The reason used ThinkPads are so easy to find in good condition at bargain prices is because management in corporations just lease them for 3-5 years and continuously replace them even if they don’t actually need to do so. They probably don’t even know that they can last decades but accounting wants a lease, so they get a lease.

There isn’t a similar “infinite supply” of used frameworks that constantly drives prices down

I like the idea of owning one. Then I see the prices and I compare them with the prices of refurbished ThinkPads… (No, I don’t need a new laptop)

The Chinese companies are also gouging prices

For work we need to give the user manual of the machines we sell in a USB drive. Because it’s a 3mb PDF and nobody reads user manuals anyway we buy the shittiest and smallest capacity USB drives available on Alibaba in bulk (64-128 mb or even smaller).

They are so cheap that the plastic shell isn’t even glued, it can be pried open with my nails. Because there’s a 15% failure rate (either the computer reports it as empty, or the hash after writing doesn’t match), I opened the faulty ones to check them. They’re made with recycled nands from ewaste. Some chips are clearly resoldered from something else (glue residue from tore down stickers), others come from rejected production lines as the brand has been removed with a laser (for example, someone engraved XXXXXXXX over the SanDisk logo), others have numbers wrote with a marker.

Since november prices went up 70% “eh the nand prices went up because datacenter demand them”.

Sure, ai datacenters are using 20 years old 64mb nand chips recycled from ewaste…

Fucking thiel is obsessed by LOTR, everything he touches has to have references to it

I tried Warp terminal because now that’s bankrolled by openai’s magic infinite money you can use your own openai api keys without a subscription. So I put one from my work account. I do a git commit (manually) and then it comes a prompt under it “push it, open a PR and switch to main?”. I click yes, it used one million tokens for that… (And it took about a minute because it did like 20 requests, so there was no time saving at all vs doing it manually)

I wget something, it comes a prompt under it “now compare the hash?”. Boom, another 500k tokens

Even on sale they are extremely expensive.

Do first party games like the Mario ones ever go on sale?

A few years ago I went to the Nintendo NY store/museum and I chuckled when a mom asked the clerk “excuse do you have something on discount?” And she got “no madam here we do not do discounts”

Does anyone know if chunked upload has been implemented? Vital for who’s behind cloudflare

Physical games on PC were already dead at the time, with securom+activation key and dead activation servers

I was thinking the opposite?

I see a lot of kids trying to find a used deal at GameStop (now renamed to something else in my country as it went out of business) and also resell it when they’re done while adults (except collectors) don’t have time, just download the specific game that they want to play and didn’t want to sell it in the future also.

You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well-crafted. As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets, and Notepad.”

Proceeds to increase unnecessary copilot entry points

It appears almost every single time I login to gmail

When you use Google services there’s a very annoying popup “why u no use Chrome” that appears at least once every three week and you can only choose between “ok I give up, install now” and “no, ask me again for the 134th time”