| === diddledan5 is now known as diddledan | ||
| daftykins | interesting, looks like landscape doesn't update live in Firefox 74 | 01:52 |
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| brobostigon | morning | 05:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 10:36 |
| ball | popey: You're coming out of my speakers. | 12:52 |
| popey | Sorry about that | 12:52 |
| * ball chuckles | 12:52 | |
| ball | I don't think I've ever heard the Linux For Everyone podcast before. | 12:53 |
| popey | how did you stumble on that then? :) | 12:53 |
| ball | Followed the podcast yesterday on Twitter when someone else mentioned it, I think. | 12:54 |
| popey | ahhh | 12:55 |
| ball | It's snaptastic. | 13:09 |
| knightwise | hey popey | 13:13 |
| knightwise | i enjoyed your latest youtube video's ! :) especially the screenshot tour down memory lane | 13:14 |
| ball | I find myself wanting a ThinkPad | 13:51 |
| ball | I blame popey. | 13:51 |
| zmoylan-pi | wanting a thinkpad is perfectly natural... owning more than 1 is almost normal. 5 or more and you are into linux version of cat lady :-) | 13:52 |
| ball | One challenge is that there have been so many versions over the years it's not easy to know what kind I would like. | 13:56 |
| zmoylan-pi | not all thinkpads are the same... no | 13:56 |
| ball | Hmm... ThinkPad 11e claims to be "Student proof". | 14:03 |
| zmoylan-pi | they always invent a dumber student... | 14:04 |
| ball | popey: Any ide whether that one works with Linux? | 14:05 |
| ball | idea* | 14:05 |
| ball | ideal* <- for the Bristolians | 14:06 |
| popey | I honestly don't know. Not played with chromebooks | 14:06 |
| popey | oh, it's windows, not chromeos | 14:06 |
| ball | $480 after coupon. | 14:07 |
| ball | Celeron N4100. Let me look that up. | 14:07 |
| zmoylan-pi | try https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki | 14:07 |
| ball | It would be nice to buy it with Linux on, given the choice | 14:07 |
| ball | ..if only because it tells the manufacturer that people are interested in Linux. | 14:08 |
| zmoylan-pi | manufacturers don't see people as customers, they see companies that buy 10000 of their laptops as customers | 14:10 |
| ball | In my last job I used to buy quite a few Dell laptops | 14:10 |
| * ball contemplates sticking the kettle on. | 14:10 | |
| * zmoylan-pi confesses to having never having used a dell desktop or laptop in my life. | 14:11 | |
| zmoylan-pi | and my first pc was a mitac in late 80s... | 14:11 |
| ball | zmoylan-pi: We had about 400 desktops in the field and were buying Dells to replace those when they failed. | 14:11 |
| ball | (back when we were allowed to buy things) | 14:12 |
| ball | Mostly Optiplex 3070 tiny and mini tower variants. | 14:12 |
| ball | (quad core i3, SSD etc.) | 14:12 |
| * ball looks up the ThinkPad E. | 14:13 | |
| * ball accidentally adopts the ThinkPad 860 | 14:17 | |
| zmoylan-pi | left in a basket on your doorstep? :-P | 14:18 |
| ball | I would give it a good home. | 14:19 |
| lornajane | I have less than five thinkpads, so I'm officially not a linux cat lady | 14:56 |
| ball | That 11e looks as though it would do everything I need. | 14:57 |
| lornajane | I think we're only a six-thinkpad household, so far | 14:57 |
| ball | If I find a job I might buy one. | 14:57 |
| zmoylan-pi | dangerously close though... :-P | 14:59 |
| lornajane | yeah four of them are mine. And there's time yet ... also this X1 technically belongs to my employer and I'll miss it when I leave | 15:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | will they? :-P | 15:03 |
| lornajane | eh, probably. They're pretty enterprise. My first thinkpad was "inherited" | 15:24 |
| zmoylan-pi | one of the few laptop brands that a second hand laptop is still very desirable | 15:24 |
| lornajane | I left a job with no job to go to, no laptop of my own, and it was way overdue for replacement. I still have that machine | 15:24 |
| * zmoylan-pi looks around room at 4 'old' laptops sitting idle.... all craptops as they were mostly obsolete when bought new. | 15:26 | |
| zmoylan-pi | all except my precious, my olpc.... :-) | 15:26 |
| ball | lornajane: I was laid off at the beginning of this year. | 15:31 |
| ball | brb, lunch. | 15:53 |
| lornajane | ball: ouch. My manager is looking to move on and I'm not sure if I want to stay without her. I'm hoping to be making the decision myself though and in my own time | 15:57 |
| daftykins | ball: grabbing an older model ThinkPad would be the way to go, i picked up a T440s for £170 on ebay a bit ago - 4th generation 'haswell' core i5, that'd be the minimum to aim for really | 15:57 |
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