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New comment by leipie in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

leipie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:35:15 +0000

Choosing to stand up for your principles in one instance, doesn't mean you suddenly have to fight all the battles all at once, even those that aren't apparent you (yet). How do you know this person is not choosing principles on other occasions already? IMO doing this is better than doing nothing. You can always choose to pick up more battles later. Other people can fight the other fights. Everyone always choosing self over principles will be worse in the long run

New comment by leipie in "Chinese car crashes after voice command kills headlights"

leipie — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:24:14 +0000

Why does the article end with an endorsement with all kinds of vehicle specs? That makes it quite untrustworthy in my eyes. It looks like an ad.

New comment by leipie in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

leipie — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:18:11 +0000

All my machines still run Gentoo (I have used it for over 25 years). I just love the package manager. It has become much more low friction with the binary packages and gentoo-kernel(-bin). I regularly visit both the Gentoo and Arch documentation. They even cross reference each other and both are a great resource.

New comment by leipie in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

leipie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:02:02 +0000

Where is the car? All I see is a mock up dashboard that doesn't look very tangible. What does it look like? What does it sound like? What is it like to sit in the cockpit? How does it drive? This seems quite important to selling sports cars to me. This could almost be a commercial for selling for a perfume. Ow noes! No indicator stalks. No need to navigate roundabouts for Ferrari drivers. Going around corners is way too much fun for this car. It is Tesla all over again :S

New comment by leipie in "ThinkNext Design"

leipie — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:35:45 +0000

I have had generations of ThinkPad, since the x30 series. And the older older all had a very stiff metal (magnesium) frame as a core and usually a metal lid. Nowadays they went to very stiff plastic and carbon to save weight and thickness I guess. But they are much more portable because of this. I think Apple patented the "unibody design" at the time btw. The current company macbook pro I use for work is very heavy compared to other devices, because of all the metal and glass. It is quite a lot to carry around.

New comment by leipie in "ThinkNext Design"

leipie — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:22:28 +0000

I have a framework desktop with a ThinkPad TrackPoint II keyboard ;)

New comment by leipie in "ThinkNext Design"

leipie — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:42:35 +0000

I have gone through quite a few over the years. The oldest I still have are a W530 and X230 Tablet. The former I just reinstalled with Gentoo for one of my kids. Still very usable. The keyboard and trackpoint is very enjoyable, better than later ones. My latest are an AMD X13 gen 4 and a ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II for the other devices with inferior keyboards ;)

New comment by leipie in "America Has Become a Digital Narco-State"

leipie — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:03:17 +0000

The key is to regulate it and offer support to people afflicted by it, not let it room free.

New comment by leipie in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

leipie — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:54:10 +0000

I cannot find any explanation for that this is the result of EU regulation. Tesla should also adhere to the same EU regulation and they manage to do this without the "extra CO2" costs as the article states itself. This article smells like FUD to get attention.

New comment by leipie in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

leipie — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:04:40 +0000

My car only comes with the very bright LED headlights. There are no other options. These are way to bright and have a very sharp cut off. Street signs now blind me with high beams on. Though you can barely ever turn on high beams here in NL. The contrast of the low beams is so large I can barely see beyond the lit part right in front of the car. Sometimes I just turn off the lights down to parking lights, because I have a better view of the road ahead where I'm actually looking. Nowadays I have special glasses that filter the blue light to be able to drive at night for longer periods. I previously had them for oncoming traffic and street lights. Since I got my new car I also need them to be able to drive my own car...

New comment by leipie in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

leipie — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:51:54 +0000

In Dutch the literal translation is "half tien" which means 9:30 in Dutch. This can be quite confusing ;)

New comment by leipie in "Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening"

leipie — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:30:53 +0000

For me it has already been on there for quite a while now. Is has just been getting quite a bit worse, since Trump 2

New comment by leipie in "Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container"

leipie — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:03:02 +0000

They will probably be lined with plastic like aluminium cans

New comment by leipie in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

leipie — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:01:42 +0000

As a user I usually want all of those features to work. I regularly get ticked off at apps, because I cannot copy paste like in the browser or the app just closes (and loses all state) because I tried to use the back button. I also encountered apps that just reset, because I dared switch to another app for a second because I wanted to copy paste something into it...

New comment by leipie in "Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds"

leipie — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:43:58 +0000

My Citroën C-Zero (Mitsubishi i-MiEV clone) is a quirky fun car to drive. Surprisingly big on the inside. Very plain old skool car. Just turn the key and go. No dumb computers/dashboard in it trying to smart. I bought it for 4000 euros second hand. Only down side it had an original range of ~120km and it has 120000km on the clock. The battery is down to 60km range, after those ~1500 cycles... But aftermarket batteries with for the original range are now available for "just" 11000,- If they would build a modern version of it, I would buy it.

New comment by leipie in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

leipie — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:15:50 +0000

Maybe they are republishing the movies in the cheapest way to keep the rights?

New comment by leipie in "Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?"

leipie — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:12:36 +0000

kagi for actual search, Google for products search and chatgpt for answers ;)

New comment by leipie in "Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind"

leipie — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:19:52 +0000

I feel my memory/imagination is abstract, spatial, relational and factional. With that prompt I "see"/experience looking at the dark with a torch. I go over all the details one by one, but I don't see them it's just abstract concepts, like colour, shape and location. I don't "see" a whole picture when zooming out. It's just the aggregate concept. This might also be related to my dyslexia, why I'm good at abstract stuff like maths/programming and why I'm very good at direction and path finding. I have a good memory (but more of an indexing problem as I grow older ;) I consider myself quite creative (I love DIY stuff and creating things), but especially at improving, tweaking. Less so at starting from scratch. I have an eye for details. That's why I'm great at pairing on tasks. I have never experienced these things as a disability, but more so as talents.

New comment by leipie in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

leipie — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:19:23 +0000

uh-ow!

New comment by leipie in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

leipie — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:19:07 +0000

uh-oh!