I can't speak to the doom scenarios (death trap and whathaveyous) but I can share my experience. I was faced with buying what's considered a new "decent" bike for close to $1K and went the other way - I bought a used one for $80 in sorta OK shape; no idea who made the frame but the majority of its components are of chinese origin.

the rationale was a) to see if I even want the thing - what if I ride it a couple of times and then decide it's too much bother, and b) I should learn how to maintain it and fix the usual stuff.

three years later, I've replaced close to all of the key components by myself - wheels, crank shaft, pedals, front and rear derailleurs, brakes, calipers, cables, chains, tyres, etc. I had no experience fixing anything and got all my education from youtube. some of the gear failed and was replaced, other was upgraded preventively, mostly with shimano's value line. I'm not blaming the original components for failing, there's ample wear and tear the way I ride it and I also happen to be kinda oversized for this bike, shoulda gotten an XXL frame.

my advice is, ride the bike as is and replace components as they fail, you'll learn how to fix stuff in the process and the replacements are super cheap. only then, when you're a seasoned rider start looking into better alternatives.

straight out of the "silicon valley" timeline, I can practically see Jian-Yang pitching it

do any of these forks support E2EE? I don't mean the OG "private chat" thingy that Telegram supports.

I mean like an add-on, the way pidgin had an OTR plugin that enabled private comms over Google's unencrypted XMPP servers.

as a consequence, that would also encrypt everything in the cloud and prevent your chat history being ingested for LLM training and whatnot.

I don't think any Thinkpads have AMI firmware, which is the source of this fuckup.

any mods around? what's this bullshit have to do with programming?

just watched a video where the dev explains LG; this is for a Windows VM that allows GPU pass-through, or am I missing something? when you say "host" and "client", you're referring to two physical devices or how does that work in your case?

I have two physical machines (both running linux, Fedora 40 on the desktop and Debian 12 on the laptop) connected to the same monitor, keyboard and mouse and I need to alternate between them.

edit: aha, the LG site refers to KVM as kernel-virtual-machine, whereas I'm talking about KVM as in keyboard-video-mouse; completely different things, maybe I should amend the post's title.

kinda like trillian in the olden days... not sure all them proprietary services are gonna let 'em use their platforms though.

QOwnNotes (had to look up the exact name as it's the stupidest app name ever). but compared to joplin it's lighter, faster, simpler (no database but individual .md files and folders) and works well enough with syncthing.

I have no direct experience with any pen related issues but kudos for taking the time to open all them reports. sooner or later, someone is going to tackle those issues. let's hope it's soon.

there's a lot of things that need to be re-implemented in wayland and it currently sucks for a lot of people; but forcing change by pushing wayland onto the users is the only way forward, way too many people are comfortable with status quo.

the least you can do is provide the basics - AMD/Intel, GPU, wayland/x11, os and kernel version, I'm not looking up what an 8th gen x1 runs on.

as to your question, seen similar with ryzens freezing for seconds intermittently on older kernels.

not important for this use case. I'm referring to the fact that I can close it shut and leave it for a week. I open it and it's ready to go and the battery has barely lost a percentage point. that's 2010 tech and something completely unattainable to me 13 years later. I've moved on from macOS but can't help being envious.

thanks for the link, explains it very well. how bout my activity, like IP address, up/down votes, clicks on links, favorites and whatnot, is that federated around or how does that work, i.e. who has access to it?