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New comment by bald in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

bald — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:38:46 +0000

Re firmware updates, I've had the same problem and written a blog post about how to update the firmware on ThinkPad under Linux without a Windows computer. Find it here: https://random.xdiez.com/it/2024/02/03/Lenovo-BIOS-update-do...

New comment by bald in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

bald — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:08:13 +0000

Schuko can do 16A permanent load, the Swiss can do 10A afaik

New comment by bald in "Laptop Ports: Is USB-C only fine, or should I get HDMI,USB,Audio if I need them?"

bald — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:34:00 +0000

There's now AMD laptops certified for Thunderbolt 4 coming to the market, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 [1], so it's no longer this clear cut.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/coming-soon/lenovo-thinkpad-t...

New comment by bald in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

bald — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:21:07 +0000

If you tap on the minutes left text in the lower left corner of your screen, it will cycle through pages, minutes left in chapter, section and blank

New comment by bald in "America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs"

bald — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:05:42 +0000

Mars is one of the biggest manufacturers of pet food in the world

New comment by bald in "Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU"

bald — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:52:47 +0000

Cyprus is also included while it's on the Asian continental plate

New comment by bald in "Raspberry Pi CEO: Supply should be “unconstrained” in second half of 2023"

bald — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:11:07 +0000

I recently needed to buy a raspberry for my hobby project and find one close to retail price via [1] which tracks availability across different online stores.

[1] https://rpilocator.com/

Elon Musk says Twitter is roughly breaking even

bald — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-roughly-breaking-even/ar-AA19KApC

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535699

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by bald in "Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones"

bald — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:00:33 +0000

Not sure why you're being downvoted, but this is the right answer

New comment by bald in "Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks"

bald — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:25:02 +0000

I'm living in Cyprus; had a Lenovo technician come here from Nicosia (~150 miles return) to fix my left-side USB ports of my ThinkPad T590 about six weeks ago.

In the past, I've had come Lenovo to remote parts of Switzerland and Germany, as well.

New comment by bald in "Ask HN: Affordable places in the world with 10G unmetered fiber home Internet?"

bald — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:40:55 +0000

also mobile plans are cheap in Switzerland. You can get a plan including unlimited calls throughout most of Europe+Canada+US (incl. roaming) plus unlimited 5G in Switzerland plus 40GB of data roaming throughout Europe (not only EU)+Canada+US for 35-45 CHF/month. These are sales that happen 3-4 times a year, e.g. via qoqa.ch or on wingo.ch. I have two of those from two different providers.

Regular prices for such plans are CHF 100-130, which I also do not find overly expensive compared to US.

Tesla Q3 2021 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

bald — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q3-2021-vehicle-production-deliveries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28729469

Points: 91

# Comments: 88

New comment by bald in "Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]"

bald — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:22:31 +0000

> 5 user

I think he's referring to CAL

New comment by bald in "Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago"

bald — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:59:45 +0000

yes!! big time Casio Business Navigator BN-40A fan when I was 12 years old. had it for like 2 weeks before selling it to my best friend because my excitement had dropped off. But so cool to have something that looked like a super small laptop and such a wide screen.