BarryBarrington

joined 2 years ago
[–] BarryBarrington@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Machine translation: In agreement with our Italian friends, we could take advantage of the Vatican power vacuum to launch a special operation on the city, abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the Vatican People's Republic

[–] BarryBarrington@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To second this - Thinkpads in my experience have been pretty solid. I'm still using the second hand x280 I bought a few years ago and installed linux on. It took a big hit and the screen smashed so bought a replacement (higher resolution) third party screen on aliexpress. I poured a glass of water on the keyboard. It still worked but some of the keys had to be pressed quite hard, so I got a replacement keyboard also on aliexpress, was pretty easy to install (youtube video plus 20 mins time, the replacement even came with the screwdriver I needed). I treat it pretty rough but it keeps ticking along. I don't think I'd ever buy a new laptop unless I could expense it. Plenty of second hand thinkpads online with decent processors / ram. idk if they're any good for gaming but for work/web browsing they're great.

[–] BarryBarrington@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

I started doing it to lose weight. I lost 2lb per week for a period of 10 weeks. Since then I have continued doing it, but much less strictly. I don't eat breakfast and try to have a small lunch (like 2 pieces of toast), then I have a very large dinner at around 6pm. I honestly think I feel much better in the mornings, and I don't get sleepy in the afternoons. The way I started was to slowly push back the time I ate something at the start of the day. At first I didn't eat until mid morning, then after a few days I didn't eat until lunch time, then mid afternoon. After a week or so I was no eating anything until my evening meal.

[–] BarryBarrington@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

In this case Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon are obviously major threats to national security and should be banned from operating in the EU and USA.