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Got given a ThinkPad P15v (upgraded to 64GB RAM) as my work development machine. It's heavy, it runs absurdly hot, and it chews up the battery - an hour with IntellliJ open is very optimistic. Got a ThinkBook 14-IIL (16GB) as my own personal machine - hugely prefer it even for development work, much easier to carry about, battery lasts for hours, doesn't seem any slower in practice.

They both seem pretty robust and they both run Linux perfectly, but unless you absolutely need need need a discrete graphics card or loads of ram I couldn't recommend the Pad, and they are damn expensive for what they are. Book on the other hand - great machine. Crap for games, but excellent in every other regard.

Can also recommend Just For Fun - that Finnish sense of humour doesn't come across well, and while he's good with English he certainly isn't Shakespeare, but it does fly by.

History of Linux, abridged: Linus was using Minix on his own PC while at University, but was a bit fed up with its networking capabilities, so he'd written a toy operating system for a couple of his classes. While experimenting with adding features to it, he deleted his Minix partition by accident. Might as well continue with the one he'd written, since it was almost capable enough to be a daily driver. Publish the source, get a few collaborators in to add in the features that they found most useful, repeat. Boom.

Headline misses out the racist assault on police officers, too. Can't beat Woking for a big night out.

https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/28/woman-rode-motorbike-naked-sex-street-punched-blind-man-7188798/

Ah, thanks guys - a sad day, but like you say, needs to be done. We help in any way, or just keep our eyes open in the channel?

Rated 'Gold', ie. crashes no more or less than Windows.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1501750

Tune it! Strings lose their elasticity with age - if they sound like shit, then it's time to replace them, but they're rarely going to break before then.. And you need to train your ears!

Remove the update manager? Remove the bootloader and all kernels if you want to - you might if you're preparing a container image, it won't stop you. Remove glibc and init? Fine, if that's what you want - might have no need for those if you're prepping it up for embedded.

The price of having a computer that does exactly what it's told is that you have to know what to tell it. But that's well worth while.

He did. This is a collection of all his short stories and such that he'd submitted to newspapers in the 1970s under a pseudonym. Review says that basically they're mostly a bit crap, but that won't stop this selling like hotcakes. Very disrespectful even so, like you say.

Think it's only right to build them their very own workshop, put them on repeat until they become legendary. Maybe make a couple of soap statues of them at work? Elves love soap.

I'm a big fan of those games, and I really enjoyed HUNTDOWN. It's a shooting platformer, more Contra than anything on your list, but is good times and has top choons to listen to while you're playing.

Cool, will have a look at those, thanks! More looking to impress with my knowledge of using a variety of bugtrackers; have got plenty of evidence to show that there's a couple I know how to use.

It's the early days of really crap camera film that needed about a minute of exposure time. She probably could lift three men at once - if she found three horse jockeys, that might be less than 120 kg - but couldn't hold the pose completely motionless for the time needed to take the picture. Hence the 'carefully staged' photo.