They’re worse than us Arch users (btw)

Not just the Israel-Hamas war, when you criticize the CCP in that community you get banned for “orientalism”. That modlog is hilariously full of “bothsidesing” and “orientalism”, but that’s a problem with the whole instance which is leaning towards tankism.

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Congrats on still rocking a laptop that’s 10 years old!

there will always be a Thinkpad nerd to do the shilling in a laptops thread, just doing my job 😎

The specs that I have now are due to the upgrades I’ve listed: the NVMe is a WD_BLUE SN570 1TB, and the RAM sticks are Patriot Memory DDR4 3200Mhz, both bought new on Amazon, and then there’s the AX200 Wi-Fi card that I bought used (you could also spend €5 more and buy it new but I didn’t see the point in doing that).

The base laptop (the one I bought for €180) has an 8th gen i5 and came with 8GB of RAM (single stick), and you can find these specs below €200 on Ebay (very good chance if you also participate in the many auctions that are there, as an example here’s one if you’re in the US: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266452790554).

What’s good about it is that if you know what you’re doing you can install only what you need and keep your system small and tidy. Also, since it’s a rolling distro, updates become available really quick and sometimes some of the updates introduce optimizations (meaning more performance) or better power consumption. And finally of course Arch has also an amazing wiki, they have hands down the best Linux documentation along with Gentoo, and they even have a page about Thinkpads: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo

Got mine on Ebay, and you usually have to be careful like with any purchase of a used item: ask for detailed photos if you can’t judge the state of the item from the photos that are there, ask questions about things that were left out in the description, look for sellers with very good ratings and look at their reviews, see if you can return etc…

Amazon also sells refurbished ones, but so far I’ve seen the best deals on Ebay.

EDIT: important, make sure the BIOS is unlocked.

i was planning on getting a new laptop cheaply for about 500ish

What are you hoping to do with it? I got a used Thinkpad T480 that was like new for €180 and added a couple of upgrades to it (1TB NVMe, 64GB RAM, Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card) that cost me €137, meaning a total of €317, and I’m very happy with the laptop right now, it’s very responsive with Arch Linux and an i3 desktop and I think this baby will be good for many years.

Seconding Khan Academy, it’s much better than whatever paid alternative resources you might find, and what’s indeed cool is that everything there has amazing structure and you just can trust its curriculum without having to think too much about what to watch next.

this brings back Turbo Pascal memories

Voyager is simply amazing (see !voyagerapp@lemmy.world)

For cooking, get Leanne Brown’s “Good and Cheap” book, she put the PDF for free on her website: https://www.leannebrown.com/all-about-good-and-cheap/

Also, if you have a car see if you can downgrade by going for a cheaper used car, try to find cheaper rent and look for stuff you don’t need anymore and sell it.

Good luck!

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legit made me very sad when I saw the pics, wish he gets well soon!

You may want to take a look at this repairability thread from a month ago: https://lemmy.world/post/3213947.

A Fairphone is obviously the best candidate here, as you can replace pretty much everything on it. The Pixel starting from the 8 series is also surprisingly becoming interesting in this category thanks to the 7 years of software updates.

As jet said the difficult part is the content, not really the “technology” (which is mostly just flashcards tech + quick “fill the void” exercises, and we already have software like Anki). There’s probably the gamification aspect too.

There are lots of free language learning materials on the internet. For Japanese for example, there’s Tae Kim’s course: https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/ (his grammar guide has a CC BY-SA 3.0 license, his “complete” guide has no license yet as he hasn’t finished it yet). It would be great if course authors could allow open-source devs to build a unifying app on top of their courses (it does seem that Tae Kim is okay with it, since he allowed an Android dev to make an (now discontinued) app version of the course: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexisblaze.japanese_grammar).

Goodbye Moonmen

More non-tech stuff

you need to visit that community from within lemmy.world, like this:

https://lemmy.world/c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de