/en/laptop13?tab=specs

not even the 16" model is full 4k.

Yea I'm not good with math

You should just buy a Mac.

I'm not rich. And only recently could you even get a mac book with more than 16GB of ram.

[NinjaPoodle]

I'm not rich. And only recently could you even get a mac book with more than 16GB of ram.

My MacBook Pro was actually cheaper than my Thinkpad p14s. The business line Lenovos are in general quite expensive. The built quality is top, but you need to pay for it. The MacBook aluminium body is actually quite archaic design and makes it heavier.

[Smucky]

For today working on getting the fence hooked back up since I had the braces put in.

[Smucky]

And next up

[Smucky]

For today, using zennioptical.com for the first time to get glasses for $150 instead of $330 at the local place

Screenshot_20250514_113024.png

Man crazy. Just ordered those yesterday and they shipped today. None of the physical eyeglass stores around here even have their own lab. If you buy anything from them, they take the frames and mail them to some lens lab somewhere with an ETA of 7-14 days which almost always ends up being closer to 14 days than 7.

It shipped FedEx on Friday from Ohio. And it was scheduled for delivery on Tuesday but now it's showing delivery on Monday and it's already waiting at the local distribution center. I remember when FedEx used to be such crap but now it seems like they've really come a long way.

[Smucky]

Stopped by a giant estate sale after lunch. Then took a nap. Now it is 6:30pm and still haven't done my weekend chores