The scratches on my thinkpad aren't flaws. They're battle scars!
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On the right, but with a solar panel.
The one on the right needs a surge protector.
Classic thinkpad battery health
I am the left one until the first scratch appears, at that point i manage to do worse than the Right one.
Looks at hp stream that's been choking for 5 years in cnc shavings.
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So I started going to University recently, and the amount of people I've had actively chastise me for how I treat my laptop has been shocking.
This is a tool to get things done, it's not some precious gem, I bought a cheap laptop with the expectation that it's going to get gross and crusty and I'll have to hose it down once a year, I'm going to wing it around and drop it and clean the screen with my sleeve.
Treating a telescope like a jackhammer isn't going to work well.
They just haven't figured out your jackhammer just looks a lot like their telescope.
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Y'all hatin on the first image, but that's me 🥺
That's me for about a week with any new device. Then I slowly get more and more lax, until eventually I'm the one on the right.
Buy used, best feature is that it comes with scratches so you don't have to be so careful
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So I'm hating you now
I admire your conviction
My old MacBook was first too shiny and new to put stickers on, then it lived so long that I didn't want to waste stickers on a machine that I'd need to retire. It made it ten years before having weird bootloop issues.
To try to counteract my own neuroses I went sticker mad on its replacement immediately. It also helps with easily telling which way is up at a glance (I don't know how many times I had to rotate the old one when I went to open it).
You know, aside from the i9 MacBook pros, these are really resilient machines that will last quite a while. They don’t deserve the hate they get. They easily outlast gamer laptops that bake themselves to death.
The butterfly keyboard models are definitely not included in that statement, but all other models yes they'll live forever. BUT i also have a bunch of old laptops from other companies that live forever running linux
I still use my 2011 MacBook Pro hahaha. I’ve added a SSD and maxed out the RAM, but it runs amazingly.
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That's why I buy 'em. All other personal laptops I've had over the years don't make it past the two year mark but I've been really impressed by Macbooks. I expect there's probably some amazing Linux machines with similar hardiness but I've not had reason to roll the dice on that front.
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I am the second one.
Battle scars are customizations.
Remember the old ThinkPad idiom: "If the cracks are just plastic, it's still fantastic!"
A knight in shining armor never had his mettle tested!
Tech is a tool to me and tools shouldn't be pristine and unused.
Tools should be used for sure.
Still never a reason to carelessly step on cables, toss/shove the computer instead of set it down, etc.
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That’s stupid, all my tools are in great condition. Just because it’s useful doesn’t mean it needs to be dirty and damaged and shitty.
Hey treat your stuff however you want. But generally tools are meant to wear out from their intended use. Ususlly, the better you treat your tools the more use you get out of them.
Me, still using my unscathed 2011 MacBook Pro
I’m astounded by how shittily people treat their stuff. My tools are also pristine. Just because something is mechanical doesn’t mean it has to be dirty and shitty.
Any time I get a new toy, I do try to keep it a shiny as possible for as long as I can, but yeah eventually the battle scars come through and then it's a different story.
You my kind of people!
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One isn't a tech enthusiast, but a tech idiot.
You're just gatekeeping.
ThinkPad with a generator? Nothing wrong with that
maybe add LoRa, get a ham license and add some packet radio or digital modes and you have a neat disaster setup.
MacBook that you don't want to scuff? Well, I'm not that precious with my gear, but you do you. Many Mac laptops last a very long time, and the performance of modern Apple silicon is really, really impressive
and you have UNIX out of the box. Plenty for a tech enthusiast to like.
Yeah, who hooks a portable generator up to their laptop without using a surge protector??
Lol, how is this not more common in the answers? Lotta people on Lemmy don't know how to use a generator...
That shit also isn't grounded, though I think some specific generators may be alright without that.
The caps in the power supply should be enough to eat the noise in that power source.
That model (yamaha ef2000) has an inverter. Nice and quiet, too. Little fucker is touchy about the fuel, though.
I mean, if you like to live dangerously, sure. Those power supplies can be expensive, though, and surge protectors are dirt cheap.
Those power supplies can be expensive
Used official ones are like $20 on ebay.
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