Man these heart defects are scary. I know at least two people IRL that just dropped dead very young from an undiagnosed heart defect. One was a very fit athlete.
Poor kid. Poor family. Shitty situation all around.
I mean sure, OK, but you can go your entire life without realizing you have a heart problem and then you just drop dead one day without ever realizing you were at risk. That’s the scary part. One person died while running on a track, decades before COVID was a thing. The other died at home and left four young children behind; wasn’t sick, no symptoms, just gone. I know three other people that just up and died from aneurysms.
I’m not scared of dying, and I know that any given moment could be my last one ever, but I really like my life and I’ve got shit I still want to do, you know?
I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?
I just got a Gen 3 T14s and I have been very happy with it. It seems like it has kind of narrow viewing windows which is kind of annoying, but not a dealbreaker for me. Overall a very peppy laptop.
Man I really hope they kill that. Its extremely user unfriendly, especially in Microsoft’s configuration where they show the bsod for 0.2 seconds for rebooting.
I recently installed Linux mint ane was unpleasantly surprised that it is virtually impossible on every desktop environment, as opposed to Ubuntu on which it required very little.
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said “attention, this is a representative of...
My dog and I got chased by a bear in the woods near my house. I jumped on the bear and was riding it like a horse but it was chasing my (arthritic) dog. I was yelling at my dog to keep running (I actually said that IRL lol) before I woke up.
Because Matrix can’t stick to a single thought and they completely refactor their codebase every year or two and I’m not convinced they are going to be reliable in the long run.
A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that leave potentially serious structural flaws on its 787 and 777 widebody planes....
It Is Inexcusable How Judge Cannon Is Delaying the Trump Documents Case (www.nytimes.com)
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values (apnews.com)
Democrats introduce bill to aid older LGBTQ+ Americans in rural areas (www.advocate.com)
Parfait au pork (lemmy.today)
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says (apnews.com)
xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2933...
What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?
I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?
18+ New to this app, show some love 😅 (lemmynsfw.com)
Still an Atheist (lemmy.world)
Democrats Ask Biden to Investigate Grocery Store Price-Fixing (time.com)
Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations for Wine/Proton(Games) (www.phoronix.com)
On what distros/desktop envs is it possible to have the same taskbar on every screen?
I recently installed Linux mint ane was unpleasantly surprised that it is virtually impossible on every desktop environment, as opposed to Ubuntu on which it required very little.
The Real Takeover of Columbia Was By Those on the Right (www.thenation.com)
Elon Musk Says He'll Reinstate Twitter Account Of Hitler-Loving White Supremacist (www.huffpost.com)
What was your most recent dream?
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said “attention, this is a representative of...
Ubuntu Snap Hate
I’ve gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?...
why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?
I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?
MineClone 2 will switch to a new name, VoxeLibre (git.minetest.land)
New Boeing whistleblower alleges serious structural flaws on 787 and 777 jets (www.seattletimes.com)
A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that leave potentially serious structural flaws on its 787 and 777 widebody planes....
I have literally developed bespoke coping mechanisms around such scenarios (lemmy.dbzer0.com)