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[AugustWest]

Hopefully not working in a...

Or...

[Carlos del Vaca]

The one that's hardest to do?

[JorgeFabregas]

I'm guessing circular and running bond mixed, which I imagine requires cutting bricks.

[theinevitable]

My macbook has been on the decline for a while, and this week I finally bit the bullet. Bought a super cheap used thinkpad off of ebay and put linux on it. I'm having a blast with this thing, but one flaw is driving me up the wall: it has a German keyboard. The labels on the keys are a mild annoyance, it's rare that I look at the keyboard, but the shapes of the keys are also different. Specifically, the Enter and Shift keys are narrower and there's an extra symbol key where I am used to their inner edges being.

Other than that: it has the same specs as my 6 year old macbook, but weighs half as much, lasts several times longer, and doesn't get hot and uncomfortable when I use it on my lap. This thing is great. Making things harder for myself than they need to be with Linux but it's all fun for now.

[jaydub]

The anarchist in me wants to like Linux,  but the activation energy is too high for a dad of young children.

[theinevitable]

Yeah, it seems like they are still not at the point where it's easy enough to get going when you have other demands on your time and need it to just work. Although to be fair what I meant was I made it harder on myself for not going for an "easier" distribution. I think most of the stuff I've struggled with would be solved for me in Ubuntu, but I wanted a sick custom setup because I look at Reddit too much.

Playing some Factorio on this thing, that game pushes all my fun buttons even though I'm pretty bad at it.

Also: it's mindblowing to me that a $250 computer can be this good.

[theinevitable]

Interview in Virginia in mid-october, interview in NYC early october, my Inside Woman at a job in Texas says she's "90% sure" I'm getting an interview. Too much at once.

[wombat]

Where in Virginia?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Where in Virginia?

[theinevitable]

McLean. I will be near some of you fine folks, not sure yet what the timetable is.

[Carlos del Vaca]

[theinevitable]

There's an NYT article today talking about the personality traits in kids that predict future drug addiction and... geez. I'm glad I managed to divert my reality-avoiding/stimulation-seeking tendencies into books and video games and guitar bands. And posting on a board about alive stuffed animals.

[pmcd9]

Where in Texas?

[KeithHernandez]

There's an NYT article today talking about the personality traits in kids that predict future drug addiction and... geez. I'm glad I managed to divert my reality-avoiding/stimulation-seeking tendencies into books and video games and guitar bands. And posting on a board about alive stuffed animals.

I did all that and it didn't work, the drugs just made that stuff more fun.  Especially the books and guitar bands.

[theinevitable]

Where in Texas?

Austin. Fingers crossed.