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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Refurbished ThinkPads are awesome!

    • Availability - ThinkPads are very popular in corporate environments and are generally replaced every 2-3 years. Although mostly Intel CPUs, there is a wide variety CPU+GPU available from lightweight to high performance.
    • Tough + well built + last forever
    • Easy to upgrade/repair. They’re very user-accessible and its simple to upgrade RAM or SSD/M.2 drives. Plus, because they are so popular in the corporate environment, replacement parts (from batteries to WiFi+Bluetooth chipsets to trckpads) are very available and cheap.
    • Well supported in most (if not all) linux distros. Graphics just work, trackpads just work, WiFi just works.
    • Cheap.

    Sent from my ThinkPad T580 (with both an internal and removable battery, I get 10+ hours of battery life)





  • I just don’t understand why they’re trying to solve this issue on the client side. It seems like a losing battle to me.

    Instead, focus on the server side. If you want to push ads, then host on (or tunnel from) the content server. Get rid of all the \s and tags and scripts and adserver links that the adblockers are using to identify ads. Just assemble the page on the host so that it looks indistinguisable from the content the user is looking for and push it out. EAT BACHELOR CHOW! NOW WITH FLAVOR! Google could even start an ad-friendly hosting service that does this - some sitebuilder tools, identify where you want Google Adsense, and host the damn thing.