Yup. That’s my lesson. Or avoid lenovo altogether and go with a company that respects Linux, like old lenovo used to.

On my one the wifi is just blacklisted. Might as well remove it. I use a tp-link tiny usb dongle. It’s a pain to have it always connected but I can live with it. Definitely not acceptable for what I paid for the laptop though… not even counting the headaches with the battery.

But… you borrowed someone’s computer and installed arch? I imagine they were never expecting to get it back…

Oh… chipping. The case was breaking. Sorry… I thought you mispelled “shipping”, that it took a very long time for them to send you the laptop.

Yeah, that’s important for me. My current lenovo, although higher end than the previous, doesn’t compare. The first one is all metal. I dropped it several times on concrete and it survived without barely any issue. While this one even being so careful gives me a headache.

No point buying something expensive that will die on the first time I’m not careful and I’m usually not careful.

When you say it took very few years to ship, do you mean days, weeks, months, or actually years?

They seem to have some nice stuff too. It seems that all Linux oriented shops do. All this enshitified garbage of not letting you upgrade memory or hard drives seem to be bullshit of big companies just like the mobile phone ones do too…

But so far I’m researching, it seems that since amd embraced “AI”, talking about enshitification, the CPUs are barely better than my current one, while using a lot more power. It seems that if I want to have the same power consumption I’ll actually have to downgrade, while paying more.

I may be better trying to find a used laptop that has the stuff I want and just replace the battery. Weird days where buying a new laptop after years will get you something worse and more expensive than you bought…

This company https://slimbook.com/en/kde?

They seem to have everything I want. Multiple drives, sd card, lightweight, etc. I just can’t find the actual power requirements.

Which one did you get? What are you not happy with on the hardware integration? And do you know what happens if you need warranty?

The only think I don’t like is that this AI 9 365 seems to be just slight better than my current one, Ryzen 7 7840U, so many years later, while much more expensive. But I guess the days of getting twice the performance every 2 years died a long time ago.

It has “AI” in the name, so that makes up for the lack of real improvement /s

Edit: further researching, it seems that although the performance is not much better, the power consumption is much higher. That seems to be the case for all this new “AI” stuff. So maybe I’ll keep with my problematic lenovo that doesn’t require a new solar panel…

But I don’t know… Relying on other people take away a lot of the experience.

I had to rely too every month on trips to buy food and I didn’t like at all that I couldn’t be self sufficient. But at least it was my money.

Plus, the fear. Just going into town one a month was terrible. I can’t imagine him going to the camps 40 times a year. He mentions how much of a toll it took on him and I can imagine. But doing it that often? That’s a massive will to survive. I would give up. I can take what nature throws at me, but humans are unpredictable and dangerous. It would be just constant suffering and anxiety.

That’s so cool. He did what I wanted to do. But mine only lasted 4 months before I was found.

I can clearly understand his fear of attracting attention. And the pleasures of solitude…

And I understand why he didn’t run again. Once you’re found, the dream is kind of shattered. The feeling of safety is gone… But his lasted a life time.

The night when he went to a house where there was someone there must have traumatised him for weeks. Or it would have done that to me at least.

I never thought of stealing. I don’t know if I could do that.

The regime lost. They went into hiding or ran away. It’s not necessary for every single person related to a group to be killed for it to lose.

The soviet union lost. Nazis lost. The Ottoman empire lost. England, Spain, Portugal didn’t lose to an enemy but their empires died. One group is always thought as evil in western education, the other is not.

The united states need to be properly defeated for the next winners to see the American atrocities in a proper light.

But I would be already happy with just their empire fading away and only lies remaining in school books.

Yup. People forget that whatever the Nazis did, we only see them in a bad way is because they lost. Their enemies are making the movies and TV series we consume to this day.

Unless an actual enemy of the us defeats them, they will never be seen as villains. Even if they lose a lot of power but one of their allies takes over.

England committed countless atrocities and while that is known, they are not seen as villains. They are not in power anymore but their ally is. Even Israel can be a thousand times worse than Nazis, as long as they remain in the winning group they will be forever the poor victim of antisemitism defending itself against evil.

Why the down votes?

A company removed your freedom, their founder even famously saying that consumer don’t know what they want but apple does, knowingly give up all their rights to a corporation when there are alternatives, declare that they trust the corporation, accept when the corporation forbids them from giving anyone else money, and now they are going to cry when the corporation fucks them? Like it did several times in the past and yet they remained loyal?

Apple users are insane… The only reason to use android is because it’s the only current viable alternative to apple. But they use their stuff out of some weird masochistic choice, and then cries when their daddy beats them.

They 100% deserve what they got while they keep rewarding apple for their evil behaviour.

And if I ever give Google money, I 100% deserve to get fucked while using it too. And it would be stupid to expect anything else.

Lying… These people are the biggest issue of my life. I considered suicide because I can’t fight them and they are everywhere and they destroy my health. And I’m lying?

No, my ears didn’t bleed, if that’s what it takes for you. So I guess they are fine.

I’m not going to comment on social circles and personal experiences. You believe whatever you want. Unfortunately proving this to you won’t help me. There’s no point.

Good night. I hope loud engines don’t wake you up over and over again, for hundreds of nights, or you might end up lying like me to the clouds.

I’ve been cycling for 30 years, but yeah. I must be wrong.

In a car centric culture where cars are worshipped, anything I say will be crazy.

But so… As long as the eardrum is not bleeding is good enough for you? Anything else is just bitching?

I think we ( me and most people apparently) just have a different understanding of respect and civility. So yeah, agree to disagree. I don’t make the laws. I can just yell at the clouds. It’s legal, so I’m wrong.

You met one. Me.

I’m a cyclist, not protected with motorcycles helmet or 1 ton of metal. You don’t know the pain of being next to people “enjoying things they like” and blowing up my ears.

Or the many many many nights without sleep because of them.

And people who think they don’t have to consider others can just go get fucked. There’s not much debate we need to have about that, really.

Do you force everyone around you in a massive distance to hear classical music everywhere you go? Even better, in a volume that would cause them hearing loss?

No right? Unless you are an absolute asshole. I love classical music, and I wouldn’t do that, because I am not a piece of shit and I know that me “like something you don’t” doesn’t give me the right to force it on you.

It’s not about taste, no matter how horrible and senseless. It’s about forcing other people to 'enjoy" your taste. Do you not get it? You can like whatever you want. But you can’t (or shouldn’t be allowed) to force everyone else to hear it.

Your fascination with that dude is yours alone. I don’t know why it’s relevant.

Also, dudes not caring hearing damage to people you fucking idiot. Get a grip.

You may have had a stroke when you wrote this. If not, it just didn’t make any sense.

And fuck us cyclists… We get run over AND lose our hearing because we’re not protected by 1ton of soundproofed metal.

And if that logic was true, we would already have a problem worse than the yank tank issue, where the cars get bigger and bigger for “protection”. Every vehicle would get louder and louder to be heard above the other loud vehicles, and eventually living in a city would mean enjoying the non stop sound of atomic bombs exploding everywhere 100 times per second per car.

But unlike the yank tank issue, everyone would be deaf, and then the noise wouldn’t matter anymore. I guess that’s the best case scenario that those kinds of sadists hope for. They can’t hear anymore, so they want everyone else to be deaf as well.

I like seeing atomic explosions. Surely I should be able to create one in real life because it’s a total different feeling than seeing the video.

Your pleasure should never be above the safety and rights of others. I understand headphones won’t give you the same “pleasure” as the sound of real explosions, but that’s the limits of how you should be able to enjoy it.

Speakers are machines and they give us great pleasure.

Ok, sounds of machine explosions then. If you really have that trouble understanding.

Plenty of people watch F1 and love the sounds of a V8 or V10 or whatever. So much so they can tell them apart.

That’s what I would like to know, why do those dysfunctional individuals exists. What issue happened that made them enjoy loud noises that should make them scared? Do they enjoy the sound of thunder? Airplane jets next to their faces? Why?

Sure if we shined a light on your life we might find that you too are a little inconsiderate at times.

If I caused hearing damage to people, damaged their health, made the life of hundreds (thousands? I don’t how long you’ve been driving) a nightmare, I should be jailed or killed. I am a sociopath then, a danger to society.

How on hell is that behavior legal I don’t know, but I am not an absolute piece of shit committing crimes daily. And if I am I DO deserve punishing and it’s astonishing that society would not do it.

This place is so fucking depressing. Just a load of sad little freaks mad at the world and giving off old man shouting at clouds vibes.

Your kind makes my life fucking depressing. If I could commit crimes like your kind does, I would get rid of all of you. Unfortunately I can do nothing, only shout at clouds really.

I am being rude, yes. But like I said, to me your people are criminals and I would do anything if I could to punish you lot, not to have debates, because there is no debate with someone who doesn’t care if he’s hurting others and continues to do so.

I don’t. To me the exhaust and noise are terrible but unavoidable issues of a combustion engine. A fetish with it and attempts to hear more of it are alien concepts to me. I would only modify my car to reduce the issue and I don’t know what you need to do to enjoy your “pleasure”.

If it’s not loud (assuming I can trust you understand what not loud means) how can you hear from inside the car? And if you can hear from inside, people outside can hear it MORE. So it’s an impossible concept to me. Like enjoying hurting others but that they don’t feel pain.

Or do you mean that anything below killing people and damaging structures is not absurdly loud and therefore acceptable?

I know that’s the answer but I refuse to believe and I would like them to explain themselves.

They look like me, look human, as a human, that kind of behaviour seems impossible to me. But then we have zionists, billionaires, etc, sadists everywhere, so I think the problem must be with me.

Can’t you just put some headphones on and enjoy the sound of explosions?

Does everyone in a 10km radius have to “enjoy” it as well?

So you like the people who always use their loud speakers instead of headphones?

Why? How come the sound of a machine gives you pleasure? Do you feel pleasure going to the airport standing next to the plane without ear protection as well? I really wish I could understand. It’s absolutely alien to me, more like a mental issue.

But above all, are you that removed from society that you don’t know that it creates problem to other people? Or do you just don’t care and everyone can die or be tortured if it means you can enjoy your “pleasure”?

I really wish to know those answers, but above all; WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LIKE YOU? How come this species have so many dysfunctional individuals and how on earth is this accepted? Where can I go to live where there are none like you? And believe me I lived in dozens of cities looking for that answer.

I wish so much to not even know that your kind exists… To pretend this species I’m cursed to be part of is not as evil as it actually is…