lichtmetzger

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Same here. It's not so bad. It get's really bad when I have to work on older PHP5 projects, though. Or shudder WordPress projects without OOP.

It'll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago

They should've renamed the movie to "Speedo Pedo".

My new boss just cancelled all of our daily standup meetings that were introduced by the previous management. Reason given: "I have seen nothing valuable here during the last two weeks."

I like him.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can confirm - mine has neither, it's a challenge.

Then you have lost control of your life and shortcuts are the least of your problems.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Yep, Adobe software still phones home even when it's cracked. But there's supposedly a list of hosts you can block to stop this behaviour: https://a.dove.isdumb.one/list.txt

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

Yes I bought it ~3 years ago directly from Lenovo and the rubber feet look just like the ones in that photo.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I have an L390 Yoga (i7) and these feet are indeed way too large.

The device is painful to use even with the correct feet, though - at least if you're using Windows. It's constantly overheating, because the cooling system is just reused from the L380 and can't handle the heat of my i7 8565U processor. But hey - at least the marketing people were able to put "4.6GHz" into the specs.

I have to undervolt the CPU to make it run cool and prevent thermal throttling, which is not possible anymore if you're running a current Windows version.

That thing is probably the last Thinkpad I've ever bought, to be honest.

Also, if you’re wondering what that port with network symbol is, it appears to be a proprietary connector used on ThinkPads requiring an “Ethernet Extension” adapter to be usable.

Yup, the port is called "MicroLAN" and the adapter was 30-50€ back when the device was new. It's of poor quality (the rubber of the cable on mine is turning into a sticky mess) and entirely passive.

Lenovo must've looked at Apple's accessory profits and thought they wanted to make money off of crap, too.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So, if the image you want to put into your email is not hosted somewhere, what’s the best way to go about this, ensuring compatibility?

You can base64-encode the image file. It's super-jank, but it works, even in Outlook.

Example: https://www.base64-image.de/tutorial

 
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