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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m probably from a younger generation, because as long as I have been around google has never felt like a choice for me. Instead, it was always the default or mandated by the organization I am a part of (university, other web services…). It’s kinda a fight to get out of the google grasp.

    Hearing you (and I guess the article towards the end) talk about google as not a monstrosity gives me hope that maybe other companies can push through and usurp google’s “defaultness”. It’d also be great if it was not another giant like microsoft giving competition.

    I’d love to be able to a make a non-google choice and not feel like an outsider.



  • First off, I think you’re completely right in that laptop batteries are definitely a non-ideal solution. And, I’m really not an expert in this, so take my words with a grain of salt.

    You could mitigate a bit of the dangers by doing some of the following (I only did the first):

    • Reducing the max charge level to 50% of the capacity.
    • Monitor your batteries health to alert for any discrepancies.
    • Switch out your batteries every couple of years (which is super easy without downtime on the aformentioned old thinkpads).

    If you are an under $100 budget, there seems to be an argument that maybe you are willing to risk a little bit for that extra power reliability.



  • To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.

    If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.